How much money have you spent on the Amiga? - Page 2

BippyM · 05 February 2006, 12:33

Can we please get back on topic guys!

Mick_AKA · 05 February 2006, 13:42

Ok, I will just cover my current black A1200 setup:

1997
A1200 with 8meg RAM in the side slot,
2Gb HD, Surf Squirrel, 2X NEC SCSI CD-ROM drive,
33k USR modem.
All somewhere around the £500 Mark

1998
USR 56k Modem: £74.99

NEC Caddy Load 4X SCSI CD-ROM: around £100

1999
A new mouse around £15
8Mb card died

2000
PC totally taken over by this point, amiga in the loft.

2001
Amiga briefly brought out of retirement after I found another 8Mb Card for the Side Slot for £20

2002
Start using amiga again!
Another new mouse: £5
Some seccond hand zipsticks: £10

I start posing on EAB, WOOOHAHAHAHA!!!

2003
New 10gb Hard Disk: £30
Squirrel and CD-Rom Drive (old ones sold): £60

2004
Casing sprayed black, Paint: £8
Blizzard 1230 MkIV: £90

2005
Internal Slimline CD-Rom Fitted: £50 with fitting kit.
Black keys from ebay: £20
Internal Scandoubler: around £50! (cheers Effy)
20gb Hard Disk: £45
Amiga OS 3.5: £20

2006
No money spent... yet!

So not including software we are looking at somewhere in the region of £1100 on my one a1200

AMIGAZ · 05 February 2006, 17:15

@Mick_AKA

Man..those DELL Trinitron P series rule!

Bamiga2002 · 05 February 2006, 17:36

I`ve spent too much, fear to count

Mick_AKA · 05 February 2006, 18:57

Quote:

Originally Posted by AMIGAZ

@Mick_AKA

Man..those DELL Trinitron P series rule!

Its sitting at the bottom of the bed totally out of use at the moment, 2 19" 8ms Samsung TFTs have taken its place with the main PC (19" TFT same size screen as 21" CRT!") and the Amiga is much better off running through my big ass Trinitron TV!

I just dunno what to do with it

AMIGAZ · 05 February 2006, 19:40

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mick_AKA

Its sitting at the bottom of the bed totally out of use at the moment, 2 19" 8ms Samsung TFTs have taken its place with the main PC (19" TFT same size screen as 21" CRT!") and the Amiga is much better off running through my big ass Trinitron TV!

I just dunno what to do with it

Is it a 17, 19 or 21 inch Trintron?

Mick_AKA · 05 February 2006, 21:23

Officially it's a 21" but my 19" samsungs have exactly the same visible screen size.

Unknown_K · 06 February 2006, 20:18

Since 2002 or so and after off the top of my head:

A2000HD $50
A1200 $75
1080 Monitor $35
1084 Monitor $50
A500 $35
Blizzard 68030/50 +FPU +SCSI Addon $75
New Mouse for the A1200 $20
Spare floppy for the A2000 $15
Boxed Games (100+) $200
Misc Manuals $20
500 New DD disks for ADF games $30
Nec 3ds $40
Amiga video to VGA converter $15
Misc cables $20
3.2GB laptop drive for the A1200 $15

=$695

Fred the Fop · 07 February 2006, 04:35

WinUAE and various games, software and WB 1.3 to OS 3.9:

Free.

DoctorQ · 07 February 2006, 17:35

@Fred_the_duck

Since when has OS3.9 been free?

07 February 2006, 21:19

Hi its my first post here so a big

HELLO ALL!

at first.

I got my 1200 these days for 75 Euros.

But for that money I got a blizzard 1230, a dce flickerfixer and OS3.5 too.

And a relatively large HD was also installed.

Nice toy for that money

C.I.A.O.

SilentBob · 23 February 2006, 12:01

Since the dawn of my Amiga days in '89, I've probably spent around 30000 norwegian kroner (about 3700 euros, not accounting for inflation here). It's not a whole lot over the course of 17 years, but I was quite poor in my younger days, so upgrades were few and far in between.

Methanoid · 23 February 2006, 13:57

Well... when I ran a BBS on my Amiga the costs would dwarf ALL these.

A2000 £750 (good price at time)
GVP SCSI and 40Mb Quantum £750 (ouch)
GVP 28mhz 030 & 8Mb Ram £500 2nd hand (bargain!!)
5x USR HST 16.8 modems at £400 each £2000
2Gb of SCSI Hard Disk - FREE from co-sysop's workplace

A1200 for Games with GVP 030 £300+£200 = £500

Well theres £4500 without starting.. then there was the A500 before it all...

cooldude · 24 February 2006, 09:28

Lost count....

A1200 X3
A500 X4
A500+

'60 with 32 mb ram
2xCD burners
A4000 Keyboard from UK (Stuck in customs for 6 Months!!)
Scandoubler
PC Monitor
2 Printers
Surf Squirrel
HP Scanner ($500 Australian!)
Modems X2
Power Tower

This Year..

A1200 (#2) $250
ATX Tower $100
Keyboard adapter $62

Soon...

Subway USB $180 ?

Everthing is soooo expensive in Australia.

cebulba · 24 February 2006, 10:13

hmmh....with the first A500 for 1000 DM in early 80's I guess I have spent until today more than 30000 Euros on my AMIGA collection (thinking of the 3000 original games I have)...

huge amount now that I think of it...

and perhaps I have spent the same amount on my 3 old MERCEDES oldtimers (W108 280SE '75)

Wingnut · 08 March 2006, 09:22

Hello everyone, nice place you've got here....

I bought myself a boxed Amiga 600 off eBay yesterday for £24.99 + £10 delivery = £34.99 - The useal plus a few games and a shed load of cover disks with it.

I haven't bought anything else yet, but will be aksing lots of questions regarding memory and Kickstart upgrades soon!

Cheers...

Parsec · 08 March 2006, 09:51

Hmmm...

2x A500 = £30
1x A1200 (Escom) = £35
1x Blizzard accelerator = £45
4x power supply (keep trying to get a good one!) = £30
2x Comp Pro j/stick = £20
2x memory module = £20
1x 6GB 2.5" HDD = free (from laptop I upgraded)
1x Amiga Mouse = £10
1x WHDLoad license = £15

£205

Plus the original A500 back in 1987 = £399!

DaZZaBoY · 09 March 2006, 00:31

Can't really remember the exact price tag during my Amiga life but I was one of the few that shelled out £550 GBP for the PPC 060/50 card + £200 for the BVision gfx card. Roughly gives you an idea of what I spent on the rest of the system. Eeeek!

I hope I never again have to endure the overwhelming stress that I felt trying to 'prize' £550 worth of acclerator card into a BUSY tower system with a screwdriver!

Coolit · 24 March 2006, 00:10

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bamiga2002

I`ve spent too much, fear to count

Im the same and dont really want to know because I know it´s a lot, since September 2005 I must have spent well over £1000 on my 1200T and I have plans for 2006

EDT....

OK, Silly thread..you made me do it, Here's my current system which I´ve built Sep 05-NOW,

A1200 = £25
3.1 ROMS = £20
OS3.9 = £35
D-BOX = £140
D-BOX Power Adapter = £17
Blizzard 060 + 64mb = £250
Blizzard SCSI module = £60
128mb = £25
SCSI Adapter = £20
9gb SCSI Drive = £20
80gb IDE = £40
IDE DVDRW = £35
SCSI CDRW = £15
Mediator 1200 = £40
Voodoo 5500 = £35
Spider 2 = £50
SB128 = £12
Indivision SD/FF = £90
LG Flatron L1715s = £160
MX1000 Mouse £50
UltraX Keyboard = £25
Elbox FAST ATA Mk3 = £60

Quite a few licenses (MUI, WHDLoad, Posidon, etc...) = £70+

lol...it comes to £1294....woops

Rogueraven · 27 March 2006, 00:32

nothing flash here

A500 £130 good few years back (dad got me as present so doesnt really count right?)
A500+ £80 few years back too
A500 £50 few years back too

1x A500 1 Meg Upgrade, (Dad got me this) £44.99

2x External floppy £3 and £5
2x Mega Drive Controllers from new £21.98p remember they was £10.99 from Argos

2x Wireless Mega Drive Controllers and reciever £15 was a deal i did with someone at electrical store, donnt make me include price of batteries

A600 with HD Car Boot (was also a win98 disk and product key orig thrown in) £30

A1200 £60 Ebay (12 Games loads of blanks and demo software, Orig Box,Manuals also A1200 inside guide 2 joysticks 2 mouse 1 missing ball...)

1xCompact flash card 128mb (which i bought for my laptop but use on my 1200 to) £12

1xIDE Cable plus 3.0 install disk from AmigaDeals not sure on price 7.99 plus P&P i think...

1x2.5" 4Gb Harddrive £10 ebay

alot of games and software from Car Boots over the years unable to calculate the amount

you can do maths

hehe that last guys Mouse cost more then his A1200, must be a fancy mouse you got there what games can it play

27 March 2006, 00:32	#40
Rogueraven Registered User Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Birmingham/England Age: 40 Posts: 79	nothing flash here A500 £130 good few years back (dad got me as present so doesnt really count right?) A500+ £80 few years back too A500 £50 few years back too 1x A500 1 Meg Upgrade, (Dad got me this) £44.99 2x External floppy £3 and £5 2x Mega Drive Controllers from new £21.98p remember they was £10.99 from Argos 2x Wireless Mega Drive Controllers and reciever £15 was a deal i did with someone at electrical store, donnt make me include price of batteries A600 with HD Car Boot (was also a win98 disk and product key orig thrown in) £30 A1200 £60 Ebay (12 Games loads of blanks and demo software, Orig Box,Manuals also A1200 inside guide 2 joysticks 2 mouse 1 missing ball...) 1xCompact flash card 128mb (which i bought for my laptop but use on my 1200 to) £12 1xIDE Cable plus 3.0 install disk from AmigaDeals not sure on price 7.99 plus P&P i think... 1x2.5" 4Gb Harddrive £10 ebay alot of games and software from Car Boots over the years unable to calculate the amount you can do maths hehe that last guys Mouse cost more then his A1200, must be a fancy mouse you got there what games can it play Last edited by Rogueraven; 27 March 2006 at 00:41.

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05 February 2006, 12:33	#21
BippyM Global Moderator Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Derby, UK Age: 48 Posts: 9,355	Can we please get back on topic guys!

05 February 2006, 13:42	#22
Mick_AKA crusader of light Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Stone, Staffordshire. Posts: 1,151	Ok, I will just cover my current black A1200 setup: 1997 A1200 with 8meg RAM in the side slot, 2Gb HD, Surf Squirrel, 2X NEC SCSI CD-ROM drive, 33k USR modem. All somewhere around the £500 Mark 1998 USR 56k Modem: £74.99 NEC Caddy Load 4X SCSI CD-ROM: around £100 1999 A new mouse around £15 8Mb card died 2000 PC totally taken over by this point, amiga in the loft. 2001 Amiga briefly brought out of retirement after I found another 8Mb Card for the Side Slot for £20 2002 Start using amiga again! Another new mouse: £5 Some seccond hand zipsticks: £10 I start posing on EAB, WOOOHAHAHAHA!!! 2003 New 10gb Hard Disk: £30 Squirrel and CD-Rom Drive (old ones sold): £60 2004 Casing sprayed black, Paint: £8 Blizzard 1230 MkIV: £90 2005 Internal Slimline CD-Rom Fitted: £50 with fitting kit. Black keys from ebay: £20 Internal Scandoubler: around £50! (cheers Effy) 20gb Hard Disk: £45 Amiga OS 3.5: £20 2006 No money spent... yet! So not including software we are looking at somewhere in the region of £1100 on my one a1200

05 February 2006, 17:15	#23
AMIGAZ Amiga-Mad Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Sweden Age: 47 Posts: 1,291	@Mick_AKA Man..those DELL Trinitron P series rule!

05 February 2006, 17:36	#24
Bamiga2002 BlizzardPPC'less Join Date: May 2004 Location: Finland Age: 46 Posts: 3,210	I`ve spent too much, fear to count

05 February 2006, 21:23	#27
Mick_AKA crusader of light Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Stone, Staffordshire. Posts: 1,151	Officially it's a 21" but my 19" samsungs have exactly the same visible screen size.

06 February 2006, 20:18	#28
Unknown_K Registered User Join Date: May 2002 Location: Ohio/USA Age: 55 Posts: 1,380	Since 2002 or so and after off the top of my head: A2000HD $50 A1200 $75 1080 Monitor $35 1084 Monitor $50 A500 $35 Blizzard 68030/50 +FPU +SCSI Addon $75 New Mouse for the A1200 $20 Spare floppy for the A2000 $15 Boxed Games (100+) $200 Misc Manuals $20 500 New DD disks for ADF games $30 Nec 3ds $40 Amiga video to VGA converter $15 Misc cables $20 3.2GB laptop drive for the A1200 $15 =$695

07 February 2006, 04:35	#29
Fred the Fop flaming faggot Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Versailles Age: 55 Posts: 2,808	WinUAE and various games, software and WB 1.3 to OS 3.9: Free.

07 February 2006, 17:35	#30
DoctorQ What?? Who?? DoctorQ!! Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Rødding/Denmark Age: 43 Posts: 314	@Fred_the_duck Since when has OS3.9 been free?

07 February 2006, 21:19	#31
saxonian Posts: n/a	Hi its my first post here so a big HELLO ALL! at first. I got my 1200 these days for 75 Euros. But for that money I got a blizzard 1230, a dce flickerfixer and OS3.5 too. And a relatively large HD was also installed. Nice toy for that money C.I.A.O.

23 February 2006, 12:01	#32
SilentBob Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Norway Age: 49 Posts: 246	Since the dawn of my Amiga days in '89, I've probably spent around 30000 norwegian kroner (about 3700 euros, not accounting for inflation here). It's not a whole lot over the course of 17 years, but I was quite poor in my younger days, so upgrades were few and far in between.

23 February 2006, 13:57	#33
Methanoid Retired Quartex Sysop Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Roman Verulamium Age: 58 Posts: 1,873	Well... when I ran a BBS on my Amiga the costs would dwarf ALL these. A2000 £750 (good price at time) GVP SCSI and 40Mb Quantum £750 (ouch) GVP 28mhz 030 & 8Mb Ram £500 2nd hand (bargain!!) 5x USR HST 16.8 modems at £400 each £2000 2Gb of SCSI Hard Disk - FREE from co-sysop's workplace A1200 for Games with GVP 030 £300+£200 = £500 Well theres £4500 without starting.. then there was the A500 before it all...

24 February 2006, 09:28	#34
cooldude Registered User Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Australia Posts: 112	Lost count.... A1200 X3 A500 X4 A500+ '60 with 32 mb ram 2xCD burners A4000 Keyboard from UK (Stuck in customs for 6 Months!!) Scandoubler PC Monitor 2 Printers Surf Squirrel HP Scanner ($500 Australian!) Modems X2 Power Tower This Year.. A1200 (#2) $250 ATX Tower $100 Keyboard adapter $62 Soon... Subway USB $180 ? Everthing is soooo expensive in Australia.

24 February 2006, 10:13	#35
cebulba Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Schneiderkrug/Germany Age: 47 Posts: 251	hmmh....with the first A500 for 1000 DM in early 80's I guess I have spent until today more than 30000 Euros on my AMIGA collection (thinking of the 3000 original games I have)... huge amount now that I think of it... and perhaps I have spent the same amount on my 3 old MERCEDES oldtimers (W108 280SE '75)

08 March 2006, 09:22	#36
Wingnut Registered User Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Ipswich, UK Age: 42 Posts: 13	Hello everyone, nice place you've got here.... I bought myself a boxed Amiga 600 off eBay yesterday for £24.99 + £10 delivery = £34.99 - The useal plus a few games and a shed load of cover disks with it. I haven't bought anything else yet, but will be aksing lots of questions regarding memory and Kickstart upgrades soon! Cheers...

08 March 2006, 09:51	#37
Parsec Registered User Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Lancashire Age: 49 Posts: 434	Hmmm... 2x A500 = £30 1x A1200 (Escom) = £35 1x Blizzard accelerator = £45 4x power supply (keep trying to get a good one!) = £30 2x Comp Pro j/stick = £20 2x memory module = £20 1x 6GB 2.5" HDD = free (from laptop I upgraded) 1x Amiga Mouse = £10 1x WHDLoad license = £15 £205 Plus the original A500 back in 1987 = £399!

09 March 2006, 00:31	#38
DaZZaBoY Diamond Geezer! Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: NorthWest/UK Age: 53 Posts: 133	Can't really remember the exact price tag during my Amiga life but I was one of the few that shelled out £550 GBP for the PPC 060/50 card + £200 for the BVision gfx card. Roughly gives you an idea of what I spent on the rest of the system. Eeeek! I hope I never again have to endure the overwhelming stress that I felt trying to 'prize' £550 worth of acclerator card into a BUSY tower system with a screwdriver!

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