Upgrade 1200 or sell and find 3000?

[chfriend]

Hi,

I currently have two Amiga 1200's I picked up.  I changed out the power plug to use an AT power supply on one of them.  I'm currently debating if I should buy a flickerfixer and processor card for this model or sell both of them and get a 3000.

They are both straight stock.  One is a Commodore with KS3.0 and the modded one is an Escom with KS3.1

The only postives I can see for the 1200 over a working 3000 is AGA and the fact that I have an IDE drive that is configured to go in the modified 1200, which I was able to do using an IDE to USB converter and WinUAE.

Thoughts?

[chfriend]

Wait, I just realized that your A1200 is not in a Tower, correct?

So that is 3 advantages the A3000 has over your A1200.

Nope, no tower, just the standard wedge case.  I want to play around with some of the graphics programs.  I do alot of screen printing design that I'd like to try using the Amiga for instead of my PC, especially since most of the equipment I have for doing it is older.  I'd also like to use WHDLoad for playing older games.

My biggest problem with the 1200 is the 15khz output.  I have several monitors here and none support it, whereas an A3000 would be able to have an RTG card added and I'd be able to use the same monitor for both RTG and ECS output due to the built-in scan doubler.  The A1200 only appears to have one video card upgrade available which is paired with the Blizzard PPC board from my understanding and I'd still need an Indivision AGA somewhere.

EDIT: Just saw the other reply - I have a DLink PCMCIA card on the way.

[chfriend]

I guess the question is which one of these will cost the least to get a usable system in terms of CPU, RAM and usable video.  The biggest turn off of the 4000 is that it will need an Indivision AGA or other flicker fixer for the built-in video too, although it will not need a CPU/RAM card like the 1200 does.

Why the *PHHT* did Commodore not update Amber for AGA?  I know they were cost cutting at the time but the 4000 deserved a built-in scan doubler.

Chicken Mcnugget return key?

[chfriend]

Oh vey,

Me have a headache!  If I can locate a 4000 that hasn't been destroyed by battery leakage do any of the RTG cards act as a pass-through to scan-double the AGA output so I can use one monitor for everything?

[chfriend]

Maybe I'll try it this way.  If anyone is looking to sell either an A3000 or A4000 (with flicker fixer) or has a CPU/Indivision for my A1200 please PM me with the specs and price you want.

Probably want to keep it to the US or Canada or shipping charges will be through the roof!