Uh, "Price Gouging?"

[haywirepc]

I would love to have real amiga hardware again, but everytime I think about it I just think about the endless rabbit hole you go down.

First, you get the amiga, **** now I need a monitor for temp till I get a scandoubler, (1084's are expensive and costly to ship) **** now I need some system discs, hd controller or just hd, cf cards, joysticks, add ons, accellerator, ram, it never ends.

It can get extrememly expensive fast, and seems like it never ends, there is always sometihing you want to add or expand.

Now I just have a 3ghz pc with 4 gigs of ram, a fast video card. It has xp underneath that boots straight to os3.9 and that pc cost like 60 bucks.
You get rtg, can run ANY classic software pretty well. No scandoublers,
no failing flaky hardware. Same pc also multiboots to windows xp, linux
and aros...

Even that, I still want to work on, sometimes I want to customize it with amiga boingball keyboard and mouse and some other stuff, but I haven't
yet... I jokingly call that system my amiga 5000.

I feel bad for people off endlessly searching for hw and paying the ridiculous
prices for it. I don't miss the rabbit hole much...

Now, mostly I spend my time trying to collect every bit of amiga software I
can.... and playing my old favorites on a dedicated system with all my amiga goodness (demos, games, apps) in one place and a familar feeling.

[haywirepc]

I would really like to have an amiga 4000 with 68060 accellerator, rtg, usb, network card, 80 gigs storage, a 20 inch monitor that switches between aga and rtg automatically, dvd-r drive, a couple of great joysticks, and more. Thats pretty much my dream system, but...

but the 50$ pc serves the same purpose. I need better joysticks though. Sometimes I think I should just put everything Amiga on my main pc, but I'm afraid I would just play games constantly and never get any work done.

Did anyone else ever go full virtual and then go back to the rabbit hole?

Maybe I should go back down there...

Should I start asking for donations? :angry:

:lol:

[haywirepc]

I guess thats how it falls, some people demand the real thing, but virtual is
almost free, just alot of time.

My dream amiga 4k system would cost at least 1,500$ and I don't think it would
provide me with any less enjoyment than the virtual amiga 5000.

To each his own...