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Offline Rotzloeffel

Re: Apollo Team announces the Vampire V4
« Reply #389 from previous page: August 29, 2017, 10:51:48 AM »
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AGA support, the ability to play AB3D 2 at a decent speed and with FPU support the ability to render faster on Lightwave.

That´s what I said.... no FPU no grazy things :) same with MMU...

If these applications you mentioned above are "grazy Things" for you, it is OK....

For me, the 68080 is the fastest available 68k CPU... why not use it for existing grazy 68k applications WITHOUT limits ?
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Re: Apollo Team announces the Vampire V4
« Reply #390 on: August 29, 2017, 12:15:07 PM »
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That´s what I said.... no FPU no grazy things :) same with MMU...

If these applications you mentioned above are "grazy Things" for you, it is OK....

For me, the 68080 is the fastest available 68k CPU... why not use it for existing grazy 68k applications WITHOUT limits ?


WTF is a 'grazy' thing?
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Re: Apollo Team announces the Vampire V4
« Reply #391 on: August 29, 2017, 01:53:54 PM »
Crazy x2.
 

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Re: Apollo Team announces the Vampire V4
« Reply #392 on: August 29, 2017, 02:47:09 PM »
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Crazy x2.


OK...and how are apps that require an mmu or an fpu crazy X2?
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Re: Apollo Team announces the Vampire V4
« Reply #393 on: August 29, 2017, 04:31:30 PM »
No, I am saying my interpretation of grazy must mean crazy times two.
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Re: Apollo Team announces the Vampire V4
« Reply #394 on: August 29, 2017, 05:47:50 PM »
"V4 will of course have 68882 compatible FPU."
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Re: Apollo Team announces the Vampire V4
« Reply #395 on: August 30, 2017, 05:59:46 PM »
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"V4 will of course have 68882 compatible FPU."


Source for that quote?
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Re: Apollo Team announces the Vampire V4
« Reply #396 on: August 30, 2017, 06:31:16 PM »
http://www.apollo-core.com/knowledge.php?b=4¬e=5931&order=&x=6

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Vojin Vidanovic wrote:

Rod March wrote:
  Not looking for a promise, just an indication if it's even on the cards?
   

   
    I am not part of the team, but ...
   
  Its likely we will have Apollo FPU that might be used in new apps, likely in V4 Vampires.
  This means that 080 will be able of fast FPU operations with its optimized apps, but no 8882 compatibility there.
    That is my personal understanding of the situation.


Your understanding is all wrong
V4 will of course have 68882 compatible FPU.


Ofcourse, I never know if Gunnar is trolling for lolz, or serious. Time will show :)
 

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Re: Apollo Team announces the Vampire V4
« Reply #397 on: August 31, 2017, 01:30:47 AM »
"APOLLO HardFPU is 100% identical to the 68060 FPU from instructions."

Wonder which it really is, not that it matters much.
A little interesting that focus was said to be all on SAGA and not FPU :)
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Re: Apollo Team announces the Vampire V4
« Reply #398 on: August 31, 2017, 10:13:11 AM »
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"APOLLO HardFPU is 100% identical to the 68060 FPU from instructions."
This can mean a lot of things. For example, it could mean "double precision only". This is probably ok for many applications. However, if this is a 68060 FPU, it also means that the transcend functions are missing. This is per se not a problem, there is a known good, known working solution for it. However, if you want to compute a function such as "sin" with double precision, you need some extra precision on top for the internal approximation. The Motorola FPSP uses extended precision internally where necessary, and ensures double precision output.

I do not know how to get a double-precision-precise sin-function without extended precision math. sin() is slow anyhow, so it would not be necessary to have an extra-fast-math for this.

Then again, to be fair, I do not know which Amiga software exactly required this either... I'm probably too much a mathematician here.
 

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Re: Apollo Team announces the Vampire V4
« Reply #399 on: August 31, 2017, 12:51:51 PM »
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Then again, to be fair, I do not know which Amiga software exactly required this either...


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Re: Apollo Team announces the Vampire V4
« Reply #400 on: August 31, 2017, 02:11:22 PM »
The Atari ST could use an accelerator that doesn't introduce timing issues into the chipset.
And the Vampires built-in MMU remapping ability may prove very useful once someone commits to exploring Vampire use in the ST more thoroughly.

Its also great to see a firm commitment to a Motorola standard FPU implementation.

Maybe we ought to come up with terms/phrases that differentiate between the hidden MMU remapping capabilities and any Motorola layer added later.

And its nice to see the realists and the 'fanbois' more unified behind this project.
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Re: Apollo Team announces the Vampire V4
« Reply #401 on: August 31, 2017, 03:24:44 PM »
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Its also great to see a firm commitment to a Motorola standard MMU implementation.


???

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Re: Apollo Team announces the Vampire V4
« Reply #402 on: August 31, 2017, 06:17:46 PM »
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???

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Sorry...fpu.

That was confused, wasn't it.
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Re: Apollo Team announces the Vampire V4
« Reply #403 on: August 31, 2017, 09:50:03 PM »
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Sorry...fpu.

That was confused, wasn't it.

Yes, especially since you wrote "remapping", as memory mapping is the job of an MMU :p
Ah, that part was about MMU. See? You threw me off, and brain stopped working :)
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Re: Apollo Team announces the Vampire V4
« Reply #404 on: August 31, 2017, 09:58:21 PM »
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Yes, especially since you wrote "remapping", as memory mapping is the job of an MMU :p
Ah, that part was about MMU. See? You threw me off, and brain stopped working :)


Obviously, mine was on hold...:lol:

Guess I was still stunned at the announcement that an fpu would be part of the V4.
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