Apollo Team announces the Vampire V4

[Djole]

Will cores for those of us with the V2 500+ still get core updates I hope? Kinda bummed that I have two 500 versions now, but thats life.

Gunnar has stated v2 users will still receive updates so you dont need to worry for now....

[Djole]

is the speed all about the core or is some of the underlying fgpa.  Could minimig or one of the others be converted to run on this hardware ?
 
 Do any of them have MMU/FPU ?

I am sure they could, but the soft cores used in minimig and any other (Amiga) FPGA 68k board are not even in the same ballpark as Apollo core....

[Djole]

I hate Indivision ! It sucks, Vampire HDMI out is much better...

[Djole]

It's very strange that people who say "buy it for the existing features" have no answer to this

Is it that hard to read about the features on the official site ?

Or should Gunnar pay a visit to every Amiga user and draw it out to them ?

[Djole]

And which site is that?

I thought http://www.apollo-accelerators.com - but Gunnar said information there is questionable at best, because it is maintained by volunteers outside the team.

Also - it not at all updated.



No, he should just maintain a relevant feature list, very much like
http://www.apollo-core.com/index.htm?page=features

The product page
http://www.apollo-core.com/index.htm?page=products
does not spell out features in any meaningful way.

I am sure you are aware of the HW features. You can read more about the softcore here: http://wiki.apollo-accelerators.com/doku.php/start

And you can always visit the IRC channel and communicate with the team directly....

[Djole]

... where Gunnar will tell you not to trust anything on the wiki you mention.

 The HW specs are very clear, right ? Type of FPGA, amount of memory, slots, connectors....

If you dont trust the wiki, go and ask Gunnar or other team members, they are very happy to answer any technical question.

[Djole]

Which one is it? Should everybody go and ask Gunnar individually about what features the Vampire has, or shouldn't? :confused: Also I'm still looking for that official website with this info.

Vampire features are very clear. Altera Cyclone 3 FPGA, 128MB Ram, microSD card slot, V500+ version has IDE and expansion port as extra. But you can keep waiting, I dont think anybody cares....

[Djole]

Maybe you should reread the first post.

Or look here.
http://www.apollo-accelerators.com/files/V4_announcement_v1_5.pdf
http://wiki.apollo-accelerators.com/doku.php#specifications
http://wiki.apollo-accelerators.com/doku.php/apollo_core
http://wiki.apollo-accelerators.com/doku.php/saga_core_registers

Maybe he is just blind, or a standard troll....