Apollo Team announces the Vampire V4

[demolition]

Quake is actually running very nicely, considering it's a soft FPU and I think that Quake uses it quite heavily. Can only imagine how well it could run with the hard FPU that they have showed off for V4. :-)

[Overflow]

A bit more painful fpswise, but its working!

AmiQuake2 1.06 RTG on GOLD2.7 WIP

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[NovaCoder]

Originally Posted by Overflow

A bit more painful fpswise, but its working!

AmiQuake2 1.06 RTG on GOLD2.7 WIP

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Although it's always nice to see my AGA ports running on Vampire I don't really think they are a good fit for more modern hardware. My old ports were created to get the best out of AGA but the Vampire V4 could support OpenGL with hardware support in 16 bit color....that would make things much more exciting

[Mr-Z]

Originally Posted by demolition

Quake is actually running very nicely, considering it's a soft FPU and I think that Quake uses it quite heavily. Can only imagine how well it could run with the hard FPU that they have showed off for V4. :-)

Read the post more carefully, most is done in hardware now FPU wise
In software it would have been painfully slow.
This doesn't rule out more optimization/speed gains can be reached.
It's still WIP

From original message:

While this isnt spesifically V4 related, I post it here anyhow;

Some of you might remember the somewhat (very?) laggy Kioea demo a while back.

Now with updated femu 0.11-WIP) and Gold 2.7.
femu 0.11-WIP is Apollo core optimized version (includes HW 040 and 060 FPU).

[demolition]

Originally Posted by Mr-Z

Read the post more carefully, most is done in hardware now FPU wise
In software it would have been painfully slow.

It says Femu which is the software FPU emulation. Yes, it is the Apollo optimized version of Femu which helps a lot with the speed, but still a software emulation. Gold 2.7 doesn't have hard FPU enabled afaik. The hard FPU is like 100x faster..

[jarp]

Originally Posted by demolition

It says Femu which is the software FPU emulation. Yes, it is the Apollo optimized version of Femu which helps a lot with the speed, but still a software emulation. Gold 2.7 doesn't have hard FPU enabled afaik. The hard FPU is like 100x faster..

Please check out the activity report posted weeks ago and you will find the answer.

[grond]

This is the relevant part: "includes HW 040 and 060 FPU".

But the HW FPU parts are still throtled for testing.

[UberFreak]

So there are now two versions of the HW FPU ?
One full, for V4, and the other a partial implementation that works with FEMU on V2?

[Overflow]

Posted by Gunnar on Apollo forum;

http://www.apollo-core.com/knowledge.php?b=1&note=10848

Hello Coders,

GOLD 2.7 will come with AMMX2 instruction set.

Please find here a preview of the AMMX Quickreference chart:
CLICK HERE

http://www.apollo-core.com/AMMXQuickRef.pdf

[Overflow]

Amiga 600 vampire 2 Gold 2.7 testing: Elude - Soliloquy

Camrecording by Mr-Z, so not the most flawless demostration, but shows the performance of the 2.7.

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Amiga 600 Vampire 2 X11 core Gold 2.7 Hires Quake 640X400

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Amiga 600 vampire 2 Gold 2.7 testing: Elude-We Come In Peace

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[Megol]

Originally Posted by Overflow

Posted by Gunnar on Apollo forum;

http://www.apollo-core.com/knowledge.php?b=1&note=10848

Hello Coders,

GOLD 2.7 will come with AMMX2 instruction set.

Please find here a preview of the AMMX Quickreference chart:
CLICK HERE

http://www.apollo-core.com/AMMXQuickRef.pdf

So how are the instructions encoded?

[IanP]

I'm not sure how up to date and final it is but decoder_cpu.ods (OpenOffice spreadsheet).

[Megol]

Originally Posted by IanP

I'm not sure how up to date and final it is but decoder_cpu.ods (OpenOffice spreadsheet).

Thanks! Apparently I already downloaded that file but don't remember looking at it (or even downloading).

F-line and clean. Like it.

[AMIGASYSTEM]

Ciao NovaCoder, but there is also a version Quake2 OpenGL or RTG for OS3?

this is just AGA true?

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[Mr-Z]

Originally Posted by Overflow

Amiga 600 vampire 2 Gold 2.7 testing: Elude - Soliloquy

Camrecording by Mr-Z, so not the most flawless demostration, but shows the performance of the 2.7.

Yes i need to buy capture device, atm looking for one that is reasonable affordable and compatible.

[grond]

Originally Posted by Mr-Z

Yes i need to buy capture device, atm looking for one that is reasonable affordable and compatible

*gasp* the core is not compatible!?!?!?
(Sorry, I'm worn out from all those silly rants...)

[kipper2k]

Originally Posted by grond

*gasp* the core is not compatible!?!?!?
(Sorry, I'm worn out from all those silly rants...)

Why are you being so defensive over a general statement ??

[grond]

Originally Posted by kipper2k

Why are you being so defensive over a general statement ??

It took me some time to understand that the joke wasn't obvious and some people wouldn't see that my comment wasn't an attack on Mr-Z who knows me well from the Apollo Team channel on freenode.

I was just loosely referring to a thread in another Amiga forum where some people go as far as to demand that the core also has to crash in places where the 060 crashes to be called "compatible".

[kipper2k]

Originally Posted by grond

It took me some time to understand that the joke wasn't obvious and some people wouldn't see that my comment wasn't an attack on Mr-Z who knows me well from the Apollo Team channel on freenode.

I was just loosely referring to a thread in another Amiga forum where some people go as far as to demand that the core also has to crash in places where the 060 crashes to be called "compatible".

fanning the flames just makes it worse, it's a shame we All cant play nice

[AMIGASYSTEM]

Originally Posted by AMIGASYSTEM

Ciao NovaCoder, but there is also a version Quake2 OpenGL or RTG for OS3?

Found works well

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