Power Tower availability?

[AlanN]

Hello everyone. I'm new to the site, but thankfully not the 'miggy. I've been feeling guilty recently about neglecting the old girl*, so i'm looking to give her a new cage and some friends to play with.

A friend of mine mentioned the Power Tower, but it looks like Power Computing are either out of stock, or have discontinued them. Where can I find one? Is there an alternative? What upgrades would you recommend, and where can I purchase them from?

Ta!

Alan

*Stock 2MB A1200, 320MB(hah!) HDD retrofitted

Edit: I should really mention that i'm in the UK.

[AlanN]

Wonderful! That'd explain why I couldn't find it, then Any other suggestions for upgrades?

Thanks again, Amigaz.

[AlanN]

Well, if I had to break it down:

65% - Games
25% - Trackers
5% - Aminet
5% - Coding

[AlanN]

Unless they're stock, then nope. It was one of the first A1200 releases in the UK if that's any help...

How can I check?

Edit: I've found somewhere with that board in stock. Would it be worth upgrading with the 1260 instead? Or is that going to kill a lot of games?

Would you still recommend putting this in a tower (I'd guess so, after seeing the fan on the 1240!)

[AlanN]

Thanks - i've just found them on the same site.

So to clarify, I need:

-The Kickstart 3.1 ROM chips
-Some sort of A1200 tower
-An accelerator/Fast RAM card, min. 32MB
-An ATA/IDE interface to add a CD-ROM drive/large 2nd hard drive

Does that look about right? How about a soundcard upgrade - I guess the Busboard would come in handy there; would a PCI soundcard help with any of the tracker (protracker, OctaMED) software?

[AlanN]

Aye, i'm currently putting together a basket on there to save for later :-D

Think I should hang on for the OS4 board, then?

[AlanN]

Cheers, Legerdemain - I remember even back in the day, some people had problems with accelerators; i'll steer well clear, then. It's the 030 for me.

What's the most widely-used version of WB for gaming? I'm running MagicWB on 3.0 (I think - I haven't booted it up in a while) at the moment.

Amigakit, would you mind if I mailed you to sort out exactly what I need? Looks like i'll be ordering through your site


Edit: Nasty, that's an insane looking setup I'd like to get a CD-ROM and larger hard drive in there for the Aminet CDs, and all of the hard drive loaders around these days, I could pretty much wave bye-bye to my floppy swapping. Some kind of link between my PC and Amiga would be good too, as I want to download->convert->send samples from the PC to the Amiga for use in OctaMED etc. What boards do I need for that?

[AlanN]

Hah, sound advice! Thanks - I will!