What do want to see in AmigaKit.com?

[amigakit]

AmigaKit.com has been going for almost a month now. It has generated lots of interest from the Community. Now we need to know what you would like to see in the shop?

Please consider what do you expect from an online Amiga store and what do you wish we stocked?

Please give feedback on AmigaKit.com and make suggestions for improvement.

Many thanks.


www.amigakit.com

[odin]

Uhm....I'd expect an Amiga shop to stock Amiga hardware, that means more than just a refurbished A600/A1200 floppy drive :-)

[amigakit]

All the hardware can be used on the Amiga!

[seer]

All the hardware can be used on the Amiga!

Sure, but I can get this stuff at my local PC shop.. Why order it from you (except supporting an Amiga Shop)..

Some Amiga only hardware would be nice, perhaps AmigaOne and Pegasos mobo's and things likethat..


Don't get me wrong, you're doing something nice for the Amiga community.. You just need to get some non mainstream stuff in it..

[amigakit]

Because your local PC shop doesn't have a clue about modern Amigas and cant advise on compatibility and how to get things working on the Amiga.

How many times have you walked into a PC shop being unable to get service from the staff because no one knows anything about the Amiga- you probably wont even ask for help for fear of being looked at strangely.

We test kit on the Amiga before selling it so you can be assured that it works and you dont run the risk of buying incompatible hardware.

[seer]

How many times have you walked into a PC shop being unable to get service from the staff because no one knows anything about the Amiga- you probably wont even ask for help for fear of being looked at strangely.

Erm.. Never.. Don't need the expertise of a so called expert salesman... I ubderstand the point, but luckily it doesn't aply to me.

Please consider what do you expect from an online Amiga store and what do you wish we stocked?

But why ask if you don't want any input ? Your reaction seems like you're a bit offended by odin's suggestion.

[koaftder]

amigakit wrote:
Because your local PC shop doesn't have a clue about modern Amigas and cant advise on compatibility and how to get things working on the Amiga.

How many times have you walked into a PC shop being unable to get service from the staff because no one knows anything about the Amiga- you probably wont even ask for help for fear of being looked at strangely.

We test kit on the Amiga before selling it so you can be assured that it works and you dont run the risk of buying incompatible hardware.

Well, now i can goto your website, see whats compatable with my amiga, and then goto my local pc shop and buy that.  :lol:

[x56h34]

I think that what you need in stock are some genuine Amiga products. When you narrow it all down, it turns out that you've basically slapped the Amiga name to a bunch of universal products that can be used by any computer with an IDE port or network card.

Where are the accelerator cards?
Where are the Zorro cards?
Where are the PCI busboards?
Where are the SCSI controllers?
Where are the tower cases?
Where are the systems?
Where are the memory simms/chips?
Where are the kickstart roms?
Where are the replacement custom chips?
Where are the AmigaOne/Pegasos boards?
Where are the PCI cards for Amiga PCI Busboards?
Where are the scan-doublers?
Where are the REAL amiga cables (like RGB cables and such)?

...see where this is going?

[kd7ota]

What I honestly would like to see??

Many, many Amiga 4000 computers for around $100

Many Cyberstorm/Blizzard or whatever PPC accelerator $50 cards

Commodore 64 hardware such as action replays, SuperCPU, etc..

 :-D  :-D  :-D

THATS what I want to see in the store.  :-)

[Holley]

To try and be helpful, how about things like Permedia and Voodoo PCI 3D graphics cards, the good SB128s, low profile AGP cards that work with A1/Peg, some cases that definately fit A1/Peg boards.

A complete Amiga to PC transfer kit would be a best seller if questions on the board are anything to go by (ie. supplied with an Amiga floppy and cable), and maybe trying to become a US reseller of AF6 or something?

[HopperJF]

I wish to see...

Amiga computers - starting from low end desktop A1200 configurations, to AmigaOne and Pegasos computers and motherboards.

Software including copies of the Amiga operating systems. Perhaps 3.1 disk set upwards wouldnt be overkill.

3.1 ROMs.

Accelerator boards.

Amiga compatible printers and scanneres, with driver software.

Creative and business software packages.

Copies of Total Amiga magazine.

Monitors.

Amiga modified tower cases.

Basic things such as blank floppy disks; both Double Density and High Density, keyboard and monitor covers, games!

[Robert17]

Just the basics I guess, although products should have good instructions and be easy to use as not everyone here has always been an Amigan :-)

[Holley]

Hopper - much of what you asked for isn't being made new any more, or would only be of interest to a retro market.  These guys need to turn a profit, the days of having a whole bunch of real classic Amiga software and hardware are over.

I guess extra Amiga-specific instructions would be handy. Maybe a bundle of registered CD burning software with a CD-R drive or Turboprint with a good printer would be handy too.

I have no affiliation with amigakit.com, but even I see where he's going.  He's trying to specifically sell for the future Amiga platform (which is made of mostly generic PC hardware) and fill a niche by providing Amiga-related expertise and advice.  

A dealer CANNOT support the antique Amiga doorstop and hope to survive.  You can't BUY new replacement custom chips, or new Amiga monitor cables, or new Zorro cards, or PCI Busboards (well, I believe you could a couple, but you'd have to have the initial money to pay for stock, which I'm sure he hasn't).  Tower cases are generic, systems will come when possible, I'm sure.  Kickstart ROMs are all gone, and A1/Pegasos boards are very difficult to come by without a {bleep}load of startup capital.

If you want old {bleep}, go to ebay.

All in all, I believe that Amigakit.com is well worth supporting.  If you can't understand what he's trying to do, then this community doesn't deserve ANY dealers.

Kudos to them for at least TRYING to support a defeatist market.

Wayne

[amigakit]

Thanks Wayne for your words of support and to everyone for the ideas expressed so far.

I think that future Amiga support is essential and this means PCI / AGP gfx cards, SDRAM, big HDDs.  However all these items such come with Amiga instructions, specific Amiga support and Amiga compatibility guarantees.

However there is so much more from the general computing world that Amiga owners never try because they dont realise it works.  These products can be promoted through AmigaKit.com