(sold) Anyone in Perth, Australia want Amiga gear?

[Oliver]

Hi folks,

I'm leaving the Amiga scene after many years.  I'm trying to fund some new music projects, and just don't use my Amigas much anymore.

ALL offers will definitely be considered:

I have:

A1200HD (with mobo timing revisions already, can't remember HD size), 3.1 ROMs (+3.0).  OS 3.1.
laptop/desktop IDE adapter
Cobra 1230 (w clock, but no MMU or FPU), & I think 16MB RAM,
buffered 2 port IDE interface for 1200
A2000/scsi HD, and some mobo mods (not sure which), w/ ROM kicker (1.3/2.04?? not sure)
2 1080s monitors
serial port midi interface
Music-X II, and Bars 'n Pipes etc
Many floppies with games/apps etc
Various boxed games
Several mice and joysticks
Probably some more stuff that I've forgotten about


Most of the gear is in reasonable condition, but not mint.  Mice and joysticks are worn.  A2000 has had battery removed some time ago, but nothing done to it since, and haven't used it for quite some time.

As I'm aiming to get rid of this stuff, I would like it picked up from my home.  Anyone is welcome to demo the gear prior to taking it.

Hopefully it will go to a good home.

Cheers,

Oli

edit - The gear is now spoken for.  Thanks guys.

[amigakid]

Sorry to see you go.  I hope you enjoy your new music projects.  Cheers

[Oliver]

amigakid wrote:
Sorry to see you go.  I hope you enjoy your new music projects.  Cheers

Hi, thanks dude, much appreciated.

Oli

[jimeh]

Hey, im from Melbourne.

Dont get too excited, im already feeling a little rude about this post...

I guess it depends how much you wanna get rid it, really...

I recently built my PC for $800

2048mb ram
512mb videocard
E6420 dualcore CPU
etc

now your amiga has 16MB ram... what would i expect to pay for that upgrade, i ask myself?

well... going by the only spec i understand...

its got 16mb ram... thats 128 times less than my $800 brand new PC...

So for 128 times less hardware 'power', youd expect to pay 128 times less money, right? $6.25!

But then... its old, worn and unsupported. I'd never find anywhere to replace something if it broke.

And the shipping costs would be greater than $6.25!

So why am i interested at all? Just wanted to play totalchaos not on an emulator. And i guess i have many, many old floppies *somewhere* that might bring a trip down memory lane too.

i had an A1000 then an A2000-1mb as a kid, which i loved, but ive been a PC boy now since Mechwarror 2 came out.

Anyways, if youre going to throw it out or something drastic ill pay the shipping costs and all that...

Just out of curiosity, what were you looking for as a price?

its a computer id like to have, but cant really see it as a viable purchase with when 1GB DDR2@667MHz = $46

(QFT = 1G-667 Generic /Transcend /Kingston 45 / 45 / 48)

so yeah. what are your thoughts? =)

[amazing]

@jimeh
u better stick with your pc if u gonna compare it with an amiga
the set he offers is at least 200 euro worth
thats even a mild price i think
watch ripoff bay for some prices and then think off only paying shipping

Greetz Amazing

[c64_d0c]

a normal price for this i guess is $250 - $350.... its maybe dated but still a popular computer, you will be abel to find and replace broken things for the amiga, thats no problem. to compare a pc from 2007 and a amiga from 1994 isnt fair i would say...
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[McVenco]

jimeh wrote:

So for 128 times less hardware 'power', youd expect to pay 128 times less money, right?

I'll sell you my 1997 Ford Escort for 50.000 Euro then, it's got 10% of the power of a Bugatti Veyron (worth 2 million), so when it would be new, it would have costed you 200.000, but I'll take off 75% since it's 10 years old.

Seriously, what were you doing here again?

[Flashlab]

@jimeh

I'm curious too. Why did you bother to sign up if you don't like Amigas?

[a3000]

Hi,
How soon does the gear have to be picked up?

[Homer]

jimeh: It was worth a try  :lol:

[Lurch]

man, dont know what to offer... or even how much it would cost to ship over to NZ...

But tempted on the a1200 with the expansion card etc, would work great for games

[krize]

haha comparing it with pc specs ?! Get real man, if you check ebay you can see how much it goes for...

[jimeh]

Against my better judgment....

@ venco, krize, flashlab

Well, you guys prove that having an Amiga does not make you cool...

@flashlab
dude... what word did i use to describe my fondness for the 2 amigas i had from childhood? it was LOVE.

@venco
im trying to score a cheap amiga1200, wtf are you doing?

@krize
yeah... a Hertz is still a cpu cycle, right? a byte is still 8 bits, am i wrong? so its unfair cos PC parts blow amiga parts out of the water? pfffft

Im still here, using my uber PC, trying to sort myself an amiga. You should be proud of what im doing. insted you're nothing but bitter... clinging to shattered dreams, the past... or maybe youre just too {bleep}ing cheap to upgrade.

im an OLDSCHOOL amiga user. I have a collection of crack mods, ffs. over 1000 700kb floppies. i moved with technology. You aint going nowhere.

[SamuraiCrow]

@jimeh

Total Chaos plays like crap on an emulator, you've got that right.  And you'll need at least 32 megs of fast RAM to get the latest version to work also.

We are trying to work on something for the emulators though.  It's just hard to find a PC that runs natively at 640x512 resolution.

If all you want is cracks, you can probably play them on WinUAE just fine.  If the A1200 doesn't work out for you then you can always buy a Catweasel floppy controller for your PC and then you'll be able to read the 880k floppies just fine under WinUAE.

Amigas may not be very cool any more but the sad part of it is that Windows requires such astronomical amounts of resources just to get the same level of performance Amiga got out of next-to-nothing.  Except for 3d stuff that requires a big processor to do all the extra maths, Amiga still does surprisingly well on very little.

[rkauer]

 Maybe going nowhere, but we have and use those not that-old technology (for a base of comparison, an used pegasus I board worth more than 500 grants on Ebay, using PPC only solution, no customs chips).

 Total Chaos IS a superb game, go for it. I play it almost every day! In the Amiga, never in a dammed pc-box.

 I still use a 1200-030-128Mb Fast-SCSI-IDE43Gb-CDRW-Ethernet-WebBrowser-Mailer-MuchOtherThingsToMentionHere old crappy computer today! Yes I notice the 030 is not the up-to-date processor, sheeeeeeesh!

 Windoz box sucks! If we have DVD author tools and good Video3D accelerators in the Amiga, we don't bother to haven't a B.Gaytes box around in the house.

 Yes! We spend a lot of cash in a "dead" computer hardware, but (believe me), no other computer give me the comfort of use than an Amiga give to me. Nor the fun.

 300 bucks for start is an ultrageous price, the lot worths more than this. I never sell my "crappy" 1200 desktop (with 128Mb RAM!)for less than US$500.00 (without monitor), imagine my towered 1200/Mediator one...