Torn between accelerators

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

or will I keep wanting to upgrade until I end up with something that looks and feels nothing like the C= A1200.

Watch out, it's a disease.

Also, your wallet will thank you.  :laughing:

[dovegrace]

Watch out, it's a disease.

Also, your wallet will thank you.  :laughing:

The same is true of most hobbies, eh?

[Acill]

I'm doing a build for someone now and used the 1233n for the accelerator. This is quite fast feeling. The RAM is awesome, the fast clockport on it makes the RapidRoad I am using awesome, and it is configurable. Just an all around great accelerator so far.

[BozzerBigD]

What I meant was if I upgrade to 060, will that be enough or will I keep wanting to upgrade until I end up with something that looks and feels nothing like the C= A1200.

A stock A1200? You really want something to feel like a stock A1200?! How far do you take that? Most of my high school friends wouldn't recognise an Amiga with a hard drive and would have considered that a PeeCee thing! AGA modes are still available to you when you have a RTG board! It just makes RTS / 2.5D games a lot faster as well as productivity software much better. PageStream is awesome on a 060/RTG card and the Amiga should have had modes to best the Mac at the DTP game even if it required a monochrome monitor ala the Atari ST.

[psxphill]

A stock A1200? You really want something to feel like a stock A1200?! How far do you take that?

It's a cost/benefit thing. Some of the Amiga 060 demos don't run well unless you use WinUAE. So there is a very narrow window of software that is worth spending all of that money on.

Different people have different priorities. Imagine the insane price it would get to if everyone was trying to upgrade to the max.

[Brian]

A stock A1200? You really want something to feel like a stock A1200?! How far do you take that? Most of my high school friends wouldn't recognise an Amiga with a hard drive and would have considered that a PeeCee thing! AGA modes are still available to you when you have a RTG board! It just makes RTS / 2.5D games a lot faster as well as productivity software much better. PageStream is awesome on a 060/RTG card and the Amiga should have had modes to best the Mac at the DTP game even if it required a monochrome monitor ala the Atari ST.

I think he means he want something that feels like a moderately upgraded A1200 from his youth and settle on that instead of having a powerhouse on the CPU glancing at upgrades he can't do easily. However it's just RTG that is hard to do on the A1200, PPC isn't really needed for classic and just about everything else can be done pretty easy like PCMCIA NIC, clockport USB and soundcard etc.

[a1200]

Now finished playing with this Blizzard 1230 MK IV its also for sale. Link.