wanting ide

[jimbob005]

hi im in need of an ide cable 2.5"to2.5" or a 2.5"to 2.5" to 3.5" and workbench 3.1 and roms for an A1200 and an upgrade card or any thing for a A1200 please email me jimbob005@hotmail.com im in the uk dont mind paying p&p from any where any one can help thanks

[motorollin]

Try www.amigakit.com :-)

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moto

[Oliver]

Also, if you tell us what you want to use your computer for, we could give you some advise about hardware/software selection.

[jimbob005]

i use it to play lemmings but would like to use it on the net

[motorollin]

To use your Amiga on the 'net, you will need (as a minimum):

- Hard drive
- Accelerator card with RAM
- PCMCIA network card

You can get all of these from www.amigakit.com.

If you buy 3.1 ROM chips and OS3.9, you get Genesis TCP/IP stack bundled with it, which makes it very easy to get online.

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moto

[doctorq]

Surfing the net using an Amiga is possible, but not very pleasant on an Amiga without a graphics card. Try surfing on your PC with 640 x 480 and 256 colours :-)

Only way to get a graphics card on A1200 is to put it in a tower, together with a Mediator or a Zorro busboard. Only suitable option for a desktop A1200 is a Blizzard PPC with a BVision installed.

If you just want to be able to transfer software from PC to Amiga, then all you need is a PCMCIA ethernet card and some fast ram. A faster CPU wouldn't hurt either, so a Blizzard 1230 would be a good item to get hold of.

[jimbob005]

ok i think i will forget the net i got an had drive off ebay from a loptop and a cdrom from a laptop to just trying to put them in but i havent got the cdrom yet still waiting for it to come how do you format the hdd to the amiga file system from pc? and how do you install workbench 3.0 on to it

[motorollin]

You need the Install disk which comes with Workbench. On there you will find HDToolBox which paritions and formats the hard drive, and the install utility for installing Workbench to the hard drive.

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moto