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My god, have you looked up the price of an Amiga on eBay in response to this thread? I did and it’s horrifying.
by wileydragonfly 2y ago
My god, have you looked up the price of an Amiga on eBay in response to this thread? I did and it’s horrifying.
- abrugsch 2y agoThey've been horrifying since about 2020. I could sell up and put my kids through a good college!
- walrus01 2y agoNeXT workstations and cubes on eBay are also quite ridiculous, compared to what they were 15 or 20 years ago.
- caned 2y agoIs USD 1-1.2k for a clean, recapped Amiga 1200, with newest ROMs, updated PS and TF '030 accelerator horrifying? If so, call me a fool! (FWIW, I acquired mine two years ago, and it looks like recent sales on ebay are in the same ballpark...)
- bluescrn 2y agoYeah, prices have shot way up over the last 2-3 years, and not just for the big-box Amigas, even A1200 prices have got fairly silly. But people have a whole lot of love for the Amiga, it was a revolutionary machine at the time, and for many people it was their introduction to doing creative things with computers, as well as the gaming. And retro gaming/computing is a growing hobby. There's so much new hardware and software out there for old platforms now, letting you add never-before-possible upgrades (e.g. PiStorm for the Amiga), get decent output to a modern TV, and sometimes give them shiny new cases and keyboards. Which is great if you already had a collection of retro machines, but not so much if you're trying to buy them now, with increased demand and ever diminishing supply.