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"Amiga Is On Our Radar Too" - The Resurrected Commodore Has Plans For The 16-Bit Classic (www.timeextension.com)

submitted 9 months ago by cm0002@piefed.world to c/retrocomputing

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[–] vacuumflower 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I've just realized that using FPGA for such products is economically sane. I thought before that when they use FPGA for specific end products, that's because of military-like expectation to be able to change everything, or because of lacking effort and aiming for fans.

[–] i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 3 points 9 months ago

Yeah, it's cheaper than fabricating new chip sets, and more accurate than emulation. You can also reprogram them if bugs are found, or you want it to pretend to be a completely different machine. They are ace!