You didn't actually update the system files on your Raspberry Pi. "sudo apt-get update" just updates the package list. You need to run "sudo apt full-upgrade" afterwards to actually upgrade your packages to the latest versions. Autologin wouldn't automatically start the "emulator" executable. You'd have to set that up as a service or more simply just add a line to /etc/rc.local so it's run at boot. This is an amazing project though!
@@danwood_uk just got to that bit! I'd recommend using this line instead "sudo /home/pi/pistorm/emulator &" - The ampersand is VERY important. Without it if the Pi fails to execute the emulator for any reason then the Pi would not complete the boot process and you'd be stuck. I was wondering it there's anyway to gracefully shutdown the Pi without having to SSH into it. Just turning the power off on the Amiga wouldn't do the Pi any favours. Hmm...
sudo can actually be dropped from rc.local as well, all it does is run the executable as root instead of the logged-in user, and rc.local always runs as root.
@@CosmicScaleFactor add a 'hidden' button connected to pi gpio pins, run a script/executable that does the shutdown, maybe if there is ram space, make a ramdisk to replace /var/log folder and /tmp folder, less chance of corrupting sd card ?
This is an excellent jump forward! Was never an Amiga person (Archimedes), but I can’t help but love the commitment of the Amiga community to start new projects.
Great video Dan, have been enjoying getting to know the PiStorm myself this week, the Lemmings bug was interesting to see, I think as long as people go into this knowing it's a work in progress then it's a fantastic foundation and I'm really looking forward to seeing it develop
@@jason_a_smith_gb This is real hardware. With a very slight help in the CPU. I somehow find this more authentic than things like the Vampire which is a closed source project and quite a lot more expensive. The community nature of this project is what the amiga is all about.
Assembled Pistorm boards are about 50 quid at the moment. Potential to save some money on the Pi though as the upcoming Pi Zero 2 is based on the original 3A and should in theory work with the PiStorm.
Lovely video Dan. It will be very interesting to see how far Claude and the team can take this. Just this week I’ve been finishing a similar vid using the Vampire and RGB2HDMI for full HDMI output. I was sure to give the PiStorm a good mention though as an up and comer! Exciting times for the community!
Finally someone in the community made something that does not cost 500 dollars and is not making a profit out of it. This is what Amiga hardware in 2021 should be: cheap and well thought. I seriously hope other projects like this will show up, and we will finally get rid of those people that are fundamentally making a ton of money on the Amiga, directly or indirectly; using the excuses like "I sell only for passion" and "but I made everything from scratch and it cost me money" and "but I produce small quantities". Support projects like this; stop the greed and exploitation of the Amiga.
As a kid growing up, my dad had one of these always sitting in a corner gathering dust because he got a new windows xp machine, I always wanted to fiddle with it. Now I got a project for this Summer
I recently got a modern Checkmate case that I planned on putting an A500 into. The price of accelerators have almost made me cry but when I saw this I thought, this will be perfect.
Nice job, Dan. I appreciate your experimenting with the floppy games...everyone needs to know that this is still far from perfect, but I have no doubt they will get it fixed. I find the PiStorm quite interesting...a little hardware action for the common man!
It is a fantastic time to be an Amiga fan right now, my 3a+ is in the mail and I just started the build for my MiniMig/DE10...which will ultimately end up in a Checkmate Mini ITX when it ships later this year....wonderful new developments and another cracking video from you.
I was thinking this. Would that mean I could run anything, not just Amiga OS? In effect it is the raspberry pie in the Amiga case, and it's not using any of the Amiga chips etc. I have s busted Rev 6a 500 board with shorted ram and Ron chips missing. Would this bypass all that?
@@bennyvandermeer670 No, it's not doing chipset emulation. It still uses Paula for audio output, Agnus for DMA, Denise for video generation, etc. It's not able to run a different OS unless that OS can run on a 68K Amiga.
Great video Dan! i’d add some notices to the commands though. rc.local is executed as root, so you don’t need the sude command there also, it is worth considering a read-only installation on the PI if you don’t want to run hdd emulation. filesystem on the sdcard can become corrupted by an unfortunately scheduled poweroff, and there might be (from the pistorm point of view) unnecessary processes in the stock pi linux that write on the sdcard - which can icrease this chance. i hope the team will put together an optimised linux distro without this bells and whistles for the final result
Great video, amazing bit of kit, I can't believe how much power that adds for so little money. It's got to be the best bang per buck for any system upgrade. Can't wait to see that develop, I hope you show future upgrades.
It is really neat, i heard about this project a little while back was blown away by it and surprise by the lack of interest by some Amiga users, its a game changer as really bring down the cost of upgrading a classic Amiga. Browservice is also another great add on for Amiga users thanks to the Pi, you could explore the modern internet on classic Amiga with old browsers. Then there projects like Amikit XE/Amiberry really improving emulation support on Pi, the Pi i feel is becoming Amiga best friend!
Hi Dan. I know someone here in Tunisia who had an Amiga 500 as well as a C64 and he used them to prepare lessons for teaching well until the early 2000's! Yes the 2000s not the 80's. So much for saying a computer is obsolete. It all depends on what you use it for. I myself have an old macbook from 2009 and I still use it as my main PC with Lubuntu 20.04 partly because I do most of my computing tasks like watching this video on my phone lol.
Or instead of the riser you can get a double stacked header or desolder the pins and connect the board in any other way, even with wires (for anyone else reading this). One of the 'pins' on the PiStorm is also square, you can see the pattern of the solder, this also denotes 'pin 1' on the board. Arguably you don't need to use an sdcard, as you can also boot from USB on the raspberry pi, so you could have this accessible external to the Amiga casing. This's pretty cool. Thanks for sharing.
I wonder if you could setup some kind of kvm switch that auto flicks between the output of the Raspberry Pi to the output of the A500 so you can see it booting fully, since the Raspberry Pi can output VGA this would at least let you see the situation of the Pi before the A500 works.
Have in mind that rc.local already runs with root privileges so you don't need the sudo. Also you can just write the complete location of the file to ignore the cd
Great video Dan, everything well put together as usual, easy to understand guide. Nice with another cpu emulator, a lot of power for 11£, personally I’m not going to fiddle around with all the sudo stuff😊 I’ll buy one, some time from now, hopefully plug and play
@retrocengo They're not £11 unless you can still get one as mentioned in the video? The Pi 3 Model A+ complete ( no soldering required) are currently £24 -£27 depending on availability and where you buy. And don't forget the PiStorm adapter that's required and priced at whatever the seller/scalpers decide they want to sell them for. At the time of writing there's a seller on eBay trying to sell 2x PiStorm adapters for £140!!! I kid you not!!! 🙄
Nice Video, Dan! I picked up an Amiga 500 a few days ago for a PiStorm, then I saw the posts about the CPLD shortages, bah. But can't be helped, I'll just have to wait. Hopefully by the time more boards can be made there will be a lot of bug fixes and new features! I've heard that some guys are trying to get this working on the Atari ST as well which would be pretty fantastic!
Great video as always Dan! One tiny bit of advice though: Starting around 9:24 the flyback transformer of the CRT was quite audible (this is also known as CRT whine). If you could implement a low pass filter on the audio, it'd really help out us younger viewers.
💻 *OMG This is friggin AMAZING! I really hope the do one for the 1200 and 600! Id love to get them up and going with this. Just hope the batteries ain't leaked in them! Awesome video again, Dan! Cheers!*💻
Wow, this could be the future of many hardware upgrades for other platforms..so writing an emulator in a higher level language Like C/C++ and interfacing it at the chip vs implementing hardware in a design language like Verilog. Though I want to learn how to do the latter I'm better set up to try the former. Great video!
I finally managed to get one of theses from Amiga Kit, never had the money before plus picked up A500 Screen Gems Pack I have not seen in 32 years... :)
Since I've upgraded my older RPi 3B+ with the newer 4 for all my RPi projects, I can now just desolder and extend the USB ports so that PiStorm can fit in my A500 without an adapter and 3D print a holder for the USB ports to be usable when an update becomes available. This project saved me a bunch of $$$ that I was about to spend on a Vampire! The irony is that the Pi is more powerful than all the internals combined, but hey -- we want to use the retro hardware as much as possible :-)
Awesome! As for the floppy problems, I would be surprised if it was working well. Even an actual secondary floppy drive was a problem back then. Many A500 games required to have disks in df0 to work and I'm not talking for the boot disk obviously.
Brilliant video, you've definitely earned your Linux badge. Interesting project but I'm not sure I like this, the emulated CPU as a concept. At what point does it stop being an Amiga? The Pi 3 does a pretty good job of playing Amiga games on its own, in my opinion.
And where's the clip of you playing real Doom on an A500? (Project Dread is looking great though...) Doom is playable at 10 MIPS and above, very good at around 20 MIPS. This setup should do well. And it provides hard disk emulation, which Doom will also need.
It's funny this has dropped recently as there's a project trying to accelerate the Minimig core on the MiSTer using the ARM processor built into the de10 nano. Still early days but it's booting.
At this point you might as well emulate the entire thing, especially if you don't already have an Amiga, since with this upgrade it basically only acts as an I/O interface anymore anyway. Keeps the retro feel though while providing a lot more flexibility without breaking the bank, so if you don't really care what's inside, this is definitely a neat development.
@@matthewrichards88 A lot of emulation boxes are based around RasPis, and you can even use it as a standalone desktop PC, albeit the 3 will struggle with that.
I'm not even an Amiga guy since it just wasn't a thing in the US, but even I'm excited about this! It almost makes me want one, like this has all the things and works on an A500 which I assume there are about a zillion of out there and aren't that expensive.
I'm glad stuff like this is made. Without spending to much money more people can have a fast amiga. For me though, it doesn't feel quite right. Because you are using a more modern more powerful computer that is more capable on it's own. I'm not sure how to explain it. Like driving an old car with a modern car on top of it that takes over the engine but you could just drive the modern car instead. But I enjoyed the video and it's great that there are more cheap amiga stuff for people to enjoy.
@@TiagoJoaoSilva ...and you are also adding extra functionality to the old platform and keeping - or giving choice to use- parts of the legacy platform. A good example of the latter is that when they get the disk-drive functionality working you will also have access to 3.5 inch disk games etc.
To me, this is like my 1976 Camaro that has an upgraded engine and differential in it. At the end of the day, it's still 99% Camaro, just with a better engine that solves many of the shortcomings of the original iron slug that was powering the car. I can add upgraded brakes and suspension as well, but at heart, still a vintage Camaro.
That, is a great piece of tech for my good old A500+. And you can even choose which CPU you want, some extra power for 3D games is a good thing, like flight sims! But right now the disk drive non working is a problem to me. I may sound weird but I still enjoy launching ECS/OCS games from floppies on my A500+, just to get these nice cracktro/trainer in front and just get back to this loading experience that comes with this computer, plus the sounds it makes while loading is just pure joy to me. :-D And I already have the WHDLoad experience on my A1200.
Its not weird. You are experiencing peak nostalgia there. The sounds and just think back to the amount of times you inserted a floppy. There's deeply embedded muscle memory there that hasn't been used for decades. It all comes back and its all very satisfying but what is weird to me is how much I appreciate the oldest hardware now but I'm still chasing the fastest. Growing up anytime something new came out like going from Vic20 to C64, the Vic20 I claimed to love so much was dead to me! lol C64 was the new hotness. You seem to gain a different level of perspective as you get older.
"While the PiStorm should work with any DIP socket 16-bit 68000-powered system, the FC lines are currently not properly handled and no guarantees can be made for it working on anything except an Amiga 500, 500+ and 2000."
great video Dan, as always this an awesome project, let's hope the chip shortage won't increase the price as much the 2nd hand accelerators did by the way, typing ifconfig will show the ip address the pi os was appointed by the router
@@danwood_uk Great! Thought that would have some latency with the controls due to emulation. I mentioned Silkworm cause it's a pixel perfect title with smooth frame rate and tight controls :-)
Something I noticed from another Chris Edwards videos on the PiStorm is that the disk reading problem doesn't seem to happen with an external gotech drive. Maybe it is just limited to the internal drive but to find out you would need to connect an external floppy drive. With SSH though, it seems like it would just be easier to send files over the network.
Hi !! I saw that Lemmings use CHIPRam and this kind of RAM resides in the other side of architecture !! RPi only expand CPU memmory !! Check the memmap of your amiga. Software with more chipmem memm requests tends to "not run" even if your accelerator kits have a lot o RAM...
Must get Amiga 1200 out of cupboard and prey no caps are damaged/leaking. Still got my original 500 in mums loft not touched since about 1997, scared to look at it 🤯
how about the "Raspberry Pi Pico" with a custom Rom/Ram USB Flashed Image, it would need a little bit more bit on the external board, the "Raspberry Pi Pico" are so cheap you could add more than one to the tasked needed to getting things working, ever time you add an second, or third, you would and extra USB port loads more GPIO port also? :-)
With this solution you're still using the Paula chip for native Amiga audio, still using native floppy drives (or a Gotek), serial and parallel ports as well as the chip RAM. Pistorm is emulating the 68xxx series of processors, fast RAM and a hard drive interface (right now). I'm sure you can still use expansions in the 500's belly slot or left side.
@@LeftoverBeefcake Yea, if you have to include stuff like serial and parallel ports to pad out the list of real hardware still in use, just emulate the whole computer.
@@GoatTheGoat So go use RetroPie or WinUAE or a MiSTer or something. Or leave your Amiga 500 bone stock if you're such a purist. This project clearly isn't for you, Officer Patterson of the Retro Police. I didn't know there was a law against putting modern hardware inside a retro machine.
makes me want to buy an a500 again.. hey Dan.. great video, you know when you upgraded to kickstart3.1 does that automatically give you access to AGA on the A500?
The Raspberry Pi is infamous for corrupting the SD card if you turn off the power without doing a shutdown procedure first. Does the PiStorm have protection against that in some way?
Great video, you have some of the best step by step videos out there. A question, as you know the Pi is very hard to find right now and when you do ridiculously expensive. I have a couple 3b's, could I remove the USB and network connectors and use on without the header and maybe be able to close the 500?
I was thinking the same thing when looking the video why not use the the big bus connector it right there next to the CPU why not why, it one of the main reason's the 500 amiga has one , plus a hard disk? there was a external CPU thing made for that port, can not remember much a bout it or good it worked? the only down side no working floppy, and the Amiga now takes 30 plus seconds to just switch on :-)
You didn't actually update the system files on your Raspberry Pi. "sudo apt-get update" just updates the package list. You need to run "sudo apt full-upgrade" afterwards to actually upgrade your packages to the latest versions.
Autologin wouldn't automatically start the "emulator" executable. You'd have to set that up as a service or more simply just add a line to /etc/rc.local so it's run at boot.
This is an amazing project though!
Yeah I missed a step with the update. Thanks. I do add to rc.local at the end of the video.
@@danwood_uk just got to that bit! I'd recommend using this line instead "sudo /home/pi/pistorm/emulator &" - The ampersand is VERY important. Without it if the Pi fails to execute the emulator for any reason then the Pi would not complete the boot process and you'd be stuck.
I was wondering it there's anyway to gracefully shutdown the Pi without having to SSH into it. Just turning the power off on the Amiga wouldn't do the Pi any favours. Hmm...
sudo can actually be dropped from rc.local as well, all it does is run the executable as root instead of the logged-in user, and rc.local always runs as root.
@@CosmicScaleFactor add a 'hidden' button connected to pi gpio pins, run a script/executable that does the shutdown, maybe if there is ram space, make a ramdisk to replace /var/log folder and /tmp folder, less chance of corrupting sd card ?
@@jyvben1520 I thought about a switch on the gpio pins but they are all being used already
Just waiting for Pistorm for the A1200 and CD32 and i'm in.
Yeah same for me, but then the Raspberry Pi 4, would also love to see a Amiga 2000 with a Raspberry Pi 4.
A1200 rulez!
Defo bang on that. 👌👍
This is an excellent jump forward! Was never an Amiga person (Archimedes), but I can’t help but love the commitment of the Amiga community to start new projects.
Those Acorn machines were awesome. I remember when they were introduced at school.
Great video Dan, have been enjoying getting to know the PiStorm myself this week, the Lemmings bug was interesting to see, I think as long as people go into this knowing it's a work in progress then it's a fantastic foundation and I'm really looking forward to seeing it develop
Don’t like it. If using hw, use total hw. Otherwise Amiberry.
@@jason_a_smith_gb This is real hardware. With a very slight help in the CPU. I somehow find this more authentic than things like the Vampire which is a closed source project and quite a lot more expensive. The community nature of this project is what the amiga is all about.
You can't go wrong on that price, and as wish us knight says below, it's more authentic
Assembled Pistorm boards are about 50 quid at the moment. Potential to save some money on the Pi though as the upcoming Pi Zero 2 is based on the original 3A and should in theory work with the PiStorm.
@@Daz555Daz oh good to know. Anyone got it working on a pi 4 yet?
Lovely video Dan. It will be very interesting to see how far Claude and the team can take this. Just this week I’ve been finishing a similar vid using the Vampire and RGB2HDMI for full HDMI output. I was sure to give the PiStorm a good mention though as an up and comer! Exciting times for the community!
Finally someone in the community made something that does not cost 500 dollars and is not making a profit out of it. This is what Amiga hardware in 2021 should be: cheap and well thought.
I seriously hope other projects like this will show up, and we will finally get rid of those people that are fundamentally making a ton of money on the Amiga, directly or indirectly; using the excuses like "I sell only for passion" and "but I made everything from scratch and it cost me money" and "but I produce small quantities". Support projects like this; stop the greed and exploitation of the Amiga.
As a kid growing up, my dad had one of these always sitting in a corner gathering dust because he got a new windows xp machine, I always wanted to fiddle with it. Now I got a project for this Summer
Hopefully they make a PiStorm for the Amiga 600. Great video Dan.
They did, even for the 1200
I recently got a modern Checkmate case that I planned on putting an A500 into. The price of accelerators have almost made me cry but when I saw this I thought, this will be perfect.
Imagine being able to load a webpage on this old a hardware because of the raspberry pi
Fantastic intro to the PiStorm Dan. Can't wait to get one of these into my 500 :)
Nice job, Dan. I appreciate your experimenting with the floppy games...everyone needs to know that this is still far from perfect, but I have no doubt they will get it fixed. I find the PiStorm quite interesting...a little hardware action for the common man!
It is a fantastic time to be an Amiga fan right now, my 3a+ is in the mail and I just started the build for my MiniMig/DE10...which will ultimately end up in a Checkmate Mini ITX when it ships later this year....wonderful new developments and another cracking video from you.
So it's basically a Raspberry Pi with an Amiga hat?
I was thinking this. Would that mean I could run anything, not just Amiga OS? In effect it is the raspberry pie in the Amiga case, and it's not using any of the Amiga chips etc. I have s busted Rev 6a 500 board with shorted ram and Ron chips missing. Would this bypass all that?
@@matthewrichards88 it is not using Amiga chips in RTG modes, but the Kickstart is loading and needs the chips. Or does it has chipset emulation ?
@@bennyvandermeer670 No, it's not doing chipset emulation. It still uses Paula for audio output, Agnus for DMA, Denise for video generation, etc. It's not able to run a different OS unless that OS can run on a 68K Amiga.
@@heidirichter so Matthews machine will not boot.
@@bennyvandermeer670 that's correct, it would need working chip ram
Heard about this on the podcast yesterday, this is so cool!
Great video Dan!
i’d add some notices to the commands though.
rc.local is executed as root, so you don’t need the sude command there
also, it is worth considering a read-only installation on the PI if you don’t want to run hdd emulation. filesystem on the sdcard can become corrupted by an unfortunately scheduled poweroff, and there might be (from the pistorm point of view) unnecessary processes in the stock pi linux that write on the sdcard - which can icrease this chance. i hope the team will put together an optimised linux distro without this bells and whistles for the final result
Great video, amazing bit of kit, I can't believe how much power that adds for so little money. It's got to be the best bang per buck for any system upgrade. Can't wait to see that develop, I hope you show future upgrades.
Awesome !
Thanks for having shared this video about such a very promising as affordable accelerator.
Such a cool project! Really breathes new life in to the old 500. Tempted to get one myself when it's more stable
It is really neat, i heard about this project a little while back was blown away by it and surprise by the lack of interest by some Amiga users, its a game changer as really bring down the cost of upgrading a classic Amiga. Browservice is also another great add on for Amiga users thanks to the Pi, you could explore the modern internet on classic Amiga with old browsers. Then there projects like Amikit XE/Amiberry really improving emulation support on Pi, the Pi i feel is becoming Amiga best friend!
Hi Dan. I know someone here in Tunisia who had an Amiga 500 as well as a C64 and he used them to prepare lessons for teaching well until the early 2000's! Yes the 2000s not the 80's. So much for saying a computer is obsolete. It all depends on what you use it for.
I myself have an old macbook from 2009 and I still use it as my main PC with Lubuntu 20.04 partly because I do most of my computing tasks like watching this video on my phone lol.
This is insanely brilliant. I'm speechless. It's kinda like downloading more ram, but cheaper.
Got a PiStorm coming my way, for an A1000. This just looks like loads of fun seeing what it can do, for pretty cheap. Great starter video. thank you !
Great video, I already own a vampire and a Terrible Fire, and I think the PiStorm is a total game changer.
Or instead of the riser you can get a double stacked header or desolder the pins and connect the board in any other way, even with wires (for anyone else reading this).
One of the 'pins' on the PiStorm is also square, you can see the pattern of the solder, this also denotes 'pin 1' on the board.
Arguably you don't need to use an sdcard, as you can also boot from USB on the raspberry pi, so you could have this accessible external to the Amiga casing.
This's pretty cool. Thanks for sharing.
I wonder if you could setup some kind of kvm switch that auto flicks between the output of the Raspberry Pi to the output of the A500 so you can see it booting fully, since the Raspberry Pi can output VGA this would at least let you see the situation of the Pi before the A500 works.
Have in mind that rc.local already runs with root privileges so you don't need the sudo. Also you can just write the complete location of the file to ignore the cd
I was waiting for you to review this pistorm Dan, Great video as always.
Very interesting project. Got to try this some day. Great presentation Dan :)
Hey since you don't need your Motorola 68000 anymore...send it my way ;-)
Amazing! Old HomeComputer hardware comes back to life with modern hardware replacements. Thx for the video and thx for the great PiStorm project!
Great to see such cheap hardware! Great video Dan
Great video Dan, everything well put together as usual, easy to understand guide.
Nice with another cpu emulator, a lot of power for 11£, personally I’m not going to fiddle around with all the sudo stuff😊
I’ll buy one, some time from now, hopefully plug and play
@retrocengo They're not £11 unless you can still get one as mentioned in the video? The Pi 3 Model A+ complete ( no soldering required) are currently £24 -£27 depending on availability and where you buy. And don't forget the PiStorm adapter that's required and priced at whatever the seller/scalpers decide they want to sell them for. At the time of writing there's a seller on eBay trying to sell 2x PiStorm adapters for £140!!! I kid you not!!! 🙄
Nice Video, Dan! I picked up an Amiga 500 a few days ago for a PiStorm, then I saw the posts about the CPLD shortages, bah. But can't be helped, I'll just have to wait. Hopefully by the time more boards can be made there will be a lot of bug fixes and new features!
I've heard that some guys are trying to get this working on the Atari ST as well which would be pretty fantastic!
Nice video, and fantastic Sun Keyboard
Great video as always Dan! One tiny bit of advice though: Starting around 9:24 the flyback transformer of the CRT was quite audible (this is also known as CRT whine). If you could implement a low pass filter on the audio, it'd really help out us younger viewers.
Thanks, I haven’t been able to hear it since I hit 30, the years of DJing in noisy nightclubs probably didn’t help either 😆
@@danwood_uk Haha no worries! It's actually not nearly as loud as it could be.
💻 *OMG This is friggin AMAZING! I really hope the do one for the 1200 and 600! Id love to get them up and going with this. Just hope the batteries ain't leaked in them! Awesome video again, Dan! Cheers!*💻
Wow, this could be the future of many hardware upgrades for other platforms..so writing an emulator in a higher level language Like C/C++ and interfacing it at the chip vs implementing hardware in a design language like Verilog. Though I want to learn how to do the latter I'm better set up to try the former. Great video!
Thank you for this -- it definitely answers some questions I've had. Quality vid with quality info as always.
I finally managed to get one of theses from Amiga Kit, never had the money before plus picked up A500 Screen Gems Pack I have not seen in 32 years... :)
Since I've upgraded my older RPi 3B+ with the newer 4 for all my RPi projects, I can now just desolder and extend the USB ports so that PiStorm can fit in my A500 without an adapter and 3D print a holder for the USB ports to be usable when an update becomes available. This project saved me a bunch of $$$ that I was about to spend on a Vampire! The irony is that the Pi is more powerful than all the internals combined, but hey -- we want to use the retro hardware as much as possible :-)
After so long another video, please make more I love your channel
You do radio, don't you? 🤔 What a voice, man 😉
Doesn’t need a microphone in a public setting I’ll bet.
Capital ?
Now kith.
Anyone can sound good with the right microphone and compressor settings. You can add more bass etc.
Awesome!
As for the floppy problems, I would be surprised if it was working well. Even an actual secondary floppy drive was a problem back then. Many A500 games required to have disks in df0 to work and I'm not talking for the boot disk obviously.
Brilliant video, you've definitely earned your Linux badge. Interesting project but I'm not sure I like this, the emulated CPU as a concept. At what point does it stop being an Amiga? The Pi 3 does a pretty good job of playing Amiga games on its own, in my opinion.
And where's the clip of you playing real Doom on an A500? (Project Dread is looking great though...)
Doom is playable at 10 MIPS and above, very good at around 20 MIPS. This setup should do well. And it provides hard disk emulation, which Doom will also need.
Great video as always Dan! Thanks. Looking forward to a follow up comparing the 020 and 030 and some gameplay and benchmarks. Cheers
very cool. I just hope that finished adaptor boards can be bought at some point in the future
It's funny this has dropped recently as there's a project trying to accelerate the Minimig core on the MiSTer using the ARM processor built into the de10 nano. Still early days but it's booting.
Great video what an age to live in
At this point you might as well emulate the entire thing, especially if you don't already have an Amiga, since with this upgrade it basically only acts as an I/O interface anymore anyway.
Keeps the retro feel though while providing a lot more flexibility without breaking the bank, so if you don't really care what's inside, this is definitely a neat development.
Would that mean I could run anything on this raspberry pie, not just Amiga....
@@matthewrichards88 A lot of emulation boxes are based around RasPis, and you can even use it as a standalone desktop PC, albeit the 3 will struggle with that.
Dood that’s nuts! I got out of Commodore and into Mac as a profession right around that same time.
I'm not even an Amiga guy since it just wasn't a thing in the US, but even I'm excited about this! It almost makes me want one, like this has all the things and works on an A500 which I assume there are about a zillion of out there and aren't that expensive.
Found my US A500 for 125$ on Craigslist back in Phoenix. Deals are out there.
I wish I still had my a2000, it would be an ideal machine to use as the basis for a modernisation/upgrade project
ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT! Wow. Definitely the best time to be an Amiga (and Atari ST) FAN these days? :)
Thanks so much for making this Dan, excellent video as usual 👍
20:30 - 'Disable all external drives' you know this one Dan ;-)
9:23 brought a smile to my face! Wow!
It's been on my list Dan.. nice video my friend
Very cool Dan and way under budget everyone with a A500 should look into this thanks for sharing
Great video! Very thorough instructions, so thank you for that. Interesting tech!
I'm glad stuff like this is made. Without spending to much money more people can have a fast amiga. For me though, it doesn't feel quite right. Because you are using a more modern more powerful computer that is more capable on it's own. I'm not sure how to explain it. Like driving an old car with a modern car on top of it that takes over the engine but you could just drive the modern car instead. But I enjoyed the video and it's great that there are more cheap amiga stuff for people to enjoy.
Instead of emulating the whole computer (CPU, PAD, etc) in the Pi, you're just simulating a faster CPU and using the rest of the real hardware
@@TiagoJoaoSilva I do like that but I prefer stuff like the zz9000.
@@TiagoJoaoSilva ...and you are also adding extra functionality to the old platform and keeping - or giving choice to use- parts of the legacy platform. A good example of the latter is that when they get the disk-drive functionality working you will also have access to 3.5 inch disk games etc.
To me, this is like my 1976 Camaro that has an upgraded engine and differential in it. At the end of the day, it's still 99% Camaro, just with a better engine that solves many of the shortcomings of the original iron slug that was powering the car. I can add upgraded brakes and suspension as well, but at heart, still a vintage Camaro.
great video Dan, keep em coming
That, is a great piece of tech for my good old A500+.
And you can even choose which CPU you want, some extra power for 3D games is a good thing, like flight sims!
But right now the disk drive non working is a problem to me.
I may sound weird but I still enjoy launching ECS/OCS games from floppies on my A500+, just to get these nice cracktro/trainer in front and just get back to this loading experience that comes with this computer, plus the sounds it makes while loading is just pure joy to me. :-D
And I already have the WHDLoad experience on my A1200.
Its not weird. You are experiencing peak nostalgia there. The sounds and just think back to the amount of times you inserted a floppy. There's deeply embedded muscle memory there that hasn't been used for decades. It all comes back and its all very satisfying but what is weird to me is how much I appreciate the oldest hardware now but I'm still chasing the fastest. Growing up anytime something new came out like going from Vic20 to C64, the Vic20 I claimed to love so much was dead to me! lol C64 was the new hotness. You seem to gain a different level of perspective as you get older.
this is so nice! now we only need a solution for the big daddy amigas..
"While the PiStorm should work with any DIP socket 16-bit 68000-powered system, the FC lines are currently not properly handled and no guarantees can be made for it working on anything except an Amiga 500, 500+ and 2000."
Already works with the big daddy, the A2000 :-)
great video Dan, as always
this an awesome project, let's hope the chip shortage won't increase the price as much the 2nd hand accelerators did
by the way, typing ifconfig will show the ip address the pi os was appointed by the router
Hey Dan, nice presentation.
Did you notice any latency on games like Silkworm for example?
I haven’t tried Silkworm as yet. But on WHDload games I tested, performance was rock solid.
@@danwood_uk Great! Thought that would have some latency with the controls due to emulation.
I mentioned Silkworm cause it's a pixel perfect title with smooth frame rate and tight controls :-)
Great informative video Dan. That project looks great, such a cheap upgrade!
This gives me an idea about the Sega Genesis.
I was wondering if you're gonna review PiStorm.
Great video!
Something I noticed from another Chris Edwards videos on the PiStorm is that the disk reading problem doesn't seem to happen with an external gotech drive. Maybe it is just limited to the internal drive but to find out you would need to connect an external floppy drive. With SSH though, it seems like it would just be easier to send files over the network.
oh hell yes, this has so much potential
Looks like the answer to my dead scsi hdd. Great video, thanks Dan.
Brilliant! I'm all over this for my stock A500.
Ahhhh just about to get around to making one of these boards up. I have the PCB but the chip shortage has really affected prices for the components.
Hi !!
I saw that Lemmings use CHIPRam and this kind of RAM resides in the other side of architecture !! RPi only expand CPU memmory !! Check the memmap of your amiga. Software with more chipmem memm requests tends to "not run" even if your accelerator kits have a lot o RAM...
I had an amiga 500 plus. Yes it existed
i had that monitor from kays catalogue with my amiga 1200 :)
I just did the terrablefire upgrade and it was not cheap.. this looks so cool
Well, that's a clever way of doing it
P.C.B. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY!!!!!
My thoughts exactly.... :)
Must get Amiga 1200 out of cupboard and prey no caps are damaged/leaking. Still got my original 500 in mums loft not touched since about 1997, scared to look at it 🤯
A500, the most beautiful home computer
Cool product. Seems like the RPi compute module would be better suited for something like this. Much smaller footprint, and thinner "sandwich".
how about the "Raspberry Pi Pico" with a custom Rom/Ram USB Flashed Image, it would need a little bit more bit on the external board, the "Raspberry Pi Pico" are so cheap you could add more than one to the tasked needed to getting things working, ever time you add an second, or third, you would and extra USB port loads more GPIO port also? :-)
Amazing stuff! Is it using all of the arm cores? It's need a special distro. But I guess it's in it's initial stages. Really cool stuff!
This mod replaces too much of the amiga hardware. You are basically only using the amiga as a keyboard, mouse, and video interface.
Not to disagree but isn't that the main argument against the Vampire?
@@davidwright9166 Agreed, the vampire mod also replaces too much.
With this solution you're still using the Paula chip for native Amiga audio, still using native floppy drives (or a Gotek), serial and parallel ports as well as the chip RAM. Pistorm is emulating the 68xxx series of processors, fast RAM and a hard drive interface (right now). I'm sure you can still use expansions in the 500's belly slot or left side.
@@LeftoverBeefcake Yea, if you have to include stuff like serial and parallel ports to pad out the list of real hardware still in use, just emulate the whole computer.
@@GoatTheGoat So go use RetroPie or WinUAE or a MiSTer or something. Or leave your Amiga 500 bone stock if you're such a purist. This project clearly isn't for you, Officer Patterson of the Retro Police. I didn't know there was a law against putting modern hardware inside a retro machine.
Note- apt-get update just updates your package repository list. You need to run apt-get upgrade to upgrade the installed packages.
Amiga is the first easy to use and powerful enough PC. That´s why you love it. Amiga could be used to replace all newer PC´s with all these upgrades.
Wonderfull stuff, and a quite cheap way to accelerate the stock A500 :-)
Pretty cool! Thanks for sharing! 😁
Power of the Pi!!
L'A500 e una grande palestra hardware,ci fai di tutto.un vero mito
Fantastic stuff! Now i wonder where to get your windows background image :D It's so cool and i've always wanted background like that.
Wow! Amazing project!
makes me want to buy an a500 again.. hey Dan.. great video, you know when you upgraded to kickstart3.1 does that automatically give you access to AGA on the A500?
No, you’re still using the A500’s actual chipset.
@@danwood_uk gutted.. still an incredible bit of kit though
The Raspberry Pi is infamous for corrupting the SD card if you turn off the power without doing a shutdown procedure first. Does the PiStorm have protection against that in some way?
Great video, you have some of the best step by step videos out there. A question, as you know the Pi is very hard to find right now and when you do ridiculously expensive. I have a couple 3b's, could I remove the USB and network connectors and use on without the header and maybe be able to close the 500?
Thanks for the video Dan, Obviously it's no Vampire, however holy cow the price and the features are amazing!
Great video as always
Sooo cool . Legend !
I'd like to see a PiStorm in an side expansion slot form factor that you could just insert into the side of your A1000 or A500. Any tinkers or takers?
I was thinking the same thing when looking the video why not use the the big bus connector it right there next to the CPU why not why, it one of the main reason's the 500 amiga has one , plus a hard disk? there was a external CPU thing made for that port, can not remember much a bout it or good it worked?
the only down side no working floppy, and the Amiga now takes 30 plus seconds to just switch on :-)
What a beautiful marriage between the Linux and the Amiga world!