[UserReview] Vampire V2-128 received and it's just pure p0rn.

[ferrellsl]

Well, that's far from smooth...

And the texture demo won't even run on a stock Amiga, so what's your point?  Was your post simply to reconfirm that you're a Vampire troll, or reconfirming that you're trolling the Vampire?

[ferrellsl]

Always comparing with "a stock Amiga", I am sure you could aim higher

Again, what's your point?  Not smooth compared to what, a PC with an nVidia GTX 1080 card or an X5000 with a Radeon card?  The demo is pretty good considering it's all being handled by a CPU with no GPU support, but as usual everything you post in regard to the Apollo core or the Vampire is negative.  The Vampire is designed as an upgrade for stock Amigas, so the only reason I'd aim higher is if I was throwing rocks at your head instead of your feet.

[ferrellsl]

Here's another update from Gunnar and his texture mapping demo:


Gunnar von Boehn
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 3017
12 Dec 2017 21:08

Little update
Video:

Click here:  http://www.apollo-core.com/gfx/V3_demo124_fox.mp4

The above video uses compressed textures.
In real time the texels are decompressed and bilinear filtered to create calculate screen.

Screen resolution is 640 Width.
Screen bitdepth is 16bit HICOLOR

The ASM rasterizer loop was tuned to be benefit from Super-Scalar and Fusing better, as you can see framerate is very smooth now.

[ferrellsl]

Looks like Kolla has done another fine job of derailing a thread with his rants....

[ferrellsl]

You know, there are some of us who agree with Kolla and don't see the need for all this defensiveness about the Vampire.

I, for one, want a compatible CPU, FPU and MMU. I don't see gcc being adapted for the special instruction set of the "080", particularly since the instruction set is still changing. Likewise, there's no way anyone is going to spend even a tiny bit of work caring about the special case of an "080" for LLVM - all energy is going in to generating code than can run on real m68k chips. If an emulation or an FPGA implementation can also run code that runs on real m68k chips, then great!

All this talk about memory controllers requiring a different kind of MMU is bull. You're conflating issues. A memory controller needs access to things that an MMU needs to do, but this does not require a reinvention of an MMU. There's no good reason whatsoever that an m68k compatible MMU can't also support the needs of a memory controller (or multiple controllers) without making the MMU incompatible from the point of view of the running OS.

What I'm getting at here is that there are all of these apologists for the Vampire that are pretending that there are reasons why a non-standard MMU and non-standard FPU are somehow "necessary", when it's nothing but bull. What each and every apologist here is missing is how this is going to mean the Vampire will miss out on helping with real projects such as gcc, LLVM, and all the cool tools and software that come with a proper suite from each of those.

Also, there's no good technical reason that I can imagine or have seen here or anywhere else that suggests that anything but a superset of the m68k instruction set is necessary. Add features all you want, but trying to say that they have to come at the expense of compatibility is specious at best and willfully ignorant at worst.

Kolla has a tremendous amount of patience to deal will all of the apologists. I'd have given up a long time ago. I don't even have anything else to add here besides this until there are Vampire options that can run m68k code properly. It's of interest to me personally when I can run NetBSD on it and work on testing toolchain issues.

One day, we'll make another ixemul library based on modern NetBSD and we'll again have a way to compile and run lots of free and open source software on AmigaDOS.

This must be another one of Kolla's duplicate accounts.  He had a couple of them on the Apollo/Vampire forums too....

[ferrellsl]

That is a straight out lie, I only had one account and it was closed down.

If you think I have several, I challenge you to point them out and get the team to provide the evidence. And retract your statement, or else, I report you for slander.

Report me for slander?  That's pretty funny coming from a guy whose entire life revolves around slandering Gunnar and the Apollo/Vampire project and whose account on the Vampire forums was closed down due to "slander"!

[ferrellsl]

It's this. Rather than participate in any technical part of the discussion, you come up with this bull.

If you Google my name, you'll see that I'm not private about who I am and use the same name in many places. So, either you're accusing Kolla of having a VERY elaborate, multi-site, multi-year set of false profiles, or you're accusing me of being Kolla.

In reality, it's easy to dismiss you because 1) you've added literally nothing to the discussion with your comment, and 2) you failed to spend even sixty seconds to look in to anything before posting your comment.

If you can't take ONE MINUTE to look in to something before making an accusation, how can anything else you say be taken seriously?

There's no point in any technical discussion with you or Kolla.  Several people who are much more technically inclined have engaged you both and shown your rants and arguments to be fallacies and slander, yet you persist....so I choose not to feed you trolls nor waste my time with you.  And it wouldn't be the first time that a user created multiple profiles in a particular forum.  It's been done here as well as over at the Vampire forums.  They're generally quite easy to pick out.  And if you are who you say you are, then why are you even getting riled up about it?  Methinks thou dost protest too much.

[ferrellsl]

That is a lie. Nobody technically inclined has engaged and all I get is rants and arguments from those who do.

You must be a Trump supporter.

You're hilarious!  Gunnar (and several of the Vampire team) have engaged Kolla on various occasions but I suppose in your world where you believe you're the God-of-all-Things-Tech that Gunnar just isn't worthy, nor his team members.  Thomas Richter has also made you look quite foolish but apparently you haven't even realized it.

You must be a Bernie Sanders supporter......or just an Athletic Supporter, AKA Jock Strap.  How's that for taking 3 steps back from Godwin's Law!  LOL!

[ferrellsl]

To feed the technical background of this thread,  and not the trolls,

this article can help have better overview of the soon to come Vampire FPU :

http://www.apollo-accelerators.com/wiki/doku.php/fpu

For sure it help clarify some questionings.

Nice to see the clarifications regarding precision.

[ferrellsl]

What really made my "go on a mission" so to speak, was the words and attitudes central people in team used about other hardware manufacturers, and about certain well known developers. The "idiots" and the "enemies".

Wow, you're a classic case of obsessive compulsive disorder compounded by paranoia.  Seek some professional help for everyone's sake, including your own.

[ferrellsl]

I am perfectly fine thanks, how about you? And how's it going in your search for my alter egos over at apollo-core forums? How many accounts do I have? Double digits? Maybe ask Gunnar for help.

The only person here needing help is you.

[ferrellsl]

Ummm... What? You must be confused. Please let me know where this supposed technical discussion can be found.

Over at the Apollo/Vampire forums where he was banned for constant trolling, constant arguments with Gunnar and Vampire team members, and for his relentless misinformation campaign.

[ferrellsl]

I was blocked from posting unless I send copy of an ID card, but why would I trust them with that kind of information. And... what misinformation specifically?

Because one would assume assume they were trying to determine if certain users had multiple accounts on the same forum....

And what type of misinfo?  The same crap that you're spreading on very thick here at this forum.

[ferrellsl]

So you're still trying to imply that I'm the same person as Kolla?

I'd seriously appreciate it if you didn't reply to my posts unless your reply was about some technical aspect of this discussion. On the other hand, I can't stop you, but keep in mind that you're the one who looks like an idiot for replying to me as if I'm Kolla.

No, I'm implying that Kolla had multiple accounts at the Apollo/Vampire forums which is ONE of several reasons why he was banned.  No one apparently has asked you to produce your ID unless of course you really ARE Kolla.  The level of protest that you're mounting here would make one almost suspect you and he are the same....but if you aren't that's fine.  And apparently this forum welcomes multiple accounts by the same users.  The users "Iggy" and "Beans" on this site are one in the same person and this person uses both of those accounts here quite often.  Not sure why he'd want to use 2 accounts but maybe you should ask him.

[ferrellsl]

I repeat - please provide the proof or even a shred of evidence of this. You are not the moderator of the mentioned forum. Your claim is also _not_ specified as a reason for why I was "banned", and Gunnar has even "renamed" me back to my real name in my postings, which I find a bit amusing.

Show me some ID and I'll show you some proof.  Glad you're amused with yourself because for the rest of us you're about as amusing as a wisdom tooth extraction.

And a rational adult who may or may not have had multiple accounts on the Apollo/Vampire forums or at Amiga.org would just ignore me and move on, but you get enraged and even admit that the Vampire/Apollo moderators asked you to produce your ID, which you refused to do.