Hi all....but not my first post - A1200 Tower Project

[LordSpunky]

I never introduced myself before I jumped right in and opening a thread in the AmigaOS 4x forum.
My first computer was a Dragon 32, followed by a C64, I dreamt of the day I could own an Amiga and got a secondhand, A500. Years later I bought an Amiga Inc A1200 from Tandy for the knock down price of £100 [after Escom went bust?]. I was dragged into the PC Windows forum in 1999.
In 2008 to spite Vista I turned Apple......and after buying my iMac I was thrilled....but I still miss that Amiga....

........so here I am, armed with my A1200 which a very small HDD, and a 8MB card I found in a skip stuck in the trapdoor. I run WorkBench 3.1 with no CDRom and my knowledge of how to do things 'Amiga' has long been drunk and smoked away.

I want to stick my A1200 in a tower, get a bigger HDD, CDROM, PCI Card, Get a voodoo in it, get it connected to my ethernet and maybe run WB 3.9 / 4.0. I want to do what I always wanted to do just before I got my first PC in 1999. When I was the last person in my college to have an Amiga and not have a PC, I want to make it powerful and cool.
I've got a CD32....I always thought you could use it as a CDROM for the A1200?
How much is all this going to cost and what is the limit?

Cheers folks

Tristan

AKA Lord Spunky .... but you can call me Spunky

[LordSpunky]

hmmmm like this? Buzz
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Amiga-1200-BLIZZARD-1230-IV-68030-Accellerator-8MB-/180504060672?cmd=ViewItem&pt=UK_VintageComputing_RL&hash=item2a06e16300

And also sounds really dumb question, when booted from HDD, into WB and i put a floppy in, I cant load a game, but when I ctrl A A it loads floppy?

[LordSpunky]

One assumes, if I get the CF mod I can get WHD to the flash card? Or connect the Card to a PC and download games onto it?

[LordSpunky]

Thanks guys and girls, some good advice - I think my first port of call  will be as Cammy said to get myself a IDE-CF adapter and reinstall WB3.1  or 3.9 [if i can find a copy] onto that and get myself a PCMCIA  ethernet adapter [amigakit?].
How about a CD-Rom drive? If I have used the PCMCIA port for ethernet  how does that work? There seems to be a spare IDE port on the  motherboard under the metal shield and does it have to be one for an  Amiga?

Cheers Spunky

[LordSpunky]

Good point regarding cd files over network.....how good does the amiga network with win / mac?