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!
I have a lot of 8-bit machines and about 10 Amigas but I only see it as hoarding if I have more than one of a model that works. As they get restored then they are moved on to people who will enjoy them. The nostalgia though, that never goes away! Thanks Q!
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....
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.
Well I think everyone being stuck at home is what really kicked it off. That's when I was seeing the largest price jumps for stuff that was actually SELLING.
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.
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!
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. 😂
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.
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.
Oh no! The collector infection' Haha. I kid. That's great that you're setting up a room for it too. I've seen some great setups. Really becomes its own art form.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
I own 2 Amiga 1200, 4 Amiga 500, some external equipment. I tend to give away Amigas to my friend/relatives, but few people want them these days. So, I keep my small collection in case something gets broken.
I own an A500, beefed up with ECS Denise and fatagnus, 1MB chip total, 8MB fast, 68010 and two 2GB disc-on-module. I love this computer along with my C128 because I have a feeling I can master those systems, including ASM and C programming
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.
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. :-)
I sold so many Amiga's I did light refurbs too between 2003 to 2013. Sold them CHEAP by today's standards. I was the opposite of hoarding. I reverse hoarded to make a couple bucks. Heh.
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.
"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.
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.
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. 😅
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
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.
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.
I still own my original AMIGA 1000 as I couldnt bare the thought of selling it after it took me through my University years and beyond. In my 30's my friends started giving me their old Amiga's as I was the AMIGA guy who knew how to fix them so I've got scsi gadgets & AMIGA specific chips/clips/parts/pieces/soldering guns/flux everwhere ...sorry what was the question again....ya the Rabbit Hole eh😅 & ya like I tell my kids if you're not having fun than its work so enjoy your hobbies
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.
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.
@@HoldandModify I saw a video of a guy with shelves full of Amigas stacked by the dozen. I shook my head thinking and that's why they are so expensive.
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.
Sound advice for today. Back then tho, the Amiga was the only real game in town for serious, business professionals who put up with the endless tinkering with hardware and software compatibility issues for that reason. Nowadays, it's then state-of-the-art capabilities, can be had on a cheap $200 i7 or greater workstation laptop. Going down this rabbit hole now, is purely for nostalgia or 'mother duck syndrome' purposes.
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.
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.
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!
Sounds like a great collection!
I have a lot of 8-bit machines and about 10 Amigas but I only see it as hoarding if I have more than one of a model that works. As they get restored then they are moved on to people who will enjoy them. The nostalgia though, that never goes away! Thanks Q!
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....
Yeah that's a great example. How it all happens. Fun stuff!
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.
Ah yes....Mr. Jones. Damn the DNA regional link! :)
I love the channel with the focus on nostalgia and creativity. Watching your videos contributes a lot of motivation for developing AmigaOS.
Thank you! Glad you like the part I like! :)
It's the hoarders who have made the prices sky rocket.
Well I think everyone being stuck at home is what really kicked it off. That's when I was seeing the largest price jumps for stuff that was actually SELLING.
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.
Yes all valid points. I think my "end goal" is a Digital Lightwave Bob Ross. :)
@@HoldandModify Bob Qross
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!
Haha that's great! And a bit "classic." Hope it's been fun!
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. 😂
Glad that I can get you some Amiga action! Thank you for watching!
Emulation is a great way to start getting that Amiga Experience.
Absolutely!
So you have to take your Time. And know i’m so happy.🎉
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.
Awww yeah seen my share or heard of those. I think about my stuff when that day comes.
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.
Oh no! The collector infection' Haha. I kid. That's great that you're setting up a room for it too. I've seen some great setups. Really becomes its own art form.
keeping those prices up for those whod like to have ONE - thanks!
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.
Luckily you have all my amazing Lightwave videos old and upcoming to watch! Lol! ;)
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.
I have had to really try hard to control myself.
God help me when my eldest moves out and frees up a bedroom. MUHAHAHAHAAAAA
@ lol
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.
HEARD. And I feel your woes. My Amigas often break just from being looked at.
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.
Appreciate you saying so! Hmmm is it really time to change my into? hehe
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...
haha! Wow. You are a true keeper of the flame!
@ is that a euphenism for “hoarder”? ;)
I own 2 Amiga 1200, 4 Amiga 500, some external equipment. I tend to give away Amigas to my friend/relatives, but few people want them these days. So, I keep my small collection in case something gets broken.
Smart. Mine are all refurbed so I am hoping for some long life.
I own an A500, beefed up with ECS Denise and fatagnus, 1MB chip total, 8MB fast, 68010 and two 2GB disc-on-module. I love this computer along with my C128 because I have a feeling I can master those systems, including ASM and C programming
That's a sleek setup. Also ideal for WHDLoad. :)
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'm VERY close. THIS close to heading down that path of recreating my first Windows 95 Pc. Uh oh.
@@HoldandModify just dont get sucked into buying 3DFX cards ;) Then you definitely will be wishing you had started in 2015!
Have a happy new year Hold and Modify
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. :-)
I sold so many Amiga's I did light refurbs too between 2003 to 2013. Sold them CHEAP by today's standards. I was the opposite of hoarding. I reverse hoarded to make a couple bucks. Heh.
@@HoldandModify I sold my 3000, I wish I still had it, but needed to pay the rent that month.
@ Been there. :/
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.
"Hoarding" for repair and parts really is more out of necessity. It's something that folks who do repairs
especially need.
Very valid advice. And I have men flu. Pray for me. 😁
Awww, be well soon!
"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.
Thanks for sharing all this awesome. Stories like these. They can comfort some and maybe open the eyes of others.
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.
A Toaster system is one of those a lot of folks seem to desire. Then they see all that is really needed. Hmmmm...maybe not. Haha.
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. 😅
Very good! Please enjoy!
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
Chris has a 3000UX, heck I thin the has two! Got them not too long ago.
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. 😂
SWEET. That's a good batch.
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.
Love that word. You should trademark it!
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.
Yes, all if this! See, you totally get it. Awesome!
I still own my original AMIGA 1000 as I couldnt bare the thought of selling it after it took me through my University years and beyond. In my 30's my friends started giving me their old Amiga's as I was the AMIGA guy who knew how to fix them so I've got scsi gadgets & AMIGA specific chips/clips/parts/pieces/soldering guns/flux everwhere ...sorry what was the question again....ya the Rabbit Hole eh😅 & ya like I tell my kids if you're not having fun than its work so enjoy your hobbies
haha, yup!
Collecting or Hoarding? I just bought a 4000 SqFt building to set all my retro stuff up in. Thinking this is not normal behavior.
haha. well I think that might be a bit of both? Charge admission!
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.
I sold.... a lot back when they were going for near nothing. Much with the same thoughts.
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.
At least you see a limit. I have seen some folks spend.... a ....lot.
@@HoldandModify I saw a video of a guy with shelves full of Amigas stacked by the dozen. I shook my head thinking and that's why they are so expensive.
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.
Sound advice for today. Back then tho, the Amiga was the only real game in town for serious, business professionals who put up with the endless tinkering with hardware and software compatibility issues for that reason. Nowadays, it's then state-of-the-art capabilities, can be had on a cheap $200 i7 or greater workstation laptop. Going down this rabbit hole now, is purely for nostalgia or 'mother duck syndrome' purposes.
Just emulate or build an FPGA Amiga these days imo.
Waiting for the Checkmate beige cases to restock.
Yeah that Vampire v4 FPGA is pretty slick.
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.
You make excellent points for the emulation side. That's what I try to male others understand when I make those emulation videos.
Sell your Amigas and you will have enough to retire. 😊
Haha, I wish!
Holy fuck face reveal
Heh. Old news! (happened over the last couple videos) :)
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.
Yeah I don't even try to do that stuff. I'll plug stuff in, but that's about it.