Amiga 500 Vampire is alive

[emufan]

Originally Posted by Starglider 2

Long story short, when I install the Vampire II, will it *replace* that 1MB mod and provide a new, faultless 1MB (or 2MB) of chipmem to my Rev 5 A500?

you will have 1mb chip and 128mb fast ram.
those requierements of that game are rather strange for an ecs game.
but things may chance in a future update of the fpga core.

as an example, in 2010 yaqube made some changes to the minimig fpga core
to increase the chip mem, take a look at that video - skip to 1m 8s - avail/showconfig commands:
[ Show youtube player ]

since an (s)aga chipset addon (software update of the fpga core) was mentioned for the vampire cards,
it's quite possible you will have more chip mem with a future update.

[Starglider 2]

Thanks. And boiling it down, will that 1MB chipmem automatically replace my current flawed 1MB chipmem?

Or will I have to reinstate the traces on my board to get the Vampire chipmem?

Thanks!!

[emufan]

no no no, you will keep your 1mb chip ram, the 128mb onboard of vampire
will be added as fast ram.

what was shown in the video, are the possibilities with those fpga based cards.
apollo team may once add such chip mem feature, so with a simple software
update of the vampire you may get more chip mem.

[Starglider 2]

Great, got it.

My goal is to switch off the chipmem mod I did, and have the Vampire provide it via a different route. I hope that will be possible via the software settings.

[emufan]

Originally Posted by Starglider 2

Great, got it.

My goal is to switch off the chipmem mod I did, and have the Vampire provide it via a different route. I hope that will be possible via the software settings.

not that i know of. at least not at the current state of the vampire.
better keep your 1 mb chip mem for the time being.

[pgovotsos]

Originally Posted by Starglider 2

Great, got it.

My goal is to switch off the chipmem mod I did, and have the Vampire provide it via a different route. I hope that will be possible via the software settings.

That may come in the future so don't make any changes in anticipation. For right now, you don't need to change anything. For planar screens, the computer will use chip memory. For RTG it will use the Vampire memory.

[ShK]

Some IRL tests:

[idrougge]

Is that a PC sound card you've got there?

[Mr-Z]

Nice setup SHK!!

Posted from A600 vampire 2 netsurf 3.6

[Jope]

Originally Posted by idrougge

Is that a PC sound card you've got there?

It's a Delfina Lite. Zorro2.

http://amiga.resource.cx/photos/delfinalite,1

[Locutus]

Great card, sadly enough i never managed to get the software to run stable

[Mr-Z]

Originally Posted by Locutus

Great card, sadly enough i never managed to get the software to run stable

Netsurf or software in general ? my A600 vamp2 OS3.9 BB2 runs rock solid

[Locutus]

I was referring to the Delfina

[ShK]

The first V500 V2+ mass production batch was a success!



http://www.majsta.com/modules.php?na...rticle&sid=134

[thgill]

Fantastic!

I honestly don't know why he didn't do this a year ago.

Just glad he has come to his senses as it was unrealistic for him and kipper to keep trying to build all the Vampire boards by hand.

[demolition]

Originally Posted by thgill

I honestly don't know why he didn't do this a year ago.

Just glad he has come to his senses as it was unrealistic for him and kipper to keep trying to build all the Vampire boards by hand.

He had the noble idea to make it very affordable which it was, but they probably never expected such high demand. If they only had to make maybe 100-200 Vampires by hand in total then he would have succeeded, but I guess they made the product too good, so everybody wanted one.

Setting up a mass production is not something you just do as it does require a significant effort so you only do it if you are 100% sure that you need a significant quantity produced. Finally, it is always easy to judge in hindsight but it is allowed to learn from experiences and change your mind without having to excuse previous choices.

[wawa]

Originally Posted by thgill

Fantastic!

I honestly don't know why he didn't do this a year ago.

maybe because all this is cheap talk in comparison to personal experience actually doing this? from what i gather igor didnt wanted to be bothered with mass production and support. he wants to design stuff. now even if he offloads the production tasks, the more users the more time he might have to spend on support.

this all has pros and contras, one has to come to realize.

[Signman]

Originally Posted by thgill

Fantastic!

I honestly don't know why he didn't do this a year ago.

Just glad he has come to his senses as it was unrealistic for him and kipper to keep trying to build all the Vampire boards by hand.

Yes, I'm sure he needs to hear this again. People who have never done anything enterprising really shouldn't give advice or question.

[thgill]

whoa, whoa guys.


I'm just happy to see the guy not killing himself building these.

[plasmab]

Originally Posted by kipper2k

Hi All,

Just a quick post to show you that the V500 has taken its first breath.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/wzxvp5vxql..._boot.avi?dl=0/

(this is not a pre-order thread)

Well done