A little teaser

[kwaku85]

Standalone system is not needed if We still have working Amigas. I think older models will have new life now. Faster than 060 CPU on CDTV? And AGA or SAGA support? I don't need A1200 anymore!
And I can use my A500 now (most beautifull amiga for me). Three times YES!

[vince_6]

And I can use my A500 now (most beautifull amiga for me). Three times YES!

+1

[Nickman]

In the animation of the two boards slotting together the 5x2 header appears to go straight through the HDMI connector. Will the 5x2 header need to be removed/unpopulated, will the 2x20 sockets be extended or will the HDMI connector be moved on a later revision?

Good luck with the project.

Yes noticed that when i did the mockup image and animation for Gunnar.
When the Apollo card is assembled IRL we will see how it works.

Maybe the BeMicro CV card that Gunnar has is different from the card I used or maybe my (very quick and not with the "correct" measurements) picture is off.

Just wait 2 more week TM

Here is a later rendered version with the pins removed

[Nickman]

[yssing]

I would so much love to get my A500 running with this board.

It was my first computer, and with this card the A500 can be extremely usefull agian

[Nickman]

Hard to do a good 3d model from lowres pictures and the only apollo card picture was not from the top but at an angle. Think it still is ok and you get a clue on how it will look in the end. And that was the purpose of the pictures.

[Ral-Clan]

What if you've got a DKB Mega-chip installed?  Or how about a kickstart switcher?
Will this interfere electronically or fit physically?

[wrath of khan]

I would so much love to get my A500 running with this board.

It was my first computer, and with this card the A500 can be extremely usefull agian

Same here. It was my first computer too. This will bring some new life to it.

[Jeff]

I knew I was hanging on to all of those classics for a reason!  

Thank you for this!

[ToddH]

So will the HDMI port output all video, including all of the classic video modes in addition to any RTG modes? And if it does output the classic modes does it scan double?

[AltRN8]

I would love one of these!

[jj]

I will be amazed if it has hdmi due to the the costs

[Djole]

I will be amazed if it has hdmi due to the the costs

Would it be "illegal" to solder the HDMI connector on it yourself ?

[amigadave]

@Gunnar,

Forgive me if these questions have already been asked and answered previously in this thread.  I might have missed a post or two while skimming through the whole thread.

Will you and the Apollo team be releasing these boards for sale before the RTG/SAGA is completed?  If yes, do you think you will have a standard AGA implemented when these boards are first ready for sale, so that the A500 will then be able to run AGA software and games?

I am sure most buyers would rather have the team start selling these boards as soon as possible, assuming that the softcore 680x0 is working as an accelerator for which ever Classic Amiga these boards are installed into, and hopefully the Ethernet and USB, plus 128mb of RAM are also working when first released.  The RTG/SAGA stuff can come later, as long as we have the original Amiga display still working, or standard Amiga resolutions & color depth being re-routed out through the HDMI connector, until the RTG/SAGA display is finished.

Will the Ethernet & USB2.0 connectors be completely supported and working when first released?  Are they finished now?

I think your team has a real winner with this product(s) and you will get hundreds of orders, so one of your tasks that is coming up soon is figuring out how to fund mass production and get accurate numbers of how many buyers you will have, so you can decide how many boards to produce, without making too many or too few.  One member here suggested that you might look at something like Kickstarter to fund production and gauge how many buyers you might have.  Depending on price, I will probably want 2 or 3 of them, but may start with ordering only 1 for my A1000, or A500, to see how well they work.  No, on 2nd thought, I want to put an Apollo into one of my 2 CDTV's.  I like the way both the A1000 and CDTV look as my favorite Amiga models, appearance wise anyway.

It will be quite amazing to compare my A1000, or CDTV with one of these board combinations against my A1200 w/68060 @50Mhz, 256mb RAM, USB & SCSI.  Looking forward to reading more about your plans and when all of us can order an Apollo accelerator card.

Let us know as much as you can about your progress and plans for the future of these products.

Edit:  Djole wrote

Would it be "illegal" to solder the HDMI connector on it yourself ?

 I was thinking exactly the same thing.  There must be a way around having to pay that large license fee for HDMI.

[Bif]

Standalone system is not needed if We still have working Amigas. I think older models will have new life now. Faster than 060 CPU on CDTV? And AGA or SAGA support? I don't need A1200 anymore!
And I can use my A500 now (most beautifull amiga for me). Three times YES!

This must indeed be a pretty exciting product to get you to make your first post since joining us 4+ years ago . I'm pretty excited about it myself!

[amigadave]

I'm guessing that the Apollo accelerator boards might renew interest in 68k coding.  New projects that take advantage of the increased RAM, faster CPU speed, etc.

Do any of you other members who have experience with 68k Assembly programming, or any other programming languages, that might have written 1 or more software titles for the Amiga have any increased interest to work on new projects now that we may be getting such a significant boost in performance for our old Amiga computers?

Will a better Web Browser be possible with the increased performance of the Apollo boards, or will we need to also wait for better graphics modes, before a better Web Browser will be possible?