Use of the A500

[McVenco]

motorollin wrote:

steve30 wrote:
They are better for games than the A1200.

Despite being slower, less expandable and not having AGA?

What has being slower and less expandable got to do with playing games? I'd prefer an A500 above an A1200 for playing games. Except AGA games of course, but there are way more OCS games than AGA games so no very big loss there (except Slamtilt obviously :-))

For everything else, the A1200 is better though...

[McVenco]

Maybe not, but I still get a better feeling using an A500. Maybe just for old times sake, and I really don't mind somewhat longer loading times. 99% of the games that I like run without hassle on a 1MB A500. For the other ones, well, there's always WHDLoad indeed :-)

[McVenco]

Well, if it's a nostalgia thing then I can understand it :-) My first computer was an Amiga 500, but the first I ever bought for myself was my A1200, so an A1200 has a better feeling for me than an A500 :-)

For me it's just the other way round. The first computer I ever bought was an A500 and I didn't have an A1200 until last year. To me, the A1200 requires a lot of fiddling (booting to WB, loading WHDLoad etc) to get some games to work, while with the A500 it's just switching on, inserting a disk and away we go! :-)