A4000 Upgrading .. Need advice

[dougal]

Hi ,

For one , i see pictures of A4000s giving an awesome display with a nice resolution and no flicker/lace . When i upped the res on mine (with no flicker) , the Amiga became miserably slooooooow .
 :-?

Also , its easy to have a network with an A1200 by using a PCMCIA Lan card , but with the A4000 i noticed the Zorro lan cards have the old stupid BNC connector , plus they cost a fortune while A1200 cards are cheap .

Is there no cheap way (besides serial) that i can have a network on the A4000 ?

[dougal]

16Mb of fast ram is ok .. I just bought this A4000 and it already has 16mb Fast and 2mb chip , so thats good .

It doesnt have any cards except for a Macrosystem Vlab card which i dont think is going to be any use for anything .

I'm kind of broke at the moment but thanks for the advice , i will def upgrade once i have the money :-)

[dougal]

Would i need a graphics card ?

Ross1 wrote:
Its the 2mb chip ram that suffers when running the higher resolutions, by adding FBlit you can share the fast ram with the graphics and it works very well.FBlit

[dougal]

This ?

http://cgi.ebay.com/Indivision-Amiga-4000-CD32-FlickerFixer-ScanDoubler-_W0QQitemZ120394085621QQcmdZViewItemQQimsxZ20090319?IMSfp=TL090319121005r22899

There is another for the A1200 and i saw one that looks external .. The external if compatible with both A1200 and A4000 would be the best choice

beller wrote:
Dougal...

Think of Indivision as your graphics card.  It goes up to a 24-bit display on a VGA monitor.  FBlit just shares the chip memory requirements with your 16 megs of fast ram.

Bob