This is lovely :)
Indie Retro News: Armiga - A home made prototype of the next Amiga? (http://www.indieretronews.com/2014/02/armiga-home-made-prototype-of-next-amiga.html)
Basically, a Pi and a controller driving an Amiga drive, all in a sweet custom box:
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I have to wonder, though, how powerful the Pi is in terms of Amiga emulation. 030/AGA anyone?
Shaky video warning:
Armiga VERY early prototype - YouTube (http://youtu.be/GtSHj0t-1UE)
(man, gotta love the sound of old drives whirring and clunking!)
A few weeks ago Arnoldemu (I think) was saying the RPi could not emulate the CPC at full speed, so the Amiga would seem impossible.
Quote from: steve on 10:07, 24 February 14
A few weeks ago Arnoldemu (I think) was saying the RPi could not emulate the CPC at full speed, so the Amiga would seem impossible.
Depends on the GPU driver being used.
If they've written their own, it's entirely feasible (the Pi has a 700Mhz RISC chip inside of it).
Quote from: steve on 10:07, 24 February 14
A few weeks ago Arnoldemu (I think) was saying the RPi could not emulate the CPC at full speed, so the Amiga would seem impossible.
it's more that to emulate the cpc accurately you also need to emulate the monitor response accurately.
for other systems where you can't reprogram the hsync/vsync etc, there is less work to do, because the display is more static.
it may just be that my emulation is not the most optimal ;)