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

[kipper2k]

not booting from SD, i just updated my SD card drivers and am getting 3,276,800 MB/sec now

[eXeler0]

Originally Posted by kipper2k

not booting from SD, i just updated my SD card drivers and am getting 3,276,800 MB/sec now

So roughly 3 TeraBytes/s? Not too shabby for an SD card

Skickat från min HTC One via Tapatalk

[Zetr0]

Originally Posted by kipper2k

not booting from SD, i just updated my SD card drivers and am getting 3,276,800 MB/sec now

This is quite a tasty speed

Interestingly here are some tests I have here

(Native IDE Tests)
2.1 Megabytes per second ( A1200 060@80MHz 64MB RAM )
3.1 Megabytes per second ( A600 Vampire V2 Silver Core 2 128MB RAM )
1.6 Megabytes per second ( A1200 030@50Mhz 64MB RAM )


3.2MB per sec - thats really tasty - and damn close to real through put of an "IDE Fix Express" adaptor - I am really excited to see the SD CARD being able to be booted from - thats a nice treat right there!

[TuKo]

We got 4.2Mb/s this Morning

http://imgur.com/tb2XVEj

Samsung 32Gb microSD with FAT95

[JackLeather]

Originally Posted by TuKo

We got 4.2Mb/s this Morning

http://imgur.com/tb2XVEj

Great progress!

What is the eta for silver 4?

[TuKo]

Originally Posted by JackLeather

Great progress!

What is the eta for silver 4?

I'm very happy to announce that today we also enabled screen resolution changes... So we will need to test it a bit and if everything is stable, a new release might be around the corner ;-)

[JackLeather]

Originally Posted by TuKo

I'm very happy to announce that today we also enabled screen resolution changes... So we will need to test it a bit and if everything is stable, a new release might be around the corner ;-)

[Zetr0]

Exciting times!

[supaduper]

Woo Hoo ! sagasd.device has entered the Amiga world , brilliant stuff as I have this nice cheap SD card extender to use on it

[flype]

Hi, also some nice progress on screen changing resolutions

http://www.apollo-core.com/knowledge.php?b=1&note=938

about SD, some useful infos :

http://www.apollo-core.com/knowledge.php?b=1&note=912


Videos :

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[jdog320]

Is the SD slot using a UHS interface?

[flype]

Protocol SPI.

Works with SD HC (up to Class 10).

I personaly only tested 2 x 8GB SD HC (Class 10) cards.

[kipper2k]

Hi All,

Phew, Where to begin, there has been a lot of new developments during the course of the last few days and i think you will like them.

- Lets start off with the SD card functionality, it is now working and speeds are in excess of 3.4MB/s (That is Megabytes, not bits) and you can set what format you want to use whether it be fat95 (ideal for copying files to and from your PC) or the other popular formats. Most SD cards appear to be compatible, some cards may be slower but they are cheap and you can spend a couple $$ etc to get a class 10 (apparently sandisk not too good, but we need to verify this)

Here is a (quite long) video of setting up a 128GB SD card in OS3.9)..
a great tutorial...




- Next up is the completed SFS bugfix which is for those people having issues with the drives.


- Next up the next core will have support for large drive partitions


and next, the big one i think people are waiting for...

Programmable screen resolutions which can be also modified by the end user so people should be able to find something that works for them. Video links are at the bottom. The new core should be released soon, we are just doing a little more testing, there has also been a few more speed tweaks and also a little reworking of instructions to make them that little bit faster.

I am going to paste Flypes post here......

---------------
Great news here !
If all goes well, next core release will have the so awaited screen changing resolution feature

Last week-end, we in team tested the feature. This is very promising as it has been validated in many different resolutions.

You can see a early video of the feature testing here :

[ Show youtube player ]

These are early tests, driver will need to be updated, which should not be long wait.

Basically, the core supports any 'consistent' resolution, in all depths. It is just a matter of defining new screen definitions in SYS:Prefs/Picasso96Mode.

We at the moment successfully tested these resolutions, in any depth :


- 640x480@60Hz
- 800x600@60Hz
- 848x480@60Hz
- 960x540@60Hz
- 1024x600@60Hz
- 1024x768@50Hz
- 1120x832@50Hz
- 1152x900@50Hz
- 1280x720@24Hz
- 1280x1024@24Hz
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The screen resolution functionality has been cleaned up a little more so it will be the easiest and most efficient display adapter available for your Vampire equipped Amiga. Due to the fact that the Vampire uses CPU power to provide HDMI output you would think it drains the CPU power but tests are showing (using the minibench) that at high Res there are still 90MIPS free for the CPU to perform other tasks. Please remember that sysinfo is not a very good tool for measuring 68040 CPu etc


For those that want to read the full progress reports please head over to http://apollo-core.com/knowledge.php if you have questions or want to contribute etc please join the IRC channel (shown in forum)


And finally, i would like to leave you with this picture....

http://postimg.org/image/76mq3dci9/

Merry Xmas!

[UberFreak]

Originally Posted by kipper2k

And finally, i would like to leave you with this picture....

http://postimg.org/image/76mq3dci9/

You just made my day!!

[TuKo]

Many thanks kipper for the update description ;-)

Here is a screenshot from new SAGA driver running 960x600x24 :
http://imgur.com/rZYKEFY

[spudje]

Nice to see the A1200 version making its first steps to reality!! Can't wait to be able to place a pre-order for that!

[grond]

Originally Posted by kipper2k

Due to the fact that the Vampire uses CPU power to provide HDMI output you would think it drains the CPU power but tests are showing (using the minibench) that at high Res there are still 90MIPS free for the CPU to perform other tasks.

This is worded a bit inaccurately. Of course, the hdmi part is totally independent of the CPU but -- just like the Amiga custom chips -- needs to read graphics data from the memory. Thus, the RTG modes take some bandwidth from the enormously fast on-board fastmem. This means that with RTG enabled the CPU sometimes will have to wait for the access to the memory because RTG DMA is prioritised (you wouldn't want to get random black sports on the screen under high CPU load, would you?). RTG DMA is buffered so that it can give priority to the CPU as long as the buffer isn't running too low which gives some memory bandwidth and thus lost speed back to the CPU. As kipper said the effect on CPU speed is quite low but it gets bigger with increasing screen resolutions and colour depths.

[SteveUK]

Originally Posted by kipper2k

And finally, i would like to leave you with this picture....

http://postimg.org/image/76mq3dci9/

Merry Xmas!

Fantastic... are we one step closer to getting Vampire CD32??

[Methanoid]

I am guessing that 960x540@60Hz is the ideal mode for any 16:9 1080P monitor as it means zero stretching and each pixel is represented by a 2x2 group of pixels on monitor???

I am REALLY impressed with Vampire... Roll on the full "AmigaPlus" on FPGA...

[TuKo]

1280x800 is my best bet on my Dell 24" 16/10 screen ;-)