Welcome back, I like you a lot already. You are definitely honest and will speak your mind.....Bravo.
Anyway I've spent a small fortune on my Amiga 2000 and have not succeeded in getting it to run consistently or right for that matter. I spent the money to learn the OS and the hardware, whatever.......
My advice for you to consider is to stay with emulation for now then look at one of two options
1. The Efika running morphos with as I understand a relatively seemless Amiga emulator for nearly all old programs.
2. One of the trillions of promised Amiga OS4 boards that also has a somewhat seemless Amiga "classic" emulator. It looks like the Sam board or samatha may actually materialize.
I too love the old machines and the "feel" of running Native but having gone down that road myself through Ebay I wouldn't recommend it to anybody. I mean as far a nostalgia goes you can get many 8 bit computers for 20 bucks and other 16 bit machines for 100 or so. The Amiga market is nuts plain and simple in fact I've seen several Amiga 2000 video toasters go on ebay for next to nothing but the same boards in those machines go for 130 dollars and up. Its become a fool or be fooled market with bits of information and compatibility fragments scattered throughout the web, which leaves us the newbies or the outta touch till now at the guru's mercy.
Don't do it. Start over with a new product and go from there.
My 2 cents
Neil
