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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: Aromatic on January 05, 2008, 07:46:13 AM

Title: Does A1200 support ATA flash drives ?
Post by: Aromatic on January 05, 2008, 07:46:13 AM

Yesterday I found an A1200 with Blizzard 1230 Mk-III 50 mhz with 16mb ram at the recylestation. :insane:

So I need to upgrade a bit to make it usable :-)

Is the Ide controller able to read ATA flash drives , like Hitachi and Apacer ?
If not, are there any ide-controller addon for sale wich does?

Are there any LCD tv's that support the screenmodes on the
A1200 , it will be used in workbench , not games ?

Is the "AMIGA PCMCIA NETWORK CARD MKIII" at Amigakit any
good ?


Thanks for reading. :-D  

Cheers

Title: Re: Does A1200 support ATA flash drives ?
Post by: Piru on January 05, 2008, 08:01:19 AM

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Yesterday I found an A1200 with Blizzard 1230 Mk-III 50 mhz with 16mb ram at the recylestation.

Lucky {bleep} :-)

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Is the "AMIGA PCMCIA NETWORK CARD MKIII" at Amigakit any good ?

It should be just fine. However, if you have any 3com or NE2000 compatible PCMCIA cards about, those should work too. The drivers are in aminet.

Title: Re: Does A1200 support ATA flash drives ?
Post by: monami on January 05, 2008, 11:12:05 AM

hi,

where do you find recycle places like this? i'm in england do we have any? oh and how much do you pay for such a computer? thanks.

Title: Re: Does A1200 support ATA flash drives ?
Post by: motorollin on January 05, 2008, 11:48:04 AM

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Aromatic wrote:
Yesterday I found an A1200 with Blizzard 1230 Mk-III 50 mhz with 16mb ram at the recylestation. :insane:

Lucky you! :-)

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Aromatic wrote:
Is the Ide controller able to read ATA flash drives , like Hitachi and Apacer ?
If not, are there any ide-controller addon for sale wich does?

AFAIK yes. It certainly works with ATA Compact Flash devices, and I have seen Amigas using flash hard-disk replacements.

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Aromatic wrote:
Are there any LCD tv's that support the screenmodes on the
A1200 , it will be used in workbench , not games ?

All LCD TVs will support 15KHz Amiga screenmodes, since they are designed for a 15KHz signal.

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Aromatic wrote:
Is the "AMIGA PCMCIA NETWORK CARD MKIII" at Amigakit any
good ?

Well it's just a PCMCIA network card, so nothing special hardware-wise, but I think you will find it useful having all of the software on floppy disk, since it will make getting online really easy.

--
moto

Title: Re: Does A1200 support ATA flash drives ?
Post by: Aromatic on January 06, 2008, 10:07:16 PM

@Piru & Motorollin

Thanks for the answers, then it's time to put some money into hardware :-D

@monami

Well , every city have one. As in England , you  should ask some of your fellow citizens since I live in Norway :-)

Well , I paid 50 Nok for it , a bit over £5   :crazy:

Cheers

Title: Re: Does A1200 support ATA flash drives ?
Post by: Hodgkinson on January 06, 2008, 10:30:13 PM

Well, im keeping an eye out at the local tip for any amiga stuff I can lay my hands on; as well as a spun aluiminium satellite dish (Eg, no holes) to make an experimental solar furnace with.

No luck yet...And our local tip as just moved to a new site with health and safety rails around each container...So getting satellite dishes out will be, er, difficult...

Hodgkinson.