A1200 bare system £276 https://archive.org/details/cuamiga-magazine-050/page/n28/mo...
4-8MB fast ram £200-400 https://archive.org/details/cuamiga-magazine-050/page/n49/mo...
340MB £380 pounds https://archive.org/details/cuamiga-magazine-050/page/n28/mo...
14 multisync monitor ~£320 https://archive.org/details/cuamiga-magazine-050/page/n52/mo...
~£1200-1400. 1994 £/$ exchange rate 1.55 = $1860-2170. To quote a classic I feel like Im taking crazy pills.
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486dx2-66mhz, 256KB cache, 8MB, 1.44MB fdd, 350MB HDD, SVGA monitor/card, keyboard/mouse. $1840
Early 1990s me would have been more than happy with that.
I was happy with 5 fps or less on the gameboy with Faceball 2000.
Has never been common on Amiga 500.
Perhaps you mean 512k SLOW RAM Extension.
Or CHIP RAM (after a motherboard solder-jumper adjustment) with the ECS Agnus common in late A500 models.
It feels like I've heard so many Amiga users say that they finally broke down and jumped ship when Doom and the DX2/66 dropped. It really was a gamechanger. Before then it was possible to argue that a '040 Amiga 4000 still held its own against a DX/33 or maybe even a DX/50, but not this.
There were a lot of things that came together to kill the Amiga, mostly Commodore's mismanagement, mismarketing and complacency, but as the final blow to it being a viable computer with a future in the eyes of consumers, I feel like the DX2/66 was it. It would have killed the Mac too if Apple hadn't woken up to smell the coffee a few years prior and had Power Macs ready to go.