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Soon "RELEASE 4" for Vampire4 Standalone

Gunnar von Boehn
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 6197
27 Oct 2020 21:04


RELEASE 4 is planned for NOVEMBER
 
New improvements are:
 
* Game Ruff'n Tumble is fixed
* Improved screen modes for C64 and NEOGEO and mode 1280x720
* USB Joypad support (With 4 button + Start)
* ATARI ROM included
 
 
 


Michal Pietal

Posts 236
28 Oct 2020 14:30


Great news!

Please elaborate some more about USB Joysticks.

By the way speaking of Atari, is there any way to emulate 8-bit Atari, under V4? It is absent on the emulators’ lists everywhere...


Willem Drijver
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 127
28 Oct 2020 16:34


It's EmuTOS support in a virtual partition within ApolloOS. TOS is OS for Atari ST, so not related to 8-bit Atari


Michal Pietal

Posts 236
28 Oct 2020 19:10


I know.  But what about Atari 8-bit emulation?  Is there any on Vampire??


Olivier Landemarre

Posts 147
28 Oct 2020 20:52


Michal Pietal wrote:

I know.  But what about Atari 8-bit emulation?  Is th
ere any on Vampire??

There is no 8  bit planes format in Saga, compatible mode are 1 2 4 planes but stmid with same resolution is not possible but 16 bits falcon is possible too. 32 bits work too.
1 plane not work well for the moment.


Willem Drijver
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 127
28 Oct 2020 21:43


Possibly there is some miscommunication here.

I assume Michal is informing about Atari 8-bit emulators (Atari 400/600/800) and not referring to SAGA display modes for Atari 16/32-bit TOS (EmuTOS).

I do not have any knowledge about Atari 8-bit emulator for m68k...


Amiga Noob

Posts 33
29 Oct 2020 00:10


Gunnar von Boehn wrote:

    * USB Joypad support (With 4 button + Start)
 

 
 
Michal Pietal wrote:

    Please elaborate some more about USB Joysticks.
 

 
  I am wondering about this too. Does the virtual DB9 port work like a CD32/SNES with buttons being serially transmitted or something like a Megadrive with its select pulse scheme or maybe just more pins are added virtually like a virtual DB11 port?
 
 


Apollon Jan

Posts 27
29 Oct 2020 01:23


WOW DANKE GUNNAR!!!! can you still do something on the Turrican 2 intro?


Nick Fellows

Posts 176
29 Oct 2020 08:13


Improved screenmodes for C64? What is this ?



Gunnar von Boehn
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 6197
29 Oct 2020 09:37


nick fellows wrote:

Improved screenmodes for C64? What is this ?
 

Commodore C64 was a very successful 8bit home computer.
There are some emulators available for Amiga which will allow you to play C64 games on Vamp. The improved screenmodes give you an option to run these Emulator perfectly.


Olivier Landemarre

Posts 147
29 Oct 2020 11:27


Willem Drijver wrote:

Possibly there is some miscommunication here.
 
  I assume Michal is informing about Atari 8-bit emulators (Atari 400/600/800) and not referring to SAGA display modes for Atari 16/32-bit TOS (EmuTOS).
 
  I do not have any knowledge about Atari 8-bit emulator for m68k...

Oups sorry!


Nick Fellows

Posts 176
29 Oct 2020 17:59


Was kinda hoping for a bit more detail - is this for C64 emulators that use RTG or something? How can an update to the core that improves emulation unless the software is written to support these special C64 modes?

Hope that doesnt come across as facetious.


Renaud Schweingruber
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 378
30 Oct 2020 18:43


720p !! YEAAHHH :)


Apollon Jan

Posts 27
30 Oct 2020 20:11


Renaud Schweingruber wrote:

720p !! YEAAHHH :)

i can't believe it! will the Amiga chipset also scale up to 720p?


Roger Andre Lassen

Posts 150
30 Oct 2020 20:22


720p sounds VERY nice :-)

posts 15