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Offline Darrin

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Re: One small step for Natami. One large step for Amigaland!
« on: April 29, 2011, 03:37:13 AM »
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If I was to invest, say 1 million dollars, would that help the project along and enable the team to produce more boards at a far lower cost to consumers? I don't currently have that (though might be able to get it) but just curious if money is an issue for the dev team. I understand if thats something you can't speak about or simply don't know. Just curious about what it would take to get it down to well under $500. Or better yet $200 to $300.


Getting the price down is one thing, finding a market for the product is something else.  There's no point in funding a production run so huge that you can only sell 25% of the boards, because you're then going to have to quadruple the price of each board you sell in order to make up for your huge, unsold inventory stockpile.

You may as well accept the fact that this beastie is going to cost around $800 in sellable quantities.

The good news is that you do have a choice.  If you haven't got $800 then you can get a FPGA Arcade instead just like people who bought an A500 when they really wanted an A2000.
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Re: One small step for Natami. One large step for Amigaland!
« Reply #1 on: April 29, 2011, 05:26:30 AM »
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I kick myself for not waiting and saving till I could afford an A2000 instead of the A500 in 1990. I realized that when I got a GVPHD+8 addon sidecar 7 months later. For the price of both I could have gotten an A2000. Then the AOS 3 machines come out. No way could I save up for an A4000 in any reasonable amount of time, well over a year or years. So, I get an A1200 then World of Amiga in NYC. Commodore introduces the A4000 030 and at a price I could have afforded if I hand bought the A1200.  So, now I'm much more willing to save up for what I want no matter the time it takes.


I was lucky.  I'd completed my training in the Army and I was sent on my first posting with a load of cash (there's nothing to spend your pay on when you're marching around, climbing walls and cleaning toilets with a toothbrush).  My treat was to buy myself an A2000 and I never looked back.  :D
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Re: One small step for Natami. One large step for Amigaland!
« Reply #2 on: April 29, 2011, 03:07:29 PM »
I was up at 5am to watch the pomp and ceremony.  Wonderful stuff.  God Save The Queen... and sod off you miserable republican bastards  :p

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