The value of "real" Amiga hardware

[mechy]

Just wanted to share this with the thread. So I ordered a Picasso II from a guy in Greece this morning. Excited for it to get here, it'll be the first Amiga video card I ever own. I've been watching for one for months.  The thread on Amibay only had two views before I snapped it up, LOL. After shipping and Paypal fees it'll cost me over $250 USD.
 
Think that's expensive?
 
I was watching a couple other video cards. They both sold today. Here's what they went for:
 
Cybervision 64/3D. $513.96 USD
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=111242576457&ssPageName=ADME:B:WNA:US:3160
 
Picasso IV. $524.63 USD
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=121239691795&ssPageName=ADME:B:WNA:US:3160
 
Crazy! Someday if I ever find someone sitting on a stack of Amiga video cards, I'm going to go all "mob rule" on them, LOL. :biglaugh:

Hey mike, one second here.. i think you are comparing apples to oranges. The picasso II is a old slow,2mb ram card that is zorro2. Its lucky to manage 800x600 and if you try 24bit(i dont think it will do past 16bit with only 2MB),it will crawl.I think the PicassoII+ had 4MB ram.

the cv64/PIV will run rings around that picasso II in a zorro3 machine.
at the end of the day a gfx card is better than no gfx card however

[mechy]

Any graphics card is "probably" better than no graphics card. My concern is the price the darn things are going for (even a crummy one... and half-a-grand for decent ones)! I could use some choice words, but anyway it will be fun to play around with. :p
 
BTW, hey @Mechy, what's your thoughts on removing that one resistor near the back outright, for using modern LCD monitors? I saw your comment a couple years ago on that thread on EAB. Thanks!

you can go ahead and remove that resistor, i fried the one on my pII

a few(5?) years ago softhut was selling the gvp gfx cards for $159 new i think. around the time they had new 4060dt's and such.

Remember, take care of your amiga hardware and it will likely sell for close to what you paid for it. its a good investment imho. i bought a PIV new in 1995 and used it for over 10+ years,sold it for what i paid.. i cant complain.. i shouldn't of sold it,but found another a year later :)they will likely go up in value like 060 accelerators.

[mechy]

No, they are almost identical (2MB); plus is slightly faster. 24bit is almost unusable slow (800x600 max), I kept 16bit screen if possible.

Ah,thats what it was. thanks for the correction. I wish i could remember all the stuff i used to know
i did recall 24bit was nearly un-useable on the PII.