15 Sep
2009
15 Sep
'09
8:43 p.m.
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Teo Zenios <teoz at neo.rr.com> wrote:
I mostly game so my upgrades are all 68030's.
I can understand people getting the rare upgrades just to get them, but the
prices are a bit insane in my opinion for what you can run. The best thing
for me would have been for Commodore to have lived long enough to sell PPC
Amigas so I can get the classic 68k ones cheap after people moved on to
newer ones. Shocking what I can get for 68K mac for little or nothing and
how much it costs for something close on the Amiga (network cards anyone).
I agree. The prices are stupid. I broke down and bought a buddha
board for the 2000. It's expensive but gives a lot of functionality.
It's a usb board for the amiga. It works with almost anything,
keyboards, mice, thumb drives, flash card readers, cd/dvd/hard drives,
network adapters... even usb sound cards. There's some crazy nuts out
there still writing amiga drivers for this stuff.
The real crazy prices are the people with the mediator boards and
68060 boards for their 1200. A 68060 amiga with pci slots
transplanted into a tower case. You could buy a modern computer for
those prices. But alas, it wouldn't be an amiga.
brian