I think the Amiga is an amazing hobby, more of a time machine. I read every Amiga book and thing I could get my hands on, dreamed of owning some of the things in the ads in Amiga World. It was never to be; I could not afford even a basic toaster, no less TBCs and flyers etc. But through the power of ebay I found myself drawn in to build the monsters of my youth. (One seller told me of this magical place called Amiga.org.)
I have several A2000 toasters that I have bought on ebay, some just parts and I now have 3 operational toasters. I have found a blue screen Croma key overlay slider that works. I spend most of my time looking for content like Eric Swartz Amy cartoons, and things to genlock to. The Amiga back in the day was the third option, and you could see by the dwindling shelves of things available that it was a losing platform. I thought Apple would die, but it had those expensive boutiques that kept them alive I guess; who could afford that stuff? The amiga was cheap compared to other computers, but not affordable until the A500. By then it was dead, just by dumb luck did commodore get to live on. If the book On the Edge is true, screwing over K-mart, Computer City, and Sears killed any chances of lighting stricking twice C64 style.
