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I can't wait to get my hands on the stand-alone version that's supposedly on the way. Cheap and available (and compatible) hardware with decent performance is a long-awaited thing for a lot of Amiga enthusiasts.

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What will you do with it? I don’t fully understand why people are so excited by these things when the core OS hasn’t been updated in years?

For me, it's pure nostalgia. It's getting to relive the past that I loved with all new hardware, getting to do things that nobody from the time period could have imagined given the limitations and pushing the limits of the software of the system. Sure the OS hasn't been updated in years, but there's a giant library of software and hardware for the system that's still a draw, and using modern technology to make it more palatable and useful is a huge bonus in addition to enabling people to experience it all again.

I mean you can run Linux on it ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov6fNeijWTo

AmigaOS 4.1 fe came out 4 years ago so it’s not that ancient.

AmigaOS 4 is PowerPC only, it does not run on this hardware at all.

The last version of AmigaOS 3.1 for classic hardware came out in 2016.

I mean technically it was a "new" release but they fixed 4 minor bugs in a codebase that was otherwise not touched in 20+ years.

If you want the most modern AmigaOS to run on classic hardware that's obviously 3.9 which was released in 2000.

Or AROS's 68000 build.

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Aros/Platforms/68k_support

(AROS is an AmigaOS open source clone. Source compatible for all other platforms, such as Intel, binary compatible for 68000.)

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Any info on the stand alone version available?

Unforunately no real information is available, the most recent update is the May progress report [0]. The 500 version is due for release before the standalone, and for the standalone they need to finish implementing the graphics/audio chipset in FPGA plus probably other design issues. Personally, I hope to see the 500 version available in 2019 and the standalone in 2020.

[0] http://forum.apollo-accelerators.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=190...

There are VHDL or Verilog implementations of Amiga gfx/audio (see Minimig) but I wouldn't be surprised if the Apollo people want to do their own. After all, the (spiritual) successor, Natami, was to be compatible but greatly enhanced in the chipset front.

No. Beta hardware is being tested, but this whole project is driven in the spare time of the folk building/testing it, so it's slow going.

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