Amiga 3000 or Amiga 4000

[MrZammler]

Although I do love my A3000 (looks cooler than an A4000!), it does have it's shortcomings.

I do miss the AGA chipset for those games that need it, plus I dont use the internal scandoubler anymore since I have a Picasso IV (but when I did use it it was great feature). Plus there's something I always missed: an internal cd-rom (call me weird, although my external CDRW works great).

There are of course it's pluses: Way nicer than an A4k (IMHO), all chips socketed (that's not standard on an A4k), can run AMIX out of the box, good and reliable scsi, SUN wanted it to be a low-cost UNIX box, etc.

My .2 euros ;-)  

[MrZammler]

Machine wars! Great!  :-D

But I dont agree on the following:

-you have to buy the rom3.1

Not all A4000 are 3.1 either.

-you have to upgrade Ramsey and DMAC

No reasone to upgrade those. Havent had a single problem with my stock ones.

-You can't put simms on the motherboard unless you use a hack

True, but most these days come with some zips on-board, plus  when you get an accell, the mobo ram is a waste. (Btw, I've heard that A4k simm slots are quite fragile).

-You must upgrade to buster11 to get full zorro3 speed

Again, not all (or none? AFAIK) A4k's come with buster 11 on board, plus some of them have buster 9 soldered!!! (all A3k's have socketed chips). And you only need a buster 11 for DMA boards.

-The scsi interface is slow and doesn't recognize all devices

Havent tried a lot of devices, but it did work with everyhting I've thrown into her.

-Mediator4000Di won't fit inside

Well, it is a 4000Di! (But, yeap true, sadly there is no such thing for A3k's)...

(Damn, there are threads like this one, that I would wish to see Doomy reply...) :-D

[MrZammler]

KD7HTH wrote:
Great debate! Now can anyone direct me to where I can obtain 3.1 ROMS for my A3000???  :-?

Got my set from vesalia. (www.vesalia.de).