Falcon 030 vs. A1200 vs. Performa 400

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spihunter wrote:
I have a B&W 68030 Mac running system 7.01. My god is it slow!
Its like swimming in molasses.
faster! :lol:

In Art School we used 68k black and white macs. I got so FEDUP, I went to one of those freaky electronics stores in NYC, you know the kind that sell, prcelain cats, luggage, batteries, cameras and at the time every computer brand.

I bought an Amiga 1000 for $150 and did all my Mac assignments uising Pagestream. The 1000 trounced the mac's display. I waited up to 1 minut for a simple black and white vecotr graphic to update on a b&w mac.

The Amiga connected to my TV and later (1084) and I got the Genlock that allowed me to run video on my workbench bacground eliminating alsmot all flicker.

LAter on used Emplant quite niceley. Having a MAc and AMiga in one box really was the best of both worlds.

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By the time I got the Emplant....

I purchased An A2000/ A2630 card ram and I used it with a Retina card, and even with all that Amiga kit i still came out cheaper than getting a real mac.

Much better with a Retina as the ESC chipset was slow, quite nice. I used it up until 1995-96 in coordination with the Macs at school. I actually used their roms and experimented with various configs.

Then I got an Amiga 4000 040 with a warp engine. That ran it much better as I had 32 megs contiguous ram. By then statetd using shapeshifter as well.

Today it really doesn't pay to tinker with such emulation. Matter of fact I'm using the Mac to Emualte the Amiga on my Laptop. Things have come full circle.

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$150... that's a bit of a bargain!

Even in late 1989 in NYC, the Amiga 1000 was already being touted as "outdated" by the competition. The Amiga 1000 was virtually unsellable since the A500 and A2000 eliminated the need for it.

The Advent of cheap, powerfull 386sx 25 machines with VGA, and soundblasters made Amigas less desirable to the undeducated.

Back then I would find many deals like that as a few dealers didn't know what they had. They saw the commodore logo and figured it was one of those old C-64 type machines.

It was also a hard sell when you have a 386DX alongside and A3000. The A3000 is pricier and can only fo 16 color hi-res, yet the pc did 256 colors. Granted Woekbench 2.1 TROUNCED Windows in form and funciton. But the support of commodity hardware and cheaper faster spec really diminished any value the Amiga had. Such a shame. Having AGA introduced with the A3000 during 1990 would have made a difference.

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Amithony wrote:
The A4000 is just the best isnt it? over Mhz any day

Trhoughout the past 15 years I've owned a A4000 030, A4000 Micronic Tower, A4000 040, and AT A4000T and Amiga 3000T.

The A3000 T design with AGA and IDE would be pretty much the perfect computer setup. I snatched up a 3000 T with a Vortex Golden Gate 486sx and. That was pretty cool. Amiga, PC and Mac all in one machine. I also used the Winstorm Sigma Designs Graphics and sound card.
Really cool stuff.


The A4000 T with a flicker fixer and Video Toaster Flyer and PPC with Cybergraphics was pretty sweet. Imagine how frustrating it was having this setup without a PPC Amiga os...

Then I finally sell the PPC card and Amiga 4000T to have the Power PC os avialable a couple of years later...

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$150... that's a bit of a bargain!

I think that seems like a bragain only becuase of the high prices we pay today on Ebay for Amiga items.