What should i buy as my christmas present?

[platon42]

What should i buy as my christmas present?

The thing is that i have 300 USD burning a hole in my pocket, and are in the fate of becoming my Christmas gift.
So basically i am having some problems on deciding where should that money be spent. I have narrowed down the  choices to:

1-Buy a mediator for my 040 Amiga 1200
2-Buy a mac mini (Maybe install Morphos)
3-Buy a Power Mac G4 (Double mirrored drive) (and maybe install Morphos for it when available)
4-Spend only 40 USD in expansions to make my old PC AROS capable
5-Sell my Amiga+accelerator+miggy stuff to buy a SAM (This option is the most underrated by me)
6-Something else

What would you do?

If you'd really want to stick with your Amiga, a Deneb USB card probably offers the most flexibility to add cheap hardware that you can use with any computer later.

[platon42]

@platon42
I dont like the subwayUSB interface, but i would have bought a deneb without hesitating. The problem is that  it only works on zorro amigas. And a zorro A1200 busboard, as cheap as it may seem, due to the excesive shipping charges i witnessed generally from european postal services, means like 140 USD and then i would have to buy/hack an ATX psu(more $) and then buy the deneb (even more $)!.
I totally agree a deneb is a cool buy, but then it comes to much more $$$ than its price, as i have explained (I wish i had an A4000!).

I agree completely -- this doesn't sound too reasonable in this case. Anyway, I hope you'll find something joyful to spend your money on. I'd probably go for the MacMini with MorphOS, if didn't already have one and would still be interested in that field.

[platon42]

Yes, sure they exist, but unfortunately not for classic Amigas

A friend of mine and I did some reverse engineering last xmas (and were able to get some picture even on the Amiga Classic running a Deneb):

http://floe.butterbrot.org/displaylink/doku.php

However, writing a full graphics driver is much more work that I'm not able to spend on.