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The cool thing about AROS IMHO, is that it can run on Amiga hardware... that means you can sell Amiga clones, such as Minimig, with basically Amiga OS out of th
by jacobush 9y ago
The cool thing about AROS IMHO, is that it can run on Amiga hardware... that means you can sell Amiga clones, such as Minimig, with basically Amiga OS out of the box, open source and all. Before that you had to get ROMs from random places.
Another Amazing development is the FGPA 68000 compatible CPU board for Amiga 500, 600 and 1200, the "Vampire" board.
It is four times faster than the fastest 68060 accelerator back in the day.
It also adds SD card reader (for storage, instead of hard drive), 128 megs of RAM. (A tricked out Amiga back in the day had maybe 8 megs. 2 megs was standard in the A1200 and 1 meg was standard in the A500.)
It also adds a DVI/HDMI connector so you can connect it to modern monitors/projectors easily.
http://www.apollo-accelerators.com http://www.apollo-accelerators.com
Actually, the Vampire is almost a complete reimplementation of an Amiga. I expect them to release a complete "PC", so you don't need an old Amiga to plug the Vampire into.
- 0xcde4c3db 9y agoI think they've said that the Vampire V4 will run standalone. Presumably the only non-crappy way to support HDMI was to implement Paula and Denise equivalents in the FPGA (a similar project exists for NES HDMI output, basically cloning the entire PPU and just snooping the bus of the original one for the raw timing and input data).
- jacobush 9y agoI can imagine. I hope they keep going, first give the Amiga chipset clones higher internal bandwidth (probably already on the table), then add instructions to the copper or something...