Amiga 1200 - 040 (40mhz) + Compact flash ide

[stefcep2]

I have the same setup as you.

I have installed:

-Brilliance 2, Dpaint AGA 4.5 and 5, for paint and animation Personal Paint 7 for paint, art and imagestudio for picture file conversion.  I use Mainactor to convert anim5 animations to anim8 which scala plays back faster and smoother than anim5.  Brilliance does this too I think.

-ScalaMM400, Adorage AGA, Clarissa for video and presentation.

-various utilities to create mpeg video form anim5.

-directory opus 4 is a must.

-Soundstudio is good for music, bars and pipes i hear is good as well.

Lightwave 3.5 and real 3d

With apps I think the golden rule is to run software that was made to run best on your hardware ie don't use paint programs like photogenics or arteffect that use layers and open 24bit windows, they were created at a time when the Amiga was trying to do things like a PC and Mac, and really need RTG and 68060 and still aren't as good as Pc and Mac equivalents.  The AGA software is elegant, and fast because it uses the Amiga's strength:  graphics and sound chips working independently of the CPU.

Games:  gloom3d,Alien breed 3d, SlamTilt, Mansell's World championship racing, Sensible soccer, cannon fodder, deluxe galaga/pacman (not a lot yet)

[stefcep2]

I haven't had my flash card for more than 3 months so no problems with read-write cycles yet.  They say 100,000 read/write cycles is what they last.  The lifetime warranty has some exclusions:  I wonder if SanDisk will say ok if you tell them you used their flash card instead of a hard drive for an Amiga 1200?

I just installed OS3.1 as I would a normal hard drive.  That way I only have the stuff I want, rather than what comes with the hard file:  I recommend magic workbench, magic menu, tool manager, mui, simplefind, click to front, jano editor and directory opus 4.  I run this on 8 color Pal high res, looks nice, very simple and uncluttered.

I used SFS, but I got a virus on the card flash that no anti-virus software would remove until I reformatted with FFS.  But thats the ONLY virus I ever got on Amiga since 1995..

If you soft kick to 3.1 rom you will have a reboot on cold startup.  I remember doing this in the day and i think it creates a less stable system.  Why not just buy some 3.1 roms? Having said that 3.0 will do most of what 3.1 does..