First post, by LunarG
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I fondly remember the days when my only computer was an Amiga 500 with a GVP HD8+ (Fast SCSI-II HD + 2MB FastRAM) and a 1084 monitor.
Back in those days, I though it would've been cool to have an Amiga 1200 instead, due to its AGA graphics and faster (and more expandable) hardware.
Problem is, before that could ever become a reality, PC's overtook Amiga in terms of performance, and I swapped sides.
However, I'm considering getting an Amiga again, at some point in the not to distant future, but I've got a couple of questions, and as far as I know, there are some people here on Vogons who meddle with the good old Amiga as well.
Is the A500 the ultimate gaming Amiga?
I seem to have read somewhere that if you're going to get an Amiga mainly for playing games, then it's the A500 all the way, as the A500 chipset is more compatible. Not my words btw.
I would be gutted if I spent lots getting a nice juiced up A1200 only to find that some of my favourite old games don't run on it. It does however, seem to be much harder to get HD's and such for the A500 these days, and I wouldn't want to be completely reliant on floppies all the time. It was SO convenient back in the days, being able to play games from the HD, rather than having to swap floppies every few minutes. Monkey Island 2 was bad when it came to that. Swapping floppies every time you went from one island to another. *sigh*
How fiddly is it to get into accelerator boards and such for the A1200?
If I was to get an A1200, I'd probably like to max it out a bit. Will this interfere with games compatibility? Is it likely to cause stability issues and such?
How difficult is it getting an Amiga to run well on a modern VGA (either CRT or LCD) monitor?
I saw somewhere, an A1200 with a mod allowing it to run DVI. But I can expect to be able to send the machine off to some bespectacled professor with soldering irons for fingers, just to mod it with DVI output. 😉
They still sell scan doublers on eBay, although slightly highly priced. How good is the picture quality using a scan doubler?
If anybody have some thoughts on any of these issues, or any other helpful info, please don't hesitate to let me know.
If you'd just like to tell me "just don't" about getting into Amigas again, then fine, you can do that as well 😜
WinXP : PIII 1.4GHz, 512MB RAM, 73GB SCSI HDD, Matrox Parhelia, SB Audigy 2.
Win98se : K6-3+ 500MHz, 256MB RAM, 80GB HDD, Matrox Millennium G400 MAX, Voodoo 2, SW1000XG.
DOS6.22 : Intel DX4, 64MB RAM, 1.6GB HDD, Diamond Stealth64 DRAM, GUS 1MB, SB16.
