13 October 2016, 15:36 | #1 |
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Amiga 500 Vampire
After all the reading and waiting I still have a question on this.
I can't seem to find all specs on this only features. I have heard the SD card is for storage only on the 600 version, how will that work for the 500? No, IDE in the 500 so what are we booting from? Does this version add that? |
13 October 2016, 15:51 | #2 |
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If you read the PDF here it does state IDE for the A500 version.
http://apollo-accelerators.com/files..._datasheet.pdf |
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Thanks, seems to be the only change from the 600 version.
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The PDF is probably a little out of date - the v500 that's going to go into production has an extra 8pin SPI header for future expansion.
What that means is that if someone bothers to write a driver, you'll be able to add a $5 ESP8266 wifi card to the v500 and have cheap, better-than-plipbox internet access. But, like I said, it'll need someone to write a driver. |
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pfffbttt... $510 for the A500 Vampire? I'm out.
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I think he is referring to this link which is where the order button leads to.
http://www.ebay.com/sch/majsta/m.htm...p2047675.l2562 |
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16 October 2016, 01:52 | #12 |
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Any chance we could get a Poseidon compatible USB that could host a hub and wifi card on that. I think USB might be more useful than just Wifi on it's own.
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Write the driver for AROS and Poseidon becomes available.
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Yes, it means faster production but i seriously doubt on assembly cost (increasing price twice) - and to be honest even few weeks ago Majsta placed movie on yt on this topic (black mailing, extorting) so i'm quite surprised - as i said at the beginning - for Vampire price should fit (IMHO) bellow 150E, more than this significantly reduce affordability - for me Amiga is hobby and for 250E i would rather go for fast Intel CPU and will perform computations on PC. Quote:
Professional assembly is cheaper (but true - it depends on scale) and it not increase price twice (more complex products [equipped with 2.5 inch HDD, multi GB, multi CPU/SoC] ,made in relatively small series (bellow 20000 pcs) and they cost similar to Vampire). Last edited by pandy71; 31 October 2016 at 18:34. |
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Until the gold core came out it was essentially an open beta.
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I think Majsta has been killing himself to make your dreams come true... So, even if he profits... which I doubt, very much... that is ok... Why should he work for free? Isn't it great, that somebody is even doing this? Quote:
I think it is still great value for money. Compare it to other offerings, and you have to agree... |
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He's selling hand made prototypes on E-bay. I don't think anyone believes this is the final cost. You want the custom hand made versions that badly, you pay "Boutique" prices.
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Sad but true...
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Yes it is great - you will not find anything from me that may lead to conclusion that it is not great (and using FPGA as modern 68k replacement was supported by me earlier than Vampire was born so i was happy when Majsta proved that for us this is best approach - alternatively i also considered hybrid solution - small FPGA for timing, glue + general CPU like ARM for more complex CPU functionality emulation - dynamic code translation etc). Quote:
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If you compare this to modern PC market then... you know answer... |
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