Noob with A1200/SCSI questions

[shufflemoomin]

Hi to all,

I'm obviously new to the forum and also sort of new to the Amiga. I owned one as a teenager and never did anything but play games on it. I decided to pick up an A1200 as a blast from the past. I have the machine on the way and also an external SCSI CD-ROM drive. What's the best way to hook this up to an A1200? What options are available to me? I keep hearing about PCMCIA inputs and I assume this is the only way?

If this is the only way, what cards should I keep my eye open for, as I assume they have to be Amiga compatible and have Amiga drivers of some sort?

Any help and advice you can give for someone hoping to rekindle his love of Amiga would be appreciated.

Shufflemoomin

[shufflemoomin]

Thanks to all for the replies.

The reason I wanted a CD-ROM drive is I've been using WinUAE to play my old games for years. I don't have any Amiga games around any more and I assumed there'd be some way to get these .adf files over to the Amiga, either to load from HDD or to get them onto Amiga floppies.

What's the quickest, easiest or cheapest way to get data from a PC over to an Amiga these days?

Thanks again to everyone
Shufflemoomin

[shufflemoomin]

I like the idea of a PCMCIA CF reader. Can you use any one of them in an Amiga or do they require specific support? What brands/models should I be on the look out for?

Thanks again
Shufflemoomin

[shufflemoomin]

We sell the EasyADF PCMCIA Compact Flash Transfer Kit with Amiga compatible 4GB Compact Flash here:

http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=440

Unless I'm missing something by a country mile: I buy this kit you linked to which gives me the hardware & software to transfer files over on a CF card? Is this really both hardware and software for only £14? Surely that can't be right?

Shufflemoomin

[shufflemoomin]

Fantastic! Sold!

[shufflemoomin]

Thanks for the offer but I'm going to go with the CF PCMCIA adapter that was posted here. I can't believe such a simple and cheap solution existed. I've already bought one and I can see me spending some money at that place over the next few months.

Thanks for all the help guys
Shufflemoomin