/vr/ - Retro Games

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The Autoconfig appeared with the Amiga 500 and 2000 in 1987, and both these systems could become 32 bit machines (with CPU upgrades -- a French computer store called Techsoft was selling the fastest Amiga 2000 in Europe with a 68030 card @25MHz, later @50MHz, and shipped with a bunch of fastRAM in 1988), but yeah, the 3000 was the first to be a 32bit machine from the start.

Some consider this model as the best Amiga ever made, along the 2000. The 4000 is pretty fragile and had a higher failure rate in comparison, was shipped with a slower CPU board than the one in the 3000, and only have the AGA chipset that can make it stand out compared to the rock-solid Amiga 3000.

Too bad you didn't take the Amiga 3000, it could have become quite a beast with a few upgrades over the years, like a 68040 board at first (which is up to 3 times faster than a 486 at the same clock speed), then RAM (up to almost 4GB of RAM is supported by the Amiga 3000, so no the only limit was the RAM price and the kind of stick the RAM board accept), then later graphic cards like the Picasso and Cybervision 64 (S3 Virge-based, so really good at 2D stuff), then PPC CPU boards. Well, you couldn't have guessed it back then though.

Anyway, they're nice machines to own.