14 July 2017, 13:53 | #221 |
Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2016
Location: Cresco, PA, USA
Age: 53
Posts: 1,126
|
Well, back to the Original topic (Question at hand) - I agree with some who said just do what you do/want on your Amiga normally.
That's what I plan to do. I sold off my Amiga around 1996. At that time I had memory expansions and an accelerator that I can't recall which one. It was modded in to a PC case (A500) using an A1000 hacked KB. I had a digiView and MIDI interface and the 3D shutter glasses. I made music, animation and played with some game construction sets. And yes, of course I played games. I even had it in the internet for a brief time. Can anyone say MOSAIC? At least that what I think it was called. I've had a huge break since then and about 6 years ago picked up a 512kchip/512k exp Amiga with GVO controller. The HDD began to fail so it got packed away again. I brought it out recently when my TI-99/4a interest returned. I've been modding and expanding TIs since a little over a year ago, even writing and compiling Basic programs and games. When I discovered the SCSI2SD adaptor I quickly purchased one up and brought my Amiga back to life. upgraded it to full ECS and did the 1MB Chip hack. Unfortunately, besides gaming, I'm not have a great time with it. It's slower than I recall, not enough ram to really do any big projects, no internet or networking at all and I'm stuck on the video modulator RCA connection. I got the vampire for the speed boost, additional ram and CF/SD card capabilities and I plan to put it into a PC case (my A500 case is falling apart due to age and being very brittle). I don't want to use 2 screens so I'm perfectly happy waiting for GOLDv3 to arrive before diving in completely. I'm going to go back to what I love, music and animation and possibly more gaming since I never really enjoyed AGA games except for emulation which isn't quite the same thing for me. Sure I can do music and animation on the PC, but I enjoy the nostalgia and retro look and feel of working on real hardware. I hope to enjoy the Amiga for many more years all over again and I think you will too. The Vampire is going to deliver higher performance than a stock machine, a lot of ram and higher resolution modern display for you. That's it. (maybe even ethernet as I hear that's being developed by another part of the team). It simply makes what you want to do with it more achievable over a stock system and "some" other accelerator options. I'm not going to get into the pros and cons of Vampire vs other accelerators vs an alternative future. other cards fell short for me personally in regards to all these things I need/want on a single board. so like purchasing an Amiga was a personal choice for me back in the day, so is expanding it, customizing it and using it the way i want to. regardless of what the rest of the world does. I plan to share my adventure for anyone interested enough to read any topics i may post about it, because i so enjoy reading other peoples adventures and stories and projects. So enjoy your Amiga for what it is. Cheers. |
14 July 2017, 15:40 | #222 | ||||
Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: Germany
Posts: 1,918
|
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
|
||||
14 July 2017, 18:21 | #223 | ||
Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: UK
Posts: 472
|
Quote:
Quote:
|
||
14 July 2017, 22:41 | #224 |
Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2014
Location: Italy
Posts: 2,342
|
i wanted to try femu in winuae to see its development and a part some games/demos i very impressed.
Maybe it's better than software040 in MacOS or Franke387 on MS-DOS. [ Show youtube player ] |
15 July 2017, 01:05 | #225 |
Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2017
Location: Prijedor
Posts: 50
|
Back, :P @ emufan
SoftFPU does allow some programs to run which were not running at all before, TVPaint is one such example. The speeds seems very acceptable. And like before with other Apollo core inspired projects, the benefit is not just for the Vampire users, but for the whole Amiga community. |
15 July 2017, 01:10 | #226 |
BoingBagged
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: The South of nowhere
Age: 46
Posts: 2,358
|
Can any of you post a link, or upoad to The Zone! this FPU emulator please?
|
15 July 2017, 01:22 | #227 | |
Gimmemore Commodore
Join Date: Apr 2016
Location: Australia
Posts: 339
|
Quote:
"APOLLO HardFPU is 100% identical to the 68060 FPU from instructions. Its just not tuned for placement in Cyclone3 yet. " The key word here is "yet", to me that seems like he IS working on it. Until he says otherwise I'm inclined to believe it is being worked on for current Vampire cards. Stop spreading misinformation. Last edited by sean_sk; 15 July 2017 at 08:27. |
|
15 July 2017, 09:39 | #228 |
Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: Germany
Posts: 1,918
|
Sean, Gunnar is currently working on AGA, no FPU.
|
15 July 2017, 16:30 | #229 |
Gimmemore Commodore
Join Date: Apr 2016
Location: Australia
Posts: 339
|
It doesn't matter whether he is actually working on the FPU at this very moment in time or not, that's not the point. The point is that the FPU will eventually be available for the current range of Vampires which is being disputed by some. What we have to do is wait and be patient. Now if you can find a post by Gunnar dated later than the 3rd of July (the date of the post quoted by Mr.Flibble and myself) where he categorically states that a hardFPU will NEVER be available for the CURRENT range of Vampire cards then I welcome to be stood corrected.
|
15 July 2017, 17:25 | #230 | |
Banned
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Kansas
Posts: 1,284
|
Quote:
|
|
15 July 2017, 17:46 | #231 | ||
Gimmemore Commodore
Join Date: Apr 2016
Location: Australia
Posts: 339
|
Prior to Gunnars post, Martin Soerensen writes:
Quote:
Quote:
Last edited by sean_sk; 15 July 2017 at 17:54. |
||
15 July 2017, 18:46 | #232 | |
Banned
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Kansas
Posts: 1,284
|
Quote:
|
|
15 July 2017, 22:09 | #233 |
Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: berlin/germany
Posts: 1,054
|
let me be just one placing another load of assumptions here:
gunnar&team do not know, what resources are left in their choice of c3 to hw speed up the fpu spo to say. ..they might choose bigger fpga od the same model for future, but 1. it would cause incompatibilities and complains with the current customers 2. im not sure if the chips are pin coherent so, overall, its better to explicitely distinguish two generations of the product: 1. one, current&stable that convinced the public, as it was with vampire 1 for a600. 2. the future one: unified to avoid all kinds of unnecesary incompatibilities and support hell0 while it may sound brutal, cutting away their own foundations while they grow, i still consider it a reasonable progress policy, without unbearable sacrifices. |
16 July 2017, 00:45 | #234 |
Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2015
Location: USA
Posts: 2,902
|
During the early days of getting the V600 or V500 working, I don't remember which, Majsta said he designed the board to be compatible with up to 80k LE chips. He might have said it would just be a matter of moving resistors or caps. Whether that option is on the current boards or not I couldn't tell you.
|
16 July 2017, 01:41 | #235 | |
Gimmemore Commodore
Join Date: Apr 2016
Location: Australia
Posts: 339
|
Quote:
|
|
16 July 2017, 20:28 | #236 | ||||
Banned
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Kansas
Posts: 1,284
|
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
|
||||
17 July 2017, 14:19 | #237 | |
Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Nuernberg
Posts: 795
|
Quote:
|
|
17 July 2017, 14:23 | #238 | |
Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Nuernberg
Posts: 795
|
Quote:
|
|
17 July 2017, 21:36 | #239 |
Global Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Sidcup, England
Posts: 10,300
|
Thread truncated and closed consequent upon it having gone off the rails far too often.
|
Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests) | |
Thread Tools | |
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Vampire 1200 | HanSolo | support.Hardware | 55 | 19 June 2017 10:15 |
Vampire x2 600 | drusso66 | support.Hardware | 11 | 26 March 2017 10:18 |
Vampire 2 shipment | 8bitbob | Amiga scene | 16 | 03 December 2016 11:30 |
Vampire II - Who is first? | JackLeather | support.Hardware | 2 | 26 January 2016 13:56 |
Vampire game name | Galder | Looking for a game name ? | 2 | 12 May 2014 22:53 |
|
|