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 could not have said it better! :-)
My A1200 with 030 has 16mb fast, this is fine with WB3.1 & whdload.
When I only had 16mb in my A4000 with OS3.9 I always ran out of memory when i used Ibrowse. Now I have 16+128mb fast, now I can chat with jabberwockey, listen to mp3's/netradio useing Amplifier, browse with IBrowse.... Newer runs out of memory :-)
16mb is certainly fine if you "just" need to run WB3.0/3.1 and no internet, but if you want OS3.9 and internet, I would surely recommend 32mb minimum.
