Looking at the mess of various accelerator cards that were made for amigas. I see some 040's clocked at lower speeds than some 030 cards. Would there be any gain to an 040 in that case, or is it better to just go for the higher mhz ?
For the core development era of the Amiga the creators of games and software appealed to the more common user base. While the latter years post say 1995 developers were trying to move the Miggy into a more competitive role, previous to this the commercial world limited the machines capability to say modest acceleration and more RAM. Games like SimCity 2000 for me drove me to getting a better accelerator but to be honest an 030 with say 4MB RAM worked fine with almost everything. My bigger problem was the compatibility of cards with some games.... Ishar IV hated my GVP as did Sensible Soccer. In Sensi the players would accelerate at times doing catchy up with the game. The Blizzard IV was the most consistent card ever in terms of driving anything on the 1200.
I have to say that it was graphics that floored it for me with the A1200 and the drain that that had on the machine. The A1200 needed to come out of the case and I just never could do that.
The 040 really needs cooling and a fan I would guess. Never bothered I just jumped to an 060 Apollo without cooling but more power.
My main A1200 still runs with the 030 Blizzard with SCSI Kit. The machine is on broadband and allows me to use every game and piece of software I have. To use 3.9 I run the 4000 at 040 with PicassoIV or A4000T with Cyberstorm and Picaso IV. But thats a completely different story, and I do not use these machines anything like the A1200.
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