watcher wrote:
Hi
I have'nt used an Amiga for about 10 Years! But now i thought id get another one as my old A1200 was probably the best computer i ever owned! So i have bought a A1200 from ebay (i havnt actually got it yet!) along with a Blizzard 1230-IV accelerator (is this good, bad or what?)and would like to ask some questions!
A 1230 board will make the A1200 much faster than you remember a stock A1200 being, it's not enough to play MP3s smoothly, but it's enough to have fun with. Did it come with any RAM?
1). Is it possable to use USB devices on an A1200??
You can buy a
USB card for the A1200, these attach to an internal "clockport" in your Amiga. Some Amigas unfortunately don't have this port, that's one thing to check once you have the machine before you start planning any upgrades.
2). I have a Amacom PCMCIA CD/DVD drive, will this work on the A1200 and does it need drivers and and if so where can i find them?
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The connection works in theory if you have the 16-bit version of the PCMCIA card. As far as I can tell Amacom supply 16-bit and 32-bit cards for their drives.
You'd also need drivers, I have no idea if they exist.
http://www.aminet.net is the first place to look for any Amiga software you're after.
Please help!
Im finding this quite daunting, especially as reading through the forum i've never heard of 99.9% of the things your talking about!
Welcome to Amiga.org. We're all dorks. :-)
