putting an a1200 on the net.

[kvasir]

My A1200 uses a 3COM etherlink III card, and the aforementioned drivers that clemenza was talking about with Miami. (Not Miami Deluxe, though. I'm sure it would work, however) For browsers, my favorite is Ibrowse2.4, but it IS shareware, and has alot of nice features that I'm sure I couldn't live without removed. Aweb I believe is now an opensource thing, and works (though slowly) on AGA.The 3com card has a special cable for it, that ends in a regular ethernet connection (The fat looking phone plug, if your in the US. Not sure what European phone jacks look like) If your router supports DHCP, that would be your easiest bet. YAM2.5 should work fine for E-Mail, too. The biggest prob I have browsing on the 1200 is chip mem, as I run an 800x600 resolution on 2mb. I use FBLIT (also available on Aminet, I believe) to relieve some of the burden, but YAM and IBrowse particularly like to eat chip mem like a kid eating french fries. (If anybody knows any other tricks to get around this until I get a tower/ mediator for my miggy, let me know!) Also, you can use it for chatting IRC and the IM services with Wookiechat (Or Amirc, grapevine, I think theres a few other irc thingies out there), and the IM clients for Amiga. Amicq, Amiga AIM, AmiMSN, etc.. I use Jabberwocky with a gateway that supports all the chat servers I use. The only problem I have is the reset for the pcmcia port, which is easily fixed with another aminet proggy. (Cardreset, I think) I have it set to an icon on my dock menu, though I don't need to use it after a cold boot. Hopefully this help.

EDIT: I don't know where you can find one of these cards online, I guess you can get lucky on the bay once in awhile. I've seen them in Thrift shops, even.

[kvasir]

@monami

If you're using the composite out, you're stuck with either 640x400 (NTSC high-res interlace) or 640x512 (PAL high-res interlace), depending which standard your TV uses, though the interlacing means its going to flicker like hell. (I'm not sure which continent you're on) For higher resolutions, I'd use the rgb port with an adapter, with the super-72 monitor driver, you can get up to 800x600 resolution. (Mine is set to that @ 64 colors for speed purposes, even with Fblit its too slow in 128 or 256 colors) There's a monitor driver around somewhere that goes up t0 1024x768 on AGA, but I wouldn't use it. (Eats chip mem) As far as the mouse issue, I use a Mr. Mysza that my brother gave me because it wouldn't work with his kvm switch, so as a standalone it works fine. (Using with a alpha data joystick switch + 6-button sega controller, mr. mysza to ps2/usb adapter to usb to wireless mouse base) I believe there's other threads about the ps/2 adapter/kvm issue, though.