 The Amiga 1200 is an Amiga 600 with more memory, better graphics and a new Amiga Dos. This was the final 16 Bit machine that Commodore tried to push into the market, to beat IBM compatible computers. The system is well built, with a better OS (Workbench V3.1) and a program called Cross Dos to read IBM disks. Like all other Amiga computers the magnetic media is an internal 800KB drive. The machine wasn’t a failure since companies start constructing devices like external Co-processor boards, Hard Drives, CD-Rom readers and all sorts of software. I saw even a device to attach the computer to a network and a tower case to change the system into a tower computer. Magazines rated this machine with very good graphics, sound and user friendly OS. Commodore to compete with other computers released a program for the Internet so that Amiga users could go on the net to download programs and mail. Like all other models the A1200 is compatible with the other Amiga systems. The Hard Drive Controller can support a hard drive up to 2GB. The new Graphic chip-set made the machine a perfect picture & video editor especially for video titles. Some company used the machine for mixing & effects.
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| A1200 – A1200HD |
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| 1992 – $599(USA) – £399(UK) |
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| Boxed: 260419 553031 803000 5720 |
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| 1992 |
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| Motorola MC 68EC020 Multitasking 16 BIT running at a frequency of 14.7 Mhz. |
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| The Design and Colour is the same as the A600 with an addition of a keypad. The keyboard is internal with a 96 key, QWERTY AT type layout. |
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| The graphic capabilities of the Amiga 1200 is handled by an Advanced Amiga (AA) chip-set. In text mode display the computer is able to display a 60 X 32 & 80 X 32 resolution. While in graphic Mode 320 X 256, 320 X 512, 640 X 256, 640 X 512 resolution. The Amiga has a palette of 1.6 million colours + 2 special modes. In 320 X x Mode it was capable of displaying 32 Colours, while in 640 X x mode it could display 16 Colours. The special modes are EHB 64 Colours and HAM 4096 colours on static display. These 2 special modes could display and digitize a photo into the computers memory and save it to disk. The A1200 like the A600 is also capable to display pictures of 1280 X 400 interlaced resolution, 1280 X 200 non interlaced mode & a new graphic resolution of 1280 x 512 interlaced or 1280 x 800 overscaned with a vertical scan rate up to 73 Hz. |
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| The Amiga is also equipped with a 4 Voice 8 bit PCM Stereo sound chip ( 2 Channels on each side) that could produce an infinite of sounds and music. This custom chip is also controlling the I/O ports of the machine. This helped to produce devices that could digitize sound into the computer, for later playback. |
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1x Centronics Printer Port
1x RS232 Port,
1x Mouse/Joystick Port
1x Joystick Port
1x RGB Monitor Connection
1x Composite Monitor Connection
2x RCA Phono Plug External left & right Audio Connectors
1x RF modulator
1x PCMCIA Slot 2,
1x Internal 44 pin AT/IDE interface for hard drives.
1x Expansion Port
1x External Disk Drive port with daisy chain capabilities. |
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| The usual Commodore external power supply very similar to the C128. Connector is the same as the C128, but voltages and pinouts totally different, lighter & auto switching mode with an output of 25 Watts. |
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| Weight & dimensions for the Amiga 1200 are 3.1 kg including Hard Disk, 490 x 250 x 70 mm (W x L x H). |
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| 1.4 Million units around the world. |
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