Commodore Amiga 1200
Developer: Commodore International
Launch date: December 1992 |
In October 1992 the A1200 was launched. This took the A500
approach to computing with the "distinct" Commodore case, but
including the AGA chipset present in the A4000, 2mb ram, and the
PCMCIA slot from the A600.
At the price of £399 it sold like hot cakes and is seen as
one of the best Amigas to date. It appears to have been rushed to
launch for the Christmas period with manuals claiming to give you
the opportunity to upgrade from 1mb to 2mb chip ram with FPU. It is
however, a darn fine machine that can be easily upgraded for most
of your needs.
After Escom bought the Amiga during 1995 it was relaunched to
mass outrage. The machine still cost £399, £150 more than
it had a year previously and was not enhanced in any dramatic
fashion. It was released in two versions- the Amiga Magic pack and the Amiga Surfer bundle. Unfortunately, the former
was never released due to Escoms financial situation. The Escom
Amigas were also struck by incompatibility problems due to a
different disk drive being used, it was actually a PC high-density
drive mechanism that had been altered to allow compatibility with
the Amiga filesystem. Unfortunately, some games that hit the
hardware directly would not run. A circuit upgrade was released
free of charge that allowed users to fix the drive problem.
Local Links
A1200 Tech Specs | A1200 Hardware Information | Commodore positional statement regarding the
A1200 | About the AGA chipset
The A1200TE | Amiga Chronology
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Last Update: 28/8/2002
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