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None of these things provide 100% accurate emulation. Nothing beats real hardware.

(And the market agrees, else everyone would be selling amigas for 100 bucks.)

And real hardware? Original hardware? Slowly it gets damaged, dies, breaks, and so it becomes a rarer commodity.



But the original Amiga with just a faster CPU is pretty damn close.


Actual Amiga with FPGA-based open source accelerator board is my preference.

But such a thing doesn't exist yet (proprietary solutions do, but fuck that).

PiStorm is the next best thing. That's a fast CPU running an m68k emulator, acting as a real Amiga's CPU.


An FPGA would be close.


An FPGA isn't any better at accuracy than a software-based emulator.

Accuracy is all about understanding the original hardware. WinUAE matches the current level understanding of the platform, minimig (open FPGA core) does not.

Hardware definitely is harder than software, so FPGA is harder if anything.

... and yet I still prefer hardware. Latency and jitter relative to the target platform is a serious issue with software.

Current computers just aren't made like they used to, and popular operating systems outright suck at guaranteeing latency.




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