First Amiga 500

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Some poeple have been ordering the ACA 500 card from AmigaKit.com.  Its about $100 but it allows you to have a compact flash card hooked up to your Amiga, and it comes with extra memory and Kickstart 3.1.  Probably your best bet for the money at this time.

I use the ACA 500 and I recommend it, however, unless you have a Rev 6A board, I'm not sure I would buy it.

I have several Rev 5 500's and I couldn't get it to work with them, in spite of the web page that says it does work with Rev 5. After I obtained a Rev 6A 500, then it worked great!  I can recommend an HxC floppy emulator from lotharek.pl as well. You can either buy a slim version and install it into the 500 or use the cased external version.

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I'd just wait for the FPGA turbo card. It will be much faster and more flexible, with many extra features. ..

Where can we get more information on this? I haven't heard of it until now.

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Oh, thank you. I didn't realize the information was on this site

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I'd just wait for the FPGA turbo card. It will be much faster and more flexible, with many extra features.
As for the price, 100$ is a bit high for stock A500, I believe. Even with a monitor.
You should have gotten at least some kind of hdd interface, too.

If this is the device you are talking about, one bonus I see for the ACA500 is that it's external to the Amiga. Easier to use the CF cards. This device appears to be internal, although it does provide more functionality.

For me, a faster Amiga wasn't the benefit of the ACA500. I was just looking for a quick-and-easy way to transfer ADFs to floppies.

http://www.apollo-core.com/index.htm

I think this may be a video of it in action along with some cute kids

http://www.apollo-core.com/bringup/onlyamiga.avi