Where can I get an Amiga?

Judg3 asks " I was just curious, I've seen all the talk on Amiga these days and did a little research. Looks to me like a fine system, and Id love to give it a try, but, I cant seem to find anyplace that sells em anymore... Know of a place I can look into buying one? "

Re:Emulate one

[Kelvin]

And in some applications, my PII 400 can't keep up with my 7.14Mhz A500. :)

Re:Why would i want an Amiga?

[Rational]

Two words:

Speedball 2

auction sites

[ksheff]

Try ebay [ebay.com] or Y ahoo auctions [yahoo.com]. Given that Slashdot has some resources for adding new features, Rob could start Slashdot Auctions: Junk only nerds could love.

Re:Why would i want an Amiga?

[armb]

I just want to know what an amiga can do my current dual pent.2 can't.
According to another poster, be picked up for $20. I like my Amiga, but I wouldn't really recommend it to anyone as a new machine unless they had a specific use in mind for it. For some types and budgets of video work it might still be better than a PC.

Amiga 3000 $250

[h2odragon]

From MECO's Misc Category [meco.org]; "Amiga 3000 CPU, with 100M SCSI Disk, 16M ram." for $250. Me, I want the Paragon XP/E listed just below it.

Never dealt with the guy, he's been helpful, polite, and informed in the conversations I've had with him.

*sigh*

[Unit3]

> No flame here just to note yes both graphics and sound are better than a > Pentium anything PC. Especially if you are trying to do 3d rendering or > animation. At 7.5hz my 500 still does things that my pc or mac dream of

(Yes, I know this's a troll, but dammit, I can't stand non-objectiveness)

Don't get me wrong, I love Amigas, I have a souped-up 500 sitting in my bedroom that I'm preparing to either run DNS or a webserver off of, but I can say without a doubt that the graphics and sound are far below that of a new computer, any brand make or model. *Especially* in animation and 3d rendering. Lightwave on my Amiga takes hours to render a complex scene at 320x240... the same scene on my G3 can be rendered in Lightwave at 1024x768 in under 10 minutes.

The Amiga is great, but you have to face the facts that the hardware is *old*.

National Amiga

[Unit3]

Go to www.nationalamiga.com

They have techspecs on all the models, and many of the peripherals. They sell them out of Canada, but they have an automatic price converter built into their online catalogue so you can see right away what it'll cost you in US dollars.

Why would i want an Amiga?

[Citrix]

sorry to be off topic but ...
Why would I want to get an amiga?
Are they better for Sound/graphics?
Can I hook them up to my TV esaier?
I don't mean to start any flame wars. I just want to know what an amiga can do my current dual pent.2 can't.
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I've found several amigas..

[Pyr]

At thrift stores. Yep, I'm a thrift store shopper (Faster than ebay, cheaper than online stores, and cleaner than the dump), and I have in fact seen several amigas at thrift stores. The prices tend to vary widely from place to place because the people marking the prices usally know nothing about a computer.. the logic is either "Wow! It's a computer! It must be worth a lot of money!" or "Gee, this is so old, it can't be worth anything to anyone, let's mark it down a lot to get rid of the thing"

Re:Why would i want an Amiga?

[schon]

Why would I want to get an amiga?

You probably wouldn't. (At least not if you have to ask why - this goes for anything, not just computers... if you have to ask why, then you probably don't want one.) The only reason someone would want one nowadays is either Nostalgia, or for use with a Video Toaster.

Are they better for Sound/graphics?

At one time yes.. but not any more. My A3000 pales in comparison to my Deskpro 5100 (Pentium 100) even before I added the Voodoo3 card.

Can I hook them up to my TV esaier?

Yes - the default Amiga video modes run at the same scanrate as your TV. (In fact, you could plug a VCR/tuner into an Amiga monitor and watch TV, with a better quality picture than most consumer-brand TV sets.)

I don't mean to start any flame wars. I just want to know what an amiga can do my current dual pent.2 can't.

Run multiple screens at different resolutions on the same display simultaneously, or install a Video Toaster and do broadcast video switching/editing. Not too much else, except maybe run some old programs that were never ported to the PC.

Re:Why would i want an Amiga?

[ddpg]

I use a 2000 for NewTek VideoToaster... cheap, runs well, and is reliable.

Re:Why would i want an Amiga?

[thefunkychicken]

: Can I hook them up to my TV esaier?

well yes, my A600 has a nice little co-ax out

Amiga classifieds site

[ElecCham]

CyberSwap [cyberswap.com] often has a lot of Amiga stuff up there.

Amiga

[dcw]

go to http://www.cucug.org/amiga.html they have a list of the dealers who are still selling Amigas

Old hardware

[Mister Dude]

Sorry, to bust in like this, but I see a lot of people knowing were to get old hardware. I still can use a Atari 1050 Diskdrive (using the true floppy disks). Any clues?
#include "whatever.h"
/* This code does everyting */

Where to get an Amiga

[Ouija]

I purchased my A1200, larger HD, M68060 and nic at:
CompuQuick
http://www.infinet.com/~comquick
[e-mail]
614 235 1180

I'm not employed by them; I just like their stuff.

Where you can find an Amiga...

[Relyt]

I happen to know a guy who loves Amigas, and he says that the best place to get them is at flea markets. You can get a good Amiga 2000 for about $20 US.

Hope that helps...

What about Europe ??

[Xner]

I have seen a lot of people posting urls/adresses in the US and/or Canada. I was wondering, are there similar services in Europe?
I am an old hardware fan, and i would love to get a m68k based computer that fits into my rather tight student budget ...

Amiga for sale.

[nitejeff]

Thought I would tell you that I have a Amiga 500 that I would love to get rid of. The 500 is a low-end Amiga (all-in-one unit) with 500K of RAM expanded to 1MB. You will need a monitor (or a TV to hook it up to with the special adapter I have.) I have the systems disks and some games for it. I am sure you can find more info about it on the web. It is a cute machine in the original box (a bit of nostalgia if you are into Amiga's) and I will let it got for $55. I live in New York City and if you want to make arrangements to come pick it up that would be fine. Otherwise, if you send me a shipping label/box/filler/money I will get it out to also. Feel free to ask me any questions, Jeff [e-mail] [e-mail]