What's the best Amiga setup for gaming?

[littleblakkitty]

Sorry if this is a topic that has been beaten to death.
I am thinking of buying an Amiga system and am just curious to hear people's opinion of what's "the best" way to go. Really I can't see myself using it for anything besides playing old games.  I have a bundle of floppies and it would be nice to be able to transfer them all onto a hard drive to play whenever I want. So I'm looking for something that would be compatable with the widest selection of old games. I don't own any AGA games now but it would be nice to be able to play those if I get any. Also, is there a "simple" way to transfer files from a PC to an Amiga? I mean besides on a floppy, like is there a way to network a PC to an Amiga for file transfer or is that asking too much?

[littleblakkitty]

I have a 500 but it seems that the floppy drive has died because it won't read anymore.
Thought I would take this opportunity to upgrade to something with a hard drive where I can transfer all my old games before those old floppies go bad.
I don't spend a whole lot of time playing the old Amiga games anymore but every now and then I get a craving to revisit Shadow Of The Beast, Battle Squadron, Deluxe Galaga, etc.
It's fun to have a running classic machine to show people too. There's some young'uns I run into sometimes who actually don't know anything about the existence of Amiga computers, if you can believe such a thing.  :-)

[littleblakkitty]

Sounds like what I need! Is WHDload pretty easy to use?

[littleblakkitty]

Yeah I can see that. For some reason though, I like having a piece of classic hardware in front of me. Out of... principle? Or something. I have an Atari 2600, a Super Nintendo and a Playstation 1 as well. Maybe I'll start a video game museum.