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Offline A3KOne

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Re: Got the Bug again....
« on: April 15, 2012, 10:55:28 PM »
Quote from: Dr.Bongo;688511
Ok, my little story..
I've been a miggy user ever since when...  a silent lurker in these forums but always hands-on active.
Left for a while because of personal things but got the Amiga bug again (again..again) about a year ago.
Decided to trick up my A2k (see avatar) and have enjoyed countless gaming/demo sessions on it. However, I got bored with seeing 'requires AGA' or 'not enough memory' when trying things on my (somewhat vast) collection of cover CD's. Especially demos! Not happy with this, a choice arose. Upgrade my A1200 or replace the A4k I sold years ago (regrets!)
Much money later, I now have (in order of purchase)-

Amiga 4000 in Micronik tower (the one with the front door) + bus board
4GB CF HDD
A3640@33mhz
3.1 Roms
Cybervision 64/3D

Now that I'm enjoying all of these colours and pixels I'm wondering what more I am missing and what more this machine has to give.

Now my question to you good people is where should I go from here?
Please bear in mind that I'm under no illusions of going on the Net with it but, really do enjoy demos and gaming.
Your suggestions are welcomed :)



...you have a bit of an odd kit, for a demos / AGA project.  It is a partially tricked out machine, relegated to not much.

You toss in an ethernet board and you could get on the web - pages wouldn't display flash content and there is no java, but you could definitely do basic browsing and send/receive emails.  I am guessing YAM is still around, if not something newer and better.

Upgrade to 060/ppc and you have a nifty little email/mp3/game machine, though a pricey one.  The A3640 doesn't have local ram, so that bottlenecks you a bit.  A better accelerator with local memory would speed things up nicely (though kudos on the overclock, that helps a LOT on that board).  If you can find one, a Blizzard PPC would open up PPC demos to you, as well as OS4 (I think?).  With OS4 you can step up to webkit and Mozilla based web browsers.  I guess it all depends on what you want to spend on your bug.

My last tricked-out miggy was an A4000 desktop with 060/50+PPC+CVPPC.  I had to sell it after the terror attacks of 9/11 caused my company to go under...I lost my company car and had to buy a car to find work.  Presto-chango - The Amiga turned into an old, used Chevy Blazer.  I later sold my stock A1200, as I didn't foresee having the cash to upgrade it to a usable state.  I would *love* to have an Amiga again - but I can't justify spending the money when I can get so much more power for so much less dough.  I guess I am more practical than I once was - not to mention the pocketbook is smaller than pre-9/11.