Best graphics solution for an A2000.

[murple]

mchaggis wrote:

So quite simply...what is the best graphics card to go purchase for it?

An Amiga 1200 or 4000.

[murple]

I used 500, 1000, and 2000 Amigas for a long time before getting an AGA system. They were cool in their day, but the fact is even with a fancy graphics card you won't be able to run all the cool AGA stuff out there. That's a huge drawback in my opinion, moreso than the limitations of the Zorro II bus. There's a lot of real cool AGA stuff.

[murple]

As far as games, I'd need to look and see which ones I like are AGA. There are some AGA games that were very cool. Honestly my primary game platform is Commodore 64, not Amiga (though there's some great Amiga games). You seem to be suggesting having difficulty running AGA games on your AGA machine with WHDLoad... you might want to ask people about that if so. I've had great luck with WHDLoad, though most AGA games run fine without it on my 1200. Unless you have some floppy only AGA game you want to put on your hard drive, why are you even using WHDLoad for AGA games?

When it comes to demos, though, AGA stomps all over anything ECS could even imagine. There's also a bunch of cool graphics apps for AGA which I don't use, but if you're into that sort of thing a non-AGA machine will hold you back a lot.

After having a 1200 for a while, if I had to go back to using an older Amiga without AGA and the other improvements in the 1200 and 4000, I'd probably give up on my Amiga hobby completely.

[murple]

stefcep2 wrote:
Its when people turn A1200's into Frankenstein machines- and really all thats being attempted is to create an A4000- that I think people lose it.  i presently have an A4000 with 68060, scsi, CV64, scan doubler, and i use an A1200 with just an 8 meg ram card and a flash card more often:  I love its fast boot off flash card, 100% comaptiblity with my whdload games, my son loves to play with dpaint and scala

Problem is that finding some things for a 4000 (better CPU, memory expansion, ethernet, PCMCIA) is difficult to impossible. I have a 4000 that I barely use because I haven't been able to find either a new CPU board better than the '040 one it came with or a way to expand the memory on it. Ethernet would be nice but not critical. The main thing is with the limited memory it has, it can't do very much. If I could get those things it'd be my main home Amiga.

[murple]

mchaggis wrote:
Thanks to everyone for there valuable input. You all seem to be, on the balance split between the Picasso and Cybervision camps.

I had a Cybervision that came with an A2000, I never found any use for it and eventually ended up selling it for about $10, and then putting one of those boards with the flicker fixer circuitry from an A3000 in the video slot. Anything I ever wanted to do on an A2000 would run just fine with just plain ECS. Anything I wanted to do that ECS couldn't, the only solution was AGA. If I still had the Cybervision I would've sent it to you, but oh well... I don't think they're too hard to find. Don't know about Picasso.