Vampire II for the Amiga 600 FAQ's

[emufan]

Originally Posted by kipper2k

We have found a manufacturer to make the A1200 connectors!!! so the V1200 is all set!!!. (It is not in Germany)

great news, and even better news

[-Acid-]

take my money for the A1200 version already!

[eXeler0]

Originally Posted by kipper2k

This little bit of news below probably deserves its own thread but here it is anyway.

We have found a manufacturer to make the A1200 connectors!!! so the V1200 is all set!!!. (It is not in Germany)


More details later

@kipper2k The manufacturer you found, would it be a remote possibility to have them manufacture CD32 connectors in the future?
Are they the kind if company that will accept orders of small batches?

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[KONEY]

anyone experiencing low speed disk writes to the sagasd.device? I'm getting less than 40k/s when the IDE cf flies. I never made any settings to the CF and it just goes this fast, but maybe with the vampire some are required?

[kipper2k]

Originally Posted by eXeler0

@kipper2k The manufacturer you found, would it be a remote possibility to have them manufacture CD32 connectors in the future?
Are they the kind if company that will accept orders of small batches?

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No need, i can get those connectors here in Canada

[HelloBeautiful]

Will A1200 connectors made available for repairs / other projects?

[eXeler0]

Originally Posted by HelloBeautiful

Will A1200 connectors made available for repairs / other projects?

That's a thought.. Maybe after the last batch of V1200 is manufactured, you (Kipper2k) could take another round of orders just for the connectors. Pretty sure you can sell 100 of them to various ppl.

Its probably not a bad idea to have a bunch of spares in circulation.
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[bebek]

Originally Posted by eXeler0

That's a thought.. Maybe after the last batch of V1200 is manufactured, you (Kipper2k) could take another round of orders just for the connectors. Pretty sure you can sell 100 of them to various ppl.

Its probably not a bad idea to have a bunch of spares in circulation.
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There are few different types in use, sure only one is used in Vampire.

[KONEY]

sounds stupid... but there's no LED output for SAGA.device access? I mean, that can be wired to the outside... ?

[kipper2k]

Originally Posted by HelloBeautiful

Will A1200 connectors made available for repairs / other projects?

I cannot see any reason not to share, after all we are a community.

With the v500 preorder up and running, I was wondering how long will the v500 be available? Is it a case if you want one you best buy it now, or will there be a window of 6 months, 12 months . . . . ?

[eXeler0]

Originally Posted by DirtDevil

With the v500 preorder up and running, I was wondering how long will the v500 be available? Is it a case if you want one you best buy it now, or will there be a window of 6 months, 12 months . . . . ?

Allow me to speculate;
Stuff like this is usually produced in batches and the preorders tell them how big the batch will be. Then depending on margins / unit.. they probably order a slightly bigger batch than the exact number of orders. So some 'spares' will surely be around.

Then... normally you'd expect another batch at a later date, but as Im sure there is a minimum meaningful number of items for a batch to happen, it *could* drag on for months, waiting to reach that particular number. Hard to tell, but it would probably be very hard to promise any exact availability dates.

And then there's always ebay ;-)

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[grond]

Originally Posted by DirtDevil

With the v500 preorder up and running, I was wondering how long will the v500 be available? Is it a case if you want one you best buy it now, or will there be a window of 6 months, 12 months . . . . ?

Production will continue as long as there is demand and as long as there is no follow-up. A follow-up isn't likely to happen before there are 68080-accelerators for all Amigas. The 68080 isn't going to disappear and its creators want to have as large a user basis as possible.

[bubbob42]

Originally Posted by grond

A follow-up isn't likely to happen before there are 68080-accelerators for all Amigas.

That's the kind of music I like.

[kipper2k]

for thos wondering why deliveries have slowed down, here is the reason, hand is pretty well useless at the moment, please be patient.



Dont tell anyone i unwrapped it to take a pic

[pgovotsos]

Originally Posted by kipper2k

for thos wondering why deliveries have slowed down, here is the reason, hand is pretty well useless at the moment, please be patient.



Dont tell anyone i unwrapped it to take a pic

Like I jokingly said in another thread, next time remember that the hot end of the iron goes DOWN

Seriously though, take care of yourself. Getting an infection in your hand can really mess things up!

[supaduper]

@ Brian thats some neat surgery right there ! keep well mate and just take care till its healed buddy

[seuden]

Ouch! No tugging things with that hand! Hope it heals well! How'd it happen?
Good luck with the rest of the boards.

[jarp]

Originally Posted by supaduper

Before you reboot You must remove the uaegfx monitor in Devs/monitors because it will conflict and the Amiga will not boot so don't forget ,just create a drawer and place it there for storage.
Then just select your screemode in Prefs, you will see a selection of SAGA screen options for you to choose, enjoy

Thank you thank you thank you thank you! This should be stated in the Vampire wiki. I almost went mad trying to find out why I get "Picasso96: Could not create graphics board context for 'uaegfx'" on boot yet still RTG modes worked well when manually selected after boot. Removing Devs:Monitors/uaegfx fixed everything.

Also instructions on how to set up SD-card are not up to date. At the end of the day I found out that it was easiest to format SD-card in Windows to FAT32, install FAT95 driver and copy Storage/DOSDrivers/PC0 to DEVSOSDrivers/SD0 and replace content with this:

FileSystem = l:fat95
Unit = 0
Flags = 0
LowCyl = 0
HighCyl = 0
Surfaces = 1
BlocksPerTrack = 1
BlockSize = 512
Buffers = 20
BufMemType = 1
BootPri = 0
Stacksize = 4096
Priority = 5
GlobVec = -1
DosType = 0x46415401
Device = sagasd.device


This is from Apollo-Core forums but did not find it from the Wiki! This way Amiga auto-detects geometry and everything, using PFS or something seems to require inputting all the geometry data manually in HDToolBox. As a added bonus all non-Amiga computers can read the card also...

Ps. Kipper2k, you were supposed to get some rest, no solder these devices I could have waited few more weeks to get my board... But thanks, this board is A-W-E-S-O-M-E

[Lemaru]

Mine is on it's way (thanks Kipper2k), for anyone that has one and is based in the UK, did you get stung for import duty and VAT? If so how much approximately can I expect it to be?

Also what length male-female HDMI would people suggest (i am going to remove the RF modulator and stick the HDMI socket there). Want to get it all in place ready to go.

Just need to decide whether to re-cap or stick to the old saying of 'if it ain't broke don't fix it'