I want to buy an Amiga again!!!

[AmiGeezer]

Hi All,

I'm thinking of getting myself an Amiga again in the new year after a few years away.

I'm fancying an A4000 (Desktop or Tower) although I know it's memory access is slower than a 1200's.

As I want to get a graphics card would I be better getting an A1200 and towering it, accellerating it, getting a backplane (which one?) and then getting a card (Cybergraphics?) or would I be better getting a 4000 and the gfx card so I don't break my wallet with the 1200 costs and put up with the slower memory?

What other things should I consider?

I used to have a towered A1200 that I was proud of but sold that a couple of years ago. :-(

Cheers all!
Matt

[AmiGeezer]

Yep I saw that one - very expensive and a long way away!

The A4000 desktop goes very cheap over here, I've just missed out on a couple on eBay (#150066076509 for 102 GBP and #220054577208 for 113 GBP).

It's the accellerators and gfx cards that are expensive.

I've used UAE but didn't like the lack of 'feel' you get with the actual hardware. That's why I've still got a Dreamcast and have owned the following long past their sell-by-date... C64/VIC20/ZX Spectrum/CDTV etc etc (all gone now) and still have a Grandstand "Astro Wars" and a "Puckmonster" game.

Cheers!
Matt

[AmiGeezer]

Does anyone have a preference between PIV and CGfx cards? If so, why? Is there any difference in cost these days?

M

[AmiGeezer]

De dooo di do di doo - de dooo di do di doo .... did-it.

Very loud sounds on it but great fun!

:-)

[AmiGeezer]

You're thinking of the A4000's standard CPU board - the A3640 - which had throttled memory. As soon as you stick an accelerator in there (Which you have to do really) there's no difference or the 4000 has faster memory. If you get a Cyberstorm PPC for instance you'll get the 64-bit wide memory interface rather than the BlizzardPPC's 32-bit (but of course you have to buy SIMMs in pairs!)

Ah right - I hadn't realised that - maybe I'll keep an eye out for another 4000D in the new year then. Not sure how I'll fare trying to get the accellerator but I'll start with the base unit! There's some old AGA games that I'll have to dig out again but mainly I've always wanted to run a 'proper' Workbench in 16/24 bit - then I'll be a happy bunny!

 :-)

[AmiGeezer]

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sdyates wrote:
I have an A2000 toaster, 18MB, 86040, 2MB chip ram, extra retina graphics card, OS3.1 if you are interested.

If it wasn't for wanting AGA for reliving some of my old stuff then I may have been, thanks for the offer. Out of interest, what value would you put on that?

[AmiGeezer]

InTheSand wrote:
Hehe!!

Err... this is going a bit OT, but do you have the mains adapter for it? If so, any idea on the voltage and polarity?

I'm guessing it's 6 volts DC, but not sure of positive or negative tip/centre of plug.

 - Ali

'fraid not - but I'll take a look tonight to see if I can figure it out - Mine is boxed so it may be on the box.

M

[AmiGeezer]

Oops, forgot to check, will remember this time!

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