Gold 2.7 release for the Vampire accelerators

[kolla]

It's windows 98 continuously and regularly developed, updated, and improved?

OS3.x it's the same.

https://www.lifewire.com/download-windows-98-2625080

[AmigaEd]

I wonder what Doomy would think about an A2000 with a vampire in it?

Finally! A post which improves the quality of this thread!

[David Wright]

Silver 2.9 or Gold 2.9?
Anyone here know why my amiga 500 with 1mb chipram is showing 2 mb chipram?
Says so on title bar and all my benchmark software. I have gold 2.8 with Apollo OS coffin
Half my whdload games crash the computer on launch also.

[eliyahu]

@thread

for those of you who'd like to continue your discussion of bosnia and nationalism generally, i've moved those posts here. let's try to keep the thread on-topic going forward. thanks.

-- eliyahu

[Djole]

Good to be back on topic....

Here are some early MapROM tests:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mp4G3ngl6k&feature=youtu.be

[Niding]

Very indepth presentation of the Vampire project by Manuel Jesus recorded by The Guru Meditation;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-egp3pWr1w

[bbond007]

Very indepth presentation of the Vampire project by Manuel Jesus recorded by The Guru Meditation;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-egp3pWr1w

Excellent presentation - looking forward to the second part...

sounds like he is going to show Vampire working with DCTV

[Niding]

Gold 2.9 released:

RELEASE GOLD 2.9

New features

1) Better support for fast Power-OFF/ON of the AMIGA
2) Allow Software to turn off build-in MAP-ROM to access on board ROM-CHIP.
3) MAPROM mapping support for ATARI Roms
4) Memory Management support for ATARI Memory map
5) FPU speed up (now 51 MFlops at x11 according to Sysinfo)
6) FPU fully working under ATARI OS
7) Press FIRE-buttons on Power-ON will boot EMUTOS (ATARI OS)

http://www.apollo-core.com/knowledge.php?b=6¬e=14069

GOLD 2.9 - GFX Card Speed

http://www.apollo-core.com/knowledge.php?b=2¬e=14103

Vampire GOLD 2.9 running as ATARI

http://www.apollo-core.com/knowledge.php?b=2¬e=14104

[nicholas]

Gold 2.9 released:

RELEASE GOLD 2.9

New features

1) Better support for fast Power-OFF/ON of the AMIGA
2) Allow Software to turn off build-in MAP-ROM to access on board ROM-CHIP.
3) MAPROM mapping support for ATARI Roms
4) Memory Management support for ATARI Memory map
5) FPU speed up (now 51 MFlops at x11 according to Sysinfo)
6) FPU fully working under ATARI OS
7) Press FIRE-buttons on Power-ON will boot EMUTOS (ATARI OS)

http://www.apollo-core.com/knowledge.php?b=6¬e=14069

GOLD 2.9 - GFX Card Speed

http://www.apollo-core.com/knowledge.php?b=2¬e=14103

Vampire GOLD 2.9 running as ATARI

http://www.apollo-core.com/knowledge.php?b=2¬e=14104

Not as fast as a Firebee then?

[Niding]

I wouldnt know since I have no expirience with Firebee

[kolla]

sounds like he is going to show Vampire working with DCTV

Do you actually mean DCTV - the frame-grabber? Or do you mean CDTV?
My V500v2(unsure if it is a + or not) is installed in my CDTV.

Btw, someone can reassure Voijin that I am not seeing "the much improvements" from core to core that he speaks of, all cores from 2.7 to 2.9 have been rather flaky with regards to software compared to 2.5, and it doesn't help with that bastard FPU that cannot be permanently turned off. Well, Gold Core 3 will solve that problem I suppose.

[nicholas]

I wouldnt know since I have no expirience with Firebee

They are lovely machines.

Would make great AROS boxes.

http://firebee.org/fb-bin/about?lng=EN

[bbond007]

Do you actually mean DCTV - the frame-grabber? Or do you mean

yes: The 24bit composite & frame grabber thing.

I thought he was talking about that at around 42:00?

[kolla]

yes: The 24bit composite & frame grabber thing.

I thought he was talking about that at around 42:00?

Ah, ok, cool

[sean_sk]

Btw, someone can reassure Voijin that I am not seeing "the much improvements" from core to core that he speaks of, all cores from 2.7 to 2.9 have been rather flaky with regards to software compared to 2.5

Agreed. I remember reading a comment that Apollo Core testers had been testing WHDLoad games around the clock for compatibility. Out of all the games I have, the only one I saw that had any improvement was Lotus 2 (it had glitching in GOLD 2.5 and earlier) whereas conversely 6 games have broken since GOLD 2.7 onwards.

It's a little frustrating because I haven't had any replies to my bug reporting and I'm not sure there's any point reporting on the WHDLoad Mantis bug tracker since they may turn around and say: "It's working for us on all our machines, get Gunnar to fix his core." Plus WHDLoad team take ages to respond to bug reports because there are so many of them.

[David Wright]

Yes, I have noticed going backwards a bit with new cores.
A few games that played well no longer do.

In graphics Grafx2 has a very dark unusable screen. Personal paint has some weird screen configs no matter what resolution I am using.