A1200 Project

[Harrison]

I've just started a new project to upgrade an A1200.

As I'm moving house shortly and will not have as much space for everything to be out and setup at the same time (until I can afford a loft conversion! ) I've decided to upgrade an A1200 for normal use, instead of mostly using my A4000.

To do this I started with a standard A1200 with Kickstart 3.0 roms.

The upgrade will include:

• Kickstart 3.1 roms. *
• Buffered IDE interface *
• 50pin JAE to IDE Adapter *
• IDEFix'97 *
• 40GB HD *
• 24x laptop CD-Rom drive *
• 68030 accelerator (or 4MB fast ram expansion) *
• classicwb install + KGWHD gamepacks *

* = items I already have.

From the list I still need to get hold of a buffered IDE interface to make the project work, and then as and when I find one at a good price, a 68030 (blizzard MK4) accelerator (donations welcome! ), although there is no real rush for that as I will stick a 4MB ram expansion in the system until I get one.

I've only just got hold of some 3.1 roms from Amigakit, and those are installed and working perfectly in the A1200.

I next need to setup the 40GB HD on the PC using WinUAE, and once setup to transfer it to the A1200 to test it. Then I will need to obtain a buffered IDE interface and JAE to IDE adapter to get the CD drive installed into the rear left-hand side of the case, and set IDEFix'97 up..

I will post some pictures of the project as I go along.

BTW, if I stick with Workbench 3.1 (classicWB) and wish to use the whole 40GB of HD space, which third party filing system is the best?