Advice for a newbie?

[Iggy]

PS - you're going to be spending a lot of money on hardware if you want to be able to play Quake, even at minimum settings. While I would never want to discourage anyone from pushing old hardware to its limits, if you just want to play Quake, specifically, use an emulator (WinUAE, etc.).

OR, if you are using a PC anyway, play the PC version of Quake, which is going to work better anyway.

[Iggy]

Quite frankly I'm certainly not gonna be going around on twitter or anything with that, just like with tenfourfox on my ibook, but it's still an option and that's fine by me.

There are high-resolution programs for amiga computers? I don't really mind CRT screens. I was pretty much born around them (1988).

Minimum wage over here is 10.75$ per hour. I work five days a week full-time so that's 40 hours. after the taxes and such are taken I have around 730 dollars left, so about 1460 dollars per month and I only pay 520 dollars for my rent (1 room appartment, electricity, heating and hot water paid for) and after food and such, I got about... 600 dollars left for miscelleanous stuff? mind you, that's 600 canadian dollars so... about 450usd, or 369gbp, or 412 euros. That's why I'm looking for a regular, unmodified unit first since that way I'll be able to do my own little mods piece by piece while keeping things affordable.

I don't know if that makes sense to any of you but I'm fine with that plan

$520 Canadian dollars for rent?
Oh hell, time to move north.
Minimum wage in Canada, with health care, doesn't sound so bad.
BTW - The iBook will run MorphOS.

[Iggy]

Perhaps, but just like how I can get a snes emulator and all the roms I could possibly want online, I'd still rather have the real thing.

I've tried winuae, I've tried aros, they're fun but I feel something's missing just like I tried zsnes, I tried bsnes and snes9x but it just doesn't compare to having the actual console and cartridges and holding that venerable gamepad in your hands while playing, say, mortal kombat 2 on an old television via RF.

Had I been satisfied with either aros or winuae, I wouldn't be looking for an amiga 1200. I wouldn't be willing to put forth what is gonna be a relative ton of money in the long run for such an old computer.

NES or SNES? We are on different pages there. I definitely prefer that in emulation. No cartridge issues. And NES Galaga is actually a fairly good version.
For Amiga legacy, I prefer hardware myself.

[Iggy]

Why not choose an A500 or A600? They are a lot cheaper. Wait for the Vampire A1200 to be ready, so you can buy both at the same time.

To heck with that. Find out how much dovegrace wants. When it comes to buying Amiga hardware, I've always gotten my best deals by talking directly with the owner.