A1200 accelerators - how much RAM is really sensible?

[stefcep2]

I had the same card as you with 16 MB and never ran out of memory.  Sure if you dearchive to ram: a lot then you can even fill 128 mb but seriously how often are you going to do that as opposed to dearchiving to hard drive?

No game will ever need more than 4 mb.

Save your money and buy an FPU instead.  If you want to do some 3d renders you might need more ram to open some big lightwave scenes, but for that sort of stuff you are better off firing up winuae becausee it will be a lot faster to render images than the 030 is.BTW if you do get into renedrtring you will need that FPU, but I just renedr with winaue, save the anim to compact flash and transfer to the A1200 to play it back.

[stefcep2]

spirantho wrote:

stefcep2 wrote:
No game will ever need more than 4 mb.

Apart from the games that require more than 4MB, of course. Of which there are quite a few (even on the Amiga). Admittedly not so many will get by on an '030, but even so. If you plan to use WHDLoad at all get as much RAM as possible. If you're going to connect it to the net (my 1200 is connected via a £5 wireless card) you need at least 32MB.

The answer is get the best you can afford. If the 128MB isn't much more than the 64MB option, get that, and knowing the prices of SIMMS it's very possibly not much more.
Don't waste your time on anything less than 32MB - there's no point. Even if you think you know what you need it for now there's no guarantee you won't suddenly feel like doing something crazy.

Also don't bother with an FPU unless you're going to be rendering or doing a lot of image decoding - nothing else will use it.

I had my A1200 for 7 years with 16 meg.  Including the net eg Miami, Ibrowse, DirOpus, Yam all at once, never ran out of ram. There was nothing I  didn't have enough ram for, so seeing as he's already got the 16 mb I'd say use it and see if he needs more.  And he asked for "sensible" not "crazy"...

btw how many AGA games need more than 4 mb to run?

[stefcep2]

I sound like an old timer but seems like most of the games seem to be released towards its late years so I'm not familiar with them