I have to agree with Acill and others that the A3000 is a better all around machine, especially when kitted out with a graphics card like a Spectrum. Now, put a PicassoIV with it's built-in flicker fixer in an A4000 and you start to even the score. All in all, the A3000 get the nod for built-in dma scsi controller since the A4000 uses a crappy cpu-hog pio-0 ide controller. AGA is nice for a few games and necessary for the VT4000 but other than that, a graphics card is much better. Replace the Buster with a Rev.11 and no problem using ZIII cards. I've found no need to upgrade the original Ramsey4/Dmac2 combo. The INT_2 hack is not a big deal either, just solder a small wire to connect a couple pins if you plan on using a dma scsi controller on an accelerator card. I use a CyberstormPPC200 in a Rev11Buster A3000 with the ultra-3 and native scsi controllers and have no problems. Graphics are supplied by the CybervisionPPC card.
