Overview of Amiga "reinterpretations" (Emulation, FPGA, New Mainboards)

[spudje]

Since I've only recently actively rejoined the Amiga world I'm trying to make sense of all the initiatives that have been around the past few years to recreate the Amiga (hardware). Maybe good to have this overview for other people (re)newing their Amiga involvement as well. I'll sum up what I know and will most likely be wrong to some aspects and most importantly incomplete. So please correct, add, etc.

Planning to make a nice table to get a good overview of all models and their features.

Software Emulation  (in a dedicated hardware device)

* Armiga
url: http://www.armigaproject.com/
What is it: Software Emulation on ARM architecture
Supported hardware: Amiga 500 1MB (OCS, kick 1.3). Potentially AGA support in the future
Special characteristics: Two variants: 1 without and 1 with floppy drive. Floppy drive only used to create adfs, not to run software from.
Availability: (Beta) available now

Hardware Emulation (FPGA)

* Minimig
http://somuch.guru/minimig/
What is it: FPGA based implemented Amiga architecture
Several versions exist:
  - Minimig v1.1 (dedicated hardware board): Sold out (?)
  - Minimig on DE1/DE2 (core for more generic FPGA platform)
  - Minimig on MIST (core for more generic FPGA platform)
Supported Hardware: Minimig for Mist: ECS & 68000, AGA & 68020
Availability: Mist available (http://amiga.amedia-computer.com/, http://lotharek.pl/product.php?pid=96)

* FPGA Arcade
url: http://www.fpgaarcade.com/
What is it: FPGA based implemention of several retro computing platforms including Amiga
Supported hardware: ?
Availability: About to be shipped?

* FPGA Replay
url: http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=55885
Is this actually the same as the FPGA arcade?

Native Hardware implementation(FPGA)

* Amiga 550/500++ (are these the same?)
What is it: New mainboard for Amiga 500
Availability: Status unclear. Original team stopped development.

* Amiga GB1000
What is it: New mainboard for Amiga 1000
Availability: Sold out

* Amiga Reloaded
url: http://wiki.icomp.de/wiki/Amiga_reloaded
What is it: Indivision Computing new Amiga mainboard that should fit both A500 & A1200 cases
Supported hardware: AGA chipset, for details see url
Availability: First prototype planned for 2016 Q1

[spudje]

Is it really so? I see it is still on sale.

I'm not sure. I believe the original one is not produced anymore. The minimig cores are still available for MIST etc. Updated the overview accordingly.

[spudje]

Thanks for the summary/topic, I've missed a lot of these projects completely.



Silly question: what's the difference between this, and any other UAE type setup? No disrespect intended.

Nothing much. It's an out of the box compact solution you can hook up on your TV easily.