SILVER9 core released for Vampire 600 V2

[Heiroglyph]

Oh God, here we go down this rabbit hole again.

The thread is about the new core, let's try to talk about that.

To me the price to performance ratio of the Vampire with the Apollo core is the best thing to happen to this community in decades.

I'm next on the list to get a v500 and I haven't been more excited about new hardware in years.

When the 4000 version or a stand alone is available, I'll be buying multiples and whether it's still an Amiga is the last thing on my mind.

[Niding]

Kookytech/Dan Wood and Ravi Abbott has posted a interview with Gunnar about the current state of the Vampire project:

https://soundcloud.com/the-retro-hour

Interview starts at around 9 minutes into the show.

Talks about Standalone Vampire with 1 gigabyte of memory.

[ToddH]

Got my re-capped 600 sitting on my desk beside me ready for V2. The wait is killing me!

[mechy]

technical new standalone versions will be very different from old amigas

not amiga anymore?
Depends on definition

no, it doesn't depend on your definition.. there is only one thing that is Amiga, how can this be so confusing to people.

A stand alone system is not an Amiga regardless of how much you want it to to be, just like a blender with an amiga sticker is not an Amiga
A mac is a mac, a pc clone is a pc clone etc.

[mechy]

I'd love a standalone to go along with my FPGA Arcade!

Why not join in instead of trying to get around what is amiga and order up a vampire and support the guys making cool HW.
I have 3 now and i can tell you its pretty cool.

[Kremlar]

Why not join in instead of trying to get around what is amiga and order up a vampire and support the guys making cool HW.
I have 3 now and i can tell you its pretty cool.

I'm on the list!  

[Iggy]

But then its not an Amiga anymore...

OMG...serious facepalm.
"It has no legacy parts, so its not an Amiga".
STFU. :rofl:

[fishy_fiz]

A mac is a mac, a pc clone is a pc clone etc.

Just because talking in circles seems to be popular I offer the following idea and question:

Isnt a Mac these days also a pc clone running MacOS with an Apple badge?
And what about a Hackintosh? Same hardware and software sans logo.
And what about the officially endorsed Mac clones?

I wonder if Apple fans argue these sorts of things as aggressively as we do.
Id hazzard a guess this is an "amiga" trait and that theyre more preoccupied with enjoying their systems than arguing how they should be defined.

[WeiXing3D]

Will the stand alone version be able to be used side by side a FPGA Replay or MiST FPGA? And if so, how?

In my case, I'm using both, the Replay and MiST.

[TuKo]

This mainly depends of the space available on your desk :laughing:

[UberFreak]

OMG...serious facepalm.
"It has no legacy parts, so its not an Amiga".
STFU. :rofl:

You can call anything you want an Amiga, but it doesn't make it one...

[WeiXing3D]

This mainly depends of the space available on your desk :laughing:

How would that work?

[SamuraiCrow]

How would that work?

Since the FPGA will be incompatible, you'll need to buy the stand alone Apollo board to run its cores.  FPGA Arcade uses Xilinx, Apollo core runs on Altera.

[WeiXing3D]

Since the FPGA will be incompatible, you'll need to buy the stand alone Apollo board to run its cores.  FPGA Arcade uses Xilinx, Apollo core runs on Altera.

So it's not like it was implied in previous posts in this thread, that they could work together or side by side. That's a setback in my case.

I hope the daughter board of the FPGA Replay Arcade is finished soon to have something as mean as the Vampire.

In any case, kudos to the Vampire/Apollo teams.

[fishy_fiz]

Was never implied, you just missed the joke.  

[psxphill]

You can call anything you want an Amiga, but it doesn't make it one...

As soon as you start replacing parts then it becomes tricky.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus

If you replaced the mother board in an a1200 with a brand new one that was software compatible with all amiga software, would it still be an amiga?