Source: http://www.apollo-core.com/

Already 34 years ago (😳) Commodore announced the Amiga 500 at the 1987 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The rest is history. 34 frigging, solid years of history and the beast is still alive.

Who owned an Amiga, loved the Amiga. The sound and graphics capabilities were outstanding and quickly the machine became one of the go-to platforms for gamers. The Motorola 68000 microprocessor ran at a whopping 7 dot something MHz, depending on whether you had the PAL or NTSC version.

The machine was just a joy and represented the start into the 32-bit era. The 68000 came with 32-bit wide registers and internal databus, but parts of the architecture were still only 16 or 24-bit wide. That changed with the 68020 (now fully 32-bit), the 68040 (fully pipelined) and the 68060 (superscalar) variants of the architecture. However, finally the IBM PC won the hearts of the consumer for the one or the other reason (I don’t get) and that is the world we live in today.

But some people simply do not want to accept that fact. We could hardly be more pleased. The Apollo Team around their head Gunnar von Boehn should be known to most Amiga afficionados. They develop and produce improved replacement hardware for the various Amiga models and just released, what they call the Worlds fastest 68k.

Of course based on an FPGA the team seems to have hit the bull's eye. If you still own the 'girlfriend', have a look at their site. They provide a number of interesting accelerator boards.