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Offline haywirepc

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Re: new piece of Pi
« on: December 01, 2012, 01:40:06 PM »
The biggest issue with this idea is that the Pi uses 3.3Volt IO and the Amiga uses 5V IO... You would need a bunch of level shifters between the two devices... Also once you have connected the Pi, there really wouldn't be any need for the Amiga

If the amiga can use a powerpc accelerator, I don't see why it couldn't use the arm processor on the pi as an accelerator.

It would be tricky, but an interesting project. Better yet, 4 pi's networked
to the amiga with access to all cpus. All jammed inside an amiga 600.

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Re: new piece of Pi
« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2012, 03:19:32 PM »
I think its an awful lot of fun for 35.00$

Has so many uses and people are already creating lots of great stuff for it.
Its a great platform for many hobby things, thats why its so popular.

Media centers, game machines, its fun seeing what everyone is doing with them,
kinda like back in the day when people did more than surf the internet and browse facebook with their appliance computers.

I like to see people be creative with computers. We need more of that.