Hmmm.... how can someone with an A500 compete? No PPC, no RTG, no sound card, no CD-ROM, no Zip drive, no fancy set of wires glowing through a neon filled water-cooled case.
I do have:
33 Mhz 68020/68882
2Mb Chip
8Mb 32bit Fast
40Gb 2.5" IDE HD
ECS chipset
3.0 ROMs (A1200, not A500)
DCTV
Microspeed Trackball (best input device)
Completely unaltered A500 case (looks like standard A500)
I'm using REAL Amiga graphics and sound (..well, except when displaying composite with DCTV ;-) ) and I always hated the slow annoying CD-ROM.