Actually even more wrong ....
The CS-MK1-manual (1st print) is from April 95, even if some units gone on sale in 94 they certainly weren't "available" in the common. If your in for a shocker, someone might even pull out an invoice from that time. I remember paying 1800DM for my Blizz2060 (must have been 96) shortly after they came out. Inflation corrected that would have been well over 1000Euro.
Sure GFX-Cards did exist, in the form of a Picasso2 at 800DM hardly a gamers-card today, and back than there was no CGX or P96, all you had was costom WB-emu and/or EGS. Pretty much useless for anything but specialized productivity SW.
Btw. RAM was really expensive back in those days, I only bought 8MB for that 2060 card and I do remember it being even worse before.
So to get a "high-end" Amiga in lets say 1996 (since 94 is to unrealistic for such specs) consisting of:
68060 with 32MB or more
A4000(T) (no point in playing games over Z2)
CV-64 (guess that should be the best non-3D card of that time)
You would easily need over 6000DM (3000Euro), to get what ?
A CPU/mobo comparable to a P90 ?
A GFX-card featuring a chip otherwise fond in bargain-bin VLB-cards ?
Or in short a 2000DM (1000Euro) PC ....
I spent $2000 USD for an Amiga 1200, a Blizzard 1260, the SCSI IV kit and a 64 meg 72 pin SIMM. The SIMM alone was $600 of that price. I used a SCSI drive, monitor and 16 meg SIMM I already had for a total of 80 megs - I was the envy of all my friends. This was in 1995, and PowerMacs were pretty darned new. Part of the reason I bought it was to run Mac software, and compared to a PowerMac the price wasn't bad. Plus, it was faster at running most programs than a PowerMac 8100 - I ran my machine along side of a PowerMac 8100 for quite a while.
It was definitely MUCH more useful than a Pentium 90 system and very much worth the price. Plus, it's lasted much longer than other computers. It's been in constant use since I bought it:
http://www.ziaspace.com/~john/lilith/So I'd have to say that the comparisons to PCs aren't really fair because there are lots of things you can do with Amigas you can't do with Windows machines.
