I wonder what other people's opinions are on the value of classic Amiga machines.
I haven't looked at Amiga stuff on eBay for years as I sold off all of my classic hardware years ago. I thought I'd have a look tonight to see what things were selling for these days and I was amazed.
I had 3 or 4 Blizzard PPC boards and at the time I sold them they went for about €180. I saw one sold recently for €1200?
I sold my Blizzard 1230 Mk IV for about €70. Now they seem to be going for €250.
I sold my BVision card for €90. One just sold there for €350.
Used A1200's used to sell for €30 to €40 now it's around €150.
My Phase 5 CSPPC+060 board I sold for €280-ish with 128MB RAM. I don't even know what that would be worth today, but a CSMKII with just the 060 sold for €600!
Are these prices more or less the norm these days? I was thinking of picking up some classic hardware again but at these prices it's difficult to justify when a middle-of-the-road classic system would end up costing me the price of a new retina MacBook Pro.
How much higher can Amiga prices go? This is 20 year old hardware and as beautiful as the machines are, they will eventually fail. Is it wise to be investing 4 figures on this stuff?
Prices have become rather ridiculous lately, except perhaps for A2000 which can still be had at a reasonable price.
Should the UltimatePPC make it to market, accelerator prices may drop.
And as FPGA projects are refined, prople may find those preferable to legacy hardware.
I myself tend to resort to emulators. or NG operating systems.
There will always be a small base of those that retain and push the old hardware though.
