27 December 2021, 10:31 | #1 |
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Where to get Vampire support
So I finally dusted off my V2 I had for some years now. Sadly, I had a lot of issues of getting it running as:
1) Apollo wiki is not working 2) No mention of the V2 on the Apollo site at all it seems. 3) Cannot find where to download drivers/cores. Is there somewhere where the drivers/cores are available? Also older versions as I read that 2.12 should be the one for the 500V2 and that sagasd.device 0.12 is needed for OS3.2 compatibility. EDIT: Got it almost 5 years ago, I see now. Call me slow... Last edited by Hedeon; 27 December 2021 at 10:38. |
27 December 2021, 10:40 | #2 |
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Dracula did not help you? Just kidding, he’s a fictional character. You should visit the Vampire Discord channel for Vampire support and help.
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27 December 2021, 11:16 | #3 |
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https://discord.com/invite/5wSA4Bn and the forum: http://www.apollo-core.com/knowledge.php?b=10
Discord link did not work Telegram link is here but i do not know how official it is.. https://t.me/vamped_amiga Last edited by kriz; 27 December 2021 at 11:30. |
27 December 2021, 11:18 | #4 |
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Why this extra barrier for drivers? Thanks, I'll look over there.
EDIT: invite no longer works |
27 December 2021, 11:43 | #5 |
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I guess this is the latest version for A500: VAMPIRE 2 V500_R214_7987.jic 2MB
http://www.apollo-core.com/index.htm?page=downloads But I agree this is a mess, i am unable to find the discord link myself |
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Thanks for the Telegram link. I got at least the 2.7 drivers. However, while the micro SD card works in WinUAE, it does not under vampire. SDiag sees it correctly, Hd toolbox within UAE sees it correctly, HD toolbox within vampire not. Reads in configuration all wrong and I can not save anything to it. I think this was the reason why 0.12 of sagasd.device was needed with OS 3.2. This with the core flashed to 2.12 gold.
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27 December 2021, 12:21 | #8 |
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Your best place for support is other Vampire users, and the usual Amiga channels, that is, forums like this etc.
The Apollo support, is, well, non existent. At no point are you ever made aware of how long, if any, any warranty is with the product. Mine needed fixed, and i was told, "buy another one". It's the one major flaw with the Vampire guys, they make interesting stuff, but have no business savvy, and no support. There are a whole host of Vampires owner on here, someone will try to help you. |
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To be fair, I had a problem once (with some CF errors) and I reported it in the apollo forum. I am happy to say the response was lightning-fast from the Vampire guys and they invested quite some time to help a newbie such as me to troubleshoot.
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"Lucio Morassutti wrote: When will you have core 2.14 in .exe format? Gunnar von Boehn The plan is to make new Release in December for all cards including EXEs" From topic: http://www.apollo-core.com/knowledge.php?b=5¬e=36857 |
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27 December 2021, 13:06 | #11 |
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I saw that posting. Also read that it really just contains V1200 upgrades. So maybe not really needed for v500.
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27 December 2021, 16:00 | #12 |
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Got some help on the Discord server. Everything is up and running now. Thanks all!
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This sounds like your Vampire was one of kipper's. He sold cards where he left away parts because putting them on the cards was too much work and used parts different from those on the bill of materials because they were easier to get resulting in poorly working cards. Majsta actually replaced some of those cards with new cards of his own production because kipper never reacted to complaints but eventually everyone was fed up with cleaning up kipper's mess.
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The first board was stable but I noticed some caps were loose and fixed them. Also found one that was cracked and replaced that as well. These were just decoupling capacitors and aren't super critical. Kipper offered to fix the board for me at the time, but I had a friend who is an artist with the soldering iron and fixed it all up for me. The Team knew I had a Kipper Vampire and never offered to replace it, but they did register the serial number back when the firmware would grey-scale on "fake" boards, so there's that. |
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Yip, I think your experience echoes mine. I have to confess that I think Grond is being somewhat untruthful here. I wouldn't like to speculate whether it is by accident or design though.
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