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If you go after it and buy an Amiga, don't forget it is much about preserving a vintage computer at this point. And not just the computing/gaming or whatever yo

If you go after it and buy an Amiga, don't forget it is much about preserving a vintage computer at this point. And not just the computing/gaming or whatever you remember doing. I did this, and I'm not sure it was what I wanted.

mysterydip 3y ago
If you're looking just for the experience and not the burden of caring for vintage equipment, the A500 mini has good reviews (and looks like they're making a large size version later this year).
- snvzz 3y ago
  Save yourself the money and just use the raspbian they based it on. That works on the Raspberry Pi you probably already have. There's also PiMiga, WinUAE, fs-uae and minimig (miSTer branch).
bowsamic 3y ago
Can you go into more detail? How much effort is it to keep it working?
- finnjohnsen2 3y ago
  Apologies for giving you the boring 'it depends', but it really does depend ALOT where you start off and what you wanna do. I can tell you my experience. If you start off with a stock Amiga finding off the attic you can pretty much expect anything. This is rock bottom. I did this and in hinsight it was a mistake. Decades of sticky filthy dust, bugs, rust, yellowing, bumps, scratches, stickers, missing port pins, screws, ram lid, cracked up soldering, leaky batteties, unresponsive keys. But I had a working floppy, and it actually booted. Lucky me. You should buy a confirmed working Amiga from an enthusiast. These guys usually have a lot of them accumulated over the years and has probably tended to at least basic things. I did this after I gave up my first. You'll find them on Facebook and they are great helpful people in your demography probably. Now you want a screen. Do you really want an old CRT, or do you wanna adapt to a modern (HDMI!) screen? No approach is correct, you just have to pick one Now you want data. The floppys are old and were already a flimsy tech when new. Many don't work anymote. I found I wanna work around this with and download floppy images off the internet instead. There are many ways to do this by fitting something modern on the Amiga. Gotek to name one solution. Sorry for the long answer, but to go back to my original point. This is a huge topic with a large community and many commercial actors who can sell you things to fix old computers.

mysterydip 3y ago

If you're looking just for the experience and not the burden of caring for vintage equipment, the A500 mini has good reviews (and looks like they're making a large size version later this year).

snvzz 3y ago
Save yourself the money and just use the raspbian they based it on. That works on the Raspberry Pi you probably already have. There's also PiMiga, WinUAE, fs-uae and minimig (miSTer branch).

bowsamic 3y ago

Can you go into more detail? How much effort is it to keep it working?

finnjohnsen2 3y ago
Apologies for giving you the boring 'it depends', but it really does depend ALOT where you start off and what you wanna do. I can tell you my experience. If you start off with a stock Amiga finding off the attic you can pretty much expect anything. This is rock bottom. I did this and in hinsight it was a mistake. Decades of sticky filthy dust, bugs, rust, yellowing, bumps, scratches, stickers, missing port pins, screws, ram lid, cracked up soldering, leaky batteties, unresponsive keys. But I had a working floppy, and it actually booted. Lucky me. You should buy a confirmed working Amiga from an enthusiast. These guys usually have a lot of them accumulated over the years and has probably tended to at least basic things. I did this after I gave up my first. You'll find them on Facebook and they are great helpful people in your demography probably. Now you want a screen. Do you really want an old CRT, or do you wanna adapt to a modern (HDMI!) screen? No approach is correct, you just have to pick one Now you want data. The floppys are old and were already a flimsy tech when new. Many don't work anymote. I found I wanna work around this with and download floppy images off the internet instead. There are many ways to do this by fitting something modern on the Amiga. Gotek to name one solution. Sorry for the long answer, but to go back to my original point. This is a huge topic with a large community and many commercial actors who can sell you things to fix old computers.