Video of Vampire board

[guest11527]

Instead of creating a software solution, create a hardware solution compatible with one of the P96 drivers.
As far as I remember, this was done for the Amiga 500.
End of the discussion.

Not really. The video chips of the day that P96 supports "out of the box" are - from today's perspective - severely limited in bandwidth. Thus, I doubt that any of them would be able to support full HD in truecolor. Besides, it also requires you to emulate all the VGA legacy from the PC (which is, basically, where these chips came from). That's quite some overhead, and I understand that this should better be avoided.

[guest11527]

AStill, he insists that P96 is the way to go, somehow, because maybe he can get a much reluctant deal, to develop a driver, something many have tried before without much luck.

I want a practical solution that *works*. If you sit down, write a completely open source implementation of a RTG stack on classical AmigaOs that works and is successfully tested, debugged and stable, I'll take it.  

Unfortunately, the vampire has a market right now, and not in four/five years, so the window of opportunity closes. Until then... please stop the political discussion.

[vxm]

Not really. The video chips of the day that P96 supports "out of the box" are - from today's perspective - severely limited in bandwidth. Thus, I doubt that any of them would be able to support full HD in truecolor. Besides, it also requires you to emulate all the VGA legacy from the PC (which is, basically, where these chips came from). That's quite some overhead, and I understand that this should better be avoided.

That is regrettable. This had the merit to eliminate what can not be emulated, the Judicial party.

[TjLaZer]

Maybe there will be a Vampire for the A500?  :-)

There will be yes!  

Back on topic!  Let's discuss this awesome products and stop the arguments!

[guest11527]

There will be yes!  

Back on topic!  Let's discuss this awesome products and stop the arguments!

I personally would be more interested in products for big-box amigas. Unfortunately, these machines are much harder to support due to their bus infrastructure, and the vampire would need to be tested with existing Zorro boards. Not an easy task, and potentially frustrating for their developers.

[TheMagicM]

All:

I don't care to read about p96 in this thread.  Create a separate thread and cry about it in there.  I'd love, I mean, I'd hate to delete posts after this one if it doesn't stay on topic.

[psxphill]

If you want to survive as a good software engineer these days, you make sure that your creations are open source so that your customers - both those who paid, and those who just picked it up - can participate and improve the product,

Absolute FUD. Most software engineers can't survive by giving their work away for free. It works well for hobby projects and there are some people who get paid to do their hobby & some people are able to sell themselves as consultants.

Open source is a religion and like all good religions it is based on faith and not facts. If the commercial sector embraces open source more then expect to see a lot of good software engineers moving into other careers.

[TheMagicM]

After I eat breakfast I'll lock the thread and make a copy in CH that way you guys can go off topic there, then this thread will be cleaned out of office topic nonsense.

[Djole]

I personally would be more interested in products for big-box amigas. Unfortunately, these machines are much harder to support due to their bus infrastructure, and the vampire would need to be tested with existing Zorro boards. Not an easy task, and potentially frustrating for their developers.

Majsta said that would not be a problem at all and these cards are planed, but i think a500 comes second, a1200 third, then big box amigas....

[TheMagicM]

Ok guys, to discuss your rants about p96 and whatever  not related to the topic, go have at it here:

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=70379

Anything after this post not related to the topic will be deleted with joy.

[Astral]

Thankyou so much for cleaning all the bu^{+*it out of the thread. If I gave any less of a f%#k about what was being discussed I would be dead

I have ordered one of these. I think it's capabilities are awesome. One feature I especially would like to have is AGA compatibility, even better with SuperAGA. I'm not greatly interested in RTG.

I look forward to the 500 / 1200 versions and all the other things that may be released because of foundations built with this product.

[Brian]

Ok guys, to discuss your rants about p96 and whatever  not related to the topic, go have at it here:

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=70379

Anything after this post not related to the topic will be deleted with joy.

Is it realy off topic to post about something you see in a video when the thread start with just a videolink and comment about the video being impressive, especially when said video is running in 720p... something that didn't go unnotised as the very first reply on this thread was about Picasso96 (and that post have not been moved).

Just wondering because else I don't realy know what I'm alowed to post about here in this thread.

[Bodie]

Are preorders still being taken on these? I think I might have missed out :-(

Still wonderful seeing the classics get a massive speed boost!

[Niding]

Are preorders still being taken on these? I think I might have missed out :-(

Still wonderful seeing the classics get a massive speed boost!

This is the thread to do it; http://www.amibay.com/showthread.php?71144-Vampire-600-V2-Amiga-600-FPGA-accelerator-Pre-order/page72&

[TheMagicM]

Just wondering because else I don't realy know what I'm alowed to post about here in this thread.

You can talk about p96.  Head to the other thread to see where it went south.  It's self explanatory.

[IanP]

Some more videos of the vampire 2 were posted
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBFk89yljU4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc2oVPMWu6Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM0W3AdgkRA
https://vimeo.com/152866918
https://vimeo.com/152867182