I was outbid by a collector who will no doubt put the box on a shelf and forget about it. That's one less new project from me in the future.
And so there you go: further evidence that so-called collectors are killing the Amiga for legitimate users.
I just felt like griping, and I know at least a few people here can feel my pain.
In the narrow psychological sense of the word, a collector is someone who tries to move away the perspective of death by becoming absorbed in an activity that unlike life has no temporal limit, and consists in amassing objects which like the human body are of a same "genetic" nature, but unlike the human body may be infinite and not limited in space. This definition may be blunt, but I can tell from experience that it is sometimes close to reality. When it comes to collecting video games or other works of art or mind output, one consequence of this behaviour is that the same collector's shelf may mix the best and the worse - a masterpiece and some vulgar product. By letting this happen, such a typical collector isn't aware of his items' intrinsic value, or he would have made choices and would no be a typical collector. For such a collector, an item's monetary value is first associated to the rarity rather than intrinsic value. If this item is not produced anymore, on every marketplace, whatever the pricing heights, the one who's looking for this item out of love and interest for the work and intrinsic value will always compete with the collector that doesn't care much about the work but just want one nice item to complete a collection. If the latter wins, I think too that griping is legitimate.
Like it or not the Amiga is now a collectors item. One by one the serious users have moved on as the gap between current technology and Amiga technology gets bigger.
The amiga is now a retro machine and nothing else.
I can't agree with that, as I suppose that everyone will agree that the power of a computer is not technical specifications, but performance. To my knowledge, no more recent system produces perfect mouse pointer animation or allow any user to understand the role of every system file, therefore on such regards even an Amiga 500 is still more powerful than any newer system.
In addition I still haven't managed to display Amiga animation decently in emulators, so that using a real Amiga is still for me (as well as most people I suppose) the only way to play some of the only interesting video games I have seen in my life, therefore the only way to meet some works of art and even masterpieces : such an observation goes far beyond the narrow world of mere computing, as it makes of the physical Amiga computer the condition of these works preservation.
