Amiga questions - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

29 Mar 2001

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 a few A1200 Amiga questions (do they hit the 10 year
limit? I know I got my
A500 in the early 90's, and I think A3000's were around then, right??)... 
    If I remember the dates correctly, the A500 was introduced in '87 as a
companion to the A2000 and the A3000 arrived on the scene in either '90 or
'91 with the A1200 in '93.

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 Do all 1200's come with built in IDE hard drive
controllers - or did
commodore do things on the cheap and only add controllers for machines
shipped with drives (I'm assuming the controller lives on the main board
itself)? 
    Yes, the A1200 has built-in IDE

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 Will the 1200 accept any size (capacity) drive? 

    I've used drives up to 4+ gig on both SCSI and IDE equipped Amiga's
without a problem.

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 What are the options of networking a '1200 (ideally
TCP/IP stack on the
Amiga, using SLIP or something to a Unix box maybe? Are there things around
that allow this, with NFS mounting of drives for data copying?) 
    Both Miami and Termite are good TCP/IP stacks that work with either
ethernet or dialup connections.  I'm not sure about the  mounting of a NFS
drive, but given how extensible the Amiga file system is, I'd hazard a guess
that it is likely possible.

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 Can PC SVGA multisync monitors be used with the 1200,
or won't the monitor
sync to a low enough frequency for the Amiga (seem to remember that was the
problem with the 500, not sure if the 1200 has any sort of 'fix' for this on
the Amiga side though) 
    IF the monitor syncs down to ~15 khz it will work fine with the A1200
without any kind of scan doubler.  Even the A4000 didn't fix this
compatibility with SVGA multisync monitors....for some reason only the A3000
did.

    Jeff