What should I buy next???

[paul773car]

Hi all.

I have a towered A1200 with an 040 Accelerator card 8mb Ram and a Fastata 1200 EIDE controller. 2 hard drives a CD rom drive and 2 floppy drives and WHDLOAD installed.

I love it!!!

My question is; I recently sold quite a bit of my old stuff and have a reasonable amount of cash burning a hole in my pocket. I know I need more ram and I'm looking at that now but what would you buy next???



Thanks

Paul

[skateblind]

I do not know much about them, but do 060 accelerators exist? Maybe you could buy one of those and then sell your old one. You could buy more ram for your current one if it supports any more.

[s2325]

CD32 and box of cd-r. Never sell retro stuff without good reason.

[ppill]

More memory! Treat yourself to at least 32mb (depending on what accelerator you have as Apollos can be a bit picky).

You're pretty much set

[paul773car]

Hiya, my apollo only has one ram slot currently with 8mb in it. It has the holes on the board (on the other side) for another slot to be added but for the time being how much ram can I put in the one slot?

Paul

[Cammy]

What's the model of the card? I assume most 040 cards will allow you to add at least 32MB RAM, possibly up to 128MB. Once you know the model, you can check it on the Big Book of Amiga Hardware and see what the maximum it supports is, then check out www.amigamaniac.com for some cheap RAM. I reccomend at least 32MB RAM. I've been using an A1200 with 32MB RAM and it's never run out, although when running IRC, MSN, a web browser with 10+ tabs open, email, music player, paint program and a bunch of other little utilities and it starts to get down to that final few megs of RAM free, and you just know if you were to try running Lightwave from this point, it may have a bit of trouble rendering animations with all those apps running in RAM. Of course none of the programs will slow down, because it's not a PC, they'll keep running at their full speed, multitasking away with each other in harmony, but the RAM can get crowded if you're making yourself very busy. Don't you just love it when your 17 year old Amiga is loading a bunch of CPU-intensive, Javascript-filled websites while the music player plays without missing a single beat? Now that's true multitasking.

And you know what would really enhance your Amiga experience even more? Either an Indivision AGA flicker fixer, so you can use Workbench and web applications at 1024 x 768, or a Mediator/Grex PCI board and a Radeon graphics card maybe. The graphics card is way more desirable if you're more into using your Amiga seriously, but the Indivision is essential if you want to play games on any modern display device (well, a few LCD TVs will sync down to the Amiga's output but composite won't look as good as VGA).

[MazinKaesar]

Originally Posted by skateblind

I do not know much about them, but do 060 accelerators exist?

Yes, but I think 040 is better, I rembember many games "went guru" on 060, ie: AB3D.

Originally Posted by Cammy

And you know what would really enhance your Amiga experience even more? Either an Indivision AGA flicker fixer, so you can use Workbench and web applications at 1024 x 768, or a Mediator/Grex PCI board and a Radeon graphics card maybe. The graphics card is way more desirable if you're more into using your Amiga seriously, but the Indivision is essential if you want to play games on any modern display device (well, a few LCD TVs will sync down to the Amiga's output but composite won't look as good as VGA).

But do old games work with a graphic card?

[paul773car]

Originally Posted by MazinKaesar

Yes, but I think 040 is better, I rembember many games "went guru" on 060, ie: AB3D.



But do old games work with a graphic card?

Good point does anyone know?

Paul

[StingRay]

Originally Posted by MazinKaesar

But do old games work with a graphic card?

Most of them don't.