Whta's wrong with Suska's price?

[gaula92]

Hi there,


I was googling for other fpga implementations of the true home desktop computers (those in the 80's mainly) and I found about Project Suska (http://experiment-s.de/en/).

The man seems to be selling a 100% reimplementation of an Atari ST(E) and even Falcon computer, wich is tempting as hell. I'd have got one without thinking. But... Look at the price, for God's ****! 600 Euros?? That's insane.

So, is this a typo? Someone here got one of these Suskas? Is the price somehow justified? (Not getting one at that price anyway, just out of curiosity).

[gaula92]

Sounds a whole lot like the Natami thing.  Would your feelings be the same if the Natami were 600 euros?

Heh, my Amiga vein would betray me in that case. I got poisoned with the Amiga very soon when I was a kid so I can't think reason when it comes to new Amiga hardware.

But I don't quite see your point: it seems limited to Atari ST & Falcon to me. It doesn't seem any faster or usable: the Natami idea was to take the old Amiga desing and make it as fast as possible while keeping compatibility with old software to a degree.
On the other hand, this Suska thing seems to be an Atari ST or Falcon at best (now that's not bad at all, but it's not the same as the Natami idea, by no means).

Correct me if I'm wrong...