13 October 2016, 23:47 | #1 |
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Will the Vampire 500 V2 revive the Atari ST scene?
Its real, apparently... you only need a ton of 68000 Sockets ;-)
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14 October 2016, 00:01 | #2 |
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Nice. The ST scene is quite healthy.
Maybe one day the Amiga can get cool stuff like this http://joo.kie.sk/?page_id=384 , this http://www.fairlite.co.uk/AtariKit//...r/monster.html and this http://www.lotharek.pl/product.php?pid=94 I'd love a sidecar like ultrasatan with embedded fast ram for the 500! The wider the scene, the lower the prices! |
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The Amiga doesnt need something like the CosmosEx, when you can get a Gotek & IDE+FastRAM for half its price.
If you have A600/A1200/A3000/A4000, you already have internal IDE (or SCSI) anyway. |
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It has USB joystick support, USB keyboard support, USB mice support all sans needing any drivers. It has an SD card slot plus USB mass storage. It can load floppy images over the network with wifi. It even lets you search for games then goes and fetches them for you over the net! It can map a physical drive to an SMB share with no drivers required. It can decode mp3s too with output going to the audio DMA. Pretty soon it'll be acting like a laser printer which prints over the network. It's also fully open hardware wise. You can build your own. The gotek is neat and cheap but it doesn't compare. The media is hot swappable too. I'd very much like one of those for the 500. With the ultrasatan you can swap hard disks on SD card like floppies. I'd like that for the 500 too. Cflash on a vertically mounted IDE card is too fragile. No need on the 600 or 1200 where you have PCMCIA -> Cflash. Booting from one needs a boot floppy though Yuck. It would be nice on the 500. There's a stand alone cosmoex for SCSI. One of these days I'll hook it up to a GVP drive and see if I can get it working. Last edited by frank_b; 14 October 2016 at 02:03. |
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I thought entitled asshats had hounded the developer into leaving the scene.
The title of this thread should be "will we ever actually see the Vampire 500?!" |
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I'd prefer the Natami. It was more interesting in scope. Pity that didn't survive. It was proprietary too |
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As for the other functionality of the CosmosEx, seems like overkill. I considered buying it for my STE but decided against it due to its price. Got myself a Gotek & IDE adapter for around 60$ combined, which is enough for me. |
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Standard 600/1200 can boot from PCMCIA (drive CC0 via carddisk.device in rom).
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I've only ever used Cflash to PCMIA for transfers. It's pretty hit and miss if the cards can even format on the Amiga. It won't work with an older ROM and PIO mode 0 isn't exactly rocket fast either. Wouldn't it be nicer to have hot swappable Sdcard SCSI devices with 8 meg of fast RAM instead? Take my money!
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It's in one of those never-ending Vampire threads. If eXeler0 doesn't find it for you, try a search for all of Kipper2k's posts and sort by date.
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Its Majsta not Majesta ;-)
Don't think he has a lot of reason to "quit", but the threat of ppl leaving the scene is always present, it would be a shame but its ultimately pointless to worry about. What if Jens quits Amiga etc... In the end, whatever happens, happens. And if things get boring or meaningless, users "quit" too which ultimately transforms the community and everything around it. Skickat från min LG-H850 via Tapatalk |
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No one is quitting anything, we are working more than ever with more projects to come. We just don't write much on the forums like before for known reasons. Right now few more models are in production. Regarding Atari, like I was saying if there is interest from their side we are open to all options
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