Returning after a long hiatus

[fordp]

So I've been lurking around here a few months, and more recently posted a few times, but never introduced myself, so here goes.

Back around 1990, I bought my first Amiga, it was a used Amiga 500, and it served me with several upgrades through the mid-1990's including the monstrosity that was the Bodega Bay. By the mid 90s I had stopped using the Amiga 500 all together in favor of the open-source *BSDs.

Other than toying with emulators a few times, and occasional ebay searches for 'video toaster' I hadn't much thought of my Amiga for the better part of 15 years. That is until a few months ago. A bout that time I stumped on the HxC floppy emulator, as I hate to loose data, and have a large floppy collection, this device appealed to me. So I ordered one, and went on to power up my two working A500's that I found in the basement. After a bit of playing, I jumped the gun and purchased an A2000 with  an 030 board.

So after 15 years, this is my setup.
  1) Amiga 2000 rev 6.2
     - GVP Combo 030 w/ 8mb
     - GVP HD+8 (w/ 8mb)
     - ASDG Dual Serial Card
     - Video Toaster
     - Indivision ECS
     - ECS Agnus & Denise
     - Kickstart 3.1
  2) A500 Rev 6
      - ICD adRam 540 w/2mb
      - Indivision ECS
      - ECS Agnus & Denise
      - Kickstart 2.04
  3) A500 Rev 5 (or so I recall
      - A501
      - Kickstart 1.3

Also gobs of unused miscellanea that will be sorted, filtered over the coming months.

[CritAnime]

Welcome

[SamuraiCrow]

Hello fordp.

[mousehouse]

Welcome back ;-)

Did you already smash the piggy bank and count your savings? There is still a lot of fancy Amiga hardware and other stuff going around...

[fordp]

Welcome back ;-)

Did you already smash the piggy bank and count your savings? There is still a lot of fancy Amiga hardware and other stuff going around...

Hah! The piggy bank is intact for the moment. The hardware is what got me re-interesed. I noted minimig a few years back, but managed to avoid getting to interested, can't say I've been as successful in ignoring fpgaarcade.  I can't seem to get a handle on natami to decide where it fits into everything exactly, and therefor I can't really determine if I have interest.

I've recently been offered an chance on an A1200 (with an 030 accel), but I don't know what fair market value is to make an offer. Nor do I know what to expect from an AGA machine as a user having never owned one. Nor do I know if buying such a machine makes sense with fpgaarcade on the seemingly relatively near horizon. Any thoughts from the community might be appreciated.

[LordSpunky]

Welcome fordp!

Nice A2000! In terms of the A1200 it depends what it is you want to do with a Classic Amiga. An A1200 with 030 would make a VERY nice gaming machine, get a Compact Flash 4GB hard drive and full it full of WHDLoad games and enjoy. If that's your poison anyway......other can advice you in other uses, I don't do much on my Amiga's anymore, at the moment, than play games.

Lord Spunky