Hi Olaf,
Lets be totally open and very honest about the project.
Who we are, where we are and where we are heading.
Today there is the Vampire600.
The Vampire600 has 64 MB fastmem and an FPGA which you can load a new fast 68K CPU into it.
The next card, the new Cyclone5 card is in production right now.
The Cyclone 5 card offers
* Faster FPGA = about twice as fast CPU compared to the Vampire600
* 128 MB Ram
* Video out HDMI
* SDcard / IDE
* Network
As soon as the Cyclone 5 card is fully tested and we see that all works without yellow wire
and as soon as the sales/distribution is set up - it will be sold and
we will offer the CPU upgrade file for the Vampire600 owners to speed up their CPU as free download.
Then Vampire600 owners will then get a CPU comparable to 68060 in speed for free.
If the A500 card runs fine we will make card for A1200,A4000 all other models etc.
We as team have recently bought several A1200 and have already stocked up mostly every made AMIGA here for testing the cards: E.g A500,A1000,A2000,A3000,A4000,A1200,CD32
Lets be honest:
The APOLLO CPU is an envolvement of the 68050 CPU done for the Natami project.
The RTG Chunky/truecolor display is basically a steal from the SAGA/Super-AGA chunky stuff we prepared for the NATAMI.
You don't need to be an Einstein to see that you can also take the CPU card out of your A500, and if you add a Joyport to it - and you basically have a new NATAMI - for little money.
To be clear: I'm not promising anything here.
This is not a market announcement.
The post was started as question whether we need help to design a new CPU card - and the answer to it is "No" we have designed it already and the above is our current status....
You had the first shipments in June.. Any update? This could/should be a massive piece of Amiga news.
But is A500/1000/2000.. not A600 or 1200?
Would love to see a LOT more info... get an idea of which of my children I need to sell to get one.. that sort of thing.... And is there a dedicated thread for it to sub to?
