"New" amiga hardware

[biggun]

Update:
new progress video uploaded
http://www.apollo-core.com/bringup/

Is this way of updating the progress what people want?

[wawrzon]

Update:
new progress video uploaded
http://www.apollo-core.com/bringup/

Is this way of updating the progress what people want?

wery well, but couldnt you finally post screenshots of the current amiga benchmarks?
as it looks like the core runs amiga games just fine, im assuming this is 68000 software. what is the area to work on now, are there still missing instructions?

[biggun]

wery well, but couldnt you finally post screenshots of the current amiga benchmarks?
as it looks like the core runs amiga games just fine, im assuming this is 68000 software. what is the area to work on now, are there still missing instructions?

To answer your questions:

are there still missing instructions?

* All 68000 instructions are included
* Many good 68020 instructions are also included
* Some 68020 EA modes are included.
* Some usefull new instructions are included.


what is the area to work on now?

We test, test, and test again.

We want to make sure that all is working fine.
For this a lot of testing is needed to debug and verify that everything works perfectly.

Also we measure and benchmark.
Today we measured intesively the bus cycles on the chip memory bus.
We saw some occational bubbles there and work now on removing them.
Many AMIGA accelerators suck on their chip bus connection.
We aim to be better than the others.

We will publish benchmarks as soon as we have finished testing.

[wawrzon]

i think it could be good at some point to outsource/distribute the testing to save time of the core developers.

[Darth_X]

Maybe some people is still waiting for a release of walker.

I want one! Who doesn't want an Amiga in Darth Vader's helmet? ;-)

[SACC-guy]

@thread
What we classic users really need is brand new drop in motherboards because of the rotting batteries and caps. We really need a real amiga repair shop in all the major cities.

AmigaKit has part of the issue fixed with their power adaptors. We need more solutions
like that.

Any one to wants to play and produce the latest greatest, Great! Go ahead.

[ElPolloDiabl]

Is there any hardware that will be available -- as in ready and shipping -- in October or November?

[DLH]

I have given up on most projects.   At the rate some are moving I am afraid I will be dead when they are actually available to purchase.
 
 DLH

[kolla]

There is Minimig, MiST, and FPGA Arcade...

[biggun]

Is there any hardware that will be available -- as in ready and shipping -- in October or November?

Majsta has 2 cards:
* Vampire 600:
   useable in A600
   + 64 MB fastmem

* Vampire 500:
   useable in A500 (maybe also in A1000/A2000)
   + 64 MB fastmem

Vampire 600 is currently produced and sold by Kipper
I assume if people show interest then Vampire 500 could be produced and sold asap.


We have currently 1 card:

APPOLLO/PHOENIX 500
  useable in A500 /A1000/A2000
  + 128 MB
  + new 28nm FPGA
  + SDCard
  many more features ...

Of the Apollo/Phoenix card a bunch of beta test card was produced.
We test it right now.
As soon as testing it fully complete, card will be sold.

[biggun]

Update : Added Chip memory bus test benchmark results:

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

[wrath of khan]

Majsta has 2 cards:
* Vampire 600:
   useable in A600
   + 64 MB fastmem

* Vampire 500:
   useable in A500 (maybe also in A1000/A2000)
   + 64 MB fastmem

Vampire 600 is currently produced and sold by Kipper
I assume if people show interest then Vampire 500 could be produced and sold asap.


We have currently 1 card:

APPOLLO/PHOENIX 500
  useable in A500 /A1000/A2000
  + 128 MB
  + new 28nm FPGA
  + SDCard
  many more features ...

Of the Apollo/Phoenix card a bunch of beta test card was produced.
We test it right now.
As soon as testing it fully complete, card will be sold.

I hope so. I want one for sure. Will you sell it directly or through amigakit or vesalia etc?

[kickstart]

Is more difficult to make the a1200 versions than the a500/600? There are more a1200 users than a600.

[mikej]

There is Minimig, MiST, and FPGA Arcade...

Thanks Kollla.
The FPGAArcade website needs a big update, but the forum is very active.

Just booted a copy protected Shadow of the Beast from a disk flux image
Tidying up and bug fixing the last few graphics issues, then we are good to go.
Boards are shipping mainly to developers, I have over 100 in stock waiting testing and a production run about to start.
/Mike

[kolla]

Thanks Kollla.
The FPGAArcade website needs a big update, but the forum is very active.

Just booted a copy protected Shadow of the Beast from a disk flux image
Tidying up and bug fixing the last few graphics issues, then we are good to go.
Boards are shipping mainly to developers, I have over 100 in stock waiting testing and a production run about to start.
/Mike

Awesome, I want one badly, but right now I will be on the road for a year :laughing:

[Honkybear]

I know we have seen a small run of the FPGA Arcade. I contacted OneCircuit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFi_Sh9cQdk

Who had been one of the guys who did an unboxing. I asked him about the Amiga side and last time. He says he wasn't able to get the Amiga part working. This maybe user error I don't know.
But like most of you I sit in anticipation waiting. Like some of you maybe I'll be dead by then also. The video of the FPGA Arcade with Daughter board looks amazing.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug4_yh3Q288

I WANT ONE !!!! NOW !!!!

We'll that's my two cents. I'll just keep dreaming for the moment :-)