Planning new A1200 purchase, any must have upgrades?

[Karlos]

If you are going for an 020/030 accelerator card you might as well shove as much RAM on it as you can manage within your budget.

Though you might not need it for retrogaming , you'll invariably find a use for it, especially if you start to play with music / graphics software.

[Karlos]

I did originally think I'd overdone it when I put 256MB in my A1200, but one use I have for that is having my OS in RAD. I have several OS "snapshots" that I can choose from on cold boot, then all subsequent warm resets run from a 32MB RAD. It's quite nippy.

Not many amiga applications can make heavy use, though photogenics is one. Ports of old PC games can be quite memory hungry though.

Will be interesting to see what people do with these new ZorRAM jobs in their big box machines.

[Karlos]

I mostly did it to speed up rebooting. I did tend to crash the system a fair bit when testing some of my more unusual ideas

[Karlos]

Does RAD: have a Higher priority than the HDD at boot ? Or did you have to have the Mount List for the RAD: device defining a higher priority than devices on SCSI.device ?

My A1200 has a 64MB simm on my DKB Cobra. (and a 4GB CF card).

I don't remember RAD's specific default boot priority (probably zero), but my bootable HD partitions are all set below zero. As soon as the RAD is created, it is now top of the list (after floppy).