Amiga 1200 - 040 (40mhz) + Compact flash ide

[hbarcellos]

Hi all,

    Im preparing my Amiga 1200 with 040 40mhz accelerator for fun. Im using a 1gb compact flash as ide hard drive. They have limited capacity for read/write sectors, so, Im carefully selecting games and applications to install.
    I have already installed several whdload vintage games and some of the applications that I used to use as AMOS and Storm C.
    But, I would like to receive some suggestions, related to new games (that could work fine with my 040 40mhz) and some stand-alone applications, for fun, as protracker, octamed, scala, vista, deluxe paint and etc..
    I'll not connect it on the net!

Best Regards to all

[klx300r]

hi, you have almost the same setup that I have except mines a 2GB CF HD and my accelerator is a Blizzard 030@50 :-D
anyhow I would recommend using OctaMed Soundstudio v1.03c as you can use all the mixing/larger samples/ sweet midi  etc with your setup ;-)  and for games...any 3d vector intense games should run great i.e Gloom Deluxe AGA runs great on my machine with all options on...

[stefcep2]

I have the same setup as you.

I have installed:

-Brilliance 2, Dpaint AGA 4.5 and 5, for paint and animation Personal Paint 7 for paint, art and imagestudio for picture file conversion.  I use Mainactor to convert anim5 animations to anim8 which scala plays back faster and smoother than anim5.  Brilliance does this too I think.

-ScalaMM400, Adorage AGA, Clarissa for video and presentation.

-various utilities to create mpeg video form anim5.

-directory opus 4 is a must.

-Soundstudio is good for music, bars and pipes i hear is good as well.

Lightwave 3.5 and real 3d

With apps I think the golden rule is to run software that was made to run best on your hardware ie don't use paint programs like photogenics or arteffect that use layers and open 24bit windows, they were created at a time when the Amiga was trying to do things like a PC and Mac, and really need RTG and 68060 and still aren't as good as Pc and Mac equivalents.  The AGA software is elegant, and fast because it uses the Amiga's strength:  graphics and sound chips working independently of the CPU.

Games:  gloom3d,Alien breed 3d, SlamTilt, Mansell's World championship racing, Sensible soccer, cannon fodder, deluxe galaga/pacman (not a lot yet)

[hbarcellos]

Hey, Nice! Thank you all.
As you're also using Compact Flash, have any of you noticed any problems related to the fact that they have a limit number of times for saving?
And, is there a way to lock them for writing? I'm almost 100% sure that Workbench 3.1 does not do swapping or any other write operations during regular use, isn't it?

I'm "preparing" the 1gb file inside UAE, using a hardfile. Then I'll plug the CF Adapter into a notebook hard drive USB adapter , format it inside UAE and finally I'll copy all files from my hardfile to the CF.

Q1) Should I use that other file system (SFS) or something like that? My original 1200 rom is 3.0
Q2) Should I use a program to do "Soft Kick"?

Best Regards to all!

[klx300r]

I honestly wouldnt worry about the CF card longevity as the Amiga OS doesnt write to the HD every millisecond like MS Windoze :roll:

also why not just use the setup disk on 3.1 like I did to setup your CF HD on your A1200....set it up just like a normal HD with no problems..

oh ya & ya gotta try Deluxe Galaga..my all time favourite :-D

[Damion]

As you're also using Compact Flash, have any of you noticed any problems related to the fact that they have a limit number of times for saving?

Modern flash cards will last many years, even with Windows. ;-)  IIRC, SanDisk cards are lifetime warrantied.



 

[stefcep2]

I haven't had my flash card for more than 3 months so no problems with read-write cycles yet.  They say 100,000 read/write cycles is what they last.  The lifetime warranty has some exclusions:  I wonder if SanDisk will say ok if you tell them you used their flash card instead of a hard drive for an Amiga 1200?

I just installed OS3.1 as I would a normal hard drive.  That way I only have the stuff I want, rather than what comes with the hard file:  I recommend magic workbench, magic menu, tool manager, mui, simplefind, click to front, jano editor and directory opus 4.  I run this on 8 color Pal high res, looks nice, very simple and uncluttered.

I used SFS, but I got a virus on the card flash that no anti-virus software would remove until I reformatted with FFS.  But thats the ONLY virus I ever got on Amiga since 1995..

If you soft kick to 3.1 rom you will have a reboot on cold startup.  I remember doing this in the day and i think it creates a less stable system.  Why not just buy some 3.1 roms? Having said that 3.0 will do most of what 3.1 does..

[gdanko]

klx300r wrote:
hi, you have almost the same setup that I have except mines a 2GB CF HD and my accelerator is a Blizzard 030@50 :-D
anyhow I would recommend using OctaMed Soundstudio v1.03c as you can use all the mixing/larger samples/ sweet midi  etc with your setup ;-)  and for games...any 3d vector intense games should run great i.e Gloom Deluxe AGA runs great on my machine with all options on...

Mine has an unnamed 68030/040 accelerator with 64M fast RAM and a 2 GB CF card.