On the waiting list. I will put the board in a 2000 that I just pick up. How much are the boards going for, just saw another on Ebay.

@ErikBauer

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ErikBauer wrote: Big announcement by Gunnar on the Apollo Core Knowledge Forum Quote: There is some movement of AROS, the open source AMIGA OS. Three things are needed to build AMIGAs. A) A good 68K CPU B) The real AMIGA chipset, ideally enhanced C) AMIGA OS AROS can offer the OS. To Support this Open Movement, we hereby announce that we will open source SAGA (the enhanced AMIGA chipset).

IMO, this is great news, and something that is way past due. Commodore should have begun work to improve the Amiga chipset beyond AGA, just as they had done to move from OCS to ECS, and finally to AGA. It was very sad and frustrating to see the Amiga stall after the release of AGA machines, and AmigaOS3.1 (I think AmigaOS3.5 & 3.9 were both too little and too late). Many users expressed their disappointment in AGA, and stated that it was also "too little, and too late", when it was released, and were shocked that the A600 was released with ECS, and not even AGA.

IMO, it is fantastic news to see that anyone is actually doing work to move the original concept of the Amiga and its chipset forward, beyond what the A1200, A4000, and CD32 provided with AGA, because as great as RTG and true color 24bit video cards are in A2000, A3000, A4000 and tower-ized A1200's, it's just not the same as the original Amiga A1000 and the concepts that the Amiga was based upon.

The tough question is, will any programmers take the plunge and write games and other software that takes advantage of SAGA, now that it is going to be open sourced? Gunnar should approach the guys writing the Hollywood programming language and work with them to produce a SAGA plug-in for Hollywood, to encourage more programmers to take advantage of the new features that SAGA provides. 16bit stereo audio is a step in the right direction too.

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@BoingBear

Hollywood is made to run android, windows, AmigaOS, AROS, MorphOS, way do think they interested in supporting something, none standard that can't be used on the other platforms?

If Vampire people wont to be smart they support the Software standards we have AHI, RTG, this what allows developers to earn money is the moneymaker, for software developer, that is how they can possible reach many enough to uses, to buy there software.

Better classic hardware means it now possible to write software that can run everywhere. That is if people are not so suborn, that they don't see that.

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GOLD3 bring-up. PAL via Vampire’s HDMI

You will have both RGB and HDMI enabled in same time on GOLD3 core. Note: This should not be confused to the Parasite adpater. HDMI cable is plugged to the Vampire's port, this is GOLD3 core feature. No Parasite adpater in use.

https://vimeo.com/218974507

Stock Amiga 600 vs Vampire 600 V2 / GOLD3

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release date : march 1999
release party : Astrosyn 1999
compo : oldskool demo
ranked : 1st

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwbIdKz0AoY&t=40s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYxEFUgWe1o

Vampire 600 V2 / GOLD3 bring-up - no more Turtle Mode

GOLD3 does not contain Turtle Mode for the stock a1200 speed. Here are a couple of WHDLoad games that will benefit of it. Audio and video comes through HDMI.

@Overflow

https://youtu.be/1Q_rfkqPymg

Amikit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfWB0f1DI4c

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Amiga 1000 with Vampire V2-500, Apollo Gold 3 team test core. A1000, with 4 meg ChipRam, AGA, HDMI Video out with Audio. Meet Pamela the new audio out custom chip. Youtube links https://youtu.be/bOaD4EqD9MQ https://youtu.be/z1RxmhV-4Bg GOLD 3 Beta Note the A1000 is loading game from SD card. the A4000 is loading game over Samba share, this is why the load time is slower. the comparison is to show the ChipRam and AGA are working on the Gold 3 core even on an A1000

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Just place my pre-order for the Vampire with Amiga Kit...

I'm still waiting to find out about the upcoming 1200 Viper board. Haven't heard a peep about it in ages.

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@edponpon

You mean the upcoming Vampire 1200 card?

If so; I dont know if the standalone or the V1200 will arrive next; nor the timeline for it.

I think they are 100% preoccupied getting Gold 3 core complete.

@Overflow

i only own aga machines, but i really hope they serve the standing orders before they start anything new.

https://vimeo.com/222892444

Quick Aros 68k Origyn Web Browser (OWB) test with Vampire 500 V2

Amiga 2000
Vampire 500 V2 (GOLD 2.5/Alternative Kick3.1)
Picasso IV
Ariadne Network card

@Overflow

GFX redraw is horribly slow. Other than that, OWB loading time is OK, video doesn´t show scrolling speed though.

@pavlor

i think is need better optimization of gfx driver probably is using aga or vga?

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Vampire 500 V2 (Gold 2.5) / MysticView 1.07 020_NoFPU

Vampire 500 V2 / Amiga 2000
Gold 2.5 with the alternative 3.1 Kick ROM
AmigaOS 3.9 BB2 (with ROM updates)
Prisma Megamix Zorro II
Ariadne Network card Zorro II

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLR64W_8v_8&feature=youtu.be

GOLD3 bring-up. Stunt Car Racer

An Amiga 600 with the Vampire 600 V2 accelerator board.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5oVDYNd_ws

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@Overflow

Nice!

Still not sure how creating an accelerator card is killing your first born...


No two accelerator cards are alike. Buy the one you like.

First SoftFPU tests with GOLD2 core

A very early Software Floating Point Unit bring-up for the 68k.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgW6B9dhkgQ

Its based on the work by Jari Eskelinen, which is being discussed here;

http://www.apollo-core.com/knowledge.php?b=4¬e=5931&x=0&z=jWL3Fm

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@Overflow

Gold 3 is going to be a nice release. What will the select few bitch about then?