Chaps,
So I am looking at getting back into the world of Amiga and am torn between just going the emulation route, or getting hold of a Vampire v2 for one of my A600's.
My question is regarding the performance, and which would give the better results. I am no longer interested in gaming on the Amiga so it would be used for productivity stuff, Amos, AmigaE, BBS, etc.
I know most people would say to go for the real hardware. I already have an A500 and a couple of A600's, and an old Apollo A630 50Mhz which i never got working stably in either machine.
So is the FPGA route going to give me anything that isn't available to me running WinUAE on my i7? What's the speed difference likely to be, does anyone have any benchmarks or Sysinfo grabs to show off?
Also if going for a Vampire when they are available I can see this costing a fortune as I have plans to tower my A600, get a custom backplate made up for the case, extend all ports to the back, few expansions and such which so far all the bits tallies up to £300ish
Anyways, any thoughts, comments or info most appreciated. Ta
I was a happy WinUAE user on a PIII laptop back in the early 2000s parallel to my A1200/40+ppc. It was a pretty good workhorse and much faster than the A1200/40. It's the easy way to get back into Amiga. Close to no money investment.
If you then feel the desire to get real silicon you still can do.
Eventually I gave up WinUAE when MorphOS reached a good stability and switched completely to it. But I have good memories to WinUAE and I particularly liked it to use Windows and Amiga parallely on one machine.
I plan to get a Vampire myself though to get my fix in retro computing. Somehow this card appeals me. But rather for toying with it than to make my old A600 a workhorse again.
