Hardware recommendations for a new (to me) A1200

[dovegrace]

If it were me, the first thing I'd get would be an Indivision, followed by an accelerator and RAM.

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- I'd like to get on the Internet to telnet to some BBS's so that'd mean some sort of network PCMCIA card... or I want to say I've seen something that attaches to a serial port and emulates a modem but actually does WiFi. Is there a preference or known better/smoother option?

Once you have your network up and running, I'd recommend NComm or JR-Comm for terminal programs, along with TelSer to emulate a phone connection over network.  I've used this combination myself for BBSing on my A1200, although not recently.  VIRterm is alright, too.

There are a few QWK offline mail readers available for the Amiga (if you want to go whole hog), although I haven't tried any of them.

[dovegrace]

@dovegrace - Thanks. I wouldn't have an easy way of hooking up an analog modem nor would have a place to dial in to.

No problem there.  The TelSer device I mentioned emulates an analog modem over a network connection, you use it in conjunction with a terminal program like Ncomm or JR-comm.  Simply enter the telnet address of the BBS into the terminal program instead of the phone number.

It's been a couple of years since I last did this, but setup should be pretty straightforward.

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You can still register MUI, too.  I registered it myself last month (after 20+ years) although Stefan issued me a temporary keyfile as his A3000 was down, thus unable to generate a new keyfile.