to the dood who started this thread:
if you want DEMO and game support , get a system that can do both, the best thing you can find is a blizzardppc with 060 cpu and a ppc at 240 mhz , about 100 demos has to this date been made for PPC amiga's , most of em needs RTG (gfx card) and with the blizzardppc you can get a bvision which is "OK" enough for both Workbench usage in high'r resulutions + watching demos , why? well because of thats the base system most of the demos was made on/for .
secondly you will need a scandoubler/flickerfixer, choose from either internal or external...both will do for the time.
or instead of that, get a monitor capable of showing 15khz modes and up..., in theese days LCD is very popular and guess what...many of them has 15khz as a standard ...
if a lcd is too expensive, then you can buy an microvitek multisync monitor which will handle both your gfx card + your aga/ecs modes.
(amiga technologies liscensed theese monitors years ago...(95?)..)
if you need memory ... talk to haystack (haymigga) on this forum, he sells cheap simms (128mb).
dont buy Apollo boards unless its impossibe to find a blizzard , why? they only take 32mb by default! .. you can add a second simslot but it require alot of work to do so and will cost u extra.
i wont recomend a 030 nor a 040 , the only viable system for demos theese days is a 060, and as we know 060 can be abit harsh on older demos , but that is why we have stuff like "WHDLOAD" etc, and also you can disable the blizzard boards with "2" on the keyboard , if its a ppc board , then you can also keep the cpu's active and disable memory , or the otherway around.
anyway i would say...DONT go for a desktop unless u are prepared to waste a lot of money, i have blown far too many cards on desktops...heat ruins em.. and you also get problems like.... you dont know how it looks inside.., and if you are abit untidy....smoke will arise
....has happened here... ;(
good luck and welcome to the board.
