"New" amiga hardware

[wrath of khan]

I dont find the thread of the new hardware from the natami fantasy authors... these fpga with ethernet, usb, hdmi...

how is the status of the new project? No news means more vaporware (for me).

Thanks.

The apollo board is appaerently faring well and scheduled for release by the end of the year. Fingers crossed and toes.
There has been bits of info scattered around eab. amigaworld.net and amiga.org.

Its not certain that it will fit in a cdtv yet. I want one of these for my a500; if it happens. The Natami was a bad joke.
Still I think gunnar and co will succeed. Its planned to be released as a standalone unit at a later date...

[wrath of khan]

is this related to Jens 'upcoming' ACA1000 accelerator for our mighty A1000's that will give us 2MB chip ram ?

I don't think so, but I believe Jens is a member of the apollo team and so presumably contributed to the board design and such.

Imo time will tell; if the apollo board happens then great.

[wrath of khan]

Any hopes for a a1200 version?

Released dates, prices...

Thanks.

an a1200/a4000 version is planned at a later date. (If it happens, fingers crossed)

[wrath of khan]

Jens Künzer - Apollo Team
Jens Schönfeld - Individual computers

There has been some friendly constructive communication between Jens Schönfeld and Gunnar of the Apollo Team on the German forum http://www.a1k.org/. I am not aware of any agreements but future cooperation is not out of the question. JensS could use more powerful 68k fpga processors for Amiga accelerators, his Chameleon experiment and Clone-A prototypes use Altera fpgas which the Apollo Team prefers and I believe they live fairly close to each other in Germany. I believe JensS was planning on ARM or MIPS for the main CPU in Clone-A before the latest communication with Gunnar. JensS seemed to be surprised at how much more powerful of a 68k fpga CPU is possible than the TG68. Any reluctance he has may disappear with a successful Phoenix core though. A few users of the fpga Arcade and Chameleon are already asking if they will be able to use the Phoenix core. That's only going to increase if the Phoenix core lives up to it's hype.

I thought Clone-A was a dead project, but I never heard of any reason save a vague reference to some legal issues, as to why it was cancelled. Are you implying that Clone -A is still in development?

[wrath of khan]

@all. Thanks for the answers guys. I recall reading a few threads about clone-A'  previously and they mostly implied the project was stone dead.
Glad to hear it may yet see the light of day. Interesting that boits of the tech are in the indivision etc.

[wrath of khan]

I picked up a used G4 powerbook for $80 and it runs MorphOS just fine!

My main issue with these *Amigans* is that they seem to want to just suck a lot of money out of the last remaining Amiga fans instead of wanting to build up a new niche market for the Amiga computer platform. There's 7 billion people on this planet, so a happy niche/hobby/etc Amiga platform with 10 million or so people would be totally possible and viable..

They're making computers for the classes, not the masses! Which is completely opposite from the original Commodore & Amiga philosophy.

Is this necessarily the reasoning though? Perhaps they simply do not believe. It is imo idealistic to try and bring back the Amiga; but not impossible, I guess, as a niche anyways. It would be done 'for the love of it' though -and not for any grand notions of making lot's of money.

I guess also, that they are not exactly forcing people to buy their hardware, either.
Personally I think we need all hands on deck and so I would not think it sensible to alienate any people active in the amiga hardware scene by implying such things.

I'm hoping the apollo board bears fruit though; I want one.

[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?

[wrath of khan]

The two Vampire Cards : Vampire 500 and Vampire 600
are developed by Igor Majstorovik (www.majsta.com)
The Vampire 600 is available already.
The Vampire 500 is in testing right now.

Igor will anounce the card I suppose.


The Phoenix CPU Core is designed by me.
So all information about it is first hand.

The Phoenix CPU card was produced in 10 units for developers so far.
We are currently testing it.
As soon as we donw with testing we want to sell it.
We plan to be ready for this in the next month.

Official announcements will then be made on our website.

Your selling a separate phoenix cpu card? Is this indepenedent of the vampire 500 and 600 boards?
Is this just a stopgap before the apollo board or something different?

[wrath of khan]

This is the Appolo-Card.

We have three cards atm.

1) Vampire 600
     64MB
Status: Sold by Kipper

2) Vampire 500
     64 MB
     IDE
Status: in Beta-test (mainly used by Igor)

3) Apollo/Phoenix
    128 MB
    SDCard
    (lots of extra features ...)
Status: in Beta-Testing (10 boards atm)


The testing of the Vampire500 and Apollo/Phoenix should be done soon.
Then the cards can/will produced...

Great! Ill be first in line for an apollo board. I shall have to let the internet know also...I should make some videos when I get a board.
I'm looking forward to playing around with my a500 again.