Sign of life of Apollo FPGA project

[OlafS3]

http://www.apollo-core.com/bringup/index2.htm

[wawrzon]

already a bit better than 106mhz clocked 060 here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug4_yh3Q288

[QuikSanz]

Wish they would bring it on already, before I get old and die!

[pyrre]

Wish they would bring it on already, before I get old and die!

+1

i nearly choked myself laughing...

[trekiej]

+1

[Gulliver]

+1

+1

[skolman]

http://www.amibay.com/showthread.php?71144-Vampire-600-V2-Amiga-600-FPGA-accelerator-Pre-order

[B00tDisk]

If this ever sees adaptation to other Amiga models (2000,3000,4000) it could provoke me to buy said old hardware again.  I mean it.  Being able to do useful* work on an Amiga would be pretty nice.  I know I can have that now, and even faster, via emulation but that's just a little "off" for me.  Like, why bother, when I'm already in Windows10?

I've followed this for a while and I'm actually kind of excited about it.  I know it's not a panacea but still, a "68k" accelerator for native hardware that runs that fast is very cool!  But again, for a big-box system.  Not really interested in A500/600/1200 (or even the 1000 for that matter).

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*=use web-apps, etc. at a decent speed.

[Hattig]

This looks promising right now, although it would be nice to see some different benchmarks than SysInfo, which is unreliable. The memory bandwidth doesn't look like a problem though :-)

Worth getting an A600 for ... but I will hold on for the A500 version (hopefully mountable in the 68k socket).

[OlafS3]

This looks promising right now, although it would be nice to see some different benchmarks than SysInfo, which is unreliable. The memory bandwidth doesn't look like a problem though :-)

Worth getting an A600 for ... but I will hold on for the A500 version (hopefully mountable in the 68k socket).

I chatted with majsta recently and asked for some news about the project so there they are :-). He is very very excited about the progress of the project so we will see what happens. But at least it looks very promising. Bad news for owners of old accellerators though. If I were them I would sell them before the new cards are available

[TheDaddy]

Wish they would bring it on already, before I get old and die!

That IS the quote of the day...I nearly choked on my sarnie...

[AmiDude]

already a bit better than 106mhz clocked 060 here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug4_yh3Q288

SysInfo used in this video is version 3.25. I thought that there was no other than the old v3.24 and the new v4.0 (which couldn't measure speed in Mhz)? But this v3.25 version does measure the Mhz speed. Where can we get this "new" v3.25 version?

[AmiDude]

...Bad news for owners of old accellerators though. If I were them I would sell them before the new cards are available

NO, not smart! The old accelerators are more compatible with older software/games. This new FPGA Frankenstein card is all about speed. Nice if you want to play pinball and the balls are shooting like bullits all over the screen..

[OlafS3]

NO, not smart! The old accelerators are more compatible with older software/games. This new FPGA Frankenstein card is all about speed. Nice if you want to play pinball and the balls are shooting like bullits all over the screen..

the same is true for wingcommander and other games... unplayable on fast hardware.

Are these games running slower on a old 060 accellerator?

[Blizz1220]

Some games run as fast as they can on anything like Barbarian 2 and Wing Commander but most (95 %) work at same speed as they should.

More games won't start with Kick 3.1 Amigas (but strangely work on Kick 3.0 Amigas for some reason).

@Bootdisk

Did you really really have to say A1200 too ? :roflmao:

It's a race against time as some stated and this card would probably be only one I would want to have as replacement.Although A500 was most sold most Amiga 1200s survived and are still used.