Amiga 4000 with 030 for 3d games

[Speelgoedmannetje]

The 3640 should be avoided unless it's very cheap - it doesn't have local RAM, which means the memory access is much slower than other accelerators.

If you want to play 3D games you basically need as fast as possible a computer, at least if you're texture mapped ones. Let's not forget that a 68030/25 is about equivalent to a 386DX25 or so, which is too low a spec for any PC textured game apart from Wolfenstein 3D, which is ...er... rather basic. If you want to just play 3D games like Gunship and Elite/Elite II, then a 68030 will be fine.

The Amiga was never made for 3D graphics, though - or at least, it kind of was, as the blitter I believe has basic 3D functions, but they're very basic and were surpassed by CPUs at about 68020 level or so, I believe. Could be wrong, though.

Either way, if you want to play a 3D game the Amiga isn't really the right platform for it, but if it has to be done get the fastest accelerator you can afford.

The pc was neither. My 486sx 33mhz. with 8mb. ram could barely run Doom. Doom crawled as well on a 486dx 66mhz with 4mb of a friend of mine.

[Speelgoedmannetje]

hey you are right the Amiga is not a 3d machine. So mayby i will let it stay with 030 cpu and 18 mb ram. i know that all the cd32 games and amiga 500 games work flawless on it. :-)

On youtube you can find some vids on how smooth/jerky different doom engines run on Amiga 1200's with '030 accellerators.

[Speelgoedmannetje]

This sort of conversation becomes pretty vague, because "runs fine" obviously means different things to different people.

Yea, I always played it full-screen but perhaps others think the "poststamp"-sized screen acceptable enough, and then I can imagine it'll run ok on a 386.