Which 1200 accelerator should i get?

[Pollock]

i have been lucky enough to own a few cards, ACA1221ec, 1220, 1230, 1233n, and a couple of others, the 030 is a "sweet spot", as in, it's pretty plug and play with no real issues around games. As others have said, some games will be at the same speed, but some are noticeable quicker, F18, SOTB III, Uridium, Hard Drivin, Buggy boy etc,

Having said that, once you are used to a faster CPU, like a Vampire or an 060, then ... it's pretty hard to go back. And of course, that opens up other stuff, like Amiga ports of PC games. People sometimes slate the 060, and absolutely deride the 040 as a problem CPU, it's absolute cobblers, and obviously from people who have never used onc of these CPUs, in short "reduce compatibility" with 040's and 060's is nonsense. The amount of games i can count that wont run on an 060, i can count on one hand, with a Vampire it's not much more.

And then there is the dreaded "Amiga e-penis fever", where people just buy a fast card for bragging rights, and for seeing the lipstick go off the end in SysInfo.


You pay your money, you take your choice

[stevelord]

Originally Posted by Binary

Will mostly playing games and Making music

If you plan on using Octamed Soundstudio a Blizzard 1230-MkII should get you 12 channels at 14-bit if you optimise the playback, 8 unoptimised. If you're purely using Midi it won't make much of a muchness.


Games-wise AB3D is really nice on an 030/50, AB3DII isn't, but it isn't worth getting a full rev6 060 for - just emulate it. And that's the bottom line. With an 030/50 you're in the gaming sweet spot. Wing Commander mostly isn't too fast, but mostly not too slow. Frontier isn't absolutely perfect all of the time but you can pop detail up to high most of the time. The trade-offs you get going higher versus emulating the bits above what you can do severely diminish above an 030/50 without specific applications in mind.

[aeberbach]

The TF1230 is an excellent basic accelerator. If you're not sure that the lack of FPU will bother you because of a specific use case then very likely you don't need one anyway.

(If you don't want an actual Amiga but you want ultimate power and have money to burn, sure, Vampire. It will run a "68080" on FPGA and basically make use of your Amiga as a keyboard...)