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Recommended A500(+) purchases?
« on: January 29, 2009, 07:52:45 AM »
(Sorry if this is in the wrong forum, a topic that's been brought up so many times it doesn't warrant a new thread, or whatever)

Since my A500+ is currently pretty much in stock configuration (with the exception of a trapdoor RAM board), and I've got multiple ideas as to what to spend my next money allowance on, I've decided to ask people that know these kind of things for advice.

My ideas so far:

- A hard drive, if I can get one. Definitely definitely definitely. It'd cut down on the disk swapping, speed everything up nicely, and make playing Beneath a Steel Sky (15 floppies) bearable when I get that.

- Second floppy drive, if I can't find a hard drive, to prevent most of the disk swapping.

- Accelerator, again if I can find one.

- A printer would be nice... I already have an Epson Stylus Color 760 with Centronics output... are there any drivers around for modern printers like these?

- An AmigaOS 3.1 upgrade. I'm told it runs faster than 2.x - is this true?

- As for games/software... Cannon Fodder, Beneath A Steel Sky, some sort of music software, DPaint 5 (any improvement from 3?), and either AMOS, Blitz Basic or E. I want to start programming on the Amiga!
[UK] A1200 with 2GB hard drive and Apollo 1240 040/33MHz/16MB FastRAM | A500+ with trapdoor memory upgrade and A520 modulator and no battery or power supply

Floppy Drive Grim Reaper and DPaint lover