You will never believe what I found inside this supercrusty Amiga 1200 

I bought an A4000 back in 2017, and it came with one of those mice. I had no idea they were worth so much. I've just had it sitting in a drawer for years.

Hello. Nice video! Thank you for the retro content!

I bought my old blizzard 1230 many years ago, with 68882 and 64 megs of ram onboard. The battery is long dead but the card still works perfectly and really makes a big difference if you like running a complete, quick and colorful workbench.

Really enjoyed this video thank you. Still have a 4000/30 with 1942 monitor, A1200 4mb Ram + HD and old faithful A500. Must blow the dust off. Fascinating card in your A1200. Thanks again.

i have an A1200, sat in my loft for nearly 30 years now, It has an 80Mb harddrive, a 68030 upgrade board, I've a crt monitor for it,a citizen swift 9 dot matrix printer and a couple of gaming inputs like foot pedels and a 4 player adaptor.......and piles and piles of diskettes :) I really should dig it out and see if it powers up

Nice! Still got a Blizzard A1220/4 with FPU. Last I ran it, it still worked.

Please enjoy a coffee. I hope you keep bringing the internet joy. Cheers.

Hard drive size was configurable at purchase. I went for 80mb but there were much bigger options.

Just got suggested your video. You've got skills. Quite entertaining. Chapters required. Good job.

That is a very nice find! I had a Blizzard board with the SCSI modual back in the day; great card. The SCSI card will dramatically improve drive preformance. Not sure why you are seeing such a drop in CPU speed as it did not impact my 1200; possibly one of the SIMMS is bad or a speed mismatch.

Nice Amiga setup you bought there. 👍

That the SCSI-Kit slowed down the system is a bit mysterious. Usually, it does slow down booting only, because it checks if there are any SCSI devices connected to it and the Amiga waits until those checks are finished. As for the RAM slots - there is an important jumper on the Blizzard card. Maybe the jumper was not set correctly. If you want to use the slot on the SCSI card you'll have to set a jumper on the 1230IV card to 70ns setting. Then both slots on 1230IV card and SCSI-Kit can be used. If you want to use a faster SIMM, e.g. 60ns you will have to set the jumper on the Blizzard card to the "60 ns" position. But then you may not use the SIMM slot on the SCSI-Kit anymore. For max. speed with 60ns or faster RAM the best option is to use a single big SIMM 60ns module on the Blizzard card itself only. From my experience in the good old 90's I can tell that the difference between two 4 MB SIMMs (on 1230IV + SCSI-Kit, 70ns jumper setting) compared to a single 64 MB SIMM (60ns) on the 1230IV card was only up to 3.5% in the benchmark. So, I can only guess that the huge difference in speed you have had, was because one of your two SIMMs is very slow and the card adapted its speed to the slowest module + a wrong jumper setting. As for the jumpers on the B1230IV card I don't know their names anymore. But there are only 2 jumpers on it. One for the SIMM speed (60ns or 70ns) and the other one to switch MapROM feature on/off. If MapROM is off you will have 0.5 MB more Fast-RAM or 0.5 MB less when on. I think you already know why. P.S. Unlike the previous 1230 III card, the 1230 IV can be activated/deactivated via keyboard. Make a warm reset (Ctrl+left Amiga + right Amiga key) and press "2" on the keyboard when the monitor shows blue stripes during the card's self-test. The Blizzard card will be off, including SCSI-Kit and any devices connected to it). The A1200 will only have its original 2MB Chip-RAM and run with its on-board 14 MHz 68EC020 again (EC = CPU without internal MMU unit unlike a complete 68020). Booting from HD will be much slower with 2MB chip-ram only, without turbo and FastRAM of course, but the original slow Amiga maybe useful to try out old game and demo floppy disks, which do not run well on accelerated Amigas. When you want to have your turbo A1230IV Amiga back, simply make a warm reset (Ctrl+l Am + rAm) again, then immediately press "2" and your Blizzard card wil be back (indicated by blue stripes on monitor while booting.)

I played so much Frontier on the Amiga that I still hear the music when docking in to the space stations. Wonderfull machine. Great UI as well, workbench I believe.

Wow great card! Love the SCSI option!

Some nice surprises there ❤

I had the Amiga 500....!!!! Great video.

Wow. Great vid, great find. I had one of those cards. They were amazing, but I've never seen the scsi card before.

I have the exact same. Got it as A deal from a mate. Opened and found the card. Just got a gotek sorted for it. Just got to do the drive mod and add my cf hard drive adapter and we good to go.

It blows my mind that people are still playing around with stuff that I worked on 30 years ago. It seems like another lifetime now. Blow off the cobwebs and have some fun!

Boah... wie mich das an meinen Amiga 1200 erinnert.... *cry* Ich bereue es noch heute ihn verkauft zu haben. Der hatte auch eine Blizzard 1230 IV mit Co-Prozessor und 32 MB EDO RAM.

I have 15 Amiga 1200s, 4 of of my 1200 have the same accelerometer cards as yours (Blizzard 1230 MK IV). The second board is a SCSI and additional memory slot and there is a floppy that is needed with software to run the SCSI card. I’d advise not to wipe the hard drive unless you get the software for the card. The accelerator itself card doesn’t need any software, just the SCSI add on. With the SCSI addon and the software installed, the SCSI doesn’t slow down the accelerator card and I get the same performance as you did with just the single card. The Blizzard cards on their own can be installed and removed without opening up the main unit, its the SCSI add on card that prevents you from installing and removing the card. All my Blizzard cards have a 50MHz CPU and FPU and 2 x 128MB for a total of 256MB of RAM. This is an awesome kit Don’t forget there are 50ns and 60ns SIMMS and I believe the cards work best with 60ns SIMMS, make sure they are the same speed memory as this would impact the performance. I also have a HD Floppy, but the system would need the ROMS upgraded in order to use the extra capacity of the floppy drive.

Nice deal!

I have 3 amiga500s..always preferred the A500 to the A1200....even after 30 years they still work...great machines.

I remember paying £340 for a 300 meg HD back in the day of the A1200. THE best home computer EVER.

I had a surf squirrel for modem (those over 14400bbs speeds with the better serial port, wow) and SCSI CD-rom drive and a 68060 card with 16megabytes of RAM which was more then enough back in the days and a 500mb HD that was practically half empty, if had had the money for the tower case I would had also invested for a better graphics card as well. Eventually I had to sell it in the 2000 to get enough money for my first PC since I had to have my own PC at home for university studies. I still miss my Amiga though

that scsi adapter also works on some other blizzard cards, i think the blizzard 060 had the same connectir

I loved my A1200, I still miss it and my BBC model B.

Ohhhh an Amiga 3000 mouse.. NICE!

Remove 128MB and it’s fast…. Hmmmm… driver issue waiting for scsi bus to init? But I know too little about Amiga 1200. Nice find!

How do you set up the RAM of a 1200 to stay maintained on the clock battery so you don't even have to boot that part of the OS from ROM?

"Thankfully it's not a Varta battery, but just the standard round thingy..." Except that... some Varta batteries, including the kind that have been in most desktop computers from that era with live clocks, _are_ round.

Die LEGO-Halterung im Hintergrund ... sehr cool! 👍🏼

Interesting. I thought Escom never got far enough to actually take over in Making some non-Commdore Amigas, but... here is one!

Well I've never seen one of those before! A SCSI port that comes off a board, that attaches to the accelerator board. I think most of the ones I've (rarely) seen have their board directly behind the port on the back and connect to the accelerator with a cable. I had a Great Valley Products (GVP) '030 40Mhz with a 4Mb DIMM. It had an FPU socket i never filled. The board had two DIMM slots but GVP decided to use a custom design. So it could not use regular Fast Page or EDO DIMMs from a PC, became a problemw when GVP eventually closed it's doors. I never got the SCSI add on, didn't need it. Inclusion of cheaper and slower IDE pretty much killed SCSI on the Amiga, the extra cost wasn't worthwhile for most. Good video 👍

A1200 della escom,interessante.hai fatto bene a non montare i condensatori smd,con il tempo sputano acido,non sono affidabili.bel video

Ciao, meinen ersten Amiga 1200 hatte ich 1993 gehabt, schönes Gerät..liebe Grüße aus Braunschweig und bleibt gesund 🙂

I still have my A1200 with the same blizzard and scsi card. I have been playing with a pistorm as of late. Also added is an ssd drive and a goex on pills floppy emulator. Nice kit for now but not finding much time playing with it.

Wow, it's sad that an expansion that was supposed to speed the computer up and do other things ended up slowing it down!

At 3:07 and I knew that was a Blizzard 1230-IV + 68882 + SCSI card in there, because I had them and yes you screw in the plate with the SCSI connector on it to hold it in place. My card had 256MB on it between the 2 slots. That thing was a beast and I wish I'd kept it. I don't care what sysinfo says, it was way faster than a stock A4000/030, cos I had one of those too. All Amiga floppies were 1.76MB capacity, the Escom drives were repurposed PC 1.44MB drives though. All A1200's have that clip beacuse it provides a screw thread to put the screw into to hold the motherboard down to the case, the motherboard just has a hole, untapped.

Nice, I have the same Blizzard with 128MB RAM. No SCSI though. I do have that same multi-scart switch!!

Nearly 300,- € for a mouse? Let's see, if I still have got my old Amiga somewhere!

Blizzard SCSI should be a lot faster than on board IDE if you get it working.

awesome job. can i ask, what clock is that on your desk?

Nice find! You could reduce motion sickness for your viewers, though, if you would either post-edit the pans between the desktop and the monitor (ualp), or instead of moving the shaking camera and pointing back and forth the screen, blend in a framegrabber picture of the Amiga.

perhaps if that is a SCSI external... it was used as the boot drive? So the internal not booting was that wasn't meant to?

Hi. You may only pull out the second SIMM; the SCSI port should not slow down the system. The first socket should be able to hold 128MB anyways. I guess you are missing a driver for the full performance. Let me know if you want to get rid of the SCSI board ;-}

Lego Fume Extractor. 🙂

Heh, interesting that you're talking about boot time but then you're excited that it just got to the _boot screen;_ not that it had actually even booted yet.

Those hard drives can get stuck and sometimes need a bit of a hit when powering up to get them started. Worth trying if you want to see what's on there.

Many of the things you "haven't seen" are cold, standard features of the A1200.

a A3000 mouse for €300 euro’s, I sold 2 old white box A3000’s from the 30+ that I have left in the attic for just £200 each, some people just love to rip people off

With a scsii drive you can run a plotter.

What is the clock on your desk, is that a google device or something else? Great video.

I have my A1200 with 8 meg exoneration and and 5 inch floppy drive and extra 3.5 inch floppy and mouse plus the floppy operating system discs and games and power supply's was all working when i stopped sing it fitted a larger hard drive but still have the smaller carrier. any one interested give me a shout.

"Boot without a floppy drive and a hard disk"? If they were going to boot without either disk drive, then with what? One of those flash adapters?

Mine had an Apollo 1240 accelerator complete 8mb, and a 1Gb hard drive.

Lot of good that surprise inside will do for you if you can't really get it working. Hmm, I hope you can figure out what's wrong with it and fix it.

that accellerator with scsi module would give you €800 😂

are all floppy drives the same or different ? thanks...............

"There's the disk drive..." Well... one of two, that is. Remember, you already handled the other one before this.

What's with the non-stop ads? Other channels don't do that. That's an atari ST mouse from experience

it had a VGA adapter and an HD could it be in VGA mode?

i noticed ur floppy drive is hd (how come)?? its high density 1.76 mb ?? shouldnt it be just 880k double density? dd ? thanks........................

if its an Escom Amiga 1200 - 39 seconds wait for boot time!!!! remember that !!

E antiga máquina elétrica kkkeu acho estou lembrando kkk

scsi kit

nice machine. before you throw away the hard drive, you may want to try lift the lid on it and see if you can kick start it spinning with your finger on the edge of the platter....dont laugh, ive had luck doing that in the past with old drives to recover data.

Why an old rotating diskdrive? At this moment there are SSD drives with a TB of memory for almost affordable prices, but then you are ready for a long time. Why not add memory till the 86-something pukes on the humongous number of megabytes ready and available? Go for the max, you can do it. Give the old silly cow another processor as well at the same time, terraflops are within reach!

"Don't do this at home..." Where might be a better place, then?

?!? A real Commodore monitor or you put a label on it?

I HAD all the Amiga's up to the 4000 era. I would never dream of using one of these sluggish dinosaurs now! Why? Oh well have fun living in the past!

I think this thing is crusty

(After connecting the hard disk drive:) "Let's connect the disk drive..." You just did. So... if your next disk drive to connect is the floppy one, then please don't act like the hard one isn't a disk drive, since it _is_ one. Hard disk drive vs. floppy disk drive.

350 euros for a mouse. Yikes!

Sis is German which is seen on the qwertz

350 for that mouse????

Schön wie man die deutschen Leute raushört, auch wenn sie gutes Englisch sprechen. ;) Tolles Video. Danke

According too A Philosopher. All things dont have an inside. And consist of one solid piece. You vandals. Dont break everything. If you are curious follow the course. Once gone always gone.

Waving hands in front of the camera for no apparent reason

The Blizzard 1230-Mk4 is the definitive accelerator card!! Everyone I know had this card!