Is the A1200 really that cool of a computer???

[Karlos]

One thing that appeals about the A1200 is the sheer "hackability" of the thing. I'd wager few, if any, of the original C= HW designers envisaged that we'd have soundcards/USB expansions etc. hanging off the clock port and have things like PCI via the trapdoor, never mind CPU expansions with around 17x the clockspeed of the base machine.

[Karlos]

Actually, my GVP 1208 SCSI card has one installed.  I wonder which one is activ, my DKB or GVP 1208?  Should I unhook one of them?  Is having two connected at one time cause system problems?

If you have a clockport based clock you don't need, take it out. There's way more useful stuff you could put on there. You could have yourself a USB adapter, for example.

[Karlos]

Just curious, does anybody know the largest size flash card that can be used in the A1200 PCMCIA slot?

If you have a network in your home, I'd recommend a NIC as your PCMCIA expansion of choice. You can mount a flash drive internally on the IDE if you want to go down that route.

[Karlos]

Definitely, network is way cooler than CF storage, why not download those ADFs right from the source with your 1200 rather than ferrying them over from a PC?  I skipped right over to WiFi for my 1200, but even that wasn't too bad to set up.

I now actually store a lot of amiga data on my linux box and just share it out via smbfs.  This was especially handy for doing dev work, as I can use tools I'm more familiar with and use the amigas for binary testing.

I was previously using a CD Rom interface in the PCMCIA slot, but I can honestly say, I haven't missed it at all since going the network route. If I really need to mount a CD, I can assign CD0: to a symlink within the samba share directory.