Apollo Team announces the Vampire V4

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Actually it's both, also keep in mind that out classic Amiga's are very old and sometimes very brittle now.
So if you want a nice small new box you can go for the standalone version but if you want to have a classic yet very fast Amiga then you can go for the add-on card.

Another advantage is you can connect the V4 to a modern display with a modern way of connecting it that will be supported for years to come.
It's hard these days to find a display that has a SCART connector, or you'll have to deal with all kinds of adapters (indivision etc).

And from Gold 3 core you can also have OCS/ECS/AGA and 4 MB chip in Fast RAM.

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As a snide remark, I can say, as a Vampire user, there is one single piece of code that uses AMMX that I find somewhat useful, though still very limited, and that is FEMU.

FEMU does not use AMMX (yet)

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Kolla only the negative side i guess, so that should cancel each other out lol

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http://distrita.com/alert-important-notice-apollo-team-is-asking-for-your-help/

Someone explain to me what is happening with this registration stuff

The Facebook Amiga group is discussing it..., So the Apollo team kick out Kipper2k from the group over a disagreement, (Vampire would not be what it is today without kipper), and now want people with boards to send them back so they can implement a registration system ?

Uhhhh no thanks !

This is not true, Brian left himself because of issue's with lots of faulty boards he got from the manufacturer that produced it for him.

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So what? lol. The whole point of running a classic amiga, at least to me, is legacy classic compatibility and MMU and FPU is important for this..

Rome wasn't build in one day either, For Apollo core to come at this point has taken years of development.
MMU you don't really need with AmigaOS and applications, the FPU is really nice to have to run more of the newer software/games (quake)/scene demos etc.
All i can say is be patient, keep in mind it's being developed continuously every day.
I think the current Vampire packs enough really cool features&speed never seen before on A500 and A600 for lots of fun.