Amiga Kit stocks new Vampire v500 v2+ from Apollo Team
28th May 2017

AMIGA KIT Amiga Store is pleased to announce that it has reached an agreement with the Apollo Team to retail the Vampire branded accelerator cards to our worldwide customer base.

We have already received a limited amount of Vampire v500 v2 stock and this has been added for sale. We are hopeful of more stock arriving shortly in the next month.

The new accelerator is powered by the Apollo/68080 Core which is the natural and modern evolution of latest 680x0 processors. It's 100% code compatible, corrects bugs of 680x0 designs and adds on top most of the cool features which were invented the years after.

Apollo core : a game changer
Back in the 80s, Motorola was leading the market with his 680x0 CISC processors range, selling it to big companies like HP, Apple, Atari, Commodore, NeXT, SEGA and others. Today, 680x0 is still used by industrial machines, planes industry, cars vendors and is still used by retrocomputing fans around the world.

When put in an FPGA, the Apollo offers a good combination of moderate FPGA space consumption and excellent performance.

Apollo surpasses the performance of 68060 ASIC by far - even when only using low cost FPGA.

Performance Amiga-land deserves
Bored of tiresome 68020 performance, or the expense of 68060 accelerators and not feeling the same emotions with emulation? Apollo core resolves all those topics!

The Apollo accelerators are faster than a 68060 at 100MHz, delivering more performance to Amiga than ever before. It now makes web browsing, listening to MP3 music, watch videos a more enjoyable experience.

In addition each card can output 32-bit video through RTG and SAGA drivers.

The Apollo core on the FPGA can be upgraded from periodic updates release by the Apollo Team.

In response to the news, AMIGA KIT Managing Director Matthew Leaman said: "We are thrilled to stock and support these exciting and innovative products from the Apollo Team. In 2017 it is amazing to see the hard work and dedication that has gone into this project. It will certainly let Amiga users get a lot more from their computer at a great price."

Gunnar van Boehn of Apollo Team commented: "Lets work together to bring 68K and AMIGA back!"

Igor Majstorovic of Apollo Team also said: "From my perspective I m very excited to work with AmigaKit. AFAIK we can do all bunch of stuff in the future together."

For more information, please visit:

www.apollo-accelerators.com
www.amigakit.com/apollo

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@amigakit

Nice!

@amigakit

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"Lets work together to bring 68K and AMIGA back!"

You would have to wrap up a stressful weekend with something like this.

What makes Gunnar think it ever went away?

I still have mine.

As I said on EAB;

This should offload the apollo team with some of the transaction/shipping hassle, and leave more time for development.

Good move!

Perhaps they could have taken care of the people that have paid ahead and waited for weeks or months before they made the announcement?

@amigakit

Wow, sold out already!

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@daveyw

Yeah and at £300 a pop!!

A license to print money!

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daveyw wrote: @amigakit Wow, sold out already!

I paid for mine months ago straight from the Apollo team and still haven't received it? I'm hoping they actually had 'real' stock else the customers will be waiting many many months before they receive their cards

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@klx300r

Well they've got their Cyberdyne Systems production facility cranking out the units now! I'd rather that they build Vampires than T-800s anyway

I couldn't help but think of the Terminator series when watching the new Westworld series! They hide the assembly line aesthetic well but it's still building dangerous AI equiped machines. Stick to Amigas people: The Friendly Computer!

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Thank you to all our customers that bought the stock from the first batch in just a few hours.

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@amigakit
urrr I miss the sale, was out cleaning the deck today... When is the next batch coming in...

@daveyw

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daveyw wrote: @amigakit Wow, sold out already!

That's good to see.

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Interesting development. When I get my hands on another classic Amiga system I might have to arrange a purchase.

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@BigD

You think there's a license to print money now? Wait until they drop the A1200 version on us...

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@klx300r

you should go in IRC and ask directly. Perhaps something went wrong but they are helpful and not cheating anyone

@amigakit

just for curiosity... how many devices were in stock?

@OlafS25

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you should go in IRC and ask directly. Perhaps something went wrong but they are helpful and not cheating anyone

Indeed. I HAVE seen a few mishaps of mixed emails OR junkfilter issues, where its been cleared up on IRC within minutes.

@OlafS25

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just for curiosity... how many devices were in stock?

There were 200 in the first batch, divided amongst dealers.

Source

Relec claims to have stock

#6

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@amigakit

Any word on the V1200 Adapters? Not to nit-pick, but the Apollo Team's Datasheet says Q1 2017. I'd be happy if there was at least more information on the adapter. Thanks.

Ed

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Sadly I had been on waiting list for nearly a year.

Still not been offered one.

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