A1200 towered, is it worth it for the ultimate Amiga 1200 setup? Yes, RTG is hard to live without once you've had a workbench at 1920x1080 ;-)
There are frustrations with it, the 1200 starts to become a minefield. Unstable, with all the hacks/mods/patches/hardware.
Never working quite right. I've been battling with mine for awhile, still has a couple of niggles I can't solve.
Switching between RTG and AGA in WHDLoad is the most annoying. It should be easy going by what I've read but hasn't been the case for me after several rebuilds. Never mind I just switch to AGA with screenmode and then play.
Having the mediator also lets you use an ATI 9200 graphics card memory, which is great when you can add 256MB.
Networking is straight forward to, especially once I switched to roadshow.
Truckloads of cheap PCI cards to buy off ebay.
I had to upgrade to 600W ATX PSU however. If you do buy a mediator I'd buy an SX/TX version with the ATX switch.
Looking back, would I do it again. No, the frustrations and little bugs are not worth it.
Is it worth buying a Voodoo 5 5500, yes for the higher res and ADoom runs really well at 640x480. :-)
