[UserReview] Vampire V2-128 received and it's just pure p0rn.

[Hattig]

Definitely the biggest hardware release for the A600 (and eventually the Amiga) for a very very long time.

The A500 and A1200 versions will be welcomed too.

I see that they have plans, beyond the "Gold" core, to implement more chipset aspects within the FPGA, using the rest of the host Amiga as time goes on. Personally I'd like to see decent AHI audio done before AGA emulation, but I'm not setting the roadmap.

Obviously this leads to a future standalone Vampire Amiga - FPGA and RAM and I/O - in the same lines as MiniMig, Mist and FpgaArcade. Maybe in a couple of years? I guess the clue's in the name here, Vampire :-)

[Hattig]

I think the best bet is for the FPGA on the standalone board to expose some I2C or SPI buses (or SDIO), and then to use standard chips that connect to these buses for Ethernet (with TCP offload!), WiFi, BT, etc.

SATA really would require choosing an FPGA with a SATA hardware block already incorporated, or PCIe incorporated to connect an external controller. Could be a lot of work and increase the cost a lot. Personally I'd stick with the SD card readers, maybe have an internal slot and an external slot.