Accelerator Card ACA-1220

[desiv]

If its 020 CPU, better buy 030, surely you will need it.

Not necessarily.
An 020 is about as fast as an 030 at the same clock speed.  (Not like the difference between the 030 and 040 at the same clock).

Yes, you won't get an FPU or MMU, but my 030EC doesn't have either of those.  There's not much (raytracers, some demos) that use an FPU and less (Shapeshifter for Mac video enhancements and some dev stuff?) that uses an MMU.

At the speed of the 1220 (with it's pretty fast fast RAM), you'll be at the lower end of enjoying the FPS games.
However, you'll have plenty of speed for almost every other Amiga game (unfortunately, not a lot of them take advantage of extra CPU) and have PLENTY of RAM for WHDLoad.

My main question/concern about the 1220 is whether or not it's RAM is mapped to be PCMCIA friendly.
That much RAM, you'd have no problem with most WEB apps (I'm not saying ibrowse on the Amiga is great, but it works), but not if you can't use your PCMCIA card at the same time as the RAM.
I haven't seen an answer about that one yet tho..

Other than that, I'd say it's a great low end card.

That being said, a faster Amiga is almost always better.. ;-)  But unless you want great framerates on FPS games (in which case you need a FAST 030 or higher), the 1220 should be a great card.

desiv

[desiv]

Well, just heard from Jens (the designer) on EAB and he has mapped the RAM into the 32bit address space (Yes, it's not a full 32bit CPU, but this is Jens.. he's really good).

End result is, no conflict with the PCMCIA slot.
(Unless you try to use SRAM, but who would use slow 2M or 4M SRAM when they already have 128M... ;-)

So, for the money, that's a great card...

Now, if you want faster, that's OK..

But, I can tell you, the 1220 is coming in about $25 more than what I paid for my 8M RAM card for my 1200.  And this is a new card.

I love the ACAs, but I probably would have gone for the 1220 had it been released when I was shopping.

desiv