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

[B00tDisk]

Good Day Sir,

Please ready research for an A2000 Expansion slot board, at least keep it in mind.

Thanks
Chris

Hey yeah, will the A2000 version be a CPU slot adapter or an adjusted A500 design (68k slot drop in)?

[wawrzon]

Hey yeah, will the A2000 version be a CPU slot adapter or an adjusted A500 design (68k slot drop in)?

something like that i guess, but does that matter either way as long it works?

[QuikSanz]

Will not purchase with no access to the fast bus......

[nicholas]

Or a PCI slot of some flavor....

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

[kipper2k]

Will not purchase with no access to the fast bus......

 Not sure what you mean by this, it does have a fast bus already, fastest that the a2000 can provide. with video, SD, IDE capabilities isn't everything you need on this board ?

 it can be parked either sitting in the cpu slot or sitting in the co-processor slot

[QuikSanz]

Not sure what you mean by this, it does have a fast bus already, fastest that the a2000 can provide. with video, SD, IDE capabilities isn't everything you need on this board ?

 it can be parked either sitting in the cpu slot or sitting in the co-processor slot

My thinking is SATA with good DMA support standard. If you want Ethernet, plug the expansion in the accelerator, same with usb.

Chris

[Hattig]

I think the best bet is for the FPGA on the standalone board to expose some I2C or SPI buses (or SDIO), and then to use standard chips that connect to these buses for Ethernet (with TCP offload!), WiFi, BT, etc.

SATA really would require choosing an FPGA with a SATA hardware block already incorporated, or PCIe incorporated to connect an external controller. Could be a lot of work and increase the cost a lot. Personally I'd stick with the SD card readers, maybe have an internal slot and an external slot.

[Lord Aga]

My thinking is SATA with good DMA support standard. If you want Ethernet, plug the expansion in the accelerator, same with usb.

Chris

You mean SATA III, so we can use SSDs with 550MB read/write capabilities.
Yeah, no Amiga should use anything less that that.

[psxphill]

You mean SATA III, so we can use SSDs with 550MB read/write capabilities.
Yeah, no Amiga should use anything less that that.

I'd rather see m.2 slots that support SATA and PCIe, otherwise you're limited to budget SSD's.

[UberFreak]

I'd rather have the cards come out as soon as possible, all these extras will only slow their release.

[TuKo]

WIP Core progress. SD is coming !

[kolla]

SD0:, how nice, that is what I call the card slot device on my MIST too

[QuikSanz]

@UberFreak,

Why I would like to see a base card and just add on after. Lower initial cost and faster to sales. Just be able to add on the rest!

Chris

[pixie]

I would love to see wifi integrated!

[QuikSanz]

@pixie,

If small and inexpensive otherwise sounds like another piggyback module.

[kolla]

If there was an onboard usb host controller, wifi could come very cheaply.