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"I should buy an amiga" is the retrotech version of "I should buy a boat"
The funny thing is that I've tried to buy an amiga before. I talked to someone on craigslist about buying one and I had the money and everything, and they were like "Meet me at the Foobar Coffee on RoadName at 7"
I was there at 7pm. They weren't. I emailed them, and they said they meant 7am, and they'd already sold it in the meantime
@foone@digipres.clubbut everything I've heard from Amiga Owners these days is that it seems like an infinite pit of money & time you have to pour repairs into
and I have plenty of those already
I'm only looking into getting an amiga as part of a distraction from what I'm supposed to be working on now
@foone @foone I lusted after Amigas back in the day but never made the leap; now that I've got the resources to just go buy one if I want, I am sometimes tempted. Then I remember how fucking DIFFERENT they are.
Anyway I've got too many irons in the fire. Better I spend the time finishing one of the two books I've got in progress, or building the household entertainment system. (Hey, wait, I could use an Ami-<SLAP!/>)
@foone I only briefly considered sending you my CD32…
@foone it is definitely this!
If that's the kind of thing that in itself someone finds fun and needs more of then yes, an Amiga is for you!
If it's just about wanting to play some Amiga games, I reckon people should just fire up an emulator and go nuts, the experience is pretty much dead on these days and uses up a lot less storage space.
@foone All I know is that computer is girl and computer is friend.
@foone I got an A500+ from a neighbour in the mid 2000s and it didn't work, a couple of years ago I managed to remove the leaky battery, fix up the broken traces, replace the Agnus PLCC socket, replace the PSU, and install a GoTek
Anyway I've not really done much with it since fixing it, I think fixing it was the real game all along. (I have no childhood Amiga memories, we had a BBC Micro and various PCs)
I have just seen one on Vinted for 100 gbp. Its listed as non-functional but I am so tempted
@foone my experience is that when they work, they work
but it does get tempting to spend money on upgrades, the grass is always greener, etc :D
either way, my A4000 is running just fine and stable
@foone it's not really any different than any other machine, apart from generic commodity PCs