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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: dougal on October 07, 2005, 07:46:48 AM

Title: Need some help on my A1200 (PCMCIA)
Post by: dougal on October 07, 2005, 07:46:48 AM

Hi guys ,

I have an Amiga 1200 with the following spec :

Kickstart 3.0 , Seagate 540mb 2.5" internal IDE HDD
Blizzard 1230 MkIV with 16mb fast ram .

Here is my question :

I`m buying a PCMCIA cd-rom drive (For amiga`s) from my friend for a good price . But i also wanna buy a PCMCIA network adapter .

Is there a way to have both ?

Title: Re: Need some help on my A1200 (PCMCIA)
Post by: Piru on October 07, 2005, 07:48:41 AM

No.

Title: Re: Need some help on my A1200 (PCMCIA)
Post by: dougal on October 07, 2005, 07:54:12 AM

oh

and could you unplug and switch cards while the amiga is on ?

Title: Re: Need some help on my A1200 (PCMCIA)
Post by: Rudei on October 07, 2005, 08:22:04 AM

I don't think you can do this while the Amiga is on, simply because I do not believe the machine can detect the other device has been plugged in (?)
On a side note, you might want to get yourself some 3.1 ROMS and install WB3.5 too.

Especially if you are thinking of putting a larger HDD in.

Title: Re: Need some help on my A1200 (PCMCIA)
Post by: orange on October 07, 2005, 08:28:51 AM

there is no need for cdrom if you have other computers with one on network, PCMCIA Ethernet card would have almost the same speed of CDROM with soooo much more . get a larger HDD and keep images of CDs on it

Title: Re: Need some help on my A1200 (PCMCIA)
Post by: dougal on October 07, 2005, 09:24:40 AM

Quote

orange wrote:
there is no need for cdrom if you have other computers with one on network, PCMCIA Ethernet card would have almost the same speed of CDROM with soooo much more . get a larger HDD and keep images of CDs on it

That is a great idea .. nice one .. thanks

Title: Re: Need some help on my A1200 (PCMCIA)
Post by: mfilos on October 07, 2005, 09:33:37 AM

If you want both you could do the same thing one guy did!
It's an excellent work but it sure want's a lot of patience and work!

Here's the link:
http://home.twcny.rr.com/wicksall/1200CDMod.html

It has also some photos of his miggy in the Images session.

Title: Re: Need some help on my A1200 (PCMCIA)
Post by: harima_kun on October 07, 2005, 11:36:25 AM

Are there any internal network cards you can get for the A1200.... like something that attaches to the motherboard.....? Or is that just nonsense lol?

Title: Re: Need some help on my A1200 (PCMCIA)
Post by: Effy on October 07, 2005, 11:54:16 AM

Of course you can get internal network cards, only the list is pretty short. There is one that connects to the clockport of the A1200 but the name escapes me ...

Title: Re: Need some help on my A1200 (PCMCIA)
Post by: harima_kun on October 07, 2005, 12:09:05 PM

Neat I did not know how versatile the clock port is on the miggy, so you can add ethernet port or an USB?  What other cool things can you connect to the port?

Title: Re: Need some help on my A1200 (PCMCIA)
Post by: HyAmi on October 07, 2005, 12:58:14 PM

@Effy
Are you sure there is an ethernet adapter for the clockport? I'm very interested in such a thing, but I can't find it on BBoAH or Amiga Resource. It would be cool to use it on my clockport expanded A500...

Title: Re: Need some help on my A1200 (PCMCIA)
Post by: odin on October 07, 2005, 01:32:49 PM

I think there are only USB interfaces/sound cards/serial ports for the clockport. Didn't the NorWay (I think this was the clockport ethernet thingy) get scrapped?

Title: Re: Need some help on my A1200 (PCMCIA)
Post by: JuvUK on October 07, 2005, 01:49:12 PM

i ran both a cd drive and a ethernet card for a while until i fitted an ide cd drive and i did just unplug the cd drive and plug in the ethernet while the a1200 was on and i didnt have any problems it was just a pita!

Title: Re: Need some help on my A1200 (PCMCIA)
Post by: _ThEcRoW on October 07, 2005, 03:04:34 PM

You could also add a pci expansion and use a pci network card, leaving the pcmcia port free.

Title: Re: Need some help on my A1200 (PCMCIA)
Post by: HyAmi on October 07, 2005, 05:36:27 PM

@Odin
No, the Norway is a module to connect to one of the Zorro based USB cards from E3B. And as far as I can see, they were manufactured but now "LEIDER AUSVERKAUFT" as they put it.

Does anybody know whether it would be hard to make a norway-like device for the clockport? The Norway doesn't seem to have too many components...

Title: Re: Need some help on my A1200 (PCMCIA)
Post by: SamOS39 on October 07, 2005, 06:50:53 PM

you can get an scsi controller which connects to the blizzard accelorater 1230/1240/1260.

you can get them from amigakit.com

Then you can connect an external scsi cd drive!

Not sure about ide though!

Sam. OS v3.9 :-)