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Commodore's Amiga Is Being Revived In Newly Updated Hardware (hothardware.com)
MojoKid writes from a report via Hot Hardware: Although it has been over three decades since the first Commodore Amigas were originally released, a fan base for the beloved systems is still going strong. In fact, today's Amiga community seems to be more active now that it has been in years, and a number of exciting new hardware projects have cropped up in recent weeks. Two relatively new projects, led by popular members of the Amiga community Paul Rezendes and John "Chucky" Hertell, are designed to breathe new life into the Amiga 4000 and Amiga 1200.
Both men set out to reverse engineer the motherboards for these systems, not only to continue the possibility of repairing existing machines that are prone to serious damage from leaky batteries and electrolytic capacitors, but to potentially spur additional customizations for the platform in the future. Though Paul and John have only made minor modifications to the Amiga 4000 and Amiga 1200 motherboard PCBs to this point, the possibility now also exists for all new variants to arrive at some point in the future for these machines as well. The first actual working motherboards populated with components based on the Amiga 4000 Replica project or Re-Amiga 1200 haven't been shown off just yet, and they may require additional revisions to work out any kinks. However, both projects are good examples of the passion that still remains for the beloved Amiga from computing glory days gone by.
Both men set out to reverse engineer the motherboards for these systems, not only to continue the possibility of repairing existing machines that are prone to serious damage from leaky batteries and electrolytic capacitors, but to potentially spur additional customizations for the platform in the future. Though Paul and John have only made minor modifications to the Amiga 4000 and Amiga 1200 motherboard PCBs to this point, the possibility now also exists for all new variants to arrive at some point in the future for these machines as well. The first actual working motherboards populated with components based on the Amiga 4000 Replica project or Re-Amiga 1200 haven't been shown off just yet, and they may require additional revisions to work out any kinks. However, both projects are good examples of the passion that still remains for the beloved Amiga from computing glory days gone by.
Raspberry Pi represents to our children what we were growing up with in the 90s... small processor and storage sizes, and dirt cheap hardware. There's many kid efforts in teaching computers that are just not discussed on Slashdot.
Amigas were not cheap. About the price of a midrange gaming PC in today's money. C64 were cheaper later on but that's still closer to entry level PCs than a Raspberry Pi.
Also, the Raspberry Pi is a powerhouse compared to these old-school computers. It changes the way it is approached. You can fully understand an Amiga or C64, know every instruction, their timing and addresses. A RPi is always used through an OS, with many abstraction layers and things happening behind your back. Basically, old-school computers forced you to understand the hardware if you wanted to go further, but it was easy, now you don't really need to, and doing so would be much harder.