Advice on best A1200 accelerator

[AndyLandy]

I wrote this a few months ago:
http://www.amibay.com/showthread.php?t=16681

Sums up pretty much all you need to know about A1200 accelerators.

If you're looking in the £50-£80 region, you're probably looking at anywhere between a plain FastRAM card and a budget '030 accelerator. Best bang-for-buck is probably the ACA1230/28 at £85-ish.

Don't bother with PCMCIA FastRAM on an A1200, it's only 16-bit and will actually make your A1200 run slower. They're great for basic A600s, but a trapdoor card makes far more sense for an A1200.

[AndyLandy]

that one is OK if you are absolutely sure you don't want to do anything that needs a MMU or FPU.

To the first approximation, nothing needs an MMU or an FPU. Certainly if you're WHDload gaming, you don't need either.

If you're doing anything that's sufficiently hardcore to need an FPU, you probably don't want to be doing it on an '030 anyway.

[AndyLandy]

http://www.whdload.de/docs/en/mmu.html

My understanding is that WHDload can make use of an MMU, but it doesn't need it. Basically, if you can get a card with an MMU, great, if you can't, don't worry about it.