Preffered Amiga model JUST FOR GAMING......

[Stephen Coates]

A500+ for me.

It is possible that some games may run better on an A500 but I have never used an A500 so wouldn't know.

[Harrison]

Regarding the A500+. Were there actually any ECS only games that wouldn't run on a OCS A500 with 1MB ram? I don't think I ever came across any. Possibly one of the Sim games like Sim Earth, but I'm not sure. A KS1.3 A500 with a 512KB trap door expansion is definitely the best none AGA Amiga to own for gaming.

But as mentioned above, the A1200 for me due to WHDLoad opening up the ability to have every well known Amiga game preloaded onto the HD read to run within seconds. No hunting for a game floppy disk, then waiting ages for the game to boot, no disk swapping during a game... perfect Amiga gaming.

[Chewieshmoo]

Very interesting replies guys, really appreciate the info/insight.......
I always found the A500+ interesting as it really did not have a presence here in Canada/US and the A600 though tiny seemed to be lacking............
Seems A1200 with WHDload is popular.

Since I only have a CD32 I WISH I could expand it but those add ons to turn into full system are rare and costly especially from my location..............

[Stephen Coates]

Well, the disk swapping issues can easily be fixed by adding extra drives. At least then you get to retain the noise of the disk drive motors, which you wouldn't if loading from an HD. That on it's own is a reason to use an Amiga for games.

[Graham Humphrey]

At least then you get to retain the noise of the disk drive motors, which you wouldn't if loading from an HD. That on it's own is a reason to use an Amiga for games.

It is? Drives me nuts sometimes

Anyway not all games recognise external drives (which is inexcusable really), and loading from HD is so much quicker, and never any swapping at all, I think it's something that if you ever used you'd never go back to floppies.

[Demon Cleaner]

A500 for me, with 1MB of course and an Action Replay 3 module, as I like and prefer the old school stuff, so it would be sufficient to just have a A500, like I also did back in time.

[TiredOfLife]

An A1200 with a Blizzard BPPC with the 68k processor being a 060 version.

That with WHD installed should play the maximum amount of games possible.