Amigakits a1200 recommendation

[Cammy]

A 8MB RAM card is all you need for WHDLoad, if you can find one of those instead of an accelerator, they cost far less. 4MB would be fine too, and you can use a PCMCIA SRAM card to add another 2-4MB if you need to.

[Cammy]

My advice was to purchase a 8MB trapdoor RAM expansion, or at least a 4MB one, which will be sufficient for most WHDLoad games, but if more RAM is needed a 2-4MB SRAM card can be used as well, when it's needed.

I can understand that you're only trying to sell the products you have in stock, but there's no need to attempt to prove my advice wrong by twisting around what I said.

[Cammy]

Well that's the great thing about PCMCIA isn't it, you can easily pull the card out and stick a different one in. I'm sure having a spare SRAM card as well as a CF/SD card adapter and a network card is handy, I have them all myself and it's really not that much effort to swap them over when I need to.

[Cammy]

However, your advice would be valid for an unaccelerated A600 as this is a 16-bit system.

This implies my advice about using a 8MB Trapdoor RAM expansion for WHDLoad games being sufficient is invalid. Your post was directed at me as if you were making a correction to what I had advised, which wasn't incorrect to begin with.

I never recommended SRAM as the sole RAM expansion for an A1200, only as an addition if a 4MB trapdoor expansion is used and is insufficient memory for a particular game, which in most cases is only needed for preloading multiple disk games that nearly all only require a 68000.

[Cammy]

No, that card doesn't require any cooling, it will fit inside the desktop case with no problems. It will also make your Amiga powerful enough to be used for online games like Dynamite, and make it perfect for multimedia presentation software and game creation software like Backbone.

An Amiga with a 68030 can do so much more than games, if you do get an accelerator you should look into all the creativity software available, and maybe try and bring it online for more fun.

[Cammy]

Getting online with OS3.1 is easy if you use Miami Deluxe. AmiTCP is the tough one to configure, unless you use the later version called Genesis with 3.9, but Miami still seems better anyway.

Miami Deluxe is available on Aminet here: http://aminet.net/package/comm/tcp/MiamiDx10cmain
The freely available keyfile is here: http://www.fatcat.vispa.com/keyring/

AmiTCP isn't all that hard to install and configure either, and it's a learning experience getting it done.

[Cammy]

There are days when it's so hot I wish I had one of these solar powered fan caps: