A2080 i.e. Vampire 500 V2 on an Amiga 2000

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

I saw these pictures over on one of the Amiga Google+ forums.  I take no credit, just wanted to share them since I haven't seen any pics of this particular piece of hardware on this site, yet:

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

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?

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

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?

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Oh well. Maybe this might be made some day:

http://ultimateppc.nl/specifications.php

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!

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Thanks for that. There you go @oldsmobile_mike. Your answer from an authoritative source.

That's an authoritative source?  :lol:

Kidding, kidding.  Thanks for the clarification!  

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Found another picture of a Vampire installed in an Amiga 2000 on one of the Google+ forums.  (picture attached)

Original source:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+SimoKoivukoski/posts/XQf5X281YDg?cfem=1

I haven't compared this to my A2000 but off-hand I don't think they're getting particularly good speeds.  Maybe it's the old version of AmiTCP mentioned in the post that they're using?  Bet it'd be faster with a better stack.