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Vampire V4 and AROS
Posted on 8-Dec-2019 7:45:04
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Cotter Youtube channel;

Testing some classic Amiga games on Aros 68k.

Amiga4Ever

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Amiga Vampire v4 Standalone

Aros 68k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1UyaBDfN6U

Part 2;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sR6hn4IXCE

Cotters Apollo forum thread, where he also mentions that Kalamatee is now part of the team, which makes me hopeful for the future of AROS

http://www.apollo-core.com/knowledge.php?b=8¬e=25660

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Re: Vampire V4 and AROS
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That is just great!!!!

When I get my Vampire stand alone I hope AROS will be all I need.


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Re: Vampire V4 and AROS
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dVvfFmBDSk

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Aros Caffeine, a preview of a Aros 68k build that I have been working on.
It is my lab where i test new cores for the Vampire V4 and the Aros Nightly builds.

640x256 HiRes is what we have available atm, but I have the feeling that this will soon change.... RTG?

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Re: Vampire V4 and AROS
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http://www.apollo-core.com/knowledge.php?b=1¬e=26042&z=f5U8PR


Quote:
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Posts 4216
20 Dec 2019 19:22

As you know we announced that we support AMIGA and other developers.

So far two complete V4-SA development systems with
keyboard, mouse and CF were send to AROS core developers
to support their work to revive AMIGA

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Re: Vampire V4 and AROS
Posted on 23-Dec-2019 16:50:51
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@thread,

The V4 is making me wonder if it is time to sell my A1200 w/Phase5 1260 accelerator & SCSI2 controller w/256mb RAM?

I don't know what my setup is worth, as I don't follow Amiga pricing on eBay or AmiBay any more.

I'm really liking the small size (no external bits and cables all over the desk) specs and performance of the Vampire V4, and the fact that development of the core is fairly constant, with new upgrades coming quite often. Now if we can just get more developers to write new games and productivity software that takes advantage of the features available in SAGA, it could create even more interest in 68k Amiga compatibles.

Well done Gunnar and Vampire Team!

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Re: Vampire V4 and AROS
Posted on 23-Dec-2019 17:24:40
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@amigadave

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sell my A1200 w/Phase5 1260 accelerator & SCSI2 controller w/256mb RAM?


what are you going to do, about not being able to connect a floppy drive? on the Vampire.

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Now if we can just get more developers to write new games and productivity software that takes advantage of the features available in SAGA


Donate vampire systems to developers maybe.

Having said that many times, if vampires are successful, it means that more people have access to RTG, which means more programs can be more easily rewritten to MorphOS / OS4 / AROS, and supporting their SAGA functionality is not so interesting because the market is limited.

And also more people who has RTG means there larger demand to make RTG software and games and demos, I know demo makers are stubborn, but with many demanding RTG it means maybe have small transition. to a bit more modern tech.

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Re: Vampire V4 and AROS
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@NutsAboutAmiga

demo makers do it to get most from a defined hardware

So I do not expect "Vampire-specific" demos or supporting something like RTG

RTG is just another layer in their view but they want to hack direct on the hardware

Regarding game development that is another topic... up to now RTG (graphic cards) was rare so people developing amiga games used the chipsets directly, that might change in future

Regarding new SAGA features... it depends what your market is

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@amigadave

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I don't know what my setup is worth, as I don't follow Amiga pricing on eBay or AmiBay any more.


It should be worth enough to buy a V4 and have money left over, especially if you split the hardware and sell it individually. Don't bother with Ebay. Just research the prices on Amibay and offer it for sale there.

@NutsAboutAmiga

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what are you going to do, about not being able to connect a floppy drive? on the Vampire.


You can back up the floppies to ADF and then transfer them to a media suitable for suitable for the V4. The probably means writing the ADFs to CDRW on the A1200 and then using another computer to transfer the files to USB media.

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Rob wrote:
@amigadave

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I don't know what my setup is worth, as I don't follow Amiga pricing on eBay or AmiBay any more.


It should be worth enough to buy a V4 and have money left over, especially if you split the hardware and sell it individually. Don't bother with Ebay. Just research the prices on Amibay and offer it for sale there.

@NutsAboutAmiga

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what are you going to do, about not being able to connect a floppy drive? on the Vampire.


You can back up the floppies to ADF and then transfer them to a media suitable for suitable for the V4. The probably means writing the ADFs to CDRW on the A1200 and then using another computer to transfer the files to USB media.



@Rob,

I'm hoping I can get enough from selling my A1200 with the Phase5 060 accelerator and SCSI2 controller to buy a Vampire V4 stand alone system, that would be great. I still have many other Amiga systems, including an A2000 with a GVP 060 accelerator in it and a couple of A4000 desktops that have been converted into tower cases for Video Toaster use, so I don't think I will miss the A1200. The Vampire V4 should do everything that the A1200 can do I think, and mostly do them faster.

@NutsAboutAmiga,

As Rob said, not having a floppy drive is hardly a problem these days, and is not a problem for any Amiga user like me who still has other Amiga systems with floppy drives in them, where they can save the floppy disks to ADF, or some other format for use on the Vampire, or UAE, so not having a floppy drive connector is not an issue for anyone considering buying a Vampire to replace their Amiga system.

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Re: Vampire V4 and AROS
Posted on 25-Dec-2019 3:48:10
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One of the main motivators for Vampire cards is supposedly the high prices on “real” Amiga hardware, so to see someone hope that selling a high-end A1200 setup will be enough to buy a Vampire card... there is some irony here somewhere :)

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amigadave wrote:
@thread,

The V4 is making me wonder if it is time to sell my A1200 w/Phase5 1260 accelerator & SCSI2 controller w/256mb RAM?...


you're a very brave man as there's absolutely nothing (computer world wise anyway) that would make me sell mine

yes congrats to the Vampire team as I know many old Amiga users who just can't afford the real hardware they drooled over in their glory days that are eagerly looking forward to buying a standalone Vampire

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V4 on my miggy 500+ is my dream... stand alone for me dont have sense... is like uae on a pi

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V4 on my miggy 500+ is my dream... stand alone for me dont have sense... is like uae on a pi


A V4 is a V4 is a V4... why is it important for you to have an entire A500+ motherboard as a keyboard controller?

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@kolla

the same was with a 1200 with a blizzardppc and blizzardvision
or the c64 with turbo chamaleon... but is fun

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V4 on my miggy 500+ is my dream... stand alone for me dont have sense... is like uae on a pi


I know what you mean! I love the look & feel of the original hardware

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Posted on 27-Dec-2019 16:38:06
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@klx300r

Its also a advanced floppy drive controller.

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everybody wha wants rpi with the m68k ng amiga system runnning on it may have a chance soon, the others who want an accel for their genuine gear will also be served. win-win.

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@tlosm

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V4 on my miggy 500+ is my dream...


Stand alone instead of an accelerator for an old computer would make more sense, it might be the same price but peripherals will be cheaper and faster.

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@wawa

I wont mind a stable, reliable x86 developer system, it does not have to be fast.

Since Vampire can emulate other systems, I think to emulate a small x86 system especially BIOS - one could use the system to write in x86 assembler.

There are more books available in the PC world teaching programming, but running emulation after emulation for different software is a nightmare. Especially when things dont work ( hardware drivers on different motherboards).

The vampire could be a developers dream, to simulate a basic x86 system with fixed audio/video that could use it as as a simulated, but accurate virtual PC - a programmers simulation device, to test hardware and software.

Why not just buy a PC ? Because one could trust Amiga developers to get things emulated properly, can you imagine an automated system that can simulate all windows OS's ?

You could build a sound card in hardware and test it on windows or even fresh Linux builds before AmigaOS testing starts.

One use would be to use windows software in an automated way to test libraries and builds, one could for example test POSIX compatibility across all hardware and show which systems are lacking specific automated API regression tests.

The PC world of hardware is so fragmented and so is Linux - its a nightmare to develop for as hardware keeps changing every few months in the persuit of speed and money that they have forgotten and left behind the true software gems.

Possibilities are endless.

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im confused. where have i proposed to use vamp as pc emulator to develop on it??

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