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Vampire 2 Review - The Fastest Amiga Ever?!

Dan Wood · other · Watch on YouTube

Demoscene & retrocomputingComputer architecture & CPUs

What it is

Dan Wood reviews the Vampire 2 FPGA accelerator for the Amiga 600. He covers how much faster it makes the machine and what it can run.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Recommended as a decent introduction to the Vampire accelerator and a cheaper way to modernize classic Amigas.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2016, last 2019

What HN commenters said

  1. “This is a decent introductory video”

    Introduction to the Vampire FPGA accelerator for classic Amigas.

    ZenoArrow, 2016-11 · Recommendation · in “World of Commodore 2016”

  2. “It seems a lot of fun and is much cheaper (250 Euros).”

    Vampire 2 accelerator for Amiga 600, cheaper alternative.

    amai, 2017-05 · Recommendation · in “The A-EON Amiga X5000: An alternate universe where the Amiga platform never died”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: amiga, vampire, fpga, retro computing, apollo

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