cd-rom with desktop case

[StevenJGore]

If you don't want a tower then you have three choices:

1. Buy an A1200 Blizzard accelerator with a SCSI card, and connect a standard PC SCSI CD-ROM drive. By far the most expensive option (ebay prices are £100-£200 for the accelerator, and the SCSI cards are ultra-rare, probably another £100-£200) but also has the fastest data transfer rates.

2. Buy a HiSoft Squirrel PCMCIA SCSI interface, and you can use a standard PC SCSI CD-ROM drive, but only up to about quadspeed, I believe. There are also known issues with Squirrel's overheating and freezing A1200's during long data transfers (I've experienced this myself). Squirrels go for about £30-£40 on eBay, probably another £30-£50 for the SCSI drive and case.

3. Buy an Amiga Technologies Q-Drive 1241 (the official CD-ROM for the A1200). It is a quadspeed drive and uses a custom PCMCIA interface (much like the Squirrel). I sold one last month on eBay for £144, see here.

Anyone please feel free to correct me on any of the above!

Steve.

[StevenJGore]

will a Blizzard 1240 40MHz + Blizzard scsi-kit IV do the trick then?

Yes. All you then need is a standard SCSI CD-ROM drive in external casing (one that has an audio pass-through would be ideal to mix the Amiga's sound with the sound from the CD-ROM drive).

by fragment on 2004/2/13 14:46:03

Check this out  

But I think it would be easier to transfer the NIC drivers with diskettes and then all the rest over the network..

That's really cool, looks a neat well-done mod too!