Found a copy of SaGa Frontier 2, but the guy was asking a wild price because it was "mint condition" and had "never been played"... Could've just gotten a sealed one instead. He wouldn't budge, but then I found one on eBay that was local - plus I had a $10 coupon.
Found a sealed copy Astral Chain at a trade show for pretty much retail; haven't opened it yet, but I'm gonna. Also caught WarioWare: Move It on sale. Also happened across a copy Quake 4: Special DVD Edition for $2 at a flea market.
Found an Amiga 500 with a Keelog power supply for under $50,000,000! Seriously, everything on eBay is $500-and-up after shipping, taxes, and duty; untested, no PSU, PAL, cracked, missing parts, and/or modified to hell... But this one - despite some uneven yellowing and a tiny amount of rust around the printer port - looked like a stock A500 running Kickstart 1.2 for hundreds of dollars less than anything else, plus the seller was nearby. I still need to settle on a display solution (just using the monochrome output to my 1902 for now) and figure-out the best way to get disks going on it, but otherwise I think I've completed my vintage computer journey. Final(?) lineup is:
- Atari 8-bit: 800XL
- Commodore 8-bit: 128
- Atari 16-bit: 1040 STFM
- Commodore 16-bit: Amiga 500
- DOS/Windows 3.1: Digital DECpc LPx (i486DX2-66)
- Windows 98 SE: 300MHz Pentium II w/AGP GeForce 3 Ti200, PCI Voodoo Banshee
- Mac OS X: Dual-1GHz Power Mac G4 (QuickSilver 2002)
- Windows XP: Athlon 3200+ w/Radeon X1950 Pro
- Windows Vista/7/8/8.1/10: Core i7 950 w/2x ATi FirePro 3D V8800 in CrossFire Pro
