@BigD

Use PPaint, problem solved.

@pavlor

If PPaint was as good for animation as DPaint i.e. lightboards etc then I would have switched years ago. Brilliance 2 is the only other animation package worth trying.

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@Thread

Plus I have hit the chip memory limit quite frequently when animating in 256 colours so a Vampire with a far higher chip ram setting (even 8 mb would be great) and the hi-res interlaced mode would be a great sales point for me.

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@BigD

interlaced not works yet

To be honest, ECS/AGA had some exotic screen modes, that where not used in games and replaced by better alternatives when you had a GFX card.

A VampireV4 without FPU, MMU, without these exotic ECS/AGA Modes but with 24 Bit Hires instead would be absolutely OK. Well some Vampire Fans (including Gunnar) seems to have more problems with that, especially when justifying some pompous claims made earlier.

Here is a full(?) list of ECS/AGA modes http://amiga.lychesis.net/knowledge/ScreenModes.html

I don't need a A2040 mode, if I can have the same resolution with more colours over RTG.

You need PPaint for animations? Well PPaint was nice but it couldn't generate MPEG or AVI, that's the major issue today, we need new software but less old and obsolete screen modes.

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@OneTimer1

PPaint just isn’t a good and easy to use animation editor like DPaint is.

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@OneTimer1

I tend to agree about the modes. All we really need is PAL and NTSC up to Super Hires. Plus DblPAL and DblNTSC possibly. Most of the others were used in Workbench applications and even RTG would be used over double modes when available. Exception would be for double sample rates. The rest aren't useful anymore and would be made redundant by internal scan doubling anyway.

However, that site lists Multiscan Productivity as being 1280 across on ECS. I don't recall this one. Even on my A1200 the most I got out of ScreenMode Prefs was 640 across basline for VGA Multiscan Productivity modes.

As to animations, it was specifically for playing back on Amiga, so other formats didn't matter in the same regard. And lossy formats like MPEG and AVI are for real video with sound. Which Amiga anims were not in general. They never progressed to proper true colour modes with sound since the Amiga hardware never got that far, even with RTG. Limited to HAM8 or 256 colours, they are more suitable for GIF anims or APNG. Aside from HAM, Amiga anims aren't lossy.

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@Hypex

You’re mixing up animation with video playback - different things.

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800x600 8bit bitplane (8 bitplanes) non interlaced mode will be enough.
For software that not work with RTG.

@Overflow

When can we expect to see AOS4 running on this thing?

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@AmigaMac

certainly aeon has already appointed a development team lead and everything has been arranged, so any time now.

@kolla

That's because in the subject I was replying to, it was talking about exporting an anim from PPaint as an AVI/MPEG. So the anim could be play back as a video elsewhere.

@thread

I wonder if any "FPGA Amiga" maker is planning to have mini-ITX size board with a CPU slot?

(trevor might have a few extra P1022 chips for turbocard implementation ... and CPU slot might be usable also for a monster AAA/Hombre+68090 build...)

hmmm..... "68K Bus Expansion"
https://wiki.apollo-accelerators.com/doku.php/vampire:vsa-v4:peripherals

"All 68K signals are available in this socket.
Theoretically, a Zorro II bridge could be built for this socket, which would allow connecting Zorro cards to the Vampire."

I imagine that should be 32bit wide and could be used as CPU or GPU expansion.

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Another crazy step:
https://www.bigbookofamigahardware.com/bboah/product.aspx?id=41

Vampire on PCIe x1 card?
"Real classic" on
-a dumb passive busboard?
-AOS4 machine?
-MorphOS machine?
-AAA audio and retro videomodes for NG Amigas?

Yes.

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@Forum

https://amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2019-11-00011-EN.html

@OneTimer1

Their "peculiar" stance to IP was known for some time, so nothing new or surprising.

@OneTimer1

Well said. Considering the litigation at play I really don't understsnd the Apollo Team risking litigation from H&P and Cloanto by distributing copyrighted Roms and OS software. CoffinOS without proper licenses is a disgrace IMHO.

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@BigD

Quote:

risking litigation from H&P and Cloanto by distributing copyrighted Roms and OS software

Gunnar from the linked article:
Quote:

Every V4 has a Cloanto OS license.

So I don't know what your concern about Cloanto is in this regard?

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@number6

I believe the license is just for the kickstart, not the entire OS - whatever "Cloanto OS" is supposed to mean - 3.X?

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@kolla

As Gunnar also said:

Quote:

It is correct that the V4 came in Neuss with OS licenses from Cloanto. We are in friendly contact with both Timothy and Mike. Both like to sell us OS licenses. But even purchased licenses may not guarantee that the license is really valid.

Translated, but seems to make sense in an Amiga sort of way.

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Quote:

number6 wrote: @BigD Quote: risking litigation from H&P and Cloanto by distributing copyrighted Roms and OS software Gunnar from the linked article: Quote: Every V4 has a Cloanto OS license. So I don't know what your concern about Cloanto is in this regard?

In this case it is H&P, because Cloanto can't give a AOS3.9 licence.

And there is a lot of other pirated software on it, if someone wants to sue them, they will be in serious trouble.