Can you imagine? A1200 Reloaded + Mediator + Vampire +...

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With the current direction of the FPGA, its just a massive speedboost of the classic line, not a diversion into a new branch. Id call it a revitalization. Some will stay with the original 680x0 chips, but both versions will retain WB 3.x.

Im sure Ill try the performance hungry version of AROS for eye candy too. One SD for WB and one for AROS?

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Thanks for the info Majsta!

With modern ethernet and decent USB performance for fast filetransfer, Workbench 3.x can be quite viable to use day to day. Espesially if termills completes his Office package.
I spent several hours yesterday transfering files from my wintel machine, and the filecopy speed was rather painful.

Either way, Im a guarranteed customer for the A1200 Vampire, AND the standalone system.

EDIT;

And when I say "modern", I should probarly say "reasonable" level performance. Its important to remember this is a hobby level project, and Amiga WB 3.x is anicent OS with hobby level support from bedrom coders

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@kreciu

Apollo/Vampire crew has gone about it in a smart way. They are quite informative, altho not overly so. They are quite available to the "common man" thru IRC (and some forum presence).
So people on IRC picking their brains will funnel the information onto forums, leaving the team to focus on development. Seems like a smart way to go about it.
People feel connected to the project since its very visible and open.

As far as development of the classic "scene". One of the things that annoys me is every program seems to be missing xyz library or third party program.
When I came back from my Amiga hibernation, reinstalling things, getting it to work, was quite annoying. Going thru SnoopDos, seeing whats missing, and figure out what to do.
There are packs that takes some of that grief out of the process, but I still wish the standard was that EVERYTHING you need to get X program to work is included in the archive/folder/installscript. So if I installed said program on a completely clean WB 3.1 system, it would work.

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http://www.geit.de/eng_grunch.html

Thanks!

Looks nice.

Tho when trying to start the program SnoopDos tells me I need to install

petunia.library, aros.library, cgxdither.library and NList.mcc

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I installed NList and could start Grunch.

Looks like a nice program. Its currently scanning my System:
The A1200 isnt online atm, but I guess I should try to get that sorted.

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I ended up installing using the 3c589.device with cabled adapter+MiamiDX for TCP/IP.

Thanks to Mech that helped me via IRC chat on Apollo-team. Not only did he sell me a excellent PSU a few weeks ago. He topped it off spending several hours helping me out with setup of online related programs. Top notch guy

Grunch looks like a really nice program btw. Just what I was looking for!

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Aye

What I did notice when I installed OS 3.9 and Boing Bag 1-4; I want more RAAAM!
16 megabytes work somewhat, but I hooked it up to a 24 inch monitor, and increased Workbench to 32 colors.

Getting 128 megabytes for sure. (I know, it will be redundant whenever Vampire 1200 arrives, but thats probarly 6+ months away...?