[Coco] Amiga Systems

[Mark McDougall]

On 15/01/2014 10:35 AM, Bill Loguidice wrote:

> Of the classic Amigas, I'd recommend an Amiga
> 1200 with a combination 68030 accelerator/64MB trap door expansion and an
> adapted compact flash card in place of the hard drive.

If you want to experience the pinnacle of game-playing on the Amiga, I'd 
heartily agree with Bill.

If you're on a tighter budget, then a floppy-based A500 with a bundled game 
collection is a good compromise as most games will play just fine on it, 
except for the relatively few higher-end titles that appeared later in the 
machine's life.

If you're more into tinkering with the OS and utilities, you have more 
options as pretty much any of the classic models will enable you to do that. 
How far into it (and budget) will dictate whether you opt for higher-end 
hard-disk-enabled models.

Personally, I own an A1000, optioned-up A1200 and several A500's (one of the 
A500's has an IDE interface). For convenience I use the A1200 with hard 
drive and Ethernet for file xfer, but it's also very easy to whack a floppy 
in the A500 and start playing games!

And on a side note; if you're interested in a PS/2 mouse adapter for it (as 
working Amiga mice are hard to find and generally inferior to modern PS/2 
offerings) I can hook you up with one.

Regards,

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