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

[darksun9210]

agreed. this looks awesome!

[Iggy]

That is SO cool. Legacy Amiga can now handle modern sound standards!
Keep this kind of stuff coming, the capabilities are very useful.

[kolla]

That is SO cool. Legacy Amiga can now handle modern sound standards!

Which standards are those?
Or to be more specific - modern sound processing applications do mixing in 32bit or 64bit internally, and ... floating point at that.

I don't quite see what this AGA demo has to do with any of that?

[Acill]

Its the speed its being handled at. That is the impressive thing here. If you dont like the Vampire you dont have to use it.

[grond]

Which standards are those?
Or to be more specific - modern sound processing applications do mixing in 32bit or 64bit internally, and ... floating point at that.

Google the meaning of the word "standard".

[Pat the Cat]

Which standards are those?

Playing MP3s and multitasking while playing MP3s, is what I'm guessing.

[Iggy]

Hey, kolla's gonna hate, whatcha wanna do?

[Iggy]

Which standards are those?
Or to be more specific - modern sound processing applications do mixing in 32bit or 64bit internally, and ... floating point at that.

I don't quite see what this AGA has to do with any of that?

They CAN, but usually DON'T. In the meanwhile, 24bit vs 8 bit...
BTW - You're a big fan of Jen's hardware, SO what kind of sound improvements do you get when you install one of Individual's accelerators?
Oh yeah...none.

That would be 1 vs 0, in favor of the Vampire! :hammer:

[kolla]

They CAN, but usually DON'T. In the meanwhile, 24bit vs 8 bit...

Well, they typically do, have done so for quite a while. I was just curious what audio standards you were thinking of, and how that related to a 7 year old AGA demo.

BTW - You're a big fan of Jen's hardware, SO what kind of sound improvements do you get when you install one of Individual's accelerators?

Jen? You mean Jens? No, I am not a big fan of his accelerators, what gave you that impression? Only ACA card I have is the A1221, which I bought for hacking. I just found it ironic that after all the moaning and whining about price of iComp cards, the "team" now find themselves in the situation where their cards are just as expensive, and are likely to cost even more in the future with the V1200. It is all fair though, cost is not so much the parts as it is production.

Ah, but they offer so much more, you say, and refer to all that may or may not come in the future. Remember what Gunnar has said about that.

Oh yeah...none.

Well, his products tend to come with "fast clock port" to which you can attach USB controller that gives you access to audio equipment, such as sound cards, hardware decoders, hardware encoders, mixers and MIDI equipment.

That would be 1 vs 0, in favor of the Vampire! :hammer:

Depends entirely on your use case.

As I may have mentioned, the major reason for me being less than satisfied about the FPU situation is exactly audio processing. How do you deal with floating point data, like audio, when you don't have floating point unit? Rounding up, rounding down, compromise on speed and quality all the time.

[kolla]

Hey, kolla's gonna hate, whatcha wanna do?

Hate? I have no hate in this, stop abusing that word, it has a purpose and washing it out is doing no-one any good.

[Iggy]

I DO wholly agree with you that the floating point issue is vexing.
And Gunnar has proven over the years to be a bit 'eccentric'.

But I'm interested in the performance they are getting out of the Apollo core.
It's a real boon to A2000 owners as the options for those machines have traditionally relied on the CPU slot.
For the A500...there are more alternatives.
And I really don't like the method of attachment for the A600.
Then again, outside of IDE, that system doesn't have much to offer that would make it attractive.

And while I have taken a few shots at Jens, his A1200 project has my attention.

Then again, all of this is just a side interest for me, as I moved on to NG a long time ago.

[Niding]

Until the official post by Tuko is out of moderation;

http://forum.apollo-accelerators.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1804

After the big success of the Vampire 600 V2 and Vampire 500 V2+, Apollo Team is proud to announce their next generation FPGA device: the Vampire V4.

The Vampire V4 is made with a standard “one design to fit them all” and comes in three flavors depending on customer need:
The Vampire V4 Standalone System
The Vampire V4 for Amiga Classic compatible with
Amiga 1000/500/2000/CDTV
Amiga 600 with kippa’s adapter (if produced)
The Vampire V4 for Amiga 1200
This new Vampire V4 packs many upgraded specifications and brings Amiga Classic systems to another new performance paradigm thanks to its new Altera Cyclone 5 A5 FPGA and fast DDR3 memory.

The Vampire V4 standalone system will be a complete new Amiga system powered by the 68080 CPU core and the complete SAGA chipset (AGA compatible).

Vampire V4 is powered by:
FPGA : Altera Cyclone V A5 (77k LE, 28nm technology)
RAM : 512MB DDR3 (up to 1GB/s)
And supports:
FastIDE with 40/44-pin connectors
Digital Video-out up to 720p@60Hz
Dual Kickstart-flashrom (for safety)
MicroSD Storage
Certification: Vampire V4 is CE, WEEE and RoHS compliant



PCB is populated by:
1.   IO Header #1
2.   IO Header #2
3.   IO Header #3
4.   Ethernet
5.   USB
6.   USB
7.   DB9 (standalone only)
8.   DB9 (standalone only)
9.   FastIDE 40-pin
10.   FastIDE 44-pin
11.   FPGA
12.   Digital Video Amplifier
13.   Digital Video Output
14.   DDR3 RAM
15.   JTAG Header
16.   MicroSD slot
17.   MicroUSB Power (standalone only)

All other details are documented in attached PDF.

Apollo Team wishes you a GREAT summer :-)

[soviet]

Vampire v4 looks awesome, still waiting for my vampire v2 was mailed a month ago no tracking number have me quite nervous.

I could prefer pay extra and have it EMS shipped, Majesta should add a shipping option to the online form.

Vampires are rare and the wait list is long, if lost in the post i will  have to cut my bal*s off

[Niding]

Oh dear. 1 month shippingtime doesnt sound promising at all

[darksun9210]

just keep it together man
my Vamp 500 took a good while to turn up after I got the "it's been posted" email.
I had "almost" :lol: forgotten about it until one day, there was a package on the kitchen counter with "amiga memory" hand written on the invoice description.

suffice to say, I became rather "busy" that evening and following weekend.
It'll get there

[darksun9210]

a 32gig disk image for vampire users. has most demos/emulators/games general show offy stuff for your new super fast machine

http://apolloos.weebly.com/

games and other bits for Vampire and higher spec miggys (060/RTG/W3D)

https://artishq.wordpress.com/