JagEunChingu / 2018-10-04 14:03:03The Amiga 600 is the smallest member of the Amiga family by its size but also, at the time, by its features. Although it has a chassis similar to that of the A1200 (form factor as the younger generation would say
VampireThe Vampire is a series of FPGA-based accelerator (and more!) cards for the A600 (and others). FPGAFPGAs (field-programmable gate arrays) is a integrated circuits that can be programmed after being soldered on their boards and used by their customers. They can be used to design specialised integrated circuits, before their "hard-wired" productions or to change the behaviour of the circuits after deployment in the field. FPGAs are composed essentially of two types of components: logic blocks and routing channels. Logic blocks are components made of a set of more basic components, e.g., a flip-flop. They can be reconfigured in the field to provide different logic gates, e.g., NAND. Routing channels allow the interconnections of logic blocks to realise complex functions.
Apollo/68080 CoreTherefore, FPGAs alone cannot do anything. They must be programmed or, in FPGA-speak, they must implement a soft-processor core. |
), it is actually closer to a A500 in terms of processor, graphic chipset, etc. It does have a IDE internal port and a PCMCIA external port though 
but no numeric keypad! Now, such a small computer could have disappeared from memory, in particular after the arrival of its big brother, the A1200... but a vampire gave it a second life, and what a life!