🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <19950411.82C4AB0.140B1@Lisa.apana.org.au>, Tetragon@Lisa.apana.org.au writes...
>In article <3m8ski$4o7@hack.byron.apana.org.au>, Daniel Cocks (timelord@byron.apana.org.au) wrote:
>> drives! I'd probably also need to get extra ram for my 500 (still only
>> 1mb) and probably upgrade the KS (still 1.3). All this costs $$$ so I'm
>> wondering what my best option is. I like the idea of adding a CD ROM drive
>> as well.
> 
>Get an A1200. Any talk about expansion is rubbish.

Like Hell!  You Europeans (sorry.. I know you are from .AU but I'm just
overgeneralizing as I often do! hehe)  just love the little 500/1200's
because all you do is play games (much bigger game player to productivity
ratio than here in the U.S.!).  I know this to be true... I have been all
over Europe and it is all the same...  When ever I asked Europeans, "So what
do YOU use YOUR Amiga for?".. the responce is ALWAYS (90+%) "GAMES!"...

Our NASA engineers even use Amigas over here...

> 
>> 2. Update to a newer model - the 1200 seems to be the go, along with a CD
>>    rom drive. I've also seen ads for the 2000 at a reasonable price.
> 
>Don't go for an A2000, they're old, slow, and very obsolete. They give you
>5 slots, which might be useful if you need 4 serial ports and 2 ethernet
>cards, but other than that, forget it. 

Shheeea!  As if!  I have built 2000 systems that would BLOW AWAY ANY A4000
or A3000 system, and is used is EXTREMELY high end video production.....
and had to pack out ALL the card slots!  The A2000 was a WONDERFUL piece
of work...  C= knew that you guys played MCUH more games than we did and
did not use the Amiga for as much PRODUCTIVITY... why do youthink the 
A1500 was marketed over there and not here?


>ECS graphics are slothful and
>incompatible, the stock 68000 is practically no faster than an A500 at all.
>To get an A2000 even close to stock A1200 performance would require probably
>over $1000 in hardware atleast.

BUZZZZZZ...  An A2000 can accept a GVP Combo board which 2 years ago went
for right at $300!

> 
>ram. This kind of system would be cheaper than an A2000 expanded to the
>same capabilities. (And would still be faster in many respects. Get an A1200
>without 2.5'' HD, and get a 3.5'' expansion kit and a fast 3.5'' big EIDE
>drive. You'll still probably be better off dollar-wize and you'll have a
>newer (less obsolete) machine to boot.


Joy... nothing looks groser than an over expanded A1200... all thos lovely
cables... and just loooove that power brick....  hmm.. where to place it
so that you don't accedentally bump it and shut down your whole system...

>(If you REALLY need a killer machine, get a 486dx4-100 with PCI. No Amiga
>really cuts it anymore for performance except an A4000 with 68060, Graphics
>accellerator card, and Zorro3 fast SCSI-2 .)


True...  But I owuld wait 6 months until the Pentium 120Mhz have been released
and well established and drive down the other Pentium prices...  a Pentium 100
woould BLOW AWAY a 486DX4 100...  PCI is good... very good...

> 
>> | Daniel Cocks.               | The truth is out there. The X-Files.         |
>--
>==============================================================================
>     // Gavan A.McCormack..MdX A1230-50/10-960 Tetragon@Lisa.apana.org.au
>   \X/ "Shut-up Brain, I got friends now, I dont need you anymore!". [1F22]


Tom D Tek   7Bv)

  __________________________________________________________________________
 /  Thomas W. Weeks             |          __ Commodore Amiga 500/030 40MHz \
|   Authorized C= Technician    |         /// Hacked Into Black Tower Case,  |
|   Full Time EET Student       |    __  ///  5M RAM, SyQuest 44M, 160M SCSI |
|   Texas A&M University        |    \\\///   IBM 286 Hardware Emulator,     |
|   tww2568@venus.tamu.edu  OR  |     \XX/    Home Brew Audio A/D, HP48GX    |
| thomas.weeks@mailhost.ecn.uoknor.edu     "Only Amiga Makes It Possible!"   |
 \______________________________|___________________________________________/