vampire video speed vs dedicated RTG cards

[Iggy]

Yes, it is. My comment was not meant to be taken too seriously, it's just the aspect of filling the Amiga with FPGAs that I find funny

Yes, and then we replace the Amiga itself with an FPGA board...

It IS getting a little weird.

[Iggy]

Actually I find FPGA interesting.  In some ways they are emulation and in some ways they are actual hardware.

Nobody said they weren't interesting, i just feel like I'm "cheating" when I use hardware based on one. Like its not "real" hardware.

But the results are fascinating, and as I mentioned before when discussing ISAs, its really about what runs your software well.

[Iggy]

@Iggy I did not mean any disrespect and you have a a great point!!!   I think I am just anxious to get any new hardware after all these years.

No, no, I didn't take that at all that way.
I might buy one of the Vampire accelerators myself (and I have other fpga hardware), IF I'm "allowed" to obtain one via their weird marketing scheme.
Its just that real '020, '030, '040 & '060 based accelerators feel more "authentic" to me.
After all, I could have bought components like that when Amigas were still current.

Then again PC
I expansion boards and Radeon 9200 video cards aren't that authentic either.

And I'm not sure whether I want a ZorroII video card for my A2000 or not.
ZorroII transfer rates are incredibly slow.

[Iggy]

blah blah blah..

byte me ;-)