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Newbies should absolutely start and even stick with emulation. At this point, playing with real hardware are for those that know what they want and why. Originally I had a bunch of 500s that I was going to give to people interested in having fun with us, but I realized that the 500 is the WORST for a newbie, so I can most away.

Very cool. I love to see Amigas do things other than games. Not that I dislike the games. That's what I do with my Amigas. But I love seeing them being used for "productive" things as well.

So you have to take your Time. And know i’m so happy.🎉

Hello I love Amiga . I have a a2000 when I was young. I’ve juste buy mi first amiga1200 after moré than five years waiting for a good price and model. 😅

I like this new talking head style videos - this is great. Always been a fun channel to watch, and you do very well in front of the camera so now channel is even moar better. Sad to say you might have to modify the the "most poorly produced, underproduced" soon if this trend continues - the studio setup, lighting, audio/video quality and editing have become really good lately.

I'm a hoarlector (that didn't sound quite right ;) I own an Amiga 500 and a self build ReAmiga 1200, so I'm nog hogging existing A1200 machines, and I have parts for a second ReAmiga1200. Together with a C64 and 3x MSX2 (VG-8235, VG-8245 and NMS8250) and 2x MSX1 computers making my collection complete. I keep them all in perfect working condition, recapping them every 10-20 years or so for as long as I'm able.

I got into collecting computers back in the 80s… I started my computer journey with a ZX81, then a 48k speccy, then C64, then Amiga 500… but during that time I knew friends who were selling off their old systems and upgrading, so I started buying their old systems from my pocket money and cash I’d make doing odd jobs. I had a dream of owning all the different systems that were out there back then, Beebs and CoCos, Memotechs and Enterprizes, Ataris and Archimedes. But then life happened and I stopped buying systems… still kept all the ones I had bought, but then put them into storage when I moved continents. Started buying again last year, first with an Amiga 1000, then a 500, then a C64… also picked up a hemlock, Amiga Modem, original user manuals, external drive and a bunch of other stuff. Now about to ship all my original systems across the ocean so I can play with them again for the first time in 26 years….cant wait!

It's the hoarders who have made the prices sky rocket.

Collector. I currently have 3x A1200, 1x CD32 and one extra A1200 motherboard. When I buy an A600 I know I'll have gone to the other side. 😂

Have a happy new year Hold and Modify

I definitely got into it for the nostalgia. But 💯 the hoarding part can kick in. I started picking up machines I loved as a kid/teen that I never owned so that I could get to experience them. I’ve very limited space which naturally put a curb on my ability to hoard, thankfully. I still splurge occasionally for addons for the machines I’ve got, but it’s all part of enjoying using them.

So the jumper is not closed on your Firebird ? I'm struggling to enable the SAGA mode on mine, and I'm not sure how to use the jumper that is supposed to be closed for SAGA to work.

keeping those prices up for those whod like to have ONE - thanks!

It started as nostalgia for me to, today I have nearly Al Amigas out there , there is the 3000UX I am still looking for. Have for most of them 2 or 3 backups , so I guess I am a hoarder but only to have enough spareparts to repair them 😂😂no to be serious I have to sell some of them 😅cheers from Switzerland ak AmigaSwiss

Somebody called me a hoarder once, because I admitted to having 3 A1000s and 3 A2000s. Well too bad. :-) one of each of those were my original machines, The others were acquired from former customers before the retro market surged like it did. One of the 1000s came from the Goodwill for 7 bucks! I bought it to get the floppy drive for my original machine. But when I tried out the Goodwill machine and it worked, I couldn't bring myself to part it out. :-)

The hording title drew me in even though I don't collect Amiga (I had an Amiga 500 for a little while but didn't have nostalgia for it so passed it on). I have 9 retro PC's with various configurations and realistically could drop them down to 2 or 3 but I keep them as spares as I know they may break down over the years :D.

I have an A1200 with an TF1260 (I also have an OG Apollo 040 for it, but think I might like to trade for an 030) and I bought most of the chips (and MB) to build a new A1200. I have thought to build a new A4000 but that would be to use some of the cards, but I don't have enough body parts to sell for that. So unless I find some laying around or I win the lottery that I don't play the A4000 is a pipedream.

It is the just complex enough to have to learn but crap enough to love. That's really what I love about it. I'll put it this way, I am a big fan of Seasons 1-4 of Babylon 5. Why? Because of the state of the Graphics. It's that late 80s (1990 - 1993) Graphics style that really gets me creative. I want to see and make and do in that style. A movie, a television series. For me, the amiga has a lot of what I want. It's creative that beat apple at their game and still had room to game. That's my bag and I am sticking to it. I want to actually USE the Amiga I have. In some cases, to use it as a poor man's Quantel Paintbox with the flicker fixer and the DCTV and the Video Toaster. I still need to get one of those. Anyway, it's using the hardware for what it's meant to do, and I love it. I really, really do. Sure, I could use AI to spit out something. But, it won't be mine and it won't be true to what was created back then. Even if it got to the point of being close. It's not quite right and I want it right and most of all radical dude.

Collecting or Hoarding? I just bought a 4000 SqFt building to set all my retro stuff up in. Thinking this is not normal behavior.

FYI, you look just fine! You're like Alex Jones's cooler brother that is into retro computing lol. Good to see your face though my dude. Didn't know you worked at a computer store, that's awesome. Always appreciate your insight on Lightwave stuff as I find it fascinating.

Not a collector, nor hoarder. At 67 yo, I'm nostalgic. "Back in the day", I only wanted the best PC, and to run a BBS in order to participate and help in the "network" of messaging. Today, I just want my last Amiga A2000 to work... but, every time I touch it (even open the box), something breaks.

Yeah, on point. And yes, if you don't know what you're doing and you want to get into the whole "AmigaOS thing" and not really the games/hw part, emulation should be first stop, because, even for people that KNOW what they're doing, it's still a minefield, always was. One faux pas and kaboom, lots of rebuild. It's really hard not to appreciate how you can simply copy/paste your "Amiga", try whatever you want and if it goes south, you just copy it back. And while i can still appreciate the old boxes charm, life is a lot more comfy with an SSD, lots of RAM and a ridonculous CPU. Actually quite fun, and a huge distraction, to browse old coverdisk collections on your "xtra fast" A500/A1200 and relive all those moment you had, but without the wait you had.

Just emulate or build an FPGA Amiga these days imo. Waiting for the Checkmate beige cases to restock.

Holy fuck face reveal

A500mini impulse purchase turned into four real Amigas, learning to solder & repair... Several working a500 mother boards.Then joining an Amiga Club... Its a deep rabbit hole but full of cute expensive bunnies!

I sold my last Amiga in 2015 thinking I could easily pick another one up in the future. Then the prices went crazy. Its a good thing I have WinUAE on a thumb drive.

Emulation is a great way to start getting that Amiga Experience.

Nostalgia for me too Q. That said was watching an Aussie RUclipsr recently who came across a guy who had 6 rooms full of retro gear, who had passed away. They were helping his wife clear it out / sell it. I found it very depressing - a guy who collected and collected and then passed away but could not take anything with him. 3:32 - Exactly!!!!! Also yep the limitations of 30-40 year technology still make it interesting and fun.

"Are you collecting or hoarding?" me: Yes. 😉😂 I've been collecting/hoarding CBM's for a while. Part of it is that when I was younger I simply couldn't afford to buy what I wanted. I went from a 64c with a full RAMLink setup to an Amiga 1200, but to this day I'm kicking myself for selling my 64 to get the 1200. :( At least I didn' t pull a stupid and sell that A1200; I've had it since I bought it back in late 1992! I have multiple Amigas but only one of each model (still missing an A3000, A4000 though.... had an A500 and a CD32 a few years ago but I had to sell them when I fell on hard financial times. 😭). Ironically I own seven C128's, but that's because I bought them to fix. lol. Fix them I did, they all work perfectly now but now I can't part with them. lol. My daily driver 64 is an Ultimate64 though. My daily driver Amiga is a Raspberry Pi 400 since I don't want to take the chance of damaging my real Amiga hardware, but every now and then I'll break out the real thing.

Q, I really appreciate what you do. I’ve never owned an Amiga though I did keep one for a friend for a couple of years. So it’s thru videos of yours and Chris’ that I virtually get to experience them. And Chris’ PiMiga is fantastic! So I don’t have any Amigas, but I watch a lot of Amiga videos. 😂

Sell your Amigas and you will have enough to retire. 😊

Very valid advice. And I have men flu. Pray for me. 😁

Perfect timing: Just before opening youtube and clicking this video I was asking myself: "Should I sell a few of my 4 Amiga 500's? A few of my 5 Commodore C64's perhaps?" and "Why do I own 3 ZX spectrums, but never use them?". I started buying them for nostalgic reasons but maybe I have a bit of Nostalgic Overload, heh heh...

Great advice! I bought quite a few Amiga's now because I wanted to re-experience them. I really only use 1 now. I have a 4000 Toaster box I need to get setup so I can also play with lightwave. Always wanted to use it, but I suspect a steep learning curve.

Nice video and good points. Not in a position where I can hoard Amigas yet :( . Really want a video toaster set up :). I do have some macs Ive been collecting. New years resolution is to thin the Mac herd down.

Commodore Amiga A500 and A1200 mainboards are made out of fairy dust. I once tried to recap a a A1200 mainboard and the traces and all sorts was pulling up. I do hobby electronics and have assembled Z80 single board computer kits. They are easy because the PCB's are high quality and all the components are through hole and not surface mount. The best hobbyist computer youtube channels make working on tricky retro computers look easy. But it is not.

Mine is both. It started as an nostalgic buy but brought a A500 as my one in 93 was as À600 with a 20mb hd. It got to point the board needs repairs that I'm not good with and no tools now in storage. Now got a A600 that needs recaping. (Sound distortion on left Channel channel) again something needs doing soon but I'm no good at that. Then we jump further In to the expansions added on over time. It does become a little asset for the future as these machines are getting older and far less working.

It started as nostalgia for me. I decided 20 years back to rebuy all the computers I had as a kid right up to when I went PC. so ZX81, Spectrum, +2 amiga etc. then I decided to buy all the ones I wanted as a kid..... I'm 49 computers in so far, all working and restored, no duplicates. Amiga 5, 6 and 1200 but no x000 machines. yet....

I certainly got into this game mostly for the nostalgia, and a little bit of me was thinking that fixing these old computers would teach me electronics. It did teach me a little, but I really would have been better off with a beginners book and a "my first electronics" kit. For the RUclipsrs who want to make money on this, I would say that you have to be into it, but you have to be into it for the viewers nostalgia, not your own, otherwise you could end up making 600 videos about the same computer and there is only so much life in that. I think even at this point, the 8-bit guy has done videos on just about every retro computer on the planet, and now he is dialing it back and opening an arcade.

I love the channel with the focus on nostalgia and creativity. Watching your videos contributes a lot of motivation for developing AmigaOS.

Nostalgia is a big part of it for me, many things in my life are. I was a big gamer back in the day but as I grew I did use my Amiga for work. Now I am collecting. $$$$$ LOL. I just started setting up a room to display everything - not just Commodore stuff (just picked up a Vectrex!!). I like the aesthetics of other brands from the time.

I wonder what is the native resolution of the lens flare bitmap that is stored in the program. It couldn't be vector right?

I know literally zero things about the Amiga workbench anymore, but I am a card carrying astro photographer :)

Aliens, their UFO's and dwarfism 👽 This is the problem with drones and civilian use, users either don't know the rules or plain don't care (the later). It won't bring down a jumbo but it could seriously damage a single / double prop.

Nonsense

If the government wanted to bring them down they could. There are high power radio jamming devices available to police and the military. Why are they not being used?

Well, its a false dichotomy. If it flies and you dont know what is it, its a UFO by definition.

Putin is up to something

there was commercial pilots reporting seing something like this last week..reddish orbs thingy. Dunno if i can link the Yt video here?