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Accelerator board projekt: Revision 0.8 of Buffee boards (22. Jul. 2024)
The turbo card project "Buffee" (amiga-news.de reported) has been rather quiet lately. Now Renee Cousins, one of the two developers of the project, is back with a new blog entry. They can now devote themselves full-time to development again as they h...

Accelerator board projekt: Buffee firmware beta v0.3 (19. Apr. 2023)
In her blog, which has been given a new layout, Renee Cousins, one of the two developers of the turbo card project "Buffee", already reported several times about her emulation solution of the 68k processor under ARM microprocessors, Pseudo-JIT (PJIT), and...

Accelerator board projekt: Buffee developer on ARM GCC (10. Jan. 2023)
In her blog, Renee Cousins, one of the two developers of the "Buffee" turbo card project (amiga-news.de reported), reports on the theoretical and practical basics of the project. In the latest blog entry, she explains with examples that the ARM GCC someti...

Accelerator board projekt: Buffee developer on the advantages of PJIT (16. Nov. 2022)
In her blog Renee Cousins, one of the two developers of the turbo card project "Buffee" (amiga-news.de reported), reports about theoretical and practical basics of the project. In two previous blog entries she had compared her emulation solution of the 68...

Accelerator board: Buffee developers test TF1200 (02. Sep. 2022)
In her latest blog entry, Renee Cousins, one of the two developers of the turbo card project "Buffee" (amiga-news.de reported), reports that due to the existence of a TF1200 by Stephen Leary they are able to test Buffee on the Amiga 1200 as well. Already ...

Accelerator board: More information on replacement project of Buffee developers (28. Aug. 2022)
In her latest blog entry, Renee Cousins, one of the two developers of the turbo card project "Buffee" (amiga-news.de reported) addresses the topic of chip shortage and presents the currently pushed "clone projects" in a detailed article (amiga-news.de rep...

Accelerator board project: 'Buffee' supports Big Endian (26. May. 2022)
In her latest blog entry Renee Cousins, one of the two developers of the accelerator board 'Buffee' (amiga-news.de reported) takes up the topic of Endianness and refutes the thesis that the AM335x processor installed on the Buffee did not support Big Endi...

Custom chips: Replacement project of Buffee developers (21. May. 2022)
As Renee Cousins, one of the developers of the turbo card project 'Buffee' (amiga-news.de reported), explained a few days ago, she has turned back to her original Amiga project dedicated to hard-to-find custom chips and their replacements. The first one i...

Accelerator board project: Buffee partly Open Source again (18. May. 2022)
At the end of March we reported that the turbo card project 'Buffee', originally started as Open Source under a non-commercial Creative Commons license, is fully Closed Source. In a new blog entry from yesterday, the developers now announce that the sourc...

Amiga Addict available from newsagents in England, Irland, USA, Australia soon (26. Mar. 2022)
Print magazine Amiga Addict is anouncing on Twitter that the English publication will soon be available from more than 300 newsagents in the United Kingdom as well as in selected stores in the USA, Irland, and Australia. The current 11th issue featur...

Accelerator board project: Buffee now Closed Source (24. Mar. 2022)
According to the developers of the turbo card 'Buffee' (amiga-news.de reported) in their latest blog entry, the project which started as open source under a non-commercial Creative Commons license will now be continued completely closed source. Up to a...

Minimig: Revision 1.8 (update) (20. Mar. 2022)
In 2005 we reported on the start of the Minimig project by Dutch electrical engineer Dennis van Weeren: the reimplementation of the one Amiga 500 in an FPGA. Based on this approach there were other projects like the Mist, which uses its own hardware but f...

Accelerator board: Last Buffee status update for 2021 (20. Nov. 2021)
In our last new item we reported that the Buffee accelerator boards had to be sent back for revision. Now the developers have published a last bog entry for this year (pictures available under the title link): "I have many words for the last year, no...

Accelerator board: Returning the Buffees for rework (17. Aug. 2021)
In the middle of June the developers reported that a second batch of 60 beta Buffees was ordered which now arrived. They "managed to power them up." However, new problems were found, as the developers further report: "While we did manage to boot ...

Update to accelerator board project 'Buffee' (11. Jun. 2021)
The open source accelerator board project "Buffee" started by Renee Cousins and Tim Wacker consists of an adapter board which is connected to the processor socket of an A500, A1000 or A2000 and has a SoC of type Octavo OSD335x-SM inclusive 512 or 1024 MB ...

PiStorm: Video shows current development status (20. May. 2021)
Claude Schwarz' 'PiStorm' connects a Raspberry Pi to the CPU socket in an A500, A1000 or A2000 via an adapter and uses the single-board computer to emulate a fast m68k processor. Unlike the Buffee project where the 68k emulator runs directly on the hardwa...

Raspberry Pi as m68000 replacement: PiStorm (30. Jan. 2021)
Claude Schwarz' 'PiStorm' connects a Raspberry Pi to a CPU socket of an A500, A1000 or A2000 using an adapter for emulating a fast m68k processor. In contrary to the Buffee project a Linux-based solution is used instead of running the 68k emulator directl...

Accelerator board project 'Buffee': ARM processor emulates 68040/400 Mhz (29. Jan. 2021)
The open source accelerator board project "Buffee" started by Renee Cousins and Tim Wacker consists of an adapter board which is connected to the processor socket of an A500, A1000 or A2000 and has a SoC of type Octavo OSD335x-SM inclusive 512 or 1024 MB ...