The armiga project - Your floppies back on the spotlight!
Yep, the floppies are back again!
Some may think that the Amiga are dead and gone for life. But guess what? Their wrong. Because the Amiga community are very much alive and kicking. And that´s probably why the armiga project got started in the first place (because of the great demand for such a product).
Armiga are a really interesting product. No doubt about it. There´s just one "tiny" little problem. The armiga project needs to collect $140,000 via Indiegogo in 50 days from now. Or else the project will be cancelled.
So if you like the Indiegogo video, and the whole concept behind armiga. Then support armiga on Indiegogo =)
About The armiga project:
"The Armiga Project is born from the feeling that something is missing in today's games. Lot's of people look back to the old consoles and computers and remember the feelings they had.
Some of this sensations can be taken back with emulators, but much of the experience is missing; it's not only the game, it's a whole. Inserting the cartridge in a 16-Bit console, the floppy disk load times..., the look and feel of the old stuff...
All this is specially true in some systems and the Commodore Amiga 500 is, with no doubt, one of them. It was a breaktrhough in its time and still now it fascinates engineers all around the world. One proof of the deep footprint it left on the users is that lots of them keep the original computer and most of them a box full of games.
There are some big problems now with this systems, though: they are big for today standards, suitable for just one thing and A/V quality is low and requires legacy connector.
Wouldn't it be great, we thought, if we could take the whole experience back, but improved A/V quality, using modern connectors, in a small form factor and adding versatility?. That's where it all began. Taking off-the-shell components and custom designed ones, we already have the first prototypes working!
In a nutshell, the Armiga Project is a mix of hardware and software that aims to take back the original Amiga experience..., even its look and feel!"
