Vampire 2 Review - The Fastest Amiga Ever?!
Why Hacker News recommends it
Recommended as a decent introduction to the Vampire accelerator and a cheaper way to modernize classic Amigas.
What it is
Dan Wood reviews the Vampire 2 FPGA accelerator for the Amiga 600. He covers how much faster it makes the machine and what it can run.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2016 to 2019.
What Hacker News said
Recommends ZenoArrow · 2016-11 · on “World of Commodore 2016”
Good to see the Vampire will be making an appearance, though I'm guessing no new announcements about upcoming releases. For anyone out of the loop with Commodore stuff, the Vampire is an FPGA-based accelerator for classic Amigas. This is a decent introductory video: [this video]
Recommends amai · 2017-05 · on “The A-EON Amiga X5000: An alternate universe where the Amiga platform never died”
I think the Vampire 2 FPGA acceleration card for the Amiga 600 deserves to be mentioned: [this video] It seems a lot of fun and is much cheaper (250 Euros).
Cites davesmith1983 · 2019-07 · on “A New Motherboard for Amiga, the Platform That Refuses to Die”
A1200 boards are over 25 years old. A lot of the boards are damaged because of capacitors leaking, just being old. Many of us that still use the Amigas like using "proper hardware". I like the idea of taking a 25 year old computer and hacking the machine to play DOOM or going on IRC or even checking my emails. FPGAs have been used for Amiga Accelerators the fastest accelerator (at present) is the Apollo Vampire V2. Here is a complete rundown of the accelerator: [this video]