- Amazing effort
Be sure to click through to the details page https://mirari.vitasys.nl/the-first-rebirth/
- It's amazing how much enthusiasm and innovation is still coming from the Amiga community! Also one of the reasons why I follow Amiga Bill on YouTube. Great show.
- As someone who grew up with Amiga... I find it amazing these boards still keep coming (X1000, X5000... anyone?) - they have always been insanely expensive for specs that are decade(s) old, all in the name of... really no idea what beyond "we can".
Or in other words: I wonder what if all that time, money and effort went into say AROS[1] and/or emulation. I can imagine still using AmIRC and HippoPlayer if I could run them as any other software on Linux.
1: https://aros.sourceforge.io/introduction/
- As a fan of older Macs, I didn't know there were any 64-bit PowerPC chips made after the Power Mac G5 and the Cell processors used in the XBox 360 and PlayStation 3.
This is cool; it would be cool to play with a modern, hobbyist 64-bit PowerPC board. I will be keeping an eye on this project!
- https://mirari.vitasys.nl/the-first-rebirth/
by einpoklum
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- I'm not an Amiga'n. When I was a kid in the late 1980s, a friend of mine had some Amiga, and I enjoyed a couple of games he let me play on it, and that's about the extent of my experience since then.
So, I'm finding it difficult to understand what this project actually is: Is it hardware for running original Amiga games and apps, or has there been a continuing user community and SW development effort in Amiga-world that us PC-heads are just not aware of? And that is interesting and different than copycatting advances from non-Amiga environments?
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