Hi all i am wanting to upgrade my amiga1200 tower with a mediator and RTG Card but is it worth it ?
Here is my current spec:
Amiga 1200 board
3.1 roms
030 accelerator with 4mb (max 8mb)
Keyboard adaptor
ide 4 way buffered interface with hdd + cd rom
pcmcia right angle adaptor +Pcmcia ethernet adaptor
running wb 3.1 (i have an original copy of 3.9 on cd also)
Would i see any benefits with my current setup ?
If all you want are higher, flickerless resolutions I'd suggest you'd probably be better off with something like the Indivision AGA on that setup.
Just to play devil's advocate, contrary to the claim that an 030 is too slow for RTG software, most OS friendly applications don't actually hit the display hardware and will happily run on bigger, more colourful resolutions. I've used an 030 system with a Picasso IV in the past and it was certainly more comfortable than the native chipset for many older productivity applications.
However, the general observation that your machine will be too slow for more recent RTG software (ie, those that have been developed from the start with RTG in mind) is true.
