![]() Inspired by Marie Kondo □ I’ve gotten around to sell or give away some of Playing games and more writing software and doing other things. Over time though, I spent less and less time Of course, this was too awesome for me to pass up on so I got one. There are cores for a number ofĬomputers now, including the Atari ST, Apple II, original Macintosh, MSX and ofĬourse the Commodore Amiga - full list of cores on its wiki. So if you loadĪ ZXSpectrum core, you get a ZXSpectrum computer. Load up a “core” on the MiST which is a description of the logic circuits of the target computer, and the board simulates that collection of logic circuits. The MiST boardįor those of you that don’t know, an FPGA is a kind of programmable CPU. So I forgot aboutįast-forward a number of years, and I found out about an FPGA device called the MiST. Gave up on Windows, and *NIX emulator software wasn’t as good. Period (87-92) the Amiga was king of graphics and sound in the home computer scene.Īs I mentioned, I never owned one but as soon as PCs got fast enough to easilyĮmulate them (late 1990s, I guess) I was an avid WinUAE user. So by 1994 the writing was on the wall for the poor Amiga. When you add it all up, it didn’t make sense.Ī fully specced out Amiga 4000 would cost more than the 486 PC above, without a monitor! A 210 MB hard drive would cost you around 300€.Īn extra 4MB of RAM, 200€ 1. Monitor sold separately, multisyncĬapable monitors were around 400€. No hard drive and no CD-ROM for around 600€. (around 5 MIPS) running at 14Mhz, 2MB of RAM (expansions sold separately), The Amiga 1200 featured a Motorola 60EC020 ![]() Sound Blaster 16 soundcard, double-speed CD-ROM and 14” SVGA monitor for around 2000€ Intel 486DX2/66 (around 50MIPS) PC with 8 MB of RAM (expandable), 527 MB hard drive, I’ve always wanted one, but they were kinda expensive back then. Alas, it was too little too late, andīy 1993, barely a year after its introduction, few games were coming out for it The 4000 was aimed at professionals and thus more expensive, but the 1200 was aimedĪt gaming and digital artistry in the home. ![]() ![]() Inferior in some aspects to VGA) AGA chipset came late and was only featured in Were way beyond the Mac and the PC in 1985, but sadly the more advanced (but still Bad management decisions abounded, the design wasn’t open to third parties,Īnd there were a ton of makers vying for the #1 spot back then - still, we don’t seeĪ lot of Atari ST or MSX revival online like we do for the Amiga. Much (maybe too much) has been written about this range of computers that failed to beat IBM and Apple for dominance in the home market in the 80s andĩ0s. ![]()
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