why are sams so expensive?

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Just run Icaros on a nice powerful PC... That's what I do and it works for me

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Thinking about it, SAMs aren't actually expensive... I saw on another forum someone moaning about the cost of Macs and iPhones... And I thought, as long as people are prepared to pay the price, the product isn't expensive...

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It's been said that nothing is expensive if you can afford it.

However, it doesn't change the fact that in terms of value for money, especially in comparison to the rest of the consumer computing world, it does seem to offer quite a lot less then the competition.

On that basis I do consider it expensive given the actual product's capabilities.

Yeah, I agree... If it were £50 and came with an OS... Then I think it would be worth a look...

But my point is, as long as there are people prepared to spend that sort of money on that board... Acube would be stupid to sell it for less...

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Acube aren't stupid, they have quite an expensive board on their hands... And they know they can shift it to a set market, for a price that gives them a healthy profit. I don't think Acube could afford to sell that board for a price that would attract peope like you and me... So they don't.

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The thing is that there isn't an Amiga Market anymore, it's dead and gone. Acube are selling a product that will never be comercially viable from a developer point of view. Due to piracy alone, one needs to be sure that you can pay the bills even if only 10% of all users of your software actually pay for it... In the Amiga world 10% of all users is only about 10 to 50 people... That's not going to pay the rent []