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Vampire 2 Review - The Fastest Amiga Ever?!
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 HN readers recommended it
Recommended as a decent introduction to the Vampire accelerator and a cheaper way to modernize classic Amigas.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Dan Wood
- Topic
- amiga accelerators
- Format
- other
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2016–2019
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Good to see the Vampire will be making an appearance, though I'm guessing no new announcements about upcoming releases. For anyone out of the loop with Commodore stuff, the Vampire is an FPGA-based accelerator for classic Amigas. This is a decent introductory video: [VIDEO]
ZenoArrow on Hacker News · 2016-11
In World of Commodore 2016I think the Vampire 2 FPGA acceleration card for the Amiga 600 deserves to be mentioned: [VIDEO] It seems a lot of fun and is much cheaper (250 Euros).
amai on Hacker News · 2017-05
In The A-EON Amiga X5000: An alternate universe where the Amiga platform never died
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