Here's another nice link for this thread

BitWorld @ BitFellas - Big demoscene database for the Amiga:
http://bitworld.bitfellas.org/demos.php

With oodles of hard to find intros, demos, tools and musicdisks etc

THen you promised yourself  not to unlock the full potential of your machine! There's only so much way you can walk with the stock machine

I actually feel rather silly now because right after I bought mine for 48 GBP (which I thought was a good deal at the time), I saw like 5 more each go for around 1 GBP with 10 or 20 pounds shipping.

Upgrading Amigas is an expensive downward spiral of death! I promised myself I wouldn't attempt it. XD

That's cheap. Great!
Now you need an accelerator, extra RAM, a compactflash IDE adapter, a PCMCIA card reader....

Just bought a 1200 for $70 on eBay! Will pick it up when I'm in London in a few weeks. Excited.

On topic, fellas. Make a new thread

I can't find the site but they were selling the new old stock in the US for around $360 I think. Used ones on eBay have been going for around $200. I'll definitely check out Amigakit - sounds like a much better deal.

EDIT: I have been looking more and have seen a few pop up in the states for as low as $100 so I guess eBay is just the wrong place to look for one of these.

$400?

Amigakit have new old stock A1200s for £150 ($240), and Amigakit are fairly overpriced anyway I've been told, so second hand from somewhere else should be much cheaper. Or are they really that much rarer in the USA?

This is really great info. I really want a 1200 but damn, I see sites selling them for $400... the ones on eBay seem to be either crap or overpriced and "as is." I'd love to see a good "list of stuff" of a good basic setup for AHX, etc. but I am sure it is easy enough to find on the posted links.

thanx!

i can recomend another amiga shop @spain: http://www.asb-computer.com/
but like amigakit and others, prices are slightly inflated

There used to be The Software Hut, but they closed as far as I remember. Try to contact them:
http://www.softhut.com/cgi-bin/test/Web … _store.cgi

I'm sorry, but I don't know of any others so far.

You are better of getting things second hand and on your own. If you can score a 1200 for about $50, everything else you need to start making music comfortably can be had for small money and a little tinkering and reading up. For example, instead of getting a hard disk you can get a CF card and an 2.5" IDE adapter for $10, a PCMCIA SD card reader and an SD card for another $10, and if you want to go further from there, you should also try getting a memory expansion second hand. Very few trackers (and games for that matter) benefit from processor expansions, anyway.

I've been getting around very fine with pretty much the setup I just described.

Are there any other cheaper places in the US that sell amigas besides amigakit.us?

I'm just curious. Amigakit charges a buttload of money to get a properly running A1200.

Two shops I can recommend:

http://www.efunzine.com/ The site is in Polish, so it can be hard to navigate, but if you mail the guy he is very helpful. Everything is pretty cheap!

http://www.ggsdata.se/ Swedish site selling various retro goods among other things.