Catweasel

[cbcvenice]

Preface to question: Looking for input here after reading so many opinions on the cost efectiveness and speed of using winuae on a PC versus throwing money into rare accelerators/graphics cards to rejuvinate an aging Amiga (in America here mind you).

How many of you have the catweasel hardware?  What is it best function for you?  Is it worth getting for taking old amiga disks and putting the data to Pc for use in WinUAE with Amigaforever CD software?

Lastly, would it be quicker to mount a ntfs hard drive (crossdos - I think this is possible) on amiga (A3000) load data from disks then take Hard Drive out and put on PC to use data that way?  I have many documents/graphics/music mods/games(legitimate) on Amiga disks that I want to transfer.  Oh, I guess two other options would be to get an Iomega Zip plus drive (I have ide Zip drive for PC-and an external parellel as well) or a compatible CD burner for the A3000.

Thanks for looking.
Keep Smilin! :-)
Lar

1)Amiga 3000D 16/40mbHD& 2.1gbHD/6mg ram- 2.04ks/wb
rev9, B2 313312 Re 9/03 (buster 390539-07 71 4319 5101 3G),
(WD 33C93A-PL 911B WDC PROTO).(Ramsey 390541-04 R)(DMAC 81 390537 4790 - 02)

2)Amd64-3400-Albatron FX5900xt,160Gb & 80gb HD,1gig Corsair xmspro (BIM System)
3)Amd 2800xp, radeon 9800,80gb 512valRam (both DIY/BIM systms)

[cbcvenice]

@Thomas - thanks for the great reply.  I'm starting to think networking the Amiga may be my best solution.  

X-surf 3 card at softhut goes for $135.00

Anything special I would need to setup A3000 with xsurf3 on a standard Linksys router?

Would the x-surf3 be the best ethernet card for A3000?

Thanks for all input here


Keep Smilin' :-)
Lar