Retrofitting an Amiga 1200 with cool stuff

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*** This post is for geeks only. If you're not a geek, you'll think "What the hell??" ***

Some of you older readers will remember the Amiga (and my current Avatar) from the early 1990s.
The Plan: I'm gonna resurrect my Amiga 1200 (last manufactured in 1996) with some new technology from this century.
Reason: I always wanted a good Amiga and I wanna play on some of my old games again.

How:
I'm gonna replace the aging internal hard drive with something from this century. A 2.5 inch IDE Flash Drive with 1 GB of storage from a company in Taiwan ought to do the trick. ;-) Apart from the DS-DD Floppy drive, the machine will have no moving parts.

The next plan is to find some EDO RAM from some discarded PCs (of 1997 - 2000 vintage) and upgrade to some huge amount of FAST RAM which will be unheard of a decade ago. Perhaps 32mb?

Stuff I wanna run:
Alien Breed 92
Turrican II
Deluxe Paint 4 (I was never very good at painting)
Great Giana Sisters (They can kick Mario's ass any day)
James Pond 2
Elite

Anyone got any suggestions / contributions / condemnations?