Does Apollo 1230 need a driver?

[sweetface]

I'm thinking of buying a secondhand accelerator for my A1200. If it doesn't come with a driver do I need to download one from somewhere for it to work or is it just plug & play?

Also, I have an external cd drive for it. I think it's IDE but when I buy the cable for it, I'm not quite sure where it goes on the motherboard. If anyone has a pic or can point my in the direction of a guide it would be most helpful.

Last thing, in a previous post I asked about my Joystick problems. Basically when plugged in it would work up/down and fire buttins but would not move left/right. I've looked at the back where you plug it in and the socket seems to be a little bent but the pins are all straight. Is there a way I can fix this without having to replace the motherboard completely?

Any help appreiciated (you can tell I'm a nooby) :crazy:

[SHADES]

Hi sweetface,

I have one of these, no drivers needed.
They are a very tight fit underneath. yoou will need pacience to fit this card, don't use exsessive force. Try angles to get it in to place and two scerw drivers to slide it in to the connector.

[melange]

Hi there,

I believe you will need a 44 pin IDE to 40 pin IDE convertor cable to plug in your CDROM, but if you want to run the HDD as well, you should get a buffered IDE interface from Amikit, which will allow you to connect the CDROM and HDD together (The Amiga has only one IDE connector inside it).  You can connect two devices (Master and Slave) on a single cable to the one IDE interface, but it's not recommended (and something gets very hot, processor I think?, can't remember, long time ago ). :-?

I have recently been buying Joysticks secondhand and have found that most of them haven't worked when I tried them.  I have managed to fix all of them and they all so far suffered from dirty contacts inside the Joystick.  A little bit of contact cleaner and a cotten bud goes a long way I have found.

I remember you saying you had the Joystick plugged into a Joystick/Mouse swapper.  Have you tried the stick direct?
Do you have only one Joystick to test with or have you tried other Joysticks?