Viper 1260 finally here!

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Aah, got my Viper 1260 from Vesalia  today  :-D

 I'll write a little review with pictures and stuff later today. The only problem now is that the driver disk is broken so I have to wait for them to email the files to me before I can try it out  :-x

Any (free) benchmarking software I should run?

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Don't know if it works but you could try "68060-V44_3.lha" from aminet - it's from Phase 5 but my guess is that 68060.library works anyway.

Well, almost worked. Boots fine etc but different software say that there is no FPU.

The filesizes on the driver diskette are:
68040.library 392 bytes
68060.library 64632 bytes

and in the archive from aminet:
68040.library 85380 bytes
68060.library 102292 bytes

Maybe I'll just wait for Vesalia to answer my mail..

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Framiga wrote:
The 68040.library 392 bytes is a dummy library.

Ah, I copied the 040dummy  over the 040 one and now everything works fine:)

Sysspeed says:
73.36 MIPS
29.38 MFLOPS

It also says that the manufacturer is Apollo.

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Okay, some pictures here.

Shows a few nice last minute changes done to the board. hmm  :-P

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64 megs of "other" memory? Why they are not mapped as fast ram :-?

Well, thats AmigaOS 3.1... Other == Fast ;-)

And what's the purpose of that voltage module?

The 040 uses 5V and 060 uses 3.3V

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Hi, a friend of mine, has recived the same card from Vesalia today.

He wish to know, which kind of SIMM have you installed.

He tryed a couple that doesn't works (16MB FPM and 32 MB EDO 2K refresh).

The only working SIMM is a FPM 4MB 1K refresh.

This is the reason I ordered the Viper+64mb SIMM as a bundle.. It has 8x8mb chips. 50ns.

Does he have the hardware patches too?

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oldfab wrote:
Hello, I am the one with memory problems with the Viper. Can you tell me the exact numbers on the chips and how many there are on your module?
Is it a parity or non-parity?

Here is a picture of the SIMM. Nothing on the other side.

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So . . .Viper needs custom SIMMs?

Not likely, Vesalia sells the same SIMMs "for Blizzard SCSI kit, 1260/50T, Blizzard PPC and all Viper accelerator boards"

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As you just said . . . .Vesalia sells . . .

Yeah, I still haven't received any reply after I asked them to send me the drivers via email about 10 days ago...

I wonder if any of their employees read these forums.

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StarOne wrote:
what I want to know is, is it better than the Apollo cards? Is it unstable, compatible, worthy a buy and other stuff that Apollo cards aren't?

I have no experience with other accelerators than the Viper 060, but I haven't had any problems with it the last six months I've owned it. Games work, demos work, software work. I have also overclocked it from 56MHz to 66Mhz. I don't know about the tower stability since I have it in the original desktop case.

If I've understood correctly, Vesalia manufactures these cards themselves and seem to have them (060) in stock again, but no price mentioned.

It would be interesting to know that do these newer cards still have the patches which I have. (pic 1, pic 2)