[UserReview] Vampire V2-128 received and it's just pure p0rn.

[DutchinUSA]

Indeed, don't feed the troll please :laughing:

[Faerytale]

Tuko, nice quick review! Thats an impressive card!
The wolfes of Vampire team has done a fantastic job!
Those boys deliver

[desantii]

Drooling for an A500/2000 version

[kickstart]

Indeed, don't feed the troll please :laughing:

Dont call troll just to give a good or bad opinion.

[kickstart]

@tuko

Nice review and impresive card... the "problem" of this is that there are not enought cards for all with this low production =(

[Marcin1982]

@tuko

Nice review and impresive card... the "problem" of this is that there are not enought cards for all with this low production =(

always the same problem  welcome to Amiga-World :-) :hammer::hammer::hammer:

[Astral]

Hey - hold on a tick!

I thought this thing emulated an extremely fast 68020. The SysInfo shots show 68040. I wonder if with the proper 060 libraries installed what the "CPU" command shows? Any chance you can check this Mr Reviewer?

BTW Majsta / Kipper - this thing appears to be one absofrickenlutely awesome device! Thanks!

[guest11527]

Hey - hold on a tick!

I thought this thing emulated an extremely fast 68020. The SysInfo shots show 68040. I wonder if with the proper 060 libraries installed what the "CPU" command shows? Any chance you can check this Mr Reviewer?

You don't really need to. The 68040.library adds additional floating point instructions the 68040 FPU does not execute natively. The vampire does not have a FPU, not even an incomplete one, so the motorola FPSP is not needed. The 68040.library also creates the MMU tables. The vampire doesn't have a MMU, so it's not needed either.

The 68060 was in that sense a bit more critical because it also had unsupported integer instructions the 68060.library had to add emulation support for. It also required a new exec scheduler - for the full 68060 - because the FPU stack frame changed.

[som99]

Hey - hold on a tick!

I thought this thing emulated an extremely fast 68020. The SysInfo shots show 68040. I wonder if with the proper 060 libraries installed what the "CPU" command shows? Any chance you can check this Mr Reviewer?

BTW Majsta / Kipper - this thing appears to be one absofrickenlutely awesome device! Thanks!

http://apollo-core.com/knowledge.php?b=4&z=UPbX4l

[TuKo]

@tuko

Nice review and impresive card... the "problem" of this is that there are not enought cards for all with this low production =(

There will be enough for everybody. People will just have to accept it'll be slow process (majsta and kipper2k can each solder at best 4-5 card per day).

A600 has been some many years without a such powerful upgrade, I'm sure the community can accept to wait some more weeks ;-)

[Hattig]

Definitely the biggest hardware release for the A600 (and eventually the Amiga) for a very very long time.

The A500 and A1200 versions will be welcomed too.

I see that they have plans, beyond the "Gold" core, to implement more chipset aspects within the FPGA, using the rest of the host Amiga as time goes on. Personally I'd like to see decent AHI audio done before AGA emulation, but I'm not setting the roadmap.

Obviously this leads to a future standalone Vampire Amiga - FPGA and RAM and I/O - in the same lines as MiniMig, Mist and FpgaArcade. Maybe in a couple of years? I guess the clue's in the name here, Vampire :-)

[ciVic]

I think the main difference between a vampired Amiga and a standalone FPGA Amiga is the possibility for extensions. I know there are ideas and prototypes for networking but what I would like to see is something that can be bought off the shelf with an PCMCIA or Zorro slot. A vampired A600 has at least PCMCIA so I can use network Cards. Even better would be a full Zorro bus board but I'm just dreaming.

[Niding]

Another user recived his Vampire 2 today, and have a blog that will be updated as he goes along using it.

http://davka.pl/articles/5/vampire-2-has-arrived

[save2600]

That accelerator looks awesome! Any reason why it wouldn't work for us ACA500 users? Looking at the layout, might just fit...

[mikej]

Obviously this leads to a future standalone Vampire Amiga - FPGA and RAM and I/O - in the same lines as MiniMig, Mist and FpgaArcade. Maybe in a couple of years? I guess the clue's in the name here, Vampire :-)

Accurate chipset cloaning is very time consuming. If they are to make a standalone board without using open source code, then they have a lot of work ahead of them. The downside of using GPL code is then they must release the CPU source as well, which seems unlikely. Perhaps they have already done all this groundwork from the Natami days.

The open source CPU is catching up - it will be interesting to see side by side comparisons for a real use case with the Replay (FPGAArcade board). Sure the Apollo core is faster, but I prefer being able to slow down and accurately run the A500/A1200 and Atari software as well when required.

/MikeJ

[Niding]

That accelerator looks awesome! Any reason why it wouldn't work for us ACA500 users? Looking at the layout, might just fit...

The developers would have to answer the details themselves, but regardless;

http://kipper2k.com/accel500.html

"Coming Soon to an A500 near you".

Soon is obvious a relative term in Amigaland, espesially since they are currently working hard to deliver the pre-ordered A600 boards.