Will the Vampire 500 V2 revive the Atari ST scene?

[eXeler0]

Its real, apparently... you only need a ton of 68000 Sockets ;-)

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[frank_b]

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!

[UberFreak]

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.

[frank_b]

Originally Posted by UberFreak

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.

I have IDE + fast ram in my 500. My IDE card needs a boot floppy. The Cosmoex is a different beast from the Gotek.

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.

[asm1]

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?!"

[frank_b]

Originally Posted by asm1

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?!"

If the hardware was open it wouldn't matter! It's not though, is it? If people want an ST compatible which is at least 10x faster than a vampire, just use Aranym. Amiga users can get a screaming fast Amiga with UAE/JIT too. Same code base!

I'd prefer the Natami. It was more interesting in scope. Pity that didn't survive. It was proprietary too

[UberFreak]

Originally Posted by frank_b

I have IDE + fast ram in my 500. My IDE card needs a boot floppy.

Mine (ICD AdIDE) can autoboot with Kickstart 1.3.

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.

[Jope]

Originally Posted by asm1

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?!"

Majsta is still in the scene, Kipper2k announced his departure, he has been helping with the manufacture.

[idrougge]

Originally Posted by asm1

I thought entitled asshats had hounded the developer into leaving the scene.

You think so because you don't read what the developer writes, instead basing your opinion on rumours instigated by people who don't read what the developer writes.

[paul1981]

Standard 600/1200 can boot from PCMCIA (drive CC0 via carddisk.device in rom).

[frank_b]

Originally Posted by paul1981

Standard 600/1200 can boot from PCMCIA (drive CC0 via carddisk.device in rom).

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!

[frank_b]

Originally Posted by idrougge

You think so because you don't read what the developer writes, instead basing your opinion on rumours instigated by people who don't read what the developer writes.

What happens if majesta quits too?

[idrougge]

Originally Posted by frank_b

What happens if majesta quits too?

Neither has quit.

[eXeler0]

Originally Posted by asm1

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?!"

The title of the thread is what it is. If you feel you need to discuss other aspects of the Vampire 500 then maybe you're looking in the wrong place, ey?

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[frank_b]

Originally Posted by idrougge

Neither has quit.

Can you please point me to something which verifies Kipper hasn't quit the project? The facebook post I saw indicated he had. If he hasn't it would be good to see evidence of it.

[idrougge]

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.

[frank_b]

Originally Posted by idrougge

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.

Thanks. I'll have a trawl. I'm more interested in his RAM and IDE boards to be honest.

[eXeler0]

Originally Posted by frank_b

What happens if majesta quits too?

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.


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[majsta]

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

[emufan]

Originally Posted by majsta

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

good news, i'm happy to hear that