Apollo Team announces the Vampire V4

[QuikSanz]

Wow! This looks incredible. With the standalone option, it looks like we'll finally have the equivalent of NATAMI...

Tough choices. Do I want an accelerator or do I want to build a new system out of the standalone unit?

EDIT: I hope someone builds some fun desktop cases for these. A mini A4000 would be nice... 5.25" bay for an optical drive for CD32 emulation... 3.5" bay for backing up floppies...

That's a good idea but, how to drive the floppy?

[QuikSanz]

I sure hope they make more A2000 Expansion slot adapters!

[QuikSanz]

It's 2017, people need to let the floppy go.  :laughing:

Guess the stand alone is not for me then. I still have a boatload of floppies not backed up.

[QuikSanz]

Pry it from my cold dead hands, Muchacho.

In true Charlton Heston fashion, love it!

[QuikSanz]

Sounds cool. I will keep my tekmagic though:roflmao:

Wish I still had my 2060 but with all this I may just keep my A2000 an 030/40 for games and use the A4000T CS MKIII w/CV64 3D for heavy stuff. Have heavy expansion for both anyway, just need Indys.

[QuikSanz]

The new FPGA in V4 has more space for things like AGA RTG and FPU and is one of the best in it's Cyclone version 5 class. It's able to run the ram at very fast speeds.

Put a real MMU & FPU in it and I'll get one. Otherwise I pretty much have it all already covered.

[QuikSanz]

I may put one in my my A2000 but my 4000T will be left alone with CS MKIII just for that reason.

[QuikSanz]

IMO the label bigot is a bit of a self fulfilling term. By action or by insinuation. You can either do nasty things(negative) or nice things(positive). That makes it really simple but also very difficult.

Back on topic.  Bit keen on the standalone.  Be good if you could kit it to work in an existing Amiga with keyboard.

+1

A floppy port would be nice for replacing an old MB though.

[QuikSanz]

USB floppy that reads Amiga disks? Didn't know one was ever made.

[QuikSanz]

As you will see I am not knowledgeable in this area but, if a full FPU was put in the FPGA could some MMU functions be put in software as it looks as though Gunnar is opposed to a full MMU in the FPGA?

[QuikSanz]

But my question is: can some missing stuff be dealt with by some programming (software).

[QuikSanz]

Sure.

On the FPU - there is the 'femu' emulation software.

On the MMU - any tools or utilities that use MMU functionality would need an update to detect the 68080 MMU and call it correctly. However, as far as I know, the MMU has not been exposed to programmers at the point. The design may still be in flux...

One more time. There is FEMU emulation software and ZERO FPU on board.

There is MMU unknown software onboard. So MEMU? emulation possible?

[QuikSanz]

This has some info
http://www.apollo-core.com/knowledge.php?b=6¬e=3607

That link appears to have been edited, no mention of FPU.

[QuikSanz]

Not following the analogy.  I think Gunnar is listening to his market.

C= certainly didn't, and paid the ultimate price.

I hope there is an internal audio header for Repulse. That way I can switch between Internal, CDRom and Paula.

[QuikSanz]

I'll be ready for a V4 in a couple months, Need to take out the MB on my A2000 and send to Acill first for a good refurbishing. I hope I have the timing about right!