Planning new A1200 purchase, any must have upgrades?

[bbond007]

Just as others have mentioned here, the best things to add to an A1200 are:

8MB RAM/FPU/RTC card or 020/030 accelerator with at least 8MB RAM
4GB CF card on a CF-IDE adapter formatted with Workbench 3.1 on it
PCMCIA card reader, either SD or CF (remember SD cards are limited to 2GB each as SDHC isn't supported yet, but are cheaper than CF)
PCMCIA network card, either wireless or ethernet
CD32-compatible control pad or at least a Sega MasterSystem or MegaDrive/Genesis pad (which the Amiga uses as a 2-button pad)
Subway USB card
USB Missile Launcher
USB card reader

I have most of the stuff from Cammy's list...

GVP 030/40 "Typhoon" (with scsi) from softhut. The GVP also is equipped with a math coprocessor. I'm not sure which one. I ordered it with the 32mb ram chip. I did look at getting a 64mb FPM SIM but those seem to be quite rare. Also they look like much larger SIMMS.
 
NOS A1200,Subway and PCMCIA network board are scheduled to arrive from amigakit tomorrow. Even if that delivery slips a day, I'll still have it for the holiday weekend...

I'm also going with a 4GB CF HD adapter. I have 2 cards one is 133x and the other is 80x. I wonder if it makes a difference? I also have a 32GB card, but I'm holding off trying that immediately.

I did not actually order the USB rocket launcher yet, I really wanted to build (my own) upsized version  that uses standard lawn-darts as ammunition.

I'm having a setback on that. Apparently, There is a real shortage of lawn-darts at the moment - even on the second hand market.

[bbond007]

133x and 80x you will not notice the difference.., the slowest part of the chain is going to be the IDE on the motherboard.  That is not to say it will be slow, far from it.  The CF card just will use the IDE channel to its FULLEST (Not to mention SILENT, No HDD whine).

No to mention I'm sure it uses less power than notebook drive.

Anyway, the one thing to consider also might be an upgraded power supply I suppose?

I was going to try the stock power supply first. If that proves to be flakey then maybe I'll look into building something with Pico-PSU. Would 90 watts be enough for the system?

http://www.virtech.ca/detailProduct.php?str=GE-PSU901487¤cy=USD

[bbond007]

My A1200 runs Like a dream on my A500 heavy brick (60W). At least commodore had the willingness to be cheap enough to reuse the connectors and the same pinout as the A500.  I am sure it was them being UBER CHEAP, but it enabled a lot of us to replace the weak as piss, lightweight A1200 supply.

[edit] @ that link, that ONE PCB is the ENTIRE PSU ?, You are fracking kidding me ?

Thats awesome, but I need one in excess of 145W for my A4000 (Existing wattage).

[edit2] Oh wait, thats 90W 12V to ATX (DC to DC)..., thats no good  Would be awesome for 240VAC to ATX.

I had one in an efika once. Its more of a power-regulator than anything. You supply the 12V with a laptop style power brick. Almost all of those can switch from 220/110 with as simple plug converter...