Since I've gotten my Amiga 500 (which is getting a Wicher 500i whenever Amigastore.eu manages to get a few in stock for more than a couple of hours!), my Mac Mini G4 with MorphOS, my iBook G4 (also with MorphOS), and my IBM ThinkPad T40 with AROS, it's safe to say that the Amiga bug clamped its jaws into me and is not letting go any time soon. So I haven't really shut up about my newfound love for the platform at all, now that I've experienced it once again at the hardware level!
One of my friends on Twitter took notice of this and PM'ed me there one day. The conversation went something like this:
Him: "Hey, I've got a couple of Amiga 4000s here that I haven't been arsed to do much of anything with. I'm looking to unload them to good homes, and I saw you're getting pretty into the Amigas, so I thought I'd ask you first!"
Me: "Sure, sounds interesting! What are the specs?"
Him: "Can I show you on Skype?"
So we do a Skype call. He shows me the parts he has: a 68040 CPU card. 16MB RAM in SIMMs for the board. Rev. B motherboard, freshly recapped. What looks like a Picasso IV video card, which means flicker fixer and scan doubler! Hard drive is stock 120MB. No optical drive. PSU and power button look solid. Fresh Kickstart 3.1 ROM chips from Cloanto installed.
Me: "Looks great! Anything I should know?"
Him: "The machine boots to a blue screen. The CPU temperature shows 105F when I scan it, but the Buster is cold."
Me: "I'm willing to fix it up. How much do you want for it?"
Him: "Just cover shipping. The only payment I want is you get it working and show me a video of it working once you do."
Me: "DEAL!"
So now I have coming to me, at long last, an Amiga 4000 that needs some fixing up. And all for the cost of shipping. I've finally gotten an AGA based Amiga, and one of the most advanced in the line, just to get it fixed up and keep it! I'll be asking friends online for advice on where to tackle, but if it's indeed the Buster chip only, that's easy to switch!
The Amiga should be coming next Monday, but I don't know if I can wait that long!