Ram expansion for 1200

[Flashlab]

I can't find your topic about the accelerator but here's some advice. You're talking about a Blizzard 1260 and MTEC card somewhere; these are very different cards. So let's just get back to basics first.

First of all, ask yourself this: What do I want to do with my Amiga? What hardware do I already own and can my wishes be fulfilled with that?

Only then ask yourself; how much (more) money do I want to spend on this?

Chances are that you just want to run classic games. If you want to do that comfortably on real hardware you need a harddisk with WHDLoad and preferably an 030 accelerator with at least 8Mb of RAM. Just a memory expansion with 4 to 8Mb will also do but an accelerator makes your Amiga that bit snappier and smoother. With an 030 card you don't need to alter your software side; it's highly compatible unlike 040 and 060 cards.

If you want it cheap; just run WinUAE.

[Flashlab]

Rebel-CD32 wrote:
For the small amount of games that are enhanced with an accelerator, it's really not worth shelling out so much money for an accelerator when you can just run those few games through UAE much faster anyway. An 8MB RAM expansion is all you need really unless you intend on actually taking advantage of the OS as well, not just playing games. And if you're thinking about getting an accelerator and getting into AmigaOS, you may as well get yourself an Indivision so you can take advantage of those higher resolution screenmodes and cheap VGA monitors.

I just think shelling out hundreds of bucks for an accelerator just so you can play an old 3D game once or twice is wasting it, when you'll be bidding against plenty of other guys who need that accelerator to run their serious Amiga apps (or more importantly, to develop new Amiga software).

Your comment would be true for 060 (and PPC) cards but hardly for 030 cards IMHO.