Amiga.org
Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: gifteddante on June 12, 2003, 10:32:52 PM
-
Having just purchased an A1200, and after having been away from the Amiga scene for some 6 years now (Sorry - I bought a PC), I was wondering if any of you guys could tell me what I need to get online with it. I remember using the good old bullitin boards (do these still exist?) with my old 9600bps modem, but i'm not sure how you do it now - can anyone help?
Thanks
Kris
-
Hi Kris,
Welcome to Amiga.org and welcome back to the Amiga community.
Well .. you need a harddisk for your 1200 and a modem ofcourse ...
You may want to use the program Miami to get online and you can use Ibrowse or voyager to browse with ...
Best place to get some software is Aminet
http://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/aminet/ (http://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/aminet/)
-
Also get yourself a 56k modem (at least). If you have a broadband connection that uses ethernet, then buy an ethernet card for the Amiga and it will happily work there as well.
-
I assume with 'online' you mean 'internet' instead of a BBS...
In that case, you need both extra hard- and software:
Hardware:
- either an external modem or a PCMCIA networkcard. The latter is, ofcourse, much faster;
- harddisk;
- faster cpu (the faster the better);
- extra ram (16 MB or more).
Software:
- TCP/IP stack;
- webbrowser & stuff.
The software can be bought seperately, but it also comes with OS3.9.
Browsing is quite a burden on your CPU, especially when there are graphics on the webpage you are watching/loading. On my 68030 @ 50 with 64 MB fastram, browsing is hardly usable. With a 68060, it should be ok.
E-mail, FTP and chatting doesn't need a cpu like that, as it requires much less resources.