Haynie's Garage Sale

[Amiga_Nut]

Exactly, C65 machines even non working motherboards go for 1000s to so it's no surprise as a AAA board is even more rare.

Good luck to Dave on his auctions.

[Amiga_Nut]

That's the one I would love to see.

Simply amazing the tech jump from projects of C='s final days to what is now available for low end computing.  One can only ponder what we would have now had C= survive and competed against that upstart company, nVidia.

The C64 and A1000 were cutting edge NOT low end. ie C64 had 15 char filenames....MS-DOS had 11...crap like that.

They just cost less than that x86 and Apple stuff.

[Amiga_Nut]

Read his posts.  AAA was started before AGA.  It would have fixed everything if it'd been brought out in a reasonable time frame.


Also while AGA might have been relatively weak compared to top end PCs of the time, even low end PCs were a *lot* more expensive than the A1200.

Well I had a £1200 machine and it was also the cheapest 486SX25 built in a backstreet garage type thing for the time (Autumn 92) and trust me it was shit, it could only do 1024x768 in 256 colours. Compare that with AGA 1280x512 +(overscan) in either 256 colours, 256 colours per odd scanline or HAM8.

[Amiga_Nut]

I don't have a problem with AGA as such, more with ECS which on the A500+ was a completely useless chipset update for the A500. wow 1280x256x4 colours at 4x slower speed, what a fantastic update for gamers!

AGA was necessary given VGA being everywhere on PC games of all types not just American snooty £40 games, but we already had Fatter Agnus 1mb chip ram and that was all the OCS ever needed time wasted on.

Jay Miner's Ranger chipset was finished and should have gone in the A3000 regardless of cost.