| Back Pannel (From left to right) |
| 1. Mouse - |
Used for mouse or player 2 joystick |
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| 2. Joystick - |
Used for player 2 mouse or player 1 joystick |
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| Disk Drive - |
Used for adding external floppy disk drives. |
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| Serial Port - |
Used for connecting two Amigas together for 2 player linkup games and also for
external modems. Sadly the Serial port is too slow for modern modems, so if you
want the Internet you will have to get a serial port upgrade |
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| Parallel Port - |
Used for connecting printers. Can also be used for a 4 player adaptor, which allows
two extra joysticks to be plugged in for 4 player mayhem! But the parallel port
cannot be used for other modern peripherals, for example parallel zip drives or
scanners due to extra signals that are unsupported by the port. |
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| R. & L. Audio - |
Used to connect the Amiga to a HiFi stereo or computer speakers |
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| Video - |
For connecting Amiga monitors. You can get an adaptor to allow the use
of PC monitors, but you will need a scandoubler as PC monitors cannot
display Amiga PAL screenmodes |
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| Comp. - |
Amiga composite output. You can connect this to any Video In socket on
a TV or video, in addition you can also get an adaptor which will convert
this to a SCART output. |
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| R. F. Modulator - |
Used to connect the Amiga to a standard TV arial input. |
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| Power - |
Not suprisingly, this is the Power socket! Plug the power adaptor (Otherwise
known as the 'Brick') into this socket. |
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| Other Connectors |
| PCMCIA Port (Slot on the left hand side) - |
You can plug all manner of upgrades into this, Originally intended for adding
PCMCIA Memory cards, you can also get
Serial port upgrades, SCSI Adaptors,
Ethernet cards etc. |
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| Expansion Port - (Trap door on under side) |
This is the most powerfull expansion port available to the A1200. The most
common use for this is Accelerator cards
that make your Amiga run faster and better. You can also get
memory cards, but it is much more viable to get a cheap accelerator rather than
taking up the whole port with a memory card. |
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| Blanking Port - (Trap door on back-left side) |
This is unused by default, but it offers a handy way of adding an extra
connector to the back of the Amiga. For example, it can be used for audio outs for a
sound card, or as an extra serial port. |
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