A3000 or A4000?

[560SL]

Want some more advice...?

I'd go for the A4000T... anyday, anytime. Simply *the* Rolls Royce of Amigas. Best computer I've ever had. I still use it on a nearly daily basis.

I've had an A4000D, but sold it a couple of years ago. Once you get a CDROM cramped inside it, it's even tighter than the A3000.

I still have my old A3000, but I have to agree with the above that it's a real challenge to expand. The onboard SCSI-1 is dead slow so you would have to upgrade it anyway. Amber is nice, but in the end it's only ECS.

[leirbag28]

@gazsp

well your in luck if you live in USA

I have an A3000 with 1084s monitor right here for sale. And I need to get rid of it right now

Low price for the bundle    $130


Or anyone else want it?  I may even consider a trade

Looking for An A600 with Viper 630 (The Square one)
or A1200 with 040
or an 060 card for the A1200
Subway USB card (with other items thrown in)
Graffiti gfx card
or anything you want to suggest

Ill also take Video Software such as ImageVision, VideoFX, XDVE, SUperPrompt, AmigaVision Pro, Bible Reader (CDTV)

of course some of these you willl have to throw in extra stuff :-)

EDIT:  ok ...I should emphasize...I need money right now........so thats priority :-)

[QuikSanz]

Good Day,

I allready had a A2000 and a A1XE but I needed something to fill the gaps. Found a very nice A4000T on this site with a Toaster and Lightwave. This is way cool. Many good games are AGA, I'm glad I can use them now. The posabilities are now endless.

Chris  :-D

[Brian]

As you say you want to play games on it then you deffinitly want to go with the A4000 as there's no way of getting AGA to run on the A3000. It's simple as that.

Some might dissagree but I think the A4000 has a much better design than the A3000. Ok it's a bit taller but that makes room for the 5.25" unit witch is a must have (who has a machine without CD these days? want to have that in a box next to the machine?). It also proves to have better airflow so should be gentlier on demanding accelrators.

It does lack internal SCSI, true, and most accelrators can correct that and SCSI zorro cards can be found fo almost nothing so it's realy not an issues.

It does lack the scandoubler flickerfixer and that's probably the biggest setback as it can be hard to find. However, untill you do, why not run a 2 monitor system (1084 are also found for almost nothing)?

For graphiccard I'd say either a PIV or CV64 / CV64-3D. But personaly I think you should get a mediator and a Voodoo3 right away.

[Argus]

My two cents:  I'd get both.  The A3000 is my personal favorite, due to it's design and since the A4000 is really a believe it or not scaled down A3000 w/ AGA.  A3000s seem to go for about half the price of an A4000.  Trouble with the A3000 is you have to find rare/pricey zip ram chips for m/b ram, you probably need to replace SuperBuster to rare/pricey Rev.11 to use Z3 properly (note: you may need to do the same for an A4000), and you need to do the int2 hack to use an accelerator with on-board scsi or the CyberstormPPC.  The best games have rtg support so a graphics card in an A3000 makes it way better than AGA anyway.  But there are a lot of AGA-only games and demos that make an A4000 desireable (or a cheaper second-hand A1200).  Plus, that internal ide port makes a nice interface for a cheap fast ide cdrom (which you can connect the audio output from to the m/b).  Put a PicassoIV in the A4000 and it tips the scales in its favor over a similarly outfitted A3000 with a lesser graphics card.  But those babies are very $$$.