If i get just a bog standard 1200, and wanted to put a CDrom onto it, how much am i looking at...and what fiddling is required, just stick the pcmcia in the trap door ?Any installation ?
The pcmcia slot is not located in the trapdoor slot but rather at the side of the A1200, the trapdoor is mostly used for Accelerators/ram expansions.
Basically your choices for getting an CD hooked up to an A1200 are The pcmcia route with something like the Squirrel pcmcia interface but this is quite an expensive route and the only plus side is that it is external so you do not need a towered Amiga. They could be hard to locate also.
The much cheaper route is to use the onboard IDE connector on the a1200 Motherboard with some kind of IDE buffered device, but you will need a Towered Amiga.
You can probably get a cheap IDE buffered devices or something abit more expensive like the Powerflyer from places like
EyetechIf i where you though and to take all the hassle out of getting everything you need, get an Amiga thats already towered or includes all you want/need, classic Amiga hardware is very expensive new.
Also, old games on the 1200, if they dont work, what type of kickstart fiddling are you refering to. What would be needed to be done..?
Plenty of info and what you need
here