Looking forward to vampire A1200

[Niding]

Well, Jens could sell good quantity of A1200 if they are compatible with the Vampire.
The old A1200's are prone to die eventually, so a replacement might on peoples mind.

[nicholas]

in european terms autemn/winter is something like Nov-Dez

Autumn starts in September in the UK and the last day of winter is the 20th of March.

[Iggy]

From EAB;

"A500/1000/2000 probably in spring/summer of this year and A1200 perhaps in autumn/winter."

As much as I have bitched about it and I'll still admit I would  love to have an A2000 Vampire.

[Iggy]

At least don't count on Jens (Individual) to pick this up, he's very open about his FPGA allergy...

The whole point of buying directly is to keep prices down.
Why would I want part of what I'm paying to  going to Jens?

After all, he  has spent years claiming to have re-engineered Amiga core components with similar parts only to claim that he couldn't release anything without an OS license.
And now he has an OS license.

[nicholas]

As much as I have bitched about it and I'll still admit I would  love to have an A2000 Vampire.

 Theoretically the A500 version would work in an A2000 Jim.

[Pakrat]

Just watched the review.

FPGA is the future of Amiga, not PPC, which along with ColdFire is laughably expensive for the few native programs available for it. This looks to be pretty much plug and play like any other 68K accelerator. When the FPU is activated, it will run even faster. *Bravo*, Majsta and the Apollo guys! I can't wait for the 1200 and 4000 Vampires. ^^

[QuikSanz]

Theoretically the A500 version would work in an A2000 Jim.

An A2000 workstation should have at least 128Mb mem and support many Zorro cards. Don't know that the 500 version will do this. It really should go in the Expansion slot anyway.

I'll be in line for that right away!

PS: reaaly should have a SATA controller with proper DMA also.

[Akiko]

Oh but what about Vampire Walker ? It is most certainly a thousand times more urgent

I want a Vampire CD32 .... And I'm being serious!

[Iggy]

Theoretically the A500 version would work in an A2000 Jim.

Yeah, I know, but can you imagine the ugly socket adapter for that?
I'll just wait unit they build a similar board with a DIP arrangement.

[Iggy]

An A2000 workstation should have at least 128Mb mem and support many Zorro cards. Don't know that the 500 version will do this. It really should go in the Expansion slot anyway.

I'll be in line for that right away!

PS: reaaly should have a SATA controller with proper DMA also.

DMA SATA via Zorro II?
You need to take a look at the maximum transfer rates of both of those to get an idea of how bad that would be.

How about SATA support via a controller chip connected directly to the FPGA?

[QuikSanz]

DMA SATA via Zorro II?
You need to take a look at the maximum transfer rates of both of those to get an idea of how bad that would be.

How about SATA support via a controller chip connected directly to the FPGA?

Exactly! Add MMU and FPU functions please, its fast Enough it wont matter if cut down a bit anyway.

The Zorro support is for sound, High speed serial/parallel card and maybe USB.

[nicholas]

Yeah, I know, but can you imagine the ugly socket adapter for that?
I'll just wait unit they build a similar board with a DIP arrangement.

 Isn't that the Amiga way though? Hack it and patch it!  You should see the monstrosity inside my my A3000 lol (SCSI>IDE>SD>MicroSD)

[Iggy]

Isn't that the Amiga way though? Hack it and patch it!  You should see the monstrosity inside my my A3000 lol (SCSI>IDE>SD>MicroSD)

Its not just the Amiga way.
One time, I spent a week slowly modifying the keyboard matrix of a Tandy Model 4P keyboard so I could fit it in a Color Computer 3 case (just to have the numeric pad).

And the mods on my Atari 130XE are ridiculous.

Hacker do some weird sh*t sometimes.

[mindprober]

So from what I have read, the A1200 version will take on the form of a normal CPU slot expansion, not the over-the-chip type like the A600.

Has anyone heard about what other features may be possible with the A1200 version?

[Niding]

Initially I expect the A1200 to be a standard V600 level Vampire, but there is questions/considerations of a high spec version aswell.
I should probably be careful about making too many claims, because the Apollo Team is constantly developing, so specs might change based on feedback.

Kipper2k did make a thread asking for feedback about specs going forward;

http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=82398&highlight=kipper2k

[mindprober]

I understand it is all up the in the air right now, but I enjoy reading speculation anyway.  

Thanks for the link!