Personal Amiga renaissance - should I buy an Amiga 1500?

[runequester]

You can update the 1500 quite a bit, so yeah, go for it!

You'll need to hunt down an accelerator card that gives you SCSI or IDE interface, but that way, hard drive and CD ROM are very possible.

[runequester]

You can use IDE stuff and its likely to be cheaper and easier to find. SCSI was a big thing in the period the amiga was around.

Either way though, you'll need an expansion card though.

I'd check the trade forum here and on amibay http://www.amibay.com/ and Im sure someone can sort you out.


Other things to look for are some sort of accelerator / RAM upgrade. Some will include IDE or SCSI interfaces, some don't.


Whats the end goals of the machine? What do you want to do on it?

[runequester]

The 1500 is just a 2000 configured slightly differently so it'd be awesome too

[runequester]

I cant imagine anything that'd require more than 8 megs of fast RAM, and you could probably get by fine with 4