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My Amiga 1000 is stock. I've only really though about adding A500 external HDD, and maybe a kickstart ROM mod. I'm not too sure about accelerating it, you still only have an OCS Amiga at the heart, so a lot of the demanding software still wouldn't run. So what is the benefit of a faster CPU in it?

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SAGA and built-in hard disk support.

Your A1000 will be able to do up to 1390 x 1024 x 32 via RTG. Any software which already targets RTG should be able to make use of that immediately.

You’ll also have 128 MB of FAST RAM.

I’m given to understand that eventually it might be possible to do 1920 x 1280 x 32. We’ll have to wait and see, but every core update makes it better and better.

That poor Topaz bitmap font will be nearly unreadable at those resolutions. Sounds like we need a hidpi mode! ducks

The 512K chip ram does limit the games it will run. I'm mainly using it for writing code and other OS friendly stuff.

I'm keenly looking forward to the Gold 3 update which will give it 4MB chip ram and AGA output via HDMI.

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