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Originally Posted by YouKnowWho
I actually faced this dumb hobby excuse a few times already.
To say it is dumb is insufficient I think.
If the excuse is that it is a hobby, then you are trying to deliver something through skill and time and someone wants to help you carry the expense of it by offering financial support because they may not have the skill or time to do what you are trying to deliver for the benefit of many. If you don't need these support resources to share the financial load, good on you. Say so and let's all not waste time. If you would appreciate recouping some of your investment of time and money, then take example from those who do it right. Look at all the kick-starters, or other efforts...NONE of them have ever had the dead silence of WARP1260.
I've noted this with a few on here who took that indefensible stance. It's as if they hold people who want to support them in contempt.
At that point I'm like...keep your precious hobby device to yourself. Nicely done. Enjoy. God bless. May it bring you endless joy.
They keep this up it will be just 17 guys trading hardware between themselves soon.
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This is how i understand it: When it comes to niche hobbies, you have enthusiasts and then you have the "ultra's".
The enthusiast will settle for an '030, some RAM, maybe an FPU, compact flash card, wifi card and call it day.
The "ultras" want to have the best that is possible. 80 mHz '060, RTG network card, USB, fast drives sound card. Possibly things they wanted "back in the day" but couldn't afford. 30 years later, they can. And so they put up with whatever from anyone who promises to deliver that. Because they want it. A lot. Its emotional, not rational so its pointless to have a rational argument.
What I find curious is what actually happens when they actually turn it on and actually do something with it?
Recently I cobbled together an amithlon PIII system for literally nothing. Geforce 256 hardware acceleration, Soundblaster, ethernet, USB, scsi dvd rom, all works. It smokes my A4000 68060 cybervision 64, cyberscsi Fastata. The software that uses RTG runs faster. And it actually
feels like a big box Amiga workstation, but on steroids. No AGA, but that's what an A1200 with fast ram could do well..