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Re: A2080 i.e. Vampire 500 V2 on an Amiga 2000
« Reply #14 on: August 10, 2016, 07:38:25 AM »
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I was annoyed with myself after I'd took my pile of Amiga mags to the skip...


Oh yep - i forgot about those (which accompanied the a2000)

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Re: A2080 i.e. Vampire 500 V2 on an Amiga 2000
« Reply #15 on: August 10, 2016, 07:39:54 AM »
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Gunnar is looking for coders to showcase this.


Anyone thought about porting this ? :
https://opentomb.github.io/

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Re: A2080 i.e. Vampire 500 V2 on an Amiga 2000
« Reply #16 on: August 10, 2016, 10:20:32 AM »
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Anyone thought about porting this ? :
https://opentomb.github.io/

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That might be a nice to do later on, when the FPU is implemented.
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Re: A2080 i.e. Vampire 500 V2 on an Amiga 2000
« Reply #17 on: August 10, 2016, 01:41:09 PM »
Hi, does anybody knows do we need extra hardware for A2000, i have "plain one" Ecs , 1Mb chip ram and Kickstart 37.299, ...
 

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Re: A2080 i.e. Vampire 500 V2 on an Amiga 2000
« Reply #18 on: August 10, 2016, 04:27:43 PM »
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Hi, does anybody knows do we need extra hardware for A2000, i have "plain one" Ecs , 1Mb chip ram and Kickstart 37.299, ...


Extra hardware to do what? Run this Vampire board?
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Re: A2080 i.e. Vampire 500 V2 on an Amiga 2000
« Reply #19 on: August 10, 2016, 04:33:03 PM »
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when i say everything i mean the kitchen sink, mmu. Fpu, branch, caches and dma at least.

mmu?
 

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Re: A2080 i.e. Vampire 500 V2 on an Amiga 2000
« Reply #20 on: August 10, 2016, 04:35:05 PM »
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Hi, does anybody knows do we need extra hardware for A2000, i have "plain one" Ecs , 1Mb chip ram and Kickstart 37.299, ...

if you mean for Vampire I think nothing
 

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Re: A2080 i.e. Vampire 500 V2 on an Amiga 2000
« Reply #21 on: August 10, 2016, 04:43:46 PM »
It occurred to me that if you can provide 68k and "AGA" in an FPGA, wouldn't PowerPC also be possible?
 

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Re: A2080 i.e. Vampire 500 V2 on an Amiga 2000
« Reply #22 on: August 10, 2016, 04:50:50 PM »
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It occurred to me that if you can provide 68k and "AGA" in an FPGA, wouldn't PowerPC also be possible?

IBM even owns a FPGA implementation of PPC (of course asking for money). Gunnar says it makes no sense because it is too slow.
 

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Re: A2080 i.e. Vampire 500 V2 on an Amiga 2000
« Reply #23 on: August 10, 2016, 04:55:08 PM »
I figured if a 100MHz 68k was possible, PowerPC wouldn't be too far-fetched.  :D

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IBM even owns a FPGA implementation of PPC (of course asking for money). Gunnar says it makes no sense because it is too slow.
 

Offline Oldsmobile_MikeTopic starter

Re: A2080 i.e. Vampire 500 V2 on an Amiga 2000
« Reply #24 on: August 10, 2016, 05:37:05 PM »
Just remembered. I recall hearing a while back that the Vampires weren't compatible with Zorro slot expansions. Installing one would render all your other cards inoperable. I wonder if this has been addressed yet?
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Re: A2080 i.e. Vampire 500 V2 on an Amiga 2000
« Reply #25 on: August 10, 2016, 05:51:14 PM »
I've heard of the v500 being used with network cards.

The way the v600 was designed, the bus master signals were used to shut down the old CPU it was clipped onto, so even if you could add Zorro slots to the 600, it couldn't allow them on the bus.

Maybe some early v500 boards had this limitation as well.
 

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Re: A2080 i.e. Vampire 500 V2 on an Amiga 2000
« Reply #26 on: August 10, 2016, 09:13:48 PM »
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I figured if a 100MHz 68k was possible, PowerPC wouldn't be too far-fetched.

Not really. You should keep in mind that the PPC has longer opcodes, and performs less operations per opcode as it is a risk processor. Thus, you first need twice the bandwidth of the 68K to get the same number of instructions into the processor, then you also need *more* instructions to get the same operation(s) done.  Thus, even if you get a FPGA implmentation of a PPC running at 250Mhz, you still don't have quite the power of a 250Mhz equivalent of a 68K. It's more like a 100Mhz 68K, if not even less.
 

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Re: A2080 i.e. Vampire 500 V2 on an Amiga 2000
« Reply #27 on: August 10, 2016, 09:27:06 PM »
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just remembered. I recall hearing a while back that the vampires weren't compatible with zorro slot expansions. Installing one would render all your other cards inoperable. I wonder if this has been addressed yet?

mmu, and zorro3.
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Re: A2080 i.e. Vampire 500 V2 on an Amiga 2000
« Reply #28 on: August 10, 2016, 09:58:58 PM »
Oh well. Maybe this might be made some day:

http://ultimateppc.nl/specifications.php

It's for big box Amigas, though. I think Gideon is way too busy with the 1541 Ultimate right now though.  :D

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Not really. You should keep in mind that the PPC has longer opcodes, and performs less operations per opcode as it is a risk processor. Thus, you first need twice the bandwidth of the 68K to get the same number of instructions into the processor, then you also need *more* instructions to get the same operation(s) done.  Thus, even if you get a FPGA implmentation of a PPC running at 250Mhz, you still don't have quite the power of a 250Mhz equivalent of a 68K. It's more like a 100Mhz 68K, if not even less.
 

Offline Oldsmobile_MikeTopic starter

Re: A2080 i.e. Vampire 500 V2 on an Amiga 2000
« Reply #29 from previous page: August 10, 2016, 10:45:34 PM »
Quote from: jdryyz;812380
Oh well. Maybe this might be made some day:

http://ultimateppc.nl/specifications.php:D


This has been mentioned before as well. I think it was something along the lines of "the PPC chip they chose was incompatible with any of the other Amiga PPC hardware or software". Useless. :(  I could be wrong, though! ;)
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