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 think UAE and Vampire/Apollo are so to say twins, both need each other. I think 68k as a target for new software is not taken seriously as long as it only works virtual, on the other side of course UAE on modern hardware is faster and has more ram so you can do things on it that are not yet possible on real hardware. My idea is new software is written that requires many resources and only runs on UAE at first, this again creates need for faster and better FPGA cards. This is what I would call innovation circle. Also not everyone is interested in new real hardware and many people are certainly happy with UAE.
To your question... I do not know. For productivity UAE is a very good and cheap solution if you do not need real hardware and the original keyboards before you. I think it is more a emotional than a rational decision.
