1200. To tower or not to tower?

[koshman]

In my opinion, a towerized A1200 loses its charm. The only reason I would tower one would be to use a graphics card (which is actually a pretty good reason, but I think it's still better to buy a A3000 or A4000 in that case), since the only one you can theoretically put in a desktop case, AFAIK, is a BVision, but even that is very complicated (and, of course, you would need a Blizzard PPC for that).

[koshman]

I stuck a no-name Virge card ripped out of an old PC into my A4000 Mediator and the speed on Workbench for opening folders, displaying icons and sliding windows around is fantastic.

That's interesting - when I bought a Mediator and installed a Voodoo3 I haven't noticed any significant difference in WB speed (but it might be because before I was running it in 640x512 and now in 1680x1050 ). The most dramatic speedup in WB was when I upgraded from A3640 to a Cyberstorm 060.

[koshman]

I was using the Indivision4000 to give me a 1024x768 25 colour Workbench and while it is usable (the 1280x768 is too), when I tested the Virge card it was like the difference between night and day. The net result is that I use Workbench and certain applications on an RTG graphics card (I've gone back to using my CV643D right now while I wait for Elbox to send me a Radion 9200 PCI card) for speed and then flip to a nice rock-solid native display using the Indivision for playing games.

What I'm having fun and games with at the moment is getting P96 modes to select properly. I've always used CGX4 before and that was more or less self configuring with the CV643D. I'm using a 24bit 1024x768 screen with the CV643D, but whenever the disk drive is accessed the graphics "flicker". Very strange, but I'll get to the bottom of it...

I'm also using Indy for games and demos - I could actually never test it in 1024x768, because mine is unstable in higher resolutions, but for my use it doesn't really matter (don't want to mess with it and damage it or something).
Btw, good luck with P96, I still remember how much fun I had when I was trying to get 1680x1050 to display correctly on my Samsung LCD (which is rather shitty for Amiga anyway, won't sync at 50Hz etc.) - and what was the funniest part - when I connected a different computer through the analog input, the LCD "autoset" itself to the new signal and after that my A4000 Voodoo3 output for whatever reason displayed a 3cm black border on the right!!! So the tuning all over again... Ah, the good old days

[koshman]

@ kvasir: Why did you get rid of your old avatar? it was awesome