Amiga 3000T system

[jsixis]

I use an Amiga 3000T system and I'm debating selling it. I've owned this machine since the late 90's and have upgraded it every way possible. The only 2 negatives is the battery, while replaced doesn't work. You have to set the date when you boot and the floppy drive died a long time ago. I've bought a few but those were junk too and I just decided why screw around with another floppy.

It has a Cyberstorm 060 MkII with 128mb of ram, PicasoII, Delfina Lite Sound card, Commodore Ethernet a 4.1gb drive and a 8gb IBM Deskstar that is a mirror image of the 4.1 drive.

I use to do a lot on this machine but now all I do is email and a webpage work.
I've slowly moved over to the PC side and now that kick ass laptops can be had for 400 dollars I find myself tired of not being able to do anythng on the 3000T.

I'm considering selling the whole thing for $1200 or parting it out on ebay.
Looking for any suggestions, I'll miss the beast as it has been reliable but I gave up on the browsers a long time ago and really have no need for this anymore.
Thanks
Jsixis
Columbus Ohio

[NovaCoder]

I say if you've had your fun (and you obviously have) then sell it on so that someone else can have a play.

[Gulliver]

This is how I see YOUR best options:

1-Keep your A3000T. After all, you like your beast and it costed a lot of time, money, and dedication to properly upgrade it to its actual state. You download the latest version of NetSurf to surf the web and give it some slack for now.

2-You split the entire setup and sell it on ebay, piece by piece, as it will be the only place where you could probably get the kind of money you expect from your A3000T setup.

I hope it helps

[desantii]

PM sent with some questions
thanks

[bbond007]

I'm considering selling the whole thing for $1200 or parting it out on ebay.
Looking for any suggestions, I'll miss the beast as it has been reliable but I gave up on the browsers a long time ago and really have no need for this anymore.
Thanks
Jsixis
Columbus Ohio

Sounds like a nice system!

If you do sell, consider buying a little more than a $400 notebook, and you can run WinUAE and it won't be much different than your super-expanded mig

I really like the "Amiga Forever" product, but it was like pulling teeth from Cloanto to get my physical DVDs and CD.

[Amiduffer]

I would caution about selling off such a nice setup. Best bet, would be to store it away in a closet for a time. After a few months or a year at max, see what you think of it still.

[mousehouse]

I would caution about selling off such a nice setup. Best bet, would be to store it away in a closet for a time. After a few months or a year at max, see what you think of it still.

I agree on that... unless of course you need the money badly. I sold of my Amiga gear years ago when it wasn't worth anything to clean up my attic where it was just eating up space. Last year I bought back a nice 3000 and 4000, thinking I should never have sold them.

[MelbourneBen]

You'll probably regret selling it...I know I have in the past....

However if you do decide to sell I'd be interested in the ethernet card...if you were selling some parts seperately ofcourse...

[KThunder]

I sold all my silicon amigas several years ago and havent regretted it at all. I never had the money to build a rig like yours, but my software amiga is better than yours right now.
I can run any os from 1.3 to 3.9, any chipset from ocs to rtg, up to 8megs chip ram and more fast ram than any program will ever need, and any cpu or fpu.

yes act now and you can get all this and Aros for free!

seriously though I was sick of playing russian roulette with old hardware. If turn your machine on right now and the 20 year old psu surges and blows out your mobo and accelerator how much would your amiga be worth. If my "amiga" mobo dies i can get another for what 60 bucks?

I guess part of it comes down to is emulation good enough for your amiga needs?

[jsixis]

I'm on Tiger Direct's mailist, we got 2 Lenovo's for 400 each, 15" screen, 4 gigs of ram, DVD Writer, built in wireless, every connector imaginable really everything except for a floppy drive haha, just have to be patient.

Sounds like a nice system!

If you do sell, consider buying a little more than a $400 notebook, and you can run WinUAE and it won't be much different than your super-expanded mig

I really like the "Amiga Forever" product, but it was like pulling teeth from Cloanto to get my physical DVDs and CD.

[jsixis]

I have thought about that. I sold off a monster Commodore 64 system years ago and se what the stuff sells for now and do regret it. The 3KT doesn't eat anythig and I do not need the money. I saw a bone Stock 3KT sell for $700 last month and that got me thinking.

I would caution about selling off such a nice setup. Best bet, would be to store it away in a closet for a time. After a few months or a year at max, see what you think of it still.

[jsixis]

I doubt I would emulate an Amiga, done that and while it is nicer speed wise the Amiga RGB colors are just sharper. I render pics with Vista Pro and can't get the same colors with the windows version. I have a 040 1200 system too, decisions decisons.

The old hardware is my main beef, floppys and mice just suck.
Power supply, have an extra and I take the machine out to the garage and blow the crap out of it twice a year. I use it every day just because its reliable.

I sold all my silicon amigas several years ago and havent regretted it at all. I never had the money to build a rig like yours, but my software amiga is better than yours right now.
I can run any os from 1.3 to 3.9, any chipset from ocs to rtg, up to 8megs chip ram and more fast ram than any program will ever need, and any cpu or fpu.

yes act now and you can get all this and Aros for free!

seriously though I was sick of playing russian roulette with old hardware. If turn your machine on right now and the 20 year old psu surges and blows out your mobo and accelerator how much would your amiga be worth. If my "amiga" mobo dies i can get another for what 60 bucks?

I guess part of it comes down to is emulation good enough for your amiga needs?

[matthey]

I doubt I would emulate an Amiga,...

I prefer the real thing too. WinUAE on my laptop doesn't have that much of an advantage in speed on my 68060@75MHz with Voodoo 4.

The old hardware is my main beef, floppys and mice just suck.

Get a PS2 mouse adapter and optical PC mouse. This makes a huge difference and works really well unless you have a pregnant mouse. Floppys do suck though. I don't really use them any more as most have errors. I do backups on multiple hard drives including my laptop I have networked to my Amiga.

Power supply, have an extra and I take the machine out to the garage and blow the crap out of it twice a year. I use it every day just because its reliable.

You have a pretty fast and reliable setup. I have a 3000T too. It's not my only computer and it can't do all my computing needs but it's still my funnest computer. The Amiga has a great community and still a few talented developers. I would expect the "classic" situation to improve as fpga Amigas come out. I hope you don't give up on the Amiga.

[B00tDisk]

I doubt I would emulate an Amiga, done that and while it is nicer speed wise the Amiga RGB colors are just sharper. I render pics with Vista Pro and can't get the same colors with the windows version.

I'm sorry, this is just not true.  Color values = color values.

[KThunder]

color values = color values unless viewer knows one is produced by a "real" amiga and the other on a "fake" one