help me pick an amiga

[nicholas]

AGA is pretty crud, its slow, and you can do 256 colors with OCS.

:-?

[nicholas]

@rednova

Sell the A2000 and use the money to buy a Picasso IV for the A4000.

You won't regret the combination.

[nicholas]

Dear Amigans :

I appreciate everyone's comments about which amiga to pick.
After serious consideration, I have really good news !!!
I can KEEP my amiga 2000, and get the amiga 4000 !!!
I have a special desk which I use for decorations, it'll be very tough
for me to clean it(get rid of nice decorations)but I can use the extra
room to  put an a4000 on it.
I am not going to have the money til christmas (my gift !!!)so I have
plenty of time to decided if or not to buy it (amiga 4000).
Thank you all !!!

You could always stack the A4000 on top of the A2000 to save space.

Good news that you can have both machines. I say one can never have too many Amigas but my wife says otherwise!

[nicholas]

I just thought I'd throw in that I absolutely love my A4000D, especially after getting an 060 in it.  The difference between that and the 040 is staggering.  So I could only imagine the difference between an 68000 and an 68040.  

Besides, why would anyone suggest the A2000 over the A4000?  Since he programs, he'd be able to support OCS/ECS/AGA with the 4000, instead of just OCS/ECS!

And we all know we need more programmers!  

But it's awesome that he's able to have both.  Better for compatibility reasons.

slaapliedje

I got rid of my A4000 and I much prefer my A3000/060/PIV/Deneb.

I don't miss the AGA chipset as I very rarely used it due to the PIV tbh.  I have A1200's for the odd AGA demo or game.

[nicholas]

I would agree that going from a Amiga 3640@25MHz to a 060@50MHz with local memory and SCSI Controller makes a HUGE difference.

Would also say, going from a Warp Engine 040@40MHz with local memory and SCSI to a CS MK III is faster.  If you compare to a CS MK I or II without SCSI, the Warp Engine it is give and take.  For math the 060 is faster, for general usage the WE is faster (Since the WE has faster memory access then the MK II).

I went from a WE/040 to a CS MK2/060 with the SCSI adapter.

I have and ACard IDE to SCSI adapter with a 32GB SDHC card fitted to it so it's nice and silent and the speed is much better than the IDE on my A4000 was.  I've got an external SCSI DVD writer attached to the onboard A3000 SCSI too.

[nicholas]

So I have the CS MK I, but no SCSI module.  Quite frankly, SCSI is too loud.    My next upgrade down the road is probably going to be a FastATA and switch over to using CF cards.  I also wish I could get a CD or DVD rom that isn't as loud or as long as the one I currently have.  By Long, I mean if I could get one that is a couple inches shorter, I would have that much more room for cable management and air flow!

Any recommendations on a replacement CD-ROM?

slaapliedje

I really recommend trying to get  hold of the SCSI adapter for your Cyberstorm as the DMA transfer makes a big difference over the PIO you'll get from a FastATA, although a FastATA is a bazillion times better than the onboard IDE on the A4000.