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It is interesting to see where MiSTer community will be going, the DE-10 Nano board that forms the core of the system is very long on the tooth and also quite expensive for what it is. But for ecosystem as complex as MiSTer shifting platforms is immense task.

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Cheap clones of the DE-10 Nano ($99 target) are allegedly on the way along with new boards that make different tradeoffs with the pins. Should be interesting - there’s a lot of life left (PSX/N64/Saturn are all very recently added) imo but the price and availability issues are unfortunate.

Not only a $99 clone, but a $15 128K RAM expansion that is basically a must-have.

The MisTER family was always a bit expensive for the benefit it provides compared to software emulators. It is a tool for extreme fidelity, the kind of which you want when you are driving original hardware, but that’s a need few people have.

IIRC, the platform was built off development/evaluation boards that was primarily targeted towards the education market, anyway, where bells and whistles are a priority.

It looks like the platform here is a low-frills one from a company that isn't Altera, Xilinx, or Lattice. Good! I'm glad there's some competition.

It's about reducing latency between input and output more than improving emulation precision.

Indeed. A CRT and noise making floppy disks are higher on my point of view for amiga fidelity than bettzr than cycle perfect emulation.

Getting from more than 200 EUR/USD down to less than 50 is a big deal IMHO, but also just the availability of of the Tang boards is so much better. This is at a point where it starts to be fun again for an average hardware enthusiast to play around again with different hardware emulations.

I own both a real Amiga 500 and a MIST box. While pure software emulation might be great by now, it just deals so much more real on hardware (with my old micro switch joysticks).

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