Subj : Re: amiga
To   : Richard Menedetter
From : Joacim Melin
Date : Tue May 12 2020 17:10:47

 RM> Hi poison!

 RM> 11 May 2020 10:15, from poison -> All:

 po>> I am kind of interested in playing with an Amiga. What would be good
 po>> still usable hardware that would work on the internet?

 RM> I have an Amiga 1200 that I connected to the Internet once.
 RM> It has IDE and PCMCIA connectors.

 RM> I used telnet and ftp on it.

 RM> You can use wired Ethernet and WiFi PCMCIA cards.
 RM> You need to have a driver for them.
 RM> There are some supported Ethernet cards and 1 or 2 WiFi cards.

 RM> I think I used a Lucent WiFi card with an OPEN network.
 RM> (I think in the meantime one of the drivers support WPA ???)

I've only used wired cards. There are actually many PCMCIA cards to choose from and many of the 3Com cards from the time works (and Farallon which was based on 3com:s chipset). If nothing else you can always buy a card for like 30 euros (or dollars) complete with the software needed to get going. 

If you go for an older Amiga you can get a ethernet or wifi card for the A2000 (X-Surf-100,
https://icomp.de/shop-icomp/en/shop/product/x-surf-100.html) or the PlipBix for the A500 or any other Amiga
(http://amigaonthelake.com/amiga-plipbox-parallel-port-ethernet-adapter/).
 The Plipbox is _slow_ but it will at least get you connected to a network and allow you to transfer files via FTP. NFS or SMB is not recommended for that. 


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