What is the best Amiga in your Opinion?

[Hattig]

It a shame commodore went under in 1994, one would think they could keep it going with all the machines they sold over the years. but i think they made some bad choices. The amiga cd32 was a good console, but i think they should have shipped it with 040 cpu and 4 mb ram, so it could compete with the new pc and playstation. it was a time where 3d games took of

It's easy to forget how costly an '040 was back in 1993. However I do agree that both the A1200 and especially the CD32 should have come with fast RAM by default, and the A1200 should have been configurable out of the box with 4MB and 6MB options (an easy upsell from the base price). A 20MHz '020 would have made a difference, but I guess the CPU selected was restricted by Motorola's pricing at the time.

[Hattig]

Mind that this was also during a time when the competition was paying a tonne of money on custom-designed consoles with not-so-inexpensive processors: the Sony PlayStation, the Nintendo 64, and the ill-fated Sega Saturn.

There were massive leaps made during the mid-90s for consoles, the CD32 was just a little too early and underpowered (the RAM configuration really didn't help), and AGA wasn't good enough for a mid-90s console, especially as it was a full bitmap display compared with the competing Genesis and SNES tile-based graphics, and then underpowered compared with the Saturn, Jaguar and Playstation. Then again, AGA was a hack because AA was dead. The nature of computer games was changing at the time and adding a chunky "byteplane" mode would have really helped for the Doom-likes and 3D games.

As for my favourite Amiga, it would have to go to the A500 - the one that brought the Amiga to the masses. I had a KS1.2 Amiga 500. Then an A1200, which didn't have the same feel to it. I just wish that the A1200 had also come in a more expandable A1000 style case.

[Hattig]

Hi yes your are right when i think about it, 040 cpu in 1993 was quite expensive i can imagnine, but if they change the ram as you talked about, do you think they could run doom clones better? still with the 020 cpu.

Not really - maybe with a 28 MHz '020. Chunky graphics would also have helped. Even with this, getting textured floor/ceilings probably wouldn't have happened, as they're a CPU hog in a ray-casting engine.