PiStorm: Turbo Boost Amiga 500 With Raspberry Pi

The PiStorm is an incredible new way to give your old Amiga a huge upgrade, with a CPU accelerator, 128mb of RAM, RTG support, virtual SCSI and lots more!

▬ Contents of this video ▬

0:00​ - Intro & Project Overview
3:04​ - PCBWay Sponsor Message
3:40 - Hardware Install
6:58 - PiStorm Software Setup
9:24 - SysInfo
12:05 - Raspberry Pi Config
14:12 - Copy HDF Files
18:12 - Floppy Disk Bug
21:05 - RTG Install
23:25 - Raspberry Pi 3A and Auto Boot
25:22 - Benchmarks & Conclusion

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[RMCRetro]

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

[ThePeter]

Just waiting for Pistorm for the A1200 and CD32 and i'm in.

[joeharley]

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.

[RetroRecipes]

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!

[CosmicScaleFactor]

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!

[KadiusFTW]

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

[fcf]

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.

[TheRetroShack]

Fantastic intro to the PiStorm Dan. Can't wait to get one of these into my 500 :)

[jkdsteve]

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.

[manuel-xax]

Awesome !
Thanks for having shared this video about such a very promising as affordable accelerator.

[leeg]

Heard about this on the podcast yesterday, this is so cool!

[Windows]

Hopefully they make a PiStorm for the Amiga 600. Great video Dan.

[omma]

This is insanely brilliant. I'm speechless. It's kinda like downloading more ram, but cheaper.

[AmigosRetroGaming]

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!

[retrotechguardian]

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.

[londongaz]

Such a cool project! Really breathes new life in to the old 500. Tempted to get one myself when it's more stable

[pkf]

Great video, I already own a vampire and a Terrible Fire, and I think the PiStorm is a total game changer.

[JohnAnderson]

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 !

[Monty_McDonnell]

Amazing! Old HomeComputer hardware comes back to life with modern hardware replacements. Thx for the video and thx for the great PiStorm project!

[weepingscorpion]

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.