It is official! I am selling my A4000D and instead I am getting an FPGA Replay instead.
Advantages are as follows:
1) Tiny size compared to the huge size of the Amiga 4000D
2) I can have 64 MB of CHIP RAM instead of 2 MB CHIP RAM
3) Faster bandwidth for CHIP RAM and blitting over the very slow one on A4000D
4) No more need to worry about real disk as everything can be done on ADF and HDF file
5) Build in scandoubler (build in VGA port)
6) Build in USB ports
7) Build in RTG
Allow me to expand it with 060 running at least at 110 Mhz if I wanted too with Ethernet port
All of those even if it cost me 800 dollars without the 060 expansion of course...all of this is going to cost me cheaper than getting an A4000 and expand it and still be weaker than FPGA Replay Arcade.
Here is why? In order to get a voodoo card or PCI ethernet card for example I need to pay 440+ for the mediator. Ok my Amiga 4000D already cost me 700 dollars stock version before shipping and handling which would cost me another 200 dollars.
So my stock Amiga 4000D cost me 900 bucks plus 440 equal to $1340.
Then if I want to expand it to 060 running at 050 Mhz it is going to cost me something like 700 dollars what with the market in the eBay and in AmiBay etc. So my Amiga 4000D end up costing me now with expansion $2040. Do not forget if I am ordering them in the internet I have to add shipping and handling cost so let us add another $100 bucks so it cost me $2140. What if I want to expand the RAM from 16 MB to 128 MB in AmigaKit.com it cost me 104.82 before shipping and handling for RAM so now the total amount I spend on the Amiga 4000D will be 2144.82. Bare in mind I am still stuck with 2 MB CHIP RAM and bottleneck of this hardware. Even if I went extreme and I halved it and I actually spend $1072.41 expand the Amiga 4000D that is way more than an FPGA Replay Arcade which gave me all this already as default setting with the exception of 060 daughterboard and still 10x faster than the original Amiga 4000D in all regards including graphics blitting, etc.
Ok so the one disadvantage FPG Replay may have that it does not support PPC as say Amiga 4000D does, but if you think about it that is not really a lose. The Amiga 4000D in order to support PPC it will use an outdated garbage card that cost 2000 dollars easy and still be weak enough not to run anything say like the NG does. So this feature in my A4000D I will never use in my life so I lost nothing.
Ok one could say the daughterboard 060 could easily be the same cost as an fgpa replay say 800 dollars. Even if I get the fpga replay plus expansion to be 1600 dollars it is still cheaper than the A4000D had I decided to go full force expanding it. But with the A4000D I am still limited with 2 MB CHIP RAM and severe bottleneck. With FPGA Replay I could do things that I can never be able to do on classical Amiga.
I am sure you guys could come in again and attack me or have a point you guys wish to proof, bring it on
