It looks like I'll have to remove the card, then copy enough software onto it using my USB CF card reader/writer to keep me occupied for the time being.
If I connect my A1200 to the Internet, then I may find I start doing Internet related things on it most of the time, so that may not be a good idea.
I'm considering getting a 2Mb SRAM card because that seems to be the cheapest RAM upgrade at the moment at £45 compared with £71.99 for an ACA 1220 128Mb accelerator from Amigakit. It may be nice to have the ACA 1220 accelerator, but I don't actually need it. I've read that I DO need more than 2Mb RAM to run various software from a CF card using WHDload, though. I also need to go for some nights out, stop Virgin Media charging me so much, etc. I think I should start doing my personal budget in detail again and using Personal Finance Manager, like I used to. Does anyone else on here use this, or something else they really like?
BTW, I've run into my first problem using this device. I downloaded a copy of Deluxe Paint IV V4.5 AGA, which when booting from floppy displays the message that it's a version included with an A1200 pack and this disk is not for resale. There doesn't seem to be an HD installer included. I copied the program and artwork icons onto both my Work and Workbench partitions. When I try to run it from the CF card it always crashes, though. The Workbench Screen says I've got about 1.7Mb of RAM, then I usually get Guru Meditation #0000000B, which I've found out stands for "Opcode 1111 emulation", but I don't know what that means. Sometimes it crashes with a bright red screen and sometimes there's a more spectacular crash with some kind of interference pattern or loss of sync, horizontal or vertical hold, similar to crashes when using Relokick 1.4. I installed the English, German, and French locales, British, German, and French keyboards, and Epson printer drivers, but I don't know if these would affect it.
if your adventurous ..try amigasys4aga ..its a decent download ..all you need is a copy of your workbench an extras disk ..on a freshly formatted drive you basically copy the program on to dh0 an reboot an it installs itself ..done it a few times ..partioned my sdcard into dh0 an dh1 ...copied the amigasys4aga onto dh1 ..formatted dh0 ..an copied the program across to dh0 ..then reboot ..it asks a few questions what your system is etc ..a couple disk changes an its done..id put a pic of my workbench but they always seem to big to upload here ..
