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

[Samurai_Crow]

AROS needs work on the 68k stuff. Mainly a better C compiler is needed because the GCC 6 backend hasn't been updated since the 060 was new.

[OlafSch]

Originally Posted by Dunny

A whole minute to boot?? And then only to ask for the live cd? Please, please tell me you were booting that from a floppy.

he is for sure booting from floppy

[OlafSch]

Originally Posted by Samurai_Crow

AROS needs work on the 68k stuff. Mainly a better C compiler is needed because the GCC 6 backend hasn't been updated since the 060 was new.

I still do not have a vampire but I test it with WinUAE without JIT and original speed and it is much much faster booting

[Samurai_Crow]

Also keep in mind that the AROS bootstrap program runs partly from Chip RAM due to the Fast RAM not being mounted until later in the sequence.

[OlafSch]

Originally Posted by Samurai_Crow

Also keep in mind that the AROS bootstrap program runs partly from Chip RAM due to the Fast RAM not being mounted until later in the sequence.

I use WinUAE for testing A600 with 68040, 2 MB chipram, 128 MB Fastram, no JIT and nearest to a500/a1200 to test it and after booting in RTG there is 1.85 MB Chip left

[Samurai_Crow]

I didn't say that the Chip RAM wasn't freed up afterwards. It's just that the SDRAM on the board is 50 times faster than Chip RAM.

[TuKo]

Originally Posted by Dunny

A whole minute to boot?? And then only to ask for the live cd? Please, please tell me you were booting that from a floppy.

Hi Dunny,

It's booting from a floppy, loading whole ROM in maprom, then rebooting and reloading from floppy.

Yes, a whole minute.

[wawa]

Originally Posted by TuKo

Hi Dunny,

It's booting from a floppy, loading whole ROM in maprom, then rebooting and reloading from floppy.

Yes, a whole minute.

wasnt hard to guess..

[kipper2k]

K,

time for some building update news...

If you were to order a V600 today then the likely wait will be 7 weeks. I am ordering batches of 100 mostly preassembled boards and finishing them by hand (Memory, fpga and socket). Considering the normal wait for retro items i think this is not a bad turnaround. For obvious reasons i want/need to catch up ASAP to the demand.

As previously stated, a begging letter for cash indicates the wait is not too long for you.

As for the a500, Majsta will release more info when the time is right, thanks for your patience.

(i will be away for a week in April. off to see my daughter who is pregnant, i get to be called grandad for the first time later this year... doesn't that make you feel old).

[seb132]

Kipper2k. Thanks for your great effort! Is the hdmi cable you've built going to be available for sale too? All my A600 and A1200 have no more RF modulators and brand new ceramic capacitors...
I wonder if it wouldn't be easier to have Vampire boards and cable built elsewhere in China or Vietnam... There are some good manufacturers there.
I'm still waiting for Majsta to build mine I guess...

[Reido]

Thanks for the update Kipper, we all appreciate the scale of this project and the amount of work put in by the team.

[kipper2k]

Originally Posted by seb132

Kipper2k. Thanks for your great effort! Is the hdmi cable you've built going to be available for sale too? All my A600 and A1200 have no more RF modulators and brand new ceramic capacitors...
I wonder if it wouldn't be easier to have Vampire boards and cable built elsewhere in China or Vietnam... There are some good manufacturers there.
I'm still waiting for Majsta to build mine I guess...

Hi, Thanks for the kind words, The problem with third party manufacturing is cash up front issues, customs duties and the price of parts. take your car to a mechanic and he hits you for inreased parts cost and also labour, it all adds up. We are trying to keep prices reasonable. Boards will be mostly preassembled when i get them and the expensive components and socket i will add.build time has now decreased significantly.

for the HDMI adapter cable, once it is tested at higher resolutions then i will let you know. i have sold a few to people willing to test them, they work great at the lower res but havent had a good runout at high res. (escept for me, worked fine at 1280 x 720)

[TuKo]

SILVER3 core has been released, along with latest SAGA Driver 0.8h !

Full changelog :
* Flag for BFTST fixed
* Super-Scalar improvements :
- Allow more instructions in 2nd pipe
- More 64Bit MMX instructions added
- PADD, PSUB, PMUL, ... (used by videoplayers like RIVA)
* Improved RESET behaviour (AROS)
* Improved SAGA video out (24Bit, 32Bit, YUV422)
* Clock-cycle register added

Download it :
http://www.apollo-accelerators.com/#download

Apollo team would be happy to get feedbacks from users using this new SILVER3 core. Be free to join #Apollo-Team IRC channel on Freenode to discuss it.

[kipper2k]

Hi All,

Mega news tonight!!



Although the above picture doesnt look like it is actually showing much it is actually showing the contents of the SD card on the Vampire... Well done to Jason McMullen for getting the SD driver done!!

[seb132]

I understand, thanks for your explanations kipper2k. I'll remain a total fan of your products anyway. Hope we can find an elegant way to have the hdmi properly out of the A600.
Congrats to the team for the SD card driver!

[eXeler0]

Originally Posted by kipper2k

Hi All,

Mega news tonight!!



Although the above picture doesnt look like it is actually showing much it is actually showing the contents of the SD card on the Vampire... Well done to Jason McMullen for getting the SD driver done!!

Great news!
Ok, it's still early days but do you have a ballpark figure for the transfer speed (read/write) for the SD card.
And is it bootable?

[cmsj]

Originally Posted by eXeler0

Great news!
Ok, it's still early days but do you have a ballpark figure for the transfer speed (read/write) for the SD card.

SysInfo on a FAT32 formatted SD card benchmarks at about 250KB/s right now. This is expected to get a lot faster

Originally Posted by eXeler0

And is it bootable?

Not yet. At the very least, sagasd.device would need to be in ROM for that (or LoadModule'd I guess. Not really sure how that stuff works)

[mfilos]

Only custom ROM with sagasd.device is a viable solution the way I see it or else you'd need some sort of boot device in order to load the LoadModule sagasd.device (Floppy, IDE CF/HDD).
It's not bad for using it as a second drive but certainly in the future will get a nice speed increase outperforming the A600's IDE bus limitation.

[demolition]

Since they cannot use the on-board kickstarts anyway, they can just integrate sagasd.device into their custom KS. Alternatively, perhaps they could simulate a Gayle-boot device using scsi.device which just loads sagasd.device into memory and reboots to sd? In any case, I'm sure they'll find a usable solution.

[TuKo]

Mounted my Samsung 32Gb microSD.