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

[grond]

Parasite can guarantee 100% OCS/ECS compatibility as it takes the signal from the real custom chips and passes it through the Vampire's digital video output. On the other hand work on the custom chip reimplementation progresses very well such that the extra bit of compatibility Parasite would give you may be minimal. Time will tell. In any case Parasite is a very nice thing and the last time I heard its creator was open to donating it to the community for a stand-alone product for Vampire-less Amigas.

[E-Penguin]

Originally Posted by grond

Parasite can guarantee 100% OCS/ECS compatibility as it takes the signal from the real custom chips and passes it through the Vampire's digital video output.

Well, quite, why is why reimplementing the existing chipset like for like in the FPGA seems a waste of gates. SAGA adding RTG plus AGA modes for non-AGA machines I can totally get behind, but I don't see the benefits of doing it for ECS/OCS or the other custom chips. Some kind of Super Paula with AHI might make more sense as it adds functionality rather than duplicating something already present.

I've still bought one, anyway, and will enjoy seeing whatever they come up with.

[grond]

Originally Posted by E-Penguin

SAGA adding RTG plus AGA modes for non-AGA machines I can totally get behind, but I don't see the benefits of doing it for ECS/OCS or the other custom chips.

AGA is a superset of ECS which is a superset of OCS. Thus, if you implement AGA, you have also implemented OCS/ECS. It's not as if you could just do two bitplanes in the FPGA and recycle the six that the OCS/ECS can do to get 8bit AGA modes...

[OlafSch]

Originally Posted by E-Penguin

Well, quite, why is why reimplementing the existing chipset like for like in the FPGA seems a waste of gates. SAGA adding RTG plus AGA modes for non-AGA machines I can totally get behind, but I don't see the benefits of doing it for ECS/OCS or the other custom chips. Some kind of Super Paula with AHI might make more sense as it adds functionality rather than duplicating something already present.

I've still bought one, anyway, and will enjoy seeing whatever they come up with.

the main purpose for SAGA is to have AGA support on the future standalone device. Vampire only was a kind of shortcut to get something ready because a standalone device like Natami is much more complicated. So people had something to play with and development team could concentrate on adding new features.

[meckert]

My video with Doom in 800x600, Payback in 640x480, Canonball , and RTG Scene demo Electric Dream : [ Show youtube player ]

[Overflow]

Testing of legacy MOD playing with PAMELA AUDIO Chip, which support 24bit mixing precision plus 4-times oversampling. Optional STEREO separation is enabled, it's better for headphones.

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femu 0.10 + GOLD3 core test / Metropolice



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Running Metropolice demo on Vampire 600 + AA core (gold3-alpha x11) with CPUMon080 displaying realtime usage of the CPU pipes.

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[roomeo]

http://koti.kapsi.fi/~jarpatus/femu.lha

[emufan]

Originally Posted by roomeo

http://koti.kapsi.fi/~jarpatus/femu.lha

cool, thanks for sharing.

tested femu030 with LW5.0r - some scenes do load, but some objects get faulty,
wrong polygones. other scene just crash the emulation while loading.
moving some object/camera in layout, it does crash.

rendering does work - if you manage to load the scene/objects.
once the scene does load dont move or click around,
just hit F9 to render current frame.

but i like it, nice work

#1) i forgot to enable "more campatible" for the cpu.
still polygon and rendering errors, but less crashs when loading scene/objects.

#2) it still has problems, not yet production ready.
it does corrupt the panel service of layout, so you cannot open any requester/panel.
happens with some scenes, not all, i guess some objects may cause this.

#3) bowling scene, render time 1st frame - winuae latest beta - 32bit - JIT enabled:
femu030 - 38s
030/882 -24s

[Seiya]

Originally Posted by emufan

#3) bowling scene, render time 1st frame - winuae latest beta - 32bit - JIT enabled:
femu030 - 38s
030/882 -24s

i think femu works very good

[Overflow]

RiVA MPEG-1 player test with Vampire 500 V2 (GOLD 2.7/x15)

Another nice update to the RiVA from Henryk Richter. Powered by AMMX.

SAGA YCbCr422 Color Mode / MPEG-1 848x368 23,976fps VBR 2000 kbps, Layer-1 44100Hz 128 kbps

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[TuKo]

Our AMMX sorcerer Bax did it again !

To show how much AMMX can benefit AmigaOS3 applications and OS, he implemented AMMX decoding instructions into the good old JPEG datatypes.

Results are impressive.

To benchmark it, we used benchmarking protocol used on WarpDT website and current GOLD2.7 WIP :
http://www.warpdt.co.uk/jpeg.html ("visage jordan199b.jpg nojpeg time test". )

and we went from 1.759s


to a whooping 0.723s !


You read it right, we are faster at 70MHz than a A1200 603e/240MHz used on original benchmarks.

This new addition to a growing AMMX software collection demonstrates how much AMMX can benefit every part of our beloved OS. Any application using datatypes will instantly benefit from this, like our preferred OS3 browsers.

[Overflow]

Beautiful Workbench you got there. I hope you plan to share it

[Sinphaltimus]

I never could get dropbox or google drive to work. Even with the code, it says EXPIRED.

If/when it becomes an issue I care to fix, I'll hit the forums. Just noticing your DropBox icon on the desktop is all.

[kolla]

Originally Posted by Overflow

Beautiful Workbench you got there. I hope you plan to share it

Don't you recognise an ApolloOS R44 prerelease when you see it?

[Overflow]

Originally Posted by kolla

Don't you recognise an ApolloOS R44 prerelease when you see it?

I assumed it would be a potential ApolloOS release, but I havent been much at the internets lately, so I missed the future release revision.

[Overflow]

Descent Freespace on Vampire 2 Amiga 600 RTG X12 BETA Core

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[Narf the Mouse]

Is that a working FPU I spy?

Also, some nostalgia! Nice to see the Vampire can handle Freespace. The FPS reminds me of playing Wing Commander on the A500 - In a good way.

[Romanujan]

Originally Posted by TuKo

This new addition to a growing AMMX software collection demonstrates how much AMMX can benefit every part of our beloved OS. Any application using datatypes will instantly benefit from this, like our preferred OS3 browsers.

I only know about RiVA and this JPEG datatype, which is not even released to the public. Is there anything more?

Can we download this jordan199b.jpg from somewhere?

[Amiga1992]

Originally Posted by TuKo

Bit OT but, which shell program is that?

[Jope]

The ViNCEd shell that ships with 3.9.

http://aminet.net/package/util/shell/ViNCEd