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Offline MOG-G5Topic starter

Apollo A6000
« on: September 18, 2025, 03:48:05 PM »
Apollo has announced the A6000. An A600 form factor computer based on their 68080 technology.

What do you all think about this?

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Re: Apollo A6000
« Reply #1 on: September 19, 2025, 02:05:16 AM »
Thank you for posting this. What an exciting product! Can't see a price though.
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Re: Apollo A6000
« Reply #2 on: September 19, 2025, 09:44:42 AM »
around 1000...
 

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Re: Apollo A6000
« Reply #3 on: September 19, 2025, 10:07:55 AM »
Id say its more worthy of being called "Next Generation" than the slightly embarrassing AmigaKit effort.
Now that they have finally decided to implement an MMU, it should shut the purists up.

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Re: Apollo A6000
« Reply #4 on: September 19, 2025, 01:37:53 PM »
Id say its more worthy of being called "Next Generation" than the slightly embarrassing AmigaKit effort.
Now that they have finally decided to implement an MMU, it should shut the purists up.

So you have a stand alone vampire? how is it? as this is that in a 3D printed case.
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Re: Apollo A6000
« Reply #5 on: September 19, 2025, 01:49:00 PM »
At least it _is_ a case - _and_ keyboard!!!
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Re: Apollo A6000
« Reply #6 on: September 19, 2025, 02:05:01 PM »

Now that they have finally decided to implement an MMU, it should shut the purists up.

It's the reverse, it's us non-purists who wish to use 68k for other things than just Amiga games that have been missing the MMU...

The reasons are as follow:
* Atari people have been quite vocal about the lacking MMU
* Nice to get some extra money for something that perhaps needed to be done anyways for Kraken...
* We still haven't seen any "Kraken", the AC68080 board for A3000/A4000, and it just might be that ...eh... someone... at long last figured out that OMG an MMU might be very damn practical when having a zorro3 bus where people mix and mangle old zorro2 and zorro3 board, of which some require caching to on and some off etc. and certain drivers and firmware expect and rely on MMU to be available on zorro3 systems. Just speculation from my side.
* Linux and NetBSD. This will be interesting, I can imagine at least a handful of devs that may be interested in buying a V4SA when it can run Linux and/or NetBSD, and with SAGA this may be quite usable systems too. That's what I would buy it for anyways.
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Re: Apollo A6000
« Reply #7 on: September 19, 2025, 02:20:04 PM »
Indeed it does, very expensive keyboard.

I see, your one of the 40 to buy?
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Re: Apollo A6000
« Reply #8 on: September 19, 2025, 07:01:31 PM »
I see, your one of the 40 to buy?

Of course not.
I may pick up a second hand V4SA if it becomes clear that it can run Linux.
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Re: Apollo A6000
« Reply #9 on: September 19, 2025, 07:21:59 PM »
Where did you get information stating that the internals is just the standalone?

The standalone does not achieve up to 800 mips as is stated for the A6000

According to the official Apollo Core documentation https://www.apollo-computer.com/performance.php

The 800 MIPS figure is significantly higher than the actual performance capabilities of the Vampire V4 Standalone.

Sounds like you are misinformed to me , not the first time i might add.