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[outlawal2]

I waited too long to pull the trigger on one of their "Old Stock" 1200's and now they have been out of them for some time.. Anybody have a scoop on when (or if) they may be getting more of them?

[Nlandas]

Originally Posted by outlawal2

I waited too long to pull the trigger on one of their "Old Stock" 1200's and now they have been out of them for some time.. Anybody have a scoop on when (or if) they may be getting more of them?

My guess is unless they find a cache of them hidden in some warehouse that no one knows about, they probably won't. Your best bet would be to look for a used one.

-Nyle

[runequester]

they do refurbish models, but I think the "new old stock" might be long gone.

[bbond007]

Originally Posted by outlawal2

I waited too long to pull the trigger on one of their "Old Stock" 1200's and now they have been out of them for some time.. Anybody have a scoop on when (or if) they may be getting more of them?

I just bought a NOS US keyboard from them. It was pretty reasonable price.

You could see if they could build a refurb one with one of those... that goes a long way to making it newish.

[bbond007]

Originally Posted by outlawal2

I waited too long to pull the trigger on one of their "Old Stock" 1200's and now they have been out of them for some time.. Anybody have a scoop on when (or if) they may be getting more of them?

there a few really nice a1200's on ebay i just saw

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Amiga-1200-4...ht_6842wt_1068

thats not _real_ bad om the price.

[outlawal2]

Originally Posted by bbond007

there a few really nice a1200's on ebay i just saw

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Amiga-1200-4...ht_6842wt_1068

thats not _real_ bad om the price.

Yeah there are quite a few good ones but they are all in the UK and since I am from Wisconsin I really would like one from the US if at all possible. (Not just the proce for shipping either... I want NTSC and anything from the UK is PAL) :O(

thanks for the suggestion though. Much appreciated..

[bbond007]

Originally Posted by outlawal2

Yeah there are quite a few good ones but they are all in the UK and since I am from Wisconsin I really would like one from the US if at all possible. (Not just the proce for shipping either... I want NTSC and anything from the UK is PAL) :O(

thanks for the suggestion though. Much appreciated..

Amigakit is in the UK. My NOS for Amigakit is PAL.

Why do you want a NTSC machine? You are not seriously going to use the composite output are you? Even so, the PAL composite has worked perfectly with the few TVs i have tried. I have never wished the machine was NTSC, in fact, I prefer PAL by default. I have a NTSC CD32 and that was a mistake. I should have bought a PAL one.

The only issue was the UK keyboard layout, which I just replaced with a NOS US.

[amigakit]

We had a few hundred NTSC A1200s a few years ago, but they quickly sold out.

[outlawal2]

Originally Posted by bbond007

Amigakit is in the UK. My NOS for Amigakit is PAL.

Why do you want a NTSC machine? You are not seriously going to use the composite output are you? Even so, the PAL composite has worked perfectly with the few TVs i have tried. I have never wished the machine was NTSC, in fact, I prefer PAL by default. I have a NTSC CD32 and that was a mistake. I should have bought a PAL one.

The only issue was the UK keyboard layout, which I just replaced with a NOS US.

I assumed that in the US I would need the NTSC version... Since I am not certain exactly what the 2 standards entail I was simply playing it safe with the NTSC version... So if I am hearing you correctly, if I were to get the 24 bit adapter being talked about on this board right now, it wouldn't matter if I used it in a PAL or NTSC version.. Is that correct?

[bbond007]

Originally Posted by outlawal2

I assumed that in the US I would need the NTSC version... Since I am not certain exactly what the 2 standards entail I was simply playing it safe with the NTSC version... So if I am hearing you correctly, if I were to get the 24 bit adapter being talked about on this board right now, it wouldn't matter if I used it in a PAL or NTSC version.. Is that correct?

Basically the only downfall to having a PAL A1200 in the USA is that it probably won't be able to connect to many old tube televisions because the RF modulator will be outputting PAL video. So if you want to use it with one of those old console TVs (like the ones with the built-in record players), you may be out of luck

the video quality of RF output looks horrible, so I doubt you would use that as a long term solution, and composite is not much better, but most TVs will work just fine in PAL mode on the composite input.

I'm going to remove the RF modulator out of my A1200 to make room for an HDMI port anyway...

Anything connected to the RGB port should work just fine, with one exception... I can't seem to get my NTSC DCTV unit working with my PAL A1200, but i'm not sure that's not something I'm doing wrong.

The Indivision AGA 2.0 will work the same for either version of the machine, and you'll probably want to run your desktop in 640x512 PAL mode vs 640x400 NTSC for the extra 100 lines of resolution.

Keep in in mind the the Indivision is not really a 24bit framebuffer, the 24bit thing is _internal_ and is necessary in order to handle the full AGA palette which is 24Bit. There have not been any promises that the new Indivsion will handle anything other than standard Amiga video modes. That being said, you DO still want the Indivision