Amiga 1000 upgrades?

[haywirepc]

I have an amiga 1000 I just saved from a dumpster. Its original with original monitor too...except it also came with a 2 meg ram sidecar addition.
 
I have heard there is a board you can add that will let you use 3.1 roms and not have to use a kickstart disk. Does anyone know where I can find this?

Also, I've also heard of a board for amiga 2000/500 that basically adds amiga 600/1200 ide controller. Does anyone know if this works with amiga 1000 and where can I find one?
 
Finally, there is some kinda accellerator I saw for amiga 500/2000 before which plugs into the original 68000 socket. Does anyone know if this works for amiga 1000 and whats that called so I can watch ebay/amibay for one?
 
Any help or thoughts from those who have upgraded an original 1000 alot would be greatly appreciated. I'd really like to see other people's projects or hear how they upgraded this old girl...
 
Steven

[haywirepc]

I'd really love it to have 3.1 kickstart built in and run os3.1 with an internal hard drive... Sounds like the work involved may be ridiculous though. I'm fairly technical, and I can solder, but I'm not feeling very optimistic about making this happen after hearing from some folks here...
 
Perhaps I should just leave it as it is, a floppy based system with an extra 2 megs of ram.  I've been meaning to buy a catweasel for my windows pc. Maybe thats the only upgrade I need... Then I can make self booting floppys and just play games with it or whatever.
 
Steven

[haywirepc]

I'm not a big fan of os 1.3
 
Thanks for everyones thoughts on this. I may try a few of these upgrades. I prefer os3.1 to 1.3...
 
I have an amiga 1200 which I upgraded with hard drive, new rom chips and a hd with os3.9. I also have an a2000 and a500 that need some work
 
Steven