Amiga Pi

[scuzzb494]

The Raspberry Pi is just about to become the highest selling computer in the UK. I would be interested to know how this tiny marvel could be integrated into an Amiga cus in truth if it could be used to run my 1200 and give it more power then my goodness how wonderful would that be.

http://www.raspberrypi.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi

[ChuckT]

How could an 800 MHZ processor be more powerful than WINUAE on a 3 GHZ desktop?

[SamuraiCrow]

How could an 800 MHZ processor be more powerful than WINUAE on a 3 GHZ desktop?

Simple!  Recompile from source!  WinUAE is merely an emulator.  Aeros is a hosted source-compatible operating system based on AROS.  (Of course running Aeros on a 3 GHz Intel would be faster yet but cost a ton more.)

[scuzzb494]

More about the fun of it and being able to use my Amiga 1200. One of the passing comments in the report on one of the YouTube items is that it can be used to run Amiga software. The unit is very small. I like small kit.

Anyway I will do some further research. Looks great and also very very cheap. And I can get one easy off Ebay.

PS There really is no challenge with PC towers.

[scuzzb494]

http://mattechnology.blogspot.co.uk/p/raspberry-pi-a1200.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAvrQcy0cVk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nczBeJEwups


http://amigadrive.blogspot.co.uk/

http://www.techradar.com/news/computing-components/peripherals/raspberry-pi-ceo-i-really-want-to-see-amiga-emulation-on-raspberry-pi-2-1283093

http://www.aeros-os.org/

The Raspberry Pi Version is only available for registered users. To get registered you need to qualify yourself with one of the following options:

[ElPolloDiabl]

You could copy across media files to the small unit and play them in a network folder on Amiga. That must be the limit of its usefulness.

[gunni]

the new Pi 2 board looks like it may be a bit more useful - http://www.raspberrypi.org/raspberry-pi-2-on-sale/
"A 900MHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 CPU (~6x performance)
1GB LPDDR2 SDRAM (2x memory)"

[Linde]

I've been thinking of getting mine connected over ethernet. Then, you could do

* Wi-fi bridging -- use modern encryption standards.
* Telnet terminal -- Use modern software on your raspberry pi using a VT100 compatible terminal. The best of both worlds!
* Samba share/FTP -- share files between the machines, e.g. download some torrents on the pi and get them over to the pi easily.
* Play/stream mp3/ogg/flac music. Just mix the audio outputs together and control the player seamlessly using the terminal.
* If you have a genlock, use it as a video player similarly.

[scuzzb494]

A couple more links.

https://jonlennartaasenden.wordpress.com/2014/10/09/building-an-a1200-for-40-with-raspberry-pi-and-uae4all/

http://makezine.com/2013/03/18/raspberry-pi-gives-amiga-a-new-life/

Seems like folk enjoy going back to their Amigas when they have the opportunity to breath new life into their computer interest. This little computer seems like it wants folk to muck around with it, unlike the modern tablets and the like. Kinda takes you back to the days when computing meant something other than Internet browsing and Facebook. Yawn.

[Djole]

Maybe a bit of topic but maybe some1 could help. I have UAE4All2 running on Nexus 7 2013 tablet and most of the games run fine but i would really like to play Slam Tilt on it. The game boots, intro runs fine until you select a table, then it just shows a white screen. Could someone else try it on their device ?

[Minuous]

Simple!  Recompile from source!  WinUAE is merely an emulator.  Aeros is a hosted source-compatible operating system based on AROS.  (Of course running Aeros on a 3 GHz Intel would be faster yet but cost a ton more.)

I think the original poster was talking about Amigas, not about AROS. Presumably he wants to run Amiga games etc. that aren't available for AROS. AROS on ARM would have even less apps available than AROS on x86 does.