Amiga Photographs

Finally! Here is my Amiga set up:

A1200 with original commodore installed 128MB hard drive running Workbench 3.1
Connected to Sony Bravia KDL 40W2000 with RGB Scart cable
Playstation 3 and Wii in background beside 50W Active subwoofer
Sony 5.1 cinema surround amp with 50W central speaker
Bowers and Wilkins 704 floor standing speakers front L&R channels
Bowers and Wilkins 303 Standmount speakers rear L&R channels

Only downside is that the RGB cable has L&R Sterio built in but the cable for this is about 30cm long! What the hell kind of use is that?

So im gonna have to find a female to male Sterio cable extension before I can plug it in properly to the amp ( I can do this now but the Amiga has to sit on the floor to reach).

I was gonna change the amp but I think Ill wait until some HDMI 1.3 receivers come out with digital radio at a reasonable price. Then I guess Ill upgrade the centre speaker to a B&W HTM7 cos my one gets a bit drowned out by the 704's.

Heres a photo of Zool running on it:

Sweet!
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Very nice setup! Looks great.
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Cheers! When I get the RGB Stereo issue sorted out ill set it up properly and hide the wires.
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Ooooh, I like those speakers, very nice. That's a pretty cool set up you have there.

Don't bother getting a female-male phono extension cable, just get some RCA 'couplers' (they're probably about 99p) and another long phono lead (you've probably got one laying about in a bag or a box full of hi-fi and AV spare pieces). It's what I did and for that sort of output it's fine.

Like this:

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Nice setup, but you should really consider installing MagicWB or a similar package for your Workbench, so that the desktop doesn't look so grey.

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I can't believe you guys who have Amigas but don't actually use them! Maybe I would be the same, but I am suffering from some serious nostalgia here, at the minute. If I recall correctly, we had an A600 with an external disc drive so you could put in two discs at the same time - does that sound about right? Also a joystick, so that you could get really well mashed into the wall playing Lotus or run full pelt into the bombs on the various shoot-em-ups.......

;-) Jag
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Hi there Jag,

I'm still using the Amiga several times a week. Even got a new table for it not long ago.

Here's a picture of my current setup:

Here's the specifications:

Escom Amiga 1200
Apollo 68030/40MHz with 32MB of RAM
Toshiba 40GB 2.5" HD
PCMCIA CF-adapter
Micromys Mouse Adapter
Competition Pro Joystick
Old-school Goldstar 14" colour-TV

On top of the machine, you can see a PCMCIA W-LAN card, which makes it possible to surf the Internet on the Amiga. Great for FTP's, Aminet and simple errands.

Harrison will probably comment on how tidy the desk is.. well it actually is.

The Amiga zone is sacred and littering is not looked kindly upon.

An Amiga 600 with an external disk drive sound right.

Was great being able to have two disks inserted when playing games, as one didn't have to swap disks as often. A lot of new hardware for the Amiga 600 has been released recently by the way.. we're talking turbo-cards (better CPU, more mem), scandoubler/flickerfixer and so on.
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Me not jealous much, of course (hem, hem). Yes, very impressed with the neatness of your work area. Do the dreaded Guru Meditations still occur? Used to have that with games not loading or crashing horribly halfway through some really tense bit. It would tell you to click the left mouse button, but sometimes you would get a repeat offender and just have to leave it for a while (a bit like having a row with the other half and having to go off for a walk to calm down for a short time.....)

;-)
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