A1200 minimum upgrade recommendations

[kreciu]

I looked at the Indivision..looks like I'll need to somehow mount my CF hard drive somewhere since it'll run into the CF.  The indivision cable goes to the far right of the A1200 in the empty "bay/slot" cover area.  

Where do people usually put the HD when they use the Indivision?

Instead of indivision get yourself SCART cable, then SCART to HDMI converter and HDMI to DVI cable and you are set, for half (or less) price. Good for start IMO. When you start doing something interesting with you Amiga then you can try something else, but for playing games on HDMI TV this solution is great.

[kreciu]

At the IDE transfer rates of an A600 or even the A1200 I don't think the "speed advantage" of a CF card matters at all.

Should you ever want to install a Vampire 2 or a Furia accelerator in your A600 the SD card adapter doesn't get in the way.

In case of an Amiga it is not about SPEED but also about ACCESS time, HDD will have the same "raw" speed, but when I switched to CD/SSD solution my Amiga boots INSTANTLY.

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For an Amiga software HDD speed is not that important. Why? Because most of Amiga software is relatively small. Speed will make a difference when you want to transfer 1000Mb of mods to your Amiga... then 1Mb/s... IS slow.