Noob with A1200/SCSI questions

[Amiduffer]

Any reason in particular for using SCSI beyond a CD drive?

There were two types that allowed you to attach SCSI equipment. The SquirrelSCSI which attached to the PCMCIA port, and an pcb card that would connect to Blizzard type accelerators and use the blank space in the upper right of the rear of the 1200 for the port.

A better way is the Subway that Amigakit is selling.

http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=137&lcsid=ed6f56d80a971f171c77f33b97fe77f4

You'll have more choices if you use this, plus, if you can locate one, get an indivision, so that you can use any regular VGA monitor and you won't be stuck with C= monitors, since they're at the end of their life spans.

[Amiduffer]

Thanks to all for the replies.

The reason I wanted a CD-ROM drive is I've been using WinUAE to play my old games for years. I don't have any Amiga games around any more and I assumed there'd be some way to get these .adf files over to the Amiga, either to load from HDD or to get them onto Amiga floppies.

What's the quickest, easiest or cheapest way to get data from a PC over to an Amiga these days?

Thanks again to everyone
Shufflemoomin

Well, you've certainly got some nice options then. The Blizzard SCSI kit and SurfSquirrel/SquirrelSCSI are pretty hard to find, but show up on ebay once in a while. That's if you want to use your SCSI CD drive.

You can get the PCMCIA Compact Flash adaptor from Amikit, which is an easy way to transfer files back and forth.

Amikit also sells the USB kit, so that you can connect all sorts of devices, CD drives included.

Another way is with a null modem cable and Amiga Explorer (included with Amiga Forever), you can move files back and forth between the PC and Amiga quite easily.

A few people have done a little modifying of the 1200 case and installed a laptop CD drive inside, since it uses IDE.

[Amiduffer]

Unless I'm missing something by a country mile: I buy this kit you linked to which gives me the hardware & software to transfer files over on a CF card? Is this really both hardware and software for only £14? Surely that can't be right?

Shufflemoomin

Yes, he's correct. Its that easy and that cheap.