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Old School Game Blog<p><strong>The New A1200NG Motherboard Available for Pre-Order from the AmigaKit&nbsp;Webshop</strong></p><p>Good morning,</p><p>Thanks for popping by. 🙂 Today I’ve got some Amiga news I want to share.</p><p>Whilst browsing various Amiga forums this morning, I stumbled upon a post by <a href="https://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?mode=viewtopic&amp;topic_id=45371&amp;forum=25&amp;start=120&amp;viewmode=flat&amp;order=0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">amigang</a> on the Amigaworld.net. He had noticed that AmigaKit had just uploaded a new product to their store, namely the A1200NG motherboard!</p><p>Recently, I’ve seen AmigaKit putting out small teases about this product. I quickly visited their webstore to check it out. Here is the link:</p><p><a href="https://www.amigakit.com/a1200ng-motherboard-p-91333.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.amigakit.com/a1200ng-motherboard-p-91333.html</a></p> <a href="https://oldschoolgameblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/a1200ng-1.png" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a>Screenshot from <a href="https://www.amigakit.com/a1200ng-motherboard-p-91333.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">AmigaKit’s webshop</a> <p><em><strong>A1200NG motherboard revision 3A</strong></em></p><p><em>The A1200NG motherboard fits into original and remake Amiga 1200 desktop cases. The ports align with the holes in the case using the supplied backplate.</em></p><p><strong><em>Features:</em></strong></p><ul><li><em><strong>Games menu</strong>: add, edit &amp; launch ADF/HDF/WHDBoot games, scene demos &amp; apps (OCS, ECS, AGA).</em></li></ul><ul><li><em><a href="https://wiki.amiga.org/amibench" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>AmiBench</strong></a>: 1080p screenmode with 32-bit icon set. Run Classic 68k programs.</em></li></ul><ul><li><em><strong>Dual 9-pin Joystick Ports</strong>: accepts Commodore compatible joysticks ¹</em></li></ul><ul><li><em><strong>HDMI compatible 1080p output</strong>: plugs into HDMI compatible television or monitor</em></li></ul><ul><li><em><strong>Wireless Internet</strong>: connects to AmiSphere for system updates and email</em></li></ul><ul><li><em><strong>Bluetooth</strong>: optionally output audio to Bluetooth speaker</em></li></ul><ul><li><em><strong>34-pin Floppy Header</strong>: read and write to real 880K floppy disks (Greaseweazle compatible)</em></li></ul><ul><li><strong><em>RS232 Serial Port (DB25)</em></strong></li></ul><ul><li><em><strong>System RAM:</strong>&nbsp;4GB in total. 1GB Fast Memory allocated for AmiBench.</em></li></ul><ul><li><em><strong>Hard Drive:</strong>&nbsp;64GB or 128GB option.</em></li></ul><ul><li><em><strong>Internal USB headers</strong>&nbsp;for connection of optional USB to SATA or USB to IDE adapters.</em></li></ul><ul><li><em><strong>External USB headers</strong>&nbsp;for connection of DrawBridge USB floppy disk drives, Mice, MIDI interfaces, Flash Drives.</em></li></ul><p>The product can be pre-ordered. Estimated delivery Q1 2025. Special price right now at <strong>£169.99</strong>.</p><p>Please visit AmigaKit to read more about the A1200NG.</p><p>Anyone of you interested in this one?</p><p>Personally, I already own the A600GS and I’m enjoying it a lot these days, but it would be fun to build this into an A1200 case for sure.</p><p>That was all for now. Thanks for reading! See you in another post here on the <a href="http://oldschoolgameblog.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Old School Game Blog</a>. 🙂</p><p><span></span></p> <p><strong>Rate this:</strong></p> <p><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://oldschoolgameblog.com/tag/a1200ng/" target="_blank">#A1200NG</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://oldschoolgameblog.com/tag/amibench/" target="_blank">#AmiBench</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://oldschoolgameblog.com/tag/amiga/" target="_blank">#Amiga</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://oldschoolgameblog.com/tag/amiga-1200/" target="_blank">#Amiga1200</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://oldschoolgameblog.com/tag/amigakit/" target="_blank">#Amigakit</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://oldschoolgameblog.com/tag/hardware-2/" target="_blank">#hardware</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://oldschoolgameblog.com/tag/motherboard/" target="_blank">#Motherboard</a></p>
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