This stuff is impressive but also quite technical. I love the concepts and the ideas behind the execution but could never actually do any of this myself. Is there an easy-viewing youtube video on this, something that a bozo like me could watch and understand?
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@Kin. That is impressive.

It is still quite mad how much the invention of the RPi unlocked the creativity and ingenuity of the retro scene. Just using the cheap computer to run emulators was impressive enough, but the genious to turn that on its head and use them to accelerate real retro hardware just blew me away when the first project was publicly shown.

Companies designing and making expensive hardware for retro systems is becoming less attractive, and with the small price of the RPi you know if one breaks it's not going to cost the earth to find a replacement.

@JT. If I see a video about this in my travels I will post a link. I didn't know about urilising the extra RPi modules for things like Ethernet and USB, so will be taking a look when I get chance.
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You'll need an A1200, a PiStorm32-Lite & a Raspberry Pi. Chuck em all together & off you go.

There are many links on YouTube but this one is kinda cool. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04Ra86PE5Cs

@ Harrison

I am gobsmacked fella. Now I have the Pi4 Revision B in there, I have 1.9GB Fast Ram & have gone from nearly 900 MIPS to 2006 MIPS. - Even the same MicroSD drive has gone from 21.5Mb/sec to 24.5Mb/sec.

I had to write to FOL @ AmigaKit with an issue though....

Raspberry Pi3 uses "brcm-sdhc.device" instead of the default "scsi.device".

Raspberry Pi4 uses "brmc-emmc.device" but there is no reference to this yet.

I've asked FOL to change the Wiki to reflect this requirement for Pi4 users.
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Is it Amigakit and FOL that are leading the PiStorm project?

So you know what the issue was with Amigakit and if its fully sorted now? They got kicked from Amibay a while back for not completing orders and not being contactable.
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There are several vendors manufacturing PiStorm32-Lite boards. Cheapest I've seen is here: - https://www.arananet.net/pedidos/pro...orm32-preorder

LOL.... & there I was worrying for how many years about being kicked from AmiBay.

Shower of Sh!t springs to mind! - Even SpeedGeek moved all his experience/hacks/data over to EAB.
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So we got jiggy some more with the Pi scene & Emulation....

So, we went Pi3A= & then Pi4B & now CM4 on a Purple Headed PiStorm32 Lite! biggrin.gif

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I bought this from a Guy in Sweden after seeing an advert of his on the Web. Hew was kind enough to include a small RTC (small chip on riser. Bat is underneath) as seen on the break out board.

Assembly....

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Fitting....

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Very slight interference with Modules Cooling Fan....

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Very nice. Have you benchmarked it yet?
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See post #100 here....

https://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=107190&page=5

Still all a bit "Pie in the Sky" on the Amiga side of things. - Hardware implemented but no drivers yet!

RaspberryPi (Linux) is very impressive!
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The purple board looks cool
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I have a CM4 lite module arriving soon. No Wi-Fi, eMMC Storage & just 2GB Ram. - 2GB is the most CoffinOS & CaffeineOS use anyways.

This will let me play with CaffeineOS from a MicroSD. The onboard eMMC storage is a tad faster than mSD but I need a 64GB mSD to write CaffeineOS. Can't run the two together though....

Amiga M2, USB & Ethernet is still waiting for drivers. - Linux M2, USB & Ethernet is bang on. - To a degree, Amiga is almost there on M2. - EMU68 kicks in but the Amiga Partitions are not available to boot from.

I might get to play this weekend & will post benchmarks as soon as I can.
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