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i had one and overclocked it to be able to decode mp3s with my a4000. it was a game changer.
by dean2432 3y ago
i had one and overclocked it to be able to decode mp3s with my a4000. it was a game changer.
- richrichardsson 3y agoDo you still have the A4000? I looked on eBay yesterday (mostly to amuse myself) at what they go for now, the price is laughable! (to save you the trouble: 2-4k Euro was what I saw!)
- anthk 3y agoNow an FPGA would be much cheaper. Or just run IcarOS desktop for X86.
- actionfromafar 3y agoOr replace the CPU with a Raspberry Pi. 0: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/pistorm-raspberry-pi-amiga-pcb https://www.tomshardware.com/news/pistorm-raspberry-pi-amiga...
- b112 3y agoNone of these things provide 100% accurate emulation. Nothing beats real hardware. (And the market agrees, else everyone would be selling amigas for 100 bucks.) And real hardware? Original hardware? Slowly it gets damaged, dies, breaks, and so it becomes a rarer commodity.
- anthk 3y agoAn FPGA would be close.
- snvzz 3y agoAn FPGA isn't any better at accuracy than a software-based emulator. Accuracy is all about understanding the original hardware. WinUAE matches the current level understanding of the platform, minimig (open FPGA core) does not. Hardware definitely is harder than software, so FPGA is harder if anything. ... and yet I still prefer hardware. Latency and jitter relative to the target platform is a serious issue with software. Current computers just aren't made like they used to, and popular operating systems outright suck at guaranteeing latency.
- actionfromafar 3y agoBut the original Amiga with just a faster CPU is pretty damn close.
- snvzz 3y agoActual Amiga with FPGA-based open source accelerator board is my preference. But such a thing doesn't exist yet (proprietary solutions do, but fuck that). PiStorm is the next best thing. That's a fast CPU running an m68k emulator, acting as a real Amiga's CPU.
- cornholio 3y agoBut why would anybody sell for less than market value?