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PostPosted: Mon, 12th Oct 2020 17:06    Post subject: Amiga Mini Teased?


http://www.indieretronews.com/2020/10/the-amiga-could-amiga-mini-be-coming.html

Confused Surprised
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todd72173




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PostPosted: Mon, 12th Oct 2020 20:26    Post subject:
pic does look exactly like my Amiga 500 (missing the pal/ntsc button on side though)

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Ankh




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PostPosted: Tue, 13th Apr 2021 07:40    Post subject:
Tbh an amiga mini would probably suck as many games require you to have a proper keyboard - that said, i'd die to get my hands on it! Smile

shitloads of new stuff in my pc. Cant keep track of it all.
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Frant
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PostPosted: Wed, 29th Sep 2021 13:39    Post subject:
There are so much new Amiga stuff around.. Someone managed to buy proper case molds for the 1200, new motherboards are being manufactured (I'm acquainted with John "Chucky" Hertell who reverse-engineered and designed the ReAmiga 1200 motherboard as well as the ReAmiga 3000 motherboard (he did some minor fixes while at it).

That way many dead Amigas can be resurrected by farming the main components (chipsets and CPU's) and put them on brand new boards.

The new A1200 cases comes in a bunch of colors (as well as transparent): https://amigastore.eu/468-brand-new-amiga-1200-cases-from-new-molds.html

I'm not interested in any of the mini consoles since they're basically emulators running on Raspberry Pi etc. with a fixed set of built-in software (I think some of them take micro sd-cards with more games).

I either use the real thing; I've got an A1200, an A500, an A3000, 2 x C64C's, a C128, a couple of tape decks for the C64/C128, one 1541, one 1541 II, one ZX Spectrum 48K+ and a box full of joysticks, bags of cassettes for the speccy, boxes of 5.25" floppies for the C64's, boxes with those floppies, boxers with my old Amiga 3,5" diskettes, a 1084 monitor, an old LCD that supports 50hz (and the timings of Amiga RGB output) or I use emulators on my PC; I've transferred all of my Amiga disks to the PC in .adf format and I've transferred a bunch of games and programs including some of my own stuff from spectrum cassettes to the PC.

I used to have a Blizzard 1230 MK IV for my Amiga 1200 but sold it years ago since I didn't need it.. I really regretted selling it. Also had the Indivision AGA MK3 for A1200/A4000T with flicker-fixer and scan-doubler, frequency syncing with your PC's and monitors v-sync, true digital output via DVI allowing for use on any modern tv/lcd/led monitor and supports many custom resolutions including HighGFX (1280x1024), all this without having to buy one of those old and currently ultra-expensive graphics cards that would normally be needed. The only limitation is your A1200/A4000T's internal Chip RAM (or rather how much Fast RAM/Z3/Z4-RAM etc. it has to run applications and copy the ROM to in order to make most of the Chip RAM free for Workbench graphics (resolution + bit depth/colour palette).

Sold that one too... another regret. Since I bought those (Blizz MK 4 and the IC AGA) the price for those have just gone up, up and up... The price for the Indivision AGA was around 100-110 €, now it's 185 €.

I know new graphics cards have been designed - produced and sold, a bunch of new accelerators are available to buy, some cheaper than others while boosting performance. The Vampire series of accelerators don't use old stock/new old stock CPU's, instead opting for FPGA's with a programmable SOC with the Apollo core which emulates an updated 68060 up to 3x faster than original silicon while also containing a GPU (32-Bit Digital output from RTG and SAGA. You can now plug in your new shiny LCD screen up to 720p), IDE controller replacement that is MUCH faster than the Amigas on-board/old harddrives that you connected to the expansion port... aaand.. it contains 128MB of very fast RAM and supports shadowing kickstart from sloooow ROM into Fast RAM.

The newest Vampire model, Vampire V4+ Standalone, is a fully standalone Amiga with pretty damn ridiculous specs:

http://www.apollo-core.com/v4.html#SPECS

Specs in spoiler:
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However, I really want this one, The Vampire 1200 V2: http://www.apollo-core.com/v1200.html



Probably the fastest A1200 accelerator on the planet.

Specs in spoiler:
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spajdr




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PostPosted: Wed, 29th Sep 2021 20:31    Post subject:
I mean that accelerator looks nice for sure, but they can't afford certificate for the site? Mad
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Ankh




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PostPosted: Thu, 30th Sep 2021 05:56    Post subject:
Vampire cards rock Smile I almost bought the standalone version last month, but then stuff happened and I had to spend cash on more important stuff. Might get the a1200 version instead at some point, ive spent more than €600 on my A1200 this year Razz

shitloads of new stuff in my pc. Cant keep track of it all.
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Ankh




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PostPosted: Sun, 7th Nov 2021 21:17    Post subject:
Ive been playing loads of my A1200 today, i had totally forgotten how much i love the old games. Colonels Bequest is still damn fun!

shitloads of new stuff in my pc. Cant keep track of it all.
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