Vampire 2 Review - The Fastest Amiga Ever?!

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Using an FPGA to upgrade an Amiga:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8S3B8a8N83k



http://www.apollo-accelerators.com/

[Zak33]

that... frankly.. rocks entirely off the scale

[Flibb]

Looks like they have sold 500+ of them, pretty impressive for such a retro bit of kit. I will seriously consider getting one for my A1200 if them manage to bring one out.

[Peter Parker]

Impressive engineering. Really clever and they're releasing CPU updates for the FPGA as downloads. That's very cool - downloadable CPUs by the magic of the FPGA.

I loved my A1200 but ... this is 150 Euros for equivalent of a ~100MHz 68060, 128MB (and graphics hardware and SD card too). A Raspberry Pi 3 is £30 for a quad 1.2GHz 64-bit ARM, 1GB RAM.

It's extremely clever and I wish them lots of success, but I think it's time to let the Amiga go to meditate with the guru.

[mikerr]

Haha, the amiga refuses to die off !

Since you mentioned the pi, lets compare how far we've come

Amiga 500 - 7 Mhz - 1MB - 1989 - £400
Raspberry Pi - 1000Mhz 512MB - 2015 - £5

..and the pi can emulate the amiga pretty well.

[badass]

It's extremely clever and I wish them lots of success, but I think it's time to let the Amiga go to meditate with the guru.

I couldn't agree more. I hung onto using Amigas as my main computer until 2000 and do not regret it one bit.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I think some of you are not looking at the fun aspects of it - its like modding an old car when technically newer ones are better in almost every way. Its a bit of fun pushing something old to do things it might have never been intended to do!!

[shaithis]

People don't tend to slap powerful engines in old cards for a reason: The rest of the vehicle cannot handle it and it's not cost effective.

This is the same....and certainly not what I'd dust my 'miga out for........although it's a neat idea and I hope they make a few quid from them.

Much cheaper to just turn the sliders up in WinUAE though.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

People don't tend to slap powerful engines in old cards for a reason: The rest of the vehicle cannot handle it and it's not cost effective.

This is the same....and certainly not what I'd dust my 'miga out for........although it's a neat idea and I hope they make a few quid from them.

Much cheaper to just turn the sliders up in WinUAE though.

Yes they do - you have not seen what they get up to in the States and it does cost a lot of money.