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Good to see the Vampire will be making an appearance, though I'm guessing no new announcements about upcoming releases. For anyone out of the loop with Commodo
by ZenoArrow 10y ago
Good to see the Vampire will be making an appearance, though I'm guessing no new announcements about upcoming releases.
For anyone out of the loop with Commodore stuff, the Vampire is an FPGA-based accelerator for classic Amigas. This is a decent introductory video:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8S3B8a8N83k https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8S3B8a8N83k
- digi_owl 10y agoGiven how much they seem to stuff onto that FPGA, it strikes me more like they are effectively replacing the internals rather than accelerating it.
- ZenoArrow 10y agoYeah, eventually I see it becoming its own standalone board, but it's nice that it's allowing Amiga users to make use of their existing hardware (peripherals, etc...). Also, no announcements I know of have indicated this is on the cards, but I'd also be interested to see if it becomes a more general-purpose 68k accelerator, there may be users of other 68k-based machines that would be interested in a clip-on accelerator. Not for any practical reason, just for fun. I think it'd be funny to see a Mega Drive run homebrew faster than a PlayStation. ;-)
- cmrdporcupine 10y agoThere's already work happening on a version of Vampire for the Atari ST. But I'd prefer they just come out with a standalone board with the Apollo core on one FPGA + a bunch of configurable soft peripherals on another. Then people could configure it out how they wanted and put it in their own case.