New Recruit to the Amiga Ranks

[runequester]

Welcome aboard!

[runequester]

You can get an amiga mouse pretty cheap from amigakit.com, or just check the sales forum on here, and Im sure someone can hook you up

[runequester]

You are correct about the wide range of cards available. Unfortunately that is making it kind of confusing to me about what stuff is and is not compatible. Not really important to know right now but later on once I get some Amiga hours logged I will want to start tinkering.

its a brave new world

In general, for accelerator cards and stuff, look for stuff that has a number of 20xx.
Tradition is that a card or expansion tends to have the first part of the amiga model number in it.
For processor cards, the last 2 digits tends to indicate the processor in question.
So 1230 would be an 030 card for a 1200, while 2030 would be the same for a 2000


In general anyways

[runequester]

Well guys, I finally got a keyboard courtesy of orb85750's sales thread over on Amibay! Now I just need a mouse and a better way to output video (mono composite sucks).
 
Incidentally, is there anything I can do with just a keyboard at this point? I booted into the GUI but couldn't seem to do any sort of navigation. Could be that I just don't know the proper keyboard shortcuts.
 
Also, does anyone have a good recommendation for a video card of some sort that would allow me to use a standard VGA monitor? Not having any luck finding an RGB-compatible monitor around here.

Try holding down one of the amiga keys and use the arrow keys.
 
As far as monitor, you'll need a scan doubler, either internal or external. Im at work currently, so I can't help much right now, but Im sure someone will jump in shortly

[runequester]

Until the indivision is in stock again, and before chucking 300 bucks on an internal card, this might suffice

http://www.ambery.com/rgbcgatovgac.html

I use it with a simple adapter and it works pretty good, though it doesn't like interlace modes