It's here! It's here! my Vampire2 has arrived!!!!

[darksun9210]

i know everyone's probably bored of the vampire2 hype, but I don't care. here's mine, curtesy of the hard work and dedication of the Apollo team and especially Kipper2k for being the guy at the pointy end of public relations, email communications, and shipping.

massive thanks to everyone involved for even bringing this piece of hardware into existence.

Our Willing Volunteer. Actually a machine I got free when I bought a couple of 1200's off of fleabay. Its had a bit of a clean to remove the biro that was all over it, and the dust ...

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let's pop the lid:-

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ok so a few things in there that I've added since it was totally stock when it arrived with me originally. lets start stripping it down:-

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vampire sat next to an ACA630 for good measure. sorry Jens. your original bad boy is going back into its box. So. Full mainboard strip and remove from case. felt a little tense with the mounts, but all installed ok I hope

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obligatory money shot.

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So lets get it together and see what happens

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exciting times! so exciting, I forgot to plug the case lights back in

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base 3.1 install. my original 3.9 build generated a pink screen so figured i'd start from fresh

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where I am right now.
base 3.9 install. you can see a shell window copying the 3.9 video files off an 8gig usb stick to the apps: drive, and in the mean time action playing back the phantom menace trailer from the OS3.9 install media. all in lovely 4 colour ECS yumminess...

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still to do. network driver stuff, P96 graphics stuff, internal HDMI to external port of some description.

[darksun9210]

Thanks for the info! will definitely bear that in mind  
I've not much experience of P96, as was firmly in the Cybergraphics camp since getting my first CV64/3D at World of Amiga London twenty odd years ago... lol man time flies.

[darksun9210]

time scales... wow... ok, just gone through my emails.
I hope the guys have gotten a bit more of a flow going these days! just put in an order for my Vampire 500 V2+....

anyway...
I originally kicked off with an email to register interest on the 17th of Feb 2016.
I can't remember if I put myself on the waiting list on the website but i'm pretty sure I did as soon as it was available. but that would have been much much later in the year i'm sure.
Kipper then got back to me around the 15th(?) of September 2016 to confirm my order and organise payment.
the email had gone into my "junk" mail folder and it was pure chance I found it within a week or so and replied on the 21st, praying to be within the one week deadline to keep my order place. but my excitement got the better of me and instead of moving it back to my inbox, dropped my phone and inadvertently swiped the wrong way and deleted the email!
grovelling email sent on the 23rd when I found where I could reply to!
payment completed on the 28th,
Kipper updated to say the boards were back and being programmed and tested on the 7th of Nov 2016
Board arrived on the 23rd of Dec 2016

[darksun9210]

so... uh... part 2 has turned up *cough*

https://1drv.ms/i/s!ArUfT_xm4N1vgu1y_dmjHWLniZ0QGw

https://1drv.ms/i/s!ArUfT_xm4N1vgu1x5NnBwsPH3OYaXg

ok, so it's a bit late, and I've not really gotten stuck into it yet. also still wondering how i'm going to get any "big data" into it. the A600 has USB and therefore USB flash drives that I can fill up with whatever. I do have a rapid road USB thing i'm not using on the A4k, but word on the street is it's quite sensitive to getting it right when being plugged in. also. The cat's chewed off the fly lead off the clockport adapter labled "int6". And I don't know either what pin on the CPU this goes to, or what pin on Gary the other end would plug in to... i'm guessing "int6"?

oh, and the little board on top of the vampire is a 32gig "DOM" or Disk On Module. I bought a few thinking I could convert some HP thin clients into full windows media centre machines. well I could, but the disk access speed was awful. so ditched them till now. they fit the wrong way round to work in an A1200 or A600 , but sit pretty on the Vamp500. it's basicly a lump of flash on a 44pin IDE controller. and VERY fast for an A500!