![]() Just as the hardware is presented as a do-it-yourself offering, you'll find no pre-configured SD card images to accomplish this. The PiStorm handles communication between the real Amiga hardware and the Musashi emulator, which then pretends to be a Motorola 68000 processor - or a 68010, 68020, 68030, 68040, and a small handful of other processor variants, with or without floating-point unit (FPU) coprocessor. ![]() The secret to getting past this: Emulation. Switch your Amiga on, and you'll be presented with a blank screen. The hardware is only part of the PiStorm, though. ![]() For those who don't want to wrestle with minimum order quantities, the PiStorm community hosts regular group buys - though CPLD component shortages of late have seen these spaced further and further apart. In fact, having your own boards produced from the supplied design files is one of the only ways to get your hands on one: Schwarz frowns upon commercial exploitation of his designs, meaning you won't find any on sale at retail. One final thing which sets the PiStorm apart from its competition in the Amiga acceleration market, beside its impressively low price: It's open hardware. Schwarz has shown off work which gets the considerably more powerful Raspberry Pi 4 Model B and the compact but equally impressive Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 working as PiStorm daughterboards - but support was not yet publicly available and was not tested as part of this review. ![]() There is one minor catch: At the time of writing, the PiStorm exclusively supported the Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+, with the Model B+ a possibility if you're willing to use a GPIO header extension to provide additional clearance to lift taller components away from the Amiga motherboard. ![]()
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