I have a basic question: what exactly is it?<p>As a former Amiga user, I'm familiar with the Amiga's graphics co-processor(s). I actually forget now how many, I remember Copper and Blitter, but don't recall if those were chips, or functions on a single chip.<p>So, is this a sort of video adapter that converts the native Amiga video output to HDMI compatible signals, or is it full graphics card that brings Amiga graphics (32/64/4096 color, with acceleration) to modern output resolutions?
There was a discussion when he first came out with a successful card:
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11511626" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11511626</a>
Brilliant. Never owned an Amiga back in the day (constantly jealous of the superior graphics/sound) so I'm not familiar with the architecture, but it's impressive what you can do with even a low tier FPGA
I wish he had used the open source FPGA tools [1] instead of Xilinx ISE...<p>---<p>[1] <a href="http://www.clifford.at/icestorm/" rel="nofollow">http://www.clifford.at/icestorm/</a>