Wanted: Amiga 500 if reasonable price?

I'm contemplating adding an Atari 500 to my collection, but not sure what they're worth?

I'm looking for a decent (ie not too weathered) example of a Atari 500 with at least one joystick. A few games would be a bonus.

Were there any other must-haves for the Amiga, eg like how the C64 had to have a tape/disk drive?

Whats the going rate?

Atari or Amiga?

Amiga i picked up 2 on the side of the road a few years back

Sigh... Amiga.

Sorry, scotch=typos.

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Your better off getting an Amiga 1200 with a HDD but they are generally harder to find and more expensive. I am getting an adapter so I can hook mine up to my plasma via VGA. If you get an A500 you have to have a monitor that supports 15Khz for it to work.

The only must have for the A500 is a floppy drive that works and a "modulator" so you can connect it to a TV via RF cable. Or you can of course plug them directly to a 1080 monitor but probably not what you want.

I would say you could pick up an A500 for around the $100 mark these days. Probably higher on eBay. For A1200 probably around the $200 to $300 mark. But these are just guesses the A1200 is pretty popular on eBay and they might even go higher than that. If your lucky you might score an A1200 in your local paper.

yeah modulator is handy

i had one

betty crocker has a nice big setup. was my old freecycle one

Hmm, thanks for the tips HK.

Can I assume then that an Atari 1200 is backwards compatible? How do the HDDs work, can you put 'roms' on them or is it only for savegames etc?

Sounds like I might be best being patient for this one... as its not a must-have at the moment (for that price range at least)

What about a 2000? I have one of those gathering dust..... And it needs a nice home...

Even was seized by the Feds back in the day, so has a nice history :D

Cheers

LOL does it still have whatever the feds wanted on it? :D

The Amiga 2000 is heading into PC territory, just like furballx's Amstrad (despite having a megadrive built in :) )

LOL does it still have whatever the feds wanted on it? :D

 

The Amiga 2000 is heading into PC territory, just like furballx's Amstrad (despite having a megadrive built in :) )

Not if it doesn't have a Zorro card (the PC emulator card) which this doesn't.

A 2000 is the same as a 500 with the sidecar HDD and ram expansion, but in a single box.

I have a 500 with sidecar and 12mb of ram, but it was ALWAYS unstable (like any expanded Amiga was known to be... perhaps if I look to the left and cough it will boot that floppy this time :lol).

And yes, it still has all the files on it intact ;)

Cheers

Jacob

Sigh... Amiga.

 

Sorry, scotch=typos.

 

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Done.

Regards,

Johns-Arcade.

Get the 2000.. Cheap to add HD + 8mb Fast RAM.

The same upgrade to an A500 would cost you hundreds.