The Amiga which was responsible for getting many people into computers from 1985 to 1996 is being resurrected.
At the time, the Amiga?s graphics and speed were much better and cheaper than the PC - despite what my mate claimed - thanks to the Motorola 680x0 CPUs, multi-threading operating system and ability to work with images, sound and video.
It only really died off when Commodore went bankrupt, but now it appears that an improved clone will be in the shops by Christmas.
Apollo Accelerators?s ?Vampire V4? can work as a standalone Amiga or an accelerator for older Amigas.
The outfit has replaced the Motorola chip with a 28nm Altera Cyclone V A5 FPGA. There's also up to a Gigabyte of RAM, 40-and-44-pin FastIDE connectors, Ethernet, a pair of USB ports and MicroSD for storage. The graphics are an unthinkable 720p@60Hz.
All this will be great for dusting off those old games, which are the weak link in the system, as anyone who has tried to run a Rails West party with 10 players over longer than six hours will tell you.
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