Your favorite classic Amiga expansion hardware?

[Matt_H]

Hmmmm... Tough one.

1. GVP A530 Turbo - what a difference this made back in 1991! Good accelerator, and GVP SCSI. What more do you need?
2. I think I'd die without my Blizzard 1260 on my A1200.
3. And my Delfina Lite! I'm extremely reliant on the MPEG decoder driver.
4. Kickstart 3.1!

[Morley]

Arrgh! Double post.

[Morley]

Whohaha! Looks like Blizzard 12x0IV has taken the lead! And that is well deserved :-)

[Ilwrath]

Whohaha! Looks like Blizzard 12x0IV has taken the lead! And that is well deserved  

Yeah... damn fine piece of hardware it was.  It was the only accelerator that I thought was better than my GVP 1230+ JAWS (G-Force 030).  I kind of miss my old 1200 rig.  Wonder if the guy I sold it to still has it.  hehehe

[Quixote]

:roll: I own oodles of Amiga expansion hardware, perhaps more than is really good for me, but in terms of altering the Amiga experience my favorite would have to be the add-on SCSI port/harddrive/memory expansion unit on my Amiga 500.  

;-) Now all of my old software would load in seconds, when previously the operating system itself took minutes to load from floppy.

[spihunter]

piccasso 4 video card
cyberstorm mk3 060

My A4000 was a dream machine after I added these two fine expansions :-D

[JimS]

I'd have to go with my Phoenix expansion box for my A1000. This gave me 2 ZorroII slots on my A1000. First I plugged in a 2058 Ram card - that let me install my bootup stuff to RAD for quick rebooting even before I got a hard drive... Then I added a Trumpcard with a surplus 52MB Quantum drive... wow! such space. :-)

The Video Toaster gets the nod on the 2000 end. It's just too cool, even though I don't have much use for it myself..

[swift240]

It used to be my Apollo Turbo accelerator, but now its my Mediator.....

Mike... :-P

[graffias79]

A500: My MegaAChip 2MB Agnus board.  I was into music, and heavily used OctaMED 4.  I went from 512k Chip (usable for samples) and 512k fast to 2MB all Chip (all for samples!!!)  That was also when I installed Kickstart 2.04

A1200: Jetfire (?) 030/40 It was a cheapie accelerator, but it let me introduce myself to the Internet, because Miami would not let me use any internet apps at the same time on a stock 2MB A1200 lol  On that note I guess I should mention the SupraExpress 56e modem from Diamond.  Miami even had drivers for it!  Unfortunately due to limitations in AGA bandwidth I had to run the serial port at 38400 baud and browse in a maximum of 128 colors lol

[amiwalker]

1, GVP A530 (my old A500 system)
2, DKB 3128 Memory maxed out 128M
3, Warpengine 3040 Memory also maxed out 64M

[adolescent]

Video Toaster (4000)

Although I never had one, I think it's one of the greatest software/hardware bundles ever.

Mediator PCI

All around excellent piece of hardware.  

[Paul]

What is everyone's favorite classic Amiga expansion hardware?

The A1000 Rejuvenator board. See specs below for how well it (alongs with a CSA Derringer accelerator) kept my first Amiga up to date for several years (compared to stock Amiga systems it was about equal to a fast A3000.)

The only thing it really lacked was slots.

Paul

[melott]

If I could only say one item then that would have to
be my CV64 gfx card. It brought my A3k into the real
world.
And then if you add my WarpEngine 3040 @40mhz and
80 megs ram and this A3k is One Fine Machine  :-D

Now if the ColdFusion hits the market uuuuummmm 'WOW'

[haymiggan]

Blizzard 1260 w/ scsi-iv.
Mediator PCI
Playstation Joypad converter
Voodoo 3000!
PixelView TV-Card



Most promising:
Delfina Flipper

[Dandy]

My favourite expansion hardware was the Vortex ATOnce286 classic for my trusty old A500.
It enabled me to run MS-DOS up to v6.2 and MS-WINDOWS in monochrome mode up to v3.1 and all related PC-apps on my A500 with just an 68000 CPU, 10.3 mB Ram (8mB at the expansion port and 2.3 mB internally) and a self-built 130mB 5 1/4" harddrive station (2 x 65 mB RLL-HD's via OMTI RLL controller fitted to the so called "ct-interface", which was conncted to the expansion port and provided one PC/XT slot for the OMTI controller), which included an PC- PSU as well...
 :-o
In those days (1991) I paid 161 DM for it (aproximatly 80 € nowadays).
I really wish there will be a similar cheap solution for A1/OS4 to become compatible...

[pjhutch]

Mine were the Blizzard 1230IV and Apollo1240 which made such an improvement to my A1200.

I really wanted a new gfx card, but the cost was too much to justify it (New Tower, IDE Adapter, new CDROM, Zip etc) and not enough s/w to make use of it...