Newbie with an A1200

[runequester]

Last I checked, Vesalia still has some ACA 030/41 mhz cards left, with 64 megs of RAM.

I have the 56 mhz ACA card and it's outstanding, though it does work better with 3.1 ROM's in your amiga.

Otherwise it's ebay or amibay, or ask in the sales forum here. You can probably find something like an 030/25 with 8 megs of RAM for about a hundred bucks. A plain RAM expansion might be a tad cheaper, but the difference won't be that great and having a bit of an extra speed boost is nice in any event.

[runequester]

I'm noticing a lot of '030 accelerators out there. Any reason they seem to be more prevalent than '060 based stuff? It seems in 2012 we'd be more likely to use the faster CPU, no?

As a side note, living in the United States has proven to be especially challenging with regards to finding reasonably priced hardware for my Amiga. It's Amikit and Vesalia or Ebay, and shipping costs are high. It's tough to be an Amiga user here!

I think it might just be that 030's were produced far more than 060's back in the day. That being said, it does depend on what you want it for.
An 060 card can be bloody expensive, and for a lot of games it won't make a ton of difference.
030's are probably also more compatible.

[runequester]

I've been extremely happy with my ACA, though it does work more smoothly with 3.1 ROM's.
 
It'll be a good card for the price, and you get new hardware rather than something used off ebay