Next purchase - What should it be...

[pierre]

big box amiga for me, but if you just wanna play games a1200 is nifty,  A4000(Desktop) nice machine. The A3000 (desktop of tower) is the best amiga ever made OBLY issue is the lack of AGA......

[Hyperspeed]

I've had an A1200 for around 12 years now but I think I would have to reccomend an A4000 desktop as it is basically a more spacious A1200 with extra room and connectors for things like a GFX card.

Towering an A1200 is a pain in the arse.

Get an A4000 with a Picasso-IV GFX card and Cyberstorm MK2 CPU accelerator... race you!

;-)

[redrumloa]

Amiga Forever, the fastest most capable Amiga on the market. And, it's legal and will run on just about any hardware you throw at it.

[pierre]

nothing wrong with amiga forever!  I have amigaXL,(amigathlon) with knopix box, that is the fastest config I have ever seen.  I don;t think they sell that anymore.... you also have to use on older style graphics card with it....

[Hyperspeed]

No, no, no... don't reccommend an emulator. Rooster asked because he wants to build a collection... I assume this means appreciating physical design, peripherals, boxed games and learning about the Amiga's unique video capabilities.

:ranting:

[stopthegop]

Emulators suck.  They remind me of kit cars.  You know.. the sleek looking "Ferrari" that is actually just a cheap fibreglass frame mounted on a Camaro chassis?  Granted, it may look good and it might even be really fast,  but it will never be the real thing - no matter how fast it is.  

[Boogiegail]

Rooster:

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=23611

 :-)

[stopthegop]

I have some emulated artwork for sale if anyone's interested?  

[Hyperspeed]

stopthegop: Right on!

:pint:

No harm in having both I suppose, they never did make an Amiga laptop (PAWS excluded) so the emulators are worth experimenting with for fun.

Plugging a 'WinUAE' into a Hi-Fi/Home Cinema setup with your CD32 pads and genlock might be a little bit of a pain though.

:-)

I suppose having an emulated Amiga instead of a real one is a bit like people trading land in those online RPGs... it keeps their eyes happy but has no real world effect.

[stopthegop]

Maybe if I bought one, I could pay with emulated money?  

[Hyperspeed]

I suppose that's what a credit card is... emulated money.

Amiga, like all computers though, will be far more enjoyable if you can interface with the real world.

If you enjoy writing or graphics maybe adding a printer to one of your Amigas would be a satisfying investment, as would a video digitiser, scanner or sampler for getting things into the machine.

A network adaptor like an ethernet card would help you share files between Amiga-Amiga or Amiga-PC.

Make sure at least one of your Amigas has a CD-ROM for gulping in masses of programs and media.

[Rooster]

@ Boogiegail - I'm out of town this weekend.  I'm really interested in your thread, though.  Have to talk to wife when I get back (You know - phone call about it not going to be real positive, lol)..

I have downloaded and gotten into WinUAE - Mainly because as I mentioned elsewhere, the fact that the "NEWEST" of my disks was 1991, I am very concerned that data loss is going to start occuring, rendering my original Ami disks useless.  Figured since I was going through the effort of running disk2file and making tons of ADF's I might as well try em on the WinUAE application, lol..  And no, it's not the same, and many of the games I have don't run at all for some reason. (Batman and Faery Tale Adv. to be the two foremost on my mind).  Suspect there are issues with copy protection, as I remember that becomming a problem, and special programs had to be used back in the day to copy them..  Gotta find those again, because one way or another, I need archives.  But no, AF or WinUAE just not what I want - I want the box, be it full or A500'ish, not a software proggy.  Thnx though for the suggestion.  

Thanks to all who have posted, as well.  Good to see that so many people want to support various machines.  Enjoy reading about that, and the why's etc., behind your thoughts.  Sure makes it tough though, lol..  I kind of thought everyone would be like, "get X, because it's the best".  Though I knew that really wouldn't be the truth, lol..  Gonna talk to the wife, as I said, looks like the A4k deal is pretty good.  Thanks to all

  Rooster

[pierre]

BOTH!  I love em both.  He can get am emulator, that leavs me more amigas.....  ;-)