After lurking around these forums for a while I've started to feel a bit nostalgic, and I'm considering getting an Amiga again. I'm planning on getting an A1200 plus '030 accelerator from Amigakit, but I can't decide whether to get a desktop or a D-Box tower.
I plan to use the Amiga mainly for WHDLoad games (I want the accelerator just to make sure the Amiga has enough power to run the games.) For most other things I'll stick to my iMac.
As I see it, a tower would give me freedom to expand by adding hard disks if necessary (can't see it being that much of an issue though.) I might also want to add an IDE CDROM, which would be far neater in a tower case than having it hang out the back of an A1200D! It would also offer better cooling than a desktop case (many years ago I had an A1200 with '030, nd I recall the '030 getting quite warm.)
The big disadvantage is cost. The tower system works out about £100 more than the desktop system. Bearing in mind that I don't plan on using it for much "serious" work, so I'm not likely to want a Mediator or '060/PPC upgrade, is there any reason to go for the tower?
On another note, I'm considering installing a compact flash card instead of a hard disk. I've read that running computers off CF cards isn't a good idea because the cards only have a limited number of write cycles, is this likely to cause a problem? Or is it just modern systems like Windows (with virtual memory etc. that constantly write to the hard disk) that have problems?
Thanks
Matthew
