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

[nicholas]

and what if vampire/apollo doesnt (need to) ship with any rom? will there still be a problem because hyperiuon has no argument to demand licenses?

I suspect that once the core is finalised it'll just use whatever ROM you have installed like any other accelerator does. Perhaps patching it on the fly and running it from its onboard RAM.

Jason has written a driver for the RTG board that anyone is free to use with the P96 that they already paid for.  There is no law in any country that I'm aware of that prevents Jason from writing this driver and distributing it freely for anyone to do with as they see fit.

I challenge anyone to take this to court and see how far they get.

[nicholas]

When i see this thread i expected to finding a nice discussion about the new features of the vampire v2 but is just a legal mambo jumbo war, never expected to see so much lawyers wannabees on Amiga.org.

Opinions are like arseholes, everyone has one.

[nicholas]

IMHO, modular may be better on most add on but SATA with good DMA support should be standard. Will keep base unit price down and you can add what you want.

When the stand alone motherboards are eventually released perhaps we'll see an ATX variant form factor with onboard SATA, USB and PCIe slots?  Zorro 3 compatible slots for legacy hardware would be the icing on the cake.

[nicholas]

Agree fully. but while still an expansion all add on(s) should be on the accelerator and maybe optional.

Express Card slot would be nice on the accelerators.

[nicholas]

Or a PCI slot of some flavor....

Express Card is a PCIe x16 slot in a small card slot format used in laptops.

[nicholas]

I've not been keeping up so apologise in advance.

Does the Apollo core have a standard FPU now or does FEMU still have to be used?