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but about improving/enhancing the Amiga experience in ways that the original Amigas could not deliver
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Wait what? I mean... couldn't you put soundcard, network card or graphic card to Amiga to achieve more than stock amiga could? Sure! So in that particular area Amiga with either ZIII or PCI slots allow users to improve/enhance experience. And when it comes to AGA or ECS software (i.e. games, really) all additions to Vampire SAGA doesn't mean a thing. You'd need to rewrite games to use all those fancy features which you can't. And while things like more colors and sprites, bigger resolutions etc. sound nice - most of those things were done 30 years ago using RTG - and that's area in which vampire doesn't offer anything beyond all those old solutions (apart CPU<->MEM<->RTG transfer speed obviously). Big Amiga models (A2k, 3k, 4k) were made with expansions in mind and that's what designers had in mind for future products. Not making even better chipset which would still age fast and would still require compatibility layer. And as for things like mp3 decoding... many cheap mp3 players uses 8051 MCU core (since it is free - copyright expired) which is damn slow 8bit. It's usb device (slave) and plays mp3 nicely because it has hardware to do it. 8051 core is just for management of fixed function blocks. And maybe it was mentioned, maybe not - forcing "fastest 68k" isn't going to solve all that much problems. Existing software runs on 060/50MHz fast enough and it'd be just way easier to add ARM processor the same way as PPC processors into the AOS ecosystem and run more demanding software using this - modern - processor core. Don't know if PiStorm ever achieves that but if they do... Cortex A53 obliterates Vampire completely in native code so imagine what happens when you run Pi4 with Cortex A72 ... and Broadcom still does have better 2D graphics, 3D graphics, better sound and also A/V codecs. It does have also USB2.0 host (RPi4 3.0 too) and fast WiFi. So basically... once more of those things are implemented amiga-side Vampire wouldn't have anything except raw 68k performance despite costing 10x more. It's good to be enthusiast as long as it doesn't affect your reasoning badly. If someone wants to have compact accelerator with plenty on-board additions - yes, go ahead with Vampire. But that doesn't mean it's the best thing there is in every field possible.