redrumloa wrote:
Let's all help save the Amiga Classic from 'Extiction'.
That's one of the reasons why I am in business. I believe there will always be a place for the classic Amiga:-)
And why you're perpetually in business and then close to closing shop, then back in business for sure, then thinking about closing shop again, etc?
There's not much to sell for classics anymore, only a few new products released at all the last couple years. Many good products that could sell aren't made anymore and are hard to get when someone wants one. Just look at how people fought over that broken CSPPC board on ebay, or how much was paid for an old Zorro3 memory card recently. You can't stock classic stuff because it's very hard to get most items. There's also few people to buy, and many of them have weird perspectives on life after going so many years in Amiga limbo, lots of peole feel they are owed something in return for their impractical loyalty and want things for free that cost a good bit of money to make happen. The market, at least here in USA, isn't able to sustain more than a very few shops. With Software Hut, Centsible, and Anachronism all in USA (The classic sales places that I can name without looking things up), I don't see more classic Amiga shops happening.
Besides, many of the bigger spenders on Amiga stuff already have or are about to change up to AmigaOne or Pegasos. I've wanted to have better than my old 060/66 for a long time, and only in the last couple years has that become possible, without going PC or Mac. My A4000T is still my email machine, but I've taken to using my PC for the web due to browser compatibility. I'm still waiting for WarpOS compatibility in OS4 to play some games I bought long ago, back when I had talked Metabox into putting me down for an order of an Amijoe 4000. Haven't found a CSPPC I could get my hands on since Amijoe flopped, and that's been a while.
It's definitely time to look forward, it's just too hard to keep classic machines going these days. What happens when my overclocked 060/50 chip gives out? I haven't seen easily procurable replacements for some time... I think my AmigaOne will outlast the 4000T by a good bit, and will be great to use when the OS is "final" and released. Everything I still use my A4000T for I can do on my AmigaOne already. It will only become more useful than my A4000T. The hardware is better and cheaper than my A4000T rig. Why should I continue obsessing about the past?
