Fair prices

[darksun9210]

if i was in the market for any of these, i guess i would pay....

£40-50   Picasso II card
£80-100  Picasso IV card
£40-50   Retina Z II card
£60-70   Retina Z III card  
£80-90   B/CVision card      
£140-160 Amiga PPC card (040 no scsi with FPU), with scsi +£30, with 060 +£40
£150     Amiga 1260 card (Blizzard)
£40-50   Amiga 2000 (just the computer complete, no extra cards)
£120-160 Amiga 4000/030 (just the computer complete, no extra cards)
£60-70   Cybervision 64 card (with full 4Mb)
£70-80   Cybervision 3D card
£60-80   Warp Engine card
£60      Blizzard 1230 card with copro and memory.
£40      scsi add on for blizz 1230/1240/1260
£80      Flickerfixer/Scandoubler external

...without wincing too much... :lol:

[darksun9210]

don't forget to add £50 to outgun the auction snipers!  :-)

[darksun9210]

aha... personal preference... that old chesnut :lol:

[darksun9210]

but then if this is your hobbie, what you enjoy, what you do to wind down, chill out, whatever, who can put a price on that sort of thing?

god knows i've spent much more on cars and car parts than i could if i'd have gone to a local dealership and bought the cheapest p.o.s. thing they offer.
but now for example, swapping a head gasget doesn't scare me, or cost me £500 in labour charges down the garage.
kinda the same for audio equipment too. as a result i have learnt about all kinds of things that i wouldn't have even known about otherwise, but it's cost me more than a £30 mini "hifi" system from argos  :lol:

[darksun9210]

i don't know how much of the amiga scene will get taken on by younger generations...

maybe kids these days will in years to come be fighting over PS3's and things in twenty years time?

i'm not sure about the demo scene anymore. its not like you can do any coding for an Xbox360 or is it?... iPhone SDK? yeah right... looks destined to be dominated by the latest PC DirectX powered same ol' same ol' pixel shader/stream processor workout within the sandbox of a microsoft environment...

all i know is, i'm never going to "sell up" again. what i got now and will get in the future, you can pry from my cold dead fingers! :-D
what my (if i have any) kids make of it (Dad's being backwards again!) is down to them.