Help with commodore amiga 1200?

Question

i have brought a commodore amiga 1200, it all boots up etc, the power cable is extremely temperamental, if you so much as breathe on it it will turn it all off, but i can deal with that. my problems are that 1. during normal play on some games, the main one being pacman, the screen will suddenly scramble, the game keeps playing,the sound keeps going, but the screen is just a blur of dots! and my second problem, during play, so far this has happened on 2 games, when ive been playing for maybe 15-20 mins,if that, the whole system will suddenly shut down and restart itself. its driving me mad, it all works well, you just get into a game, and it stuffs up. any ideas as to whats wrong?

Answer 1

I'm not sure but the fact that it's shutting itself down could mean that it is overheating.

Answer 2

it's old....

Answer 3

Sounds like the power cable is broken or the socket is dry jointed to the circuit board. Best solution is to re solder the socket. If that does not fix it then you could hard the the cable in.

I used to have a 500,1200 and a 2000