Upgrading my Amiga at the time would have been something like $400-$500 for the accelerator, and then I still had to add memory...
(I can't remember, but I know when I looked, it was something I couldn't afford at the time..)
And that would have been so I could run a few games better, but most didn't get any improvement from it.
desiv
Bingo.
For PC
New VGA card = 256 colour games. New CPU = ALL games from Elite to Super Stardust are faster and smoother. New sound card = better music/SFX.
For Amiga
Need 256 colours? Go buy a NEW and TOO SLOW A1200
Buy 24bit card = only supported by serious software.
Buy an accelerator = 3D games in same dodgy 8 colours run faster...everything else like Xenon II is still rubbish and slow and pathetic
Buy a 16bit/12bit sound card = sample playback for music work...same 4 channel 8 bit sound in all games.
This is why months after buying an A1200 people refused to pay £700 for an 060 to play badly ported arcade games just as badly etc from the OCS/ECS days. Nothing improved number of sound channels either etc. Or gave you chunky screen mode for super fast 256 colour graphics needed for Doom.
And the £1000 A4000/030 was barely faster than the A1200+Blizzard 1220/4 card...but cost £500 MORE than said A1200+28mhz 020 accelerator. Arcade games still were inferior to multiparallax Sega/Nintendo £100 console too.
A4000/040 at £2000 = forget it unless you are just doing serious work (Although 4000/030 + 060 Blizz/Cyb card was the smart choice really)
And so endeth the discussion on why we didn't upgrade our A1200s anyway and why 486 PCs for £600 in 1994 capable of running full screen Doom with 16bit SFX were outselling the A4000/030 which couldn't even trounce a SNES/Megadrive let alone £350 A1200 + £100 for 4mb fast RAM AKA 16mhz 386 PC speeds.
But that's all because OCS <---7 years--->AGA was too long before an update and still the sound was the same and so was the bloody blitter!! I didn't like PC but they had a better value for money experience when upgrading their machines.
