English Amiga Board - View Single Post - I never bought an accelerator or RAM card for my A1200

ImmortalA1000 · 06 December 2022, 02:39

Mostly because the 030 was such a crap CPU bang for buck vs 020 as far as gaming goes and the excellent Blizzard 1220 came out around the time Commodore went under anyway, April/May 1994 in Germany.

For £219.99 you got 4mb of RAM (which alone cost £149.99 EXTRA for their 1230-II 40mhz 030 accelerator) and a 28mhz 020 which is close enough to the speed of a 25mhz 030 card and roughly £150 less than a 25mhz 030 + 4mb A1200 accelerator. You also got the option of a 68882 @33mhz which is a hell of a lot more useful for 3D rendering than spending too much on a 50mhz 030. Not bad for late Summer 1994.

Would have been nice, regret not getting one now. Makes no sense to buy one on ebay now that there are Pi based accelerators for the Amiga I think.

Commodore rumours suggested by Xmas 1994 some sort of 28mhz 4mb Amiga 1200 may have been around so it would effectively have been Commodore's answer to High Street 100mhz 486/75mhz Pentium 'Family PC' options. Sales of PC laptops were going well so prices of bare 2.5" IDE drives were starting to come down by 1994 too.

1200 with Chip + Fast RAM, 28mhz 020 and a hard drive is probably a nice setup to use. I used to have a 48mb Supra Wordsync hard card and extra Fast RAM for my Fat Agnus A2000 with KS 1.3 I was given in 1990 and that was a nice system to use.

06 December 2022, 02:39	#1
ImmortalA1000 Registered User Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: london/england Posts: 1,347	I never bought an accelerator or RAM card for my A1200 Mostly because the 030 was such a crap CPU bang for buck vs 020 as far as gaming goes and the excellent Blizzard 1220 came out around the time Commodore went under anyway, April/May 1994 in Germany. For £219.99 you got 4mb of RAM (which alone cost £149.99 EXTRA for their 1230-II 40mhz 030 accelerator) and a 28mhz 020 which is close enough to the speed of a 25mhz 030 card and roughly £150 less than a 25mhz 030 + 4mb A1200 accelerator. You also got the option of a 68882 @33mhz which is a hell of a lot more useful for 3D rendering than spending too much on a 50mhz 030. Not bad for late Summer 1994. Would have been nice, regret not getting one now. Makes no sense to buy one on ebay now that there are Pi based accelerators for the Amiga I think. Commodore rumours suggested by Xmas 1994 some sort of 28mhz 4mb Amiga 1200 may have been around so it would effectively have been Commodore's answer to High Street 100mhz 486/75mhz Pentium 'Family PC' options. Sales of PC laptops were going well so prices of bare 2.5" IDE drives were starting to come down by 1994 too. 1200 with Chip + Fast RAM, 28mhz 020 and a hard drive is probably a nice setup to use. I used to have a 48mb Supra Wordsync hard card and extra Fast RAM for my Fat Agnus A2000 with KS 1.3 I was given in 1990 and that was a nice system to use.