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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: Cymric on July 07, 2003, 06:00:34 PM

Title: Adding a network and/or CD-ROM to a 1200
Post by: Cymric on July 07, 2003, 06:00:34 PM

Of late, I find myself wondering whether it wouldn't be nice to code some stuff for the Amiga (OS3, not 4) again. My c0|)1|\|g 5|<111z have improved considerably over the years, so the results could be quite interesting :). In any case, I would need to buy me a small system---a 1200 with a 68040 should do fine. No problem there. However, software either comes on CD, or via a network, and if memory serves me, hooking up a CD-ROM drive to a 1200 is not particularly easy. As for the network option, I'm not looking forward to using the serial port with its measly 11 kB/s transfer speed. I would prefer the machine to use TCP/IP over UTP cables.

Can some kind guru provide me with some information as to what the best course of action would be?

Title: Re: Adding a network and/or CD-ROM to a 1200
Post by: fragment on July 07, 2003, 06:20:50 PM

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Cymric wrote:

Can some kind guru provide me with some information as to what the best course of action would be?

I'm not a guru but I'd suggest getting a cheap PCMCIA card and installing some TCP/IP stack. Cnet.device supports many cards (check compatibility list from the archive) and there is a driver for 3com cards as well (which I'm currently using). Both can be found from aminet (http://www.aminet.net/). For more details I'd suggest searching this forum because this topic has been covered quite a few times before..