A1200 - Desktop or Tower?

[Tomas]

If you want a machine just for whdload, then i am sure you will be just fine with a desktop. You will need to get a better psu for it though. And a CF card work just fine in an Amiga, as AmigaOS dosent write stuff to the HD every other second. A windows pc will constantly write to the disk, which is why CF is not recommended on a pc.

If costs are the reason for not getting a towerized box, then i think you are kinda wrong as i have seen quite a few cheap towerized amigas here in EU on auction sites. I myself bought one for around $90. It came in a RBM case and had a cdrom, 4gig hd and a blizzard 1220/4mB so the specs are not too great, but it works fine with nearly all whdload games and makes great machine for those purposes.
Building your own might be quite a bit more expensive though.

But still, if i could get one in a orginal desktop with similar specs for same price, then i would have gone for that.

[Tomas]

sometimes I feel nostalgia like u,but I use my pc and winuae and is the best way to play amiga games nowdays( if you have a fast PC and a descent 3d graphics card)

I disagree... My experience is that it still aint emulated good enough to play like the real thing. It is hard to emulate it perfectly even on a modern windows pc. The main problem is getting gfx to scroll smothly and the audio will not be in 100% sync due to need for buffering for the audio to play smoothly.

anyways the best way to play amiga games is using common adf files on winuae instead whdload installers....cause you play the games like were designed

I disagree there also.. Most WHDload games play exactly like the floppy versions with two exceptions and that is: No need to swap floppies and way less loading time. Both of those exceptions is a very positive thing in my opinion.