This was a few days ago, but it took me
three weeks just for this thing to get over from Germany to my doorstep:
Yeah, everything Amiga nowadays is stupid expensive to the point that it's more cost-effective for me just to import one overseas than paying out the nose on a local eBay listing here in the US. Heck, half the reason this one's so cheap was that the case was all busted up, but there's an Indiegogo campaign to make new A500 cases by the same guys who Kickstarted new A1200 cases a while back.
I still need to acquire some accessories, but an ATX adapter was easy enough to make with some leftover cable bits and clever use of a paperclip and blu-tack, as well as a very crude RGB cable. Powers on just fine.
However, I have no current means of writing Amiga floppies despite having a few DD disks lying around (unless I want to muck about with parallel cables and IDC floppy ribbon cables), so right now, it's just a fancy Workbench floppy prompt viewer. All of that will come together slowly, but surely.
Oh, and that QWERTZ layout is gonna screw up my muscle memory something fierce, just as much as I keep hitting that key next to left Shift and the Backslash key instead of Backspace.
