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

[Pat the Cat]

I'm very happy that A600 owners can upgrade so massively.

It was a very difficult machine to promote, in terms of expandibility, when first introduced.
Bearing mind that 486 bundle deals were available for a similar pricepoint.

[Pat the Cat]

i know everyone's probably bored of the vampire2 hype.

Not me. I only found out about it a Week ago! :hammer:

The A600 was the ugly sister, the kid machine, the Amiga that you could plug nice hardware into but it just wasn't fast enough to do much useful with them. The Amiga that you felt a partially retarded, over emotional, sensitive type for even owning, let along using.

Suddenly I find out the A600 has become the Amiga Tankgirl. :flame:

Natami begat tribes. One of the tribes is called Vampire. Arriving in your local hood soon, in yer face bro.:laugh1: :pint:

I don't know about the DMI adaptor or what the graphics capabilites are, but even if just ECS, if you stick with just 16 greyscale hires laced, I would imagine it's still pretty impressive what you can achieve with that kind of CPU and fast RAM combo.

[Pat the Cat]

Well about the RTG, I'm running my WB in 720P high color on the Vampire 2 at the moment and it's VERY responsive.
Currently I'm running OS3.9 BB2 with all the gfx goodies (visual prefs,birdie,MUI 3.8,magic menu with transparency etc etc)

It even makes the A4K CSPPC (060/60Mhz+233Mhz 604e) feel sluggish

Never dreamed that could happen. Not on an A600. Not in a million years.

[Pat the Cat]

Well... TBH, not exactly.

I did see a demo of the CD32 MPG card, and that "perfect" playback but...

1) It did not have the colour definition, or HD range, or the pixel fideliy of the clip, using the AA chipsept like all CD32s.

2) The resolution was not as good. I'd estimate one quarter to a ninth of res of the video you posted.

3) The sound was stereo 16 bit audio, but I think the dev kind of faked that by having a separate audio track on the CD, rather than making any attempt to compress it or decompress. In my opinion, anyway, it could have been genuine encoded audio, but I noticed how the drive kept accessing, and the CD usage seemed excessive, for the length of that clip.

Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen, as I remember. 576 lines at most, probably half of that. Low Horizontal resolution. Seemed HAM8 mode.

[Pat the Cat]

Am I the only one who's really puzzled by all this effort and excitement, of being able to play a low-res clip encoded in a long obsolete format?

Maybe if you had actually tried doing that on a stock Amiga, you might be be a little impressed. Especially an A600. :laugh1:

Pretty sure what I saw 20 years ago was MPG-1, not MPG-2. Big difference in screen resoluition.