Best graphics solution for an A2000.

[KatManDEW]

murple wrote:
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.

What cool AGA stuff are you referring to?

I've had an A2000 with Picasso II, Flicker Fixer, and GVP 040 since back in the 80's. I just got my first AGA machine a few weeks ago - an A1200 with Apollo 1240 and Indivision. From what few AGA games I've been able to run with WHDLoad, I haven't seen a single thing that was noticably better looking than games on my A2000.

At this point, I'm half tempted to sell the whole A1200 mess.

[KatManDEW]

murple wrote:
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.

I'm not real familiar with available Amiga games, and what's good, so I would be interested to know which AGA games are goodun's.

murple wrote:
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.

Only about 10%-20% of the ones I tried work. I've been searching, reading, and asking about why, and what to do about it. I think the root of the problem is my Apollo 1240...

murple wrote:
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?

Are these AGA games HD installable, without WHDLoad?

murple wrote:
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.

I don't really understand the attraction to demo's. For graphics apps, I have a PC.

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.

I've yet to use any of the apps that really utilize AGA, and other than the Zorro II bus, I don't understand the other improvements the 1200 and 4000 have over a souped up 2000. I'm not saying the improvements aren't real or anything - I'm just not educated anough about Amiga's to know what the other improvements are.

From what I remember, Amiga went down the tube not real long after AGA became widely available, and I didn't think developers really got a chance to utilize it before jumping ship to a non-sinking platform.

Thanks for all the suggestions and info. I would love to experience some AGA goodness :-)