FPGA for dummies

[persia]

What I and others have disagreed with is the purity control folks who think that this is somehow more pure than UAE.  You may like the hardware emulation of FPGA more than the software emulation of UAE, but they are both valid ways to get a Classic Amiga like experience on modern equipment.  One's not superior to the other, they are just different approaches.  The last thing we need to to divide ourselves into more camps.

[persia]

UAE originated on Linux, it was ported to MS Windows.  Having an underlying OS doesn't really matter since you are emulating a system that doesn't have much CPU power.  I will give you that FPGA is a more efficient emulation, allowing for emulation on a much less powerful host, but is it going to be cheaper?

[persia]

@freqmax

I get your point, but I would have used something other than a legacy port that doesn't exist on most modern computers to make it.  Your should be able to get better emulation faster and simpler through an FPGA system.  But in reality it's not going to make a difference to the vast majority of folks who just want to play old familiar games.

[persia]

I can see the idea of pulling the old dead motherboard out of an Amiga and sticking one of these in though.  These electronics are getting really really really past their use by date and some day they just aren't going to turn on again, better to have something that at least pretends to be an Amiga to stick into it.