And back into the Amiga fold with a (new to me) Amiga 4000.
Lucked out on a decently priced A4000/40 with 16 MB Fast and 2 Mb Chip ram. It was 3.0 Roms so updated those to 3.1. Installed a DVD/RW (SATA w/IDE converter) drive and a 250 GB IDE HD and started the install process when the 3.1 Install floppy that came with it failed at boot. Attached the HD to my Windows machine and used WinUAE to partition, format and install OS 3.9 and using the DblNTSC monitor. Placed it back in the A4000 and it booted just fine connected to a VGA monitor (RGB > VGA adapter). 3.7 GB boot partition, 8 GB work partition, 25 GB data and 25 GB misc partitions (with plenty more space unpartitioned). All using PFS3.
Added a Toaster4000 and Video Flyer card and a X-Surf 100 card.
Enjoying some good old fashion real Amiga interactions again 
Still heavily involved in Amithlon though...the speed differences are staggering, as well as the low-res, limited color and slow native display modes Amiga offers, compared to the Amithlon screen modes (add in the hardware accelerated modes under Amithlon and the differences become even greater).
Still, it's great to be an Amiga owner again. Funny, I would never desire my old first PC compatible PC again.
Native Amiga screen modes are sped up massively on higher cpu's by the use of FBlit:
http://m68k.aminet.net/package/util/boot/fblitYou have to use FBlitGUI first to configure it. I replied to a post about FBlit somewhere on here years ago as you need to make sure the config file is created/being used (it'll happily 'not work' without throwing up an error).
Also make sure your ROM is in in RAM for another extra boost. There's loads of tweaks to be done to improve graphics and Workbench speed, this is just scratching the surface.
Personally what makes old computers interesting to me is their limitations, and how to get the best out of them. Not just in computing either, but everything really. To me everything and everyone are defined by their limitations. Nothing is perfect.
