http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/armiga-project

@Sammy

The case looks 3D printed, my guess is some thing based on FPGA Arcade judging from shape of the case.

So its old games in a old package.

If people stopped looking backward and started look forward we might get some where.

Yes there where nice games back then, but they are old now, I have play the games before, all the fun is being created now by indiegame developers.

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It's ARM based, should have been hard to miss that. If you scroll down the page you'll also see that it uses a Raspberry PI with a custom floppy controller board.

@Sammy

Saw it just now and I am left wondering, "Do we need more emulators for old games?" I can't count the number of options there are now, and we still have the REAL THINGS too kept up and running by a devoted number of fanatics.

" I put it to you, Greg - isn't this an indictment of our entire American society? Well, you can do whatever you want to us, but we're not going to sit here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America. Gentlemen!

@cymru

Seem a nice neat design and idea, however like many have pointed out the market has been a little flooded with this type of thing already, fpga arcade, mcc, minimig, ouya and others, plus its not too hard any more to build a pc/ buy a old pc or a raspberry Pi and get retro Pi Os for it and build this kind of thing your self anyway. Plus I think asking for $140,000 is a little too much for this type of project.

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@cymru

What was that all about?

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@Moxee

It seems the emulator market is saturated with Retro gaming devices, and we still have access to real Amigas, Atari's, PC's, PlayStation's and others. IMHO, I feel that an emphasis on new products (sound cards, deinterlacers, accelerators, USB devices, NICs and such) for our aging and well kept computers is a better investment of my funds. I get more "warm and fuzzy" over a rebuilt and modernized 30 year-old Amiga than a FPGA or UAE device. But, "I could be wrong now."

@cymru

That may well be, but I always think to each their own.

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@Moxee

I did state, "IMHO" or "in My humble opinion." NutzAboutAmiga said the same thing as to "quit looking Backward and start looking Forward" that I, myself, interpreted as, "Do we need more ways to play old games, when what we need are new innovations" -- new games, new hardware, and new software.

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@cymru

I expect these guys, with their limited but realistic goals, to succeed a lot more than blue sky projects like natami or the OS4 laptop, both of which indeed went nowhere. Yes, it would be very nice to see a 1GHz PPC amiga on kickstarter. It's a lot more likely to see some guy with a 3d printed case on a minimig.

An RaspberryPI hacked into an external 3.5" floppy case? If the price is right, they might be onto something. What remains questionable is how will they get the RPi to decently emulate an Amiga 500?

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@Sammy

looks cool but i won't buy it, well i might but it all depends to how it emulates what everything and i am not only talking about speed here.

i was quite suprised to see that they stock the Raspberry PI at the local tech shop here but what baffles me more is that they never announced or marketed it in the shop/chain.... and it is not just 1 unit, this is a huge chain and they have a 200+ page book with stuff they sell... for Norwegians ...the chain is called "TeknikkMagasinet".

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I'm wondering how likely it is that it could emulate an A1200/A4000 with AmigaOS3.9 and RTG, I do notice in the goals illustration near the bottom of the page that it mentions "A120 (sic) AGA Support" in passing, for if they raise big enough money.

It would also be neat if there was a way to add or connect a second or third floppy-drive, but then that might only be relevant if you expect to actually run games or the OS directly off the floppy, as apposed to imaging the disk onto internal media or to SD cards.

Speaking of the floppy, anyone know whether that's a DD floppy or an HD floppy in there? I'm guessing HD floppy, since they probably stopped making DD floppy-drives a LONG time ago and HD floppy-drives will read both DD and HD formatted, and they DID make HD Amiga floppy-drives, though I don't think any programs ever shipped on HD floppy-disks. You can bet plenty of people stored files on HD floppy-disks, though, myself included.

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Seems cool, like a disk-drive sized Miggy but I also Hope more to the Future than the Past. Ice scream;)

Would be more usefull for us with a PPC CPU, imho.

(I got past ECS & A500/A2000 already in 90's...)

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@Sammy

Quote:

Sammy wrote: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/armiga-project

Here is another Amiga related project on indiegogo:
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/indiego-a-proper-video-game-console

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@Arko
Hi,

i had registered ArmigaOne.de in 2009 because i planned to release an Armiga instead of x86 AresOne but People warned me about Ben Hermanns and because i feard consequences i have stopped.

ATTENTION! This crowfunding Armiga has nothing to do with me!!!!

indieGO!- gaming console funding failed mainly because:
1. People didn't trust because Money would not be paid back
2. I stated that the Project will be also finished without funding (but will take longer)

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Well:
Stautus:
Developers can allready Register for the IndieGO-Marketplace
www.indiego-gaming.com/marketplace

Developers can also registrer here to get get in touch with us and try out Clients:

www.a-mc.biz/igo

Target platforms for the OS:
PC, Amiga, PPC Mac, Raspberry Pi, Odroid and Cubieboard.

Purchases can be used on all platforms as Long you use the same user account.

Client applications will be available for:
Windows, OS X (PPC/Intel), Linux (PPC/Intel), AEROS (ARM/i386), AmigaOS 3.x/4.x, MorphOS

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@Sammy

The site doesn't work here. No DNS.

@Hypex

No problems here in Odyssey 1.2.3 FF#2 on AmigaOS 4.1U6 (latest),

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@Arko

Is there really a market for this?

Steam/Tine games you play in Windows.
The old Amiga games can be played in WinUAE and on number of other ways and devices.
(Classic Amiga, MiniMig, FPGA Arcade, and all other device that exists)
There is not a single device you can't run UAE on?

Do people need it?

What makes it better then doing it your self, installing Linux AROS and few games?

Who should be interested in this? it was fun play this games when I was 15, but I'm now soon to be 40 years, I'm sick of this games really.

Is not this 320x200x32 color resolution games a bit low standards compared to modern games?

Is worth buying a PC to run a unknown OS, to run a Games that is equivalent to what you find on FaceBook or PlayStore on Android?

I guess most kids this days are dreaming about PS4.

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