In the days when the A1200 was named so because it was sold for $1200 and the A4000 was named so because it was $4000, I naturally bought an A1200.
I then bought Amiga format with Real 3D, CU Amiga with Image FX, and I put my joystick down. And that's when I hit the roadblocks. Flickery PAL screen, lack of resolution, lack of color depth, lack of speed in anything more than 64 colors, no CD ROM, slow CPU-hogging IDE interface.
So a 8 MB RAM board was going to fix that, right? Nope. Patches, kludges and hacks, PC side towers with IDE ribbons snaking out folowed. But still not where I wanted to be.
Then some guy I was buying an '030 board off said:" Ya'know, an A4000 will fix all your problems". Yeah but we need a new kitchen first, was my reply.
Three years later an A4000 with CS II 68060, Cyberscsi, CV-3D plus scan doubler was up for sale for $800 because the seller thought "he'd get some money back before PPC Amiga's came out and made it worthless".
That was 13 years ago. Have never looked back.
