A1200 going online

[desiv]

1) Is my A1200 3.1 rom, 4gb cf with accelerator card ACA1230 @ 28mhz 64mb on classic WBLite up to the task?

That's basically the hardware I use.  3.0 ROM and Classic WB Full, but that shouldn't make any difference.
I do run in Interlace with MagicTV to reduce the effect of the flicker on my 1084s.
 

2) What software do i need to install to my a1200,  TCP/IP software AmiTCP, Genesis(build in AOS3.9) or Miami ??

I use AmiTCP 3 personally.
I'm not at all bothered by command line configs.  (Not that there wasn't some confusion.  It didn't work the first few times.. ;-)
I also don't like time limits or nag windows, and licenses on some of those are hard to come by, so I went AmiTCP.  If I'm not mistaken (I don't use it), I think Easynet uses AmiTCP 3 also.

For file transfers, I haven't had any problems with AmiTradeCenter (I think that's it).
I just run an FTP server on one of my machines at home.  I can prep files on it and then send them to the Amiga or I can just download directly using AWeb.

desiv

[desiv]

Hey!  ;-)

How are you getting on with your aca1230 these days, has there been any more news on the new aca card that was set to be released about now?

Love the ACA...  
I had a bit of a scare a bit ago.  I installed a new CF-IDE adapter (one that will work with the HD LED on the Amiga case) and then my Amiga wouldn't boot...  After swapping things around (and panicking like crazy for a bit), I remembered that my ACA had a tight fit and wondered if I bumped it.  So, I pulled it back just a bit and everything works great again.  ;-)
(My Amiga wants its cards slid back just a bit.  My 8M RAM card was the same.)

Whew! :-)

As for news, I heard Jens was a bit swamped and some products (the Indivision MK2) are going to be delayed...
I think there was an issue with acquiring memory chips (for the new ACAs??  Can't remember) that was causing a bit of a delay also..

So there might be some delays (might affect Christmas), but they're still queued up.

I've heard good things about Easynet, so if you want to do that, it's probably worth it.
I like Amigakit as a company too..

If you want to go old skool, I can help you with the configs..
Mine are rather modified.  ;-)

desiv

[desiv]

Oh, something else to watch out for.
This is documented, but if you don't read the known problems, section..  ;-)

WHDLOAD doesn't like networking..
Rather, networking messes up WHDLOAD..  It can cause weird errors or freeze your Amiga.

All you have to do is disable your IP stack before launching a game and all is good.
(In fact, you can even have WHDLOAD do that automatically...)

Just something to remember...

Have fun!

desiv