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Sean Sk

Posts 488
09 Aug 2021 12:27


David Wright wrote:

Just went to Best Buy today and they never heard of these cards.
Amazon doesn't list anything either.

I don't think it was ever mentioned that these cards would be sold through those retailers.

As far as I'm aware you can only pre-order through here:
EXTERNAL LINK 
and here:
EXTERNAL LINK


Mike Brantley

Posts 36
09 Aug 2021 12:52


David Wright wrote:

Just went to Best Buy today and they never heard of these cards.
  Amazon doesn't list anything either.

Uhm, you expected a different result? No Amiga stuff at Best Buy, check.


David Wright

Posts 373
09 Aug 2021 13:52


Humor is not recognized or welcome on this board? Too dry perhaps.


Przemyslaw Tkaczyk

Posts 155
09 Aug 2021 14:06


David Wright wrote:

Humor is not recognized or welcome on this board? Too dry perhaps.

Can't speak for others but I actually lol'd when I saw your reply :D And I for one would sooo welcome more humor in the current Amiga community.


Gunnar von Boehn
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 6207
09 Aug 2021 14:13


Being available at Walmart an Amazon is clearly on out todo list


Nick Fellows

Posts 176
11 Aug 2021 16:21


We will make a roadmap for the longer future.

Please make that update include the barest minimum 16bit audio support.


Mike Brantley

Posts 36
13 Aug 2021 13:16


David Wright wrote:

Humor is not recognized or welcome on this board? Too dry perhaps.

Oops, my apologies. I did not recognize the humor. :)



True Lokharn

Posts 2
14 Aug 2021 21:49


Hello!
I'm new to this forum, so pardon if the questions I'm asking got already addressed in another topic.

First thing first - what I read here looks amazing so far. A fantastic job, and what you're doing is truly breath taking. I've already preordered the IceDrake, but I believe some prep work might be needed on my end. This being said, will the original case for an A1200 be good enough to fit the card? What sort of PSU would I need to obtain to make sure everything will work fine?


Sean Sk

Posts 488
15 Aug 2021 05:04


True Lokharn wrote:

This being said, will the original case for an A1200 be good enough to fit the card?

Yes.

True Lokharn wrote:

What sort of PSU would I need to obtain to make sure everything will work fine?

I can’t speak for the original A1200 PSU which has 3A on the 5v rail as I’ve never used one, but I use an original heavy A500 PSU with 4.3A on the 5v rail and it has worked flawlessly with my Vampire 1200.

I’d say that these types of PSU’s would be fine too:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/113167896103?hash=item1a59550e27:g:sXAAAOSwNF9fhqg3




Fat Barry

Posts 14
15 Aug 2021 12:49


Hi

This new Thunder Bird will it
be ok on A1000 because of
my RAM only 512k




David Wright

Posts 373
15 Aug 2021 15:55


Too bad someone somewhere could create a project improving the 1000's chipram issue. I don't mean like in the past with Phoenix and Rejuvenator but simpler. I do know Jens has it his idea hopper to do some day but does seem unlikely. Oh well.


True Lokharn

Posts 2
15 Aug 2021 19:57


sean sk wrote:

True Lokharn wrote:

  This being said, will the original case for an A1200 be good enough to fit the card?
 

 
  Yes.
 
 
True Lokharn wrote:

  What sort of PSU would I need to obtain to make sure everything will work fine?
 

 
  I can’t speak for the original A1200 PSU which has 3A on the 5v rail as I’ve never used one, but I use an original heavy A500 PSU with 4.3A on the 5v rail and it has worked flawlessly with my Vampire 1200.
 
  I’d say that these types of PSU’s would be fine too:
  https://www.ebay.com/itm/113167896103?hash=item1a59550e27:g:sXAAAOSwNF9fhqg3
 
 
 

Thank you for answering, looks like I am all set on my end then. Now we play the waiting game :)



Chris Long

Posts 2
20 Aug 2021 03:30


Serious questions this time.  ;)

1. Will the RTG support support higher than 24hz?    If not, is this a problem using modern day monitors?  For example, I have an Asus 1080p 75hz I'd like to use with it.

2. Will it support AmigaOS 3.2, etc, so you can still run WHDLoad, other things as well?

Thanks, this looks great!




Sean Sk

Posts 488
20 Aug 2021 06:04


Chris Long wrote:

1. Will the RTG support support higher than 24hz?    If not, is this a problem using modern day monitors?  For example, I have an Asus 1080p 75hz I'd like to use with it.

   
Video modes up to 720p can achieve 60Hz, with some modes achieving even higher refresh rates as I've noted in my experiments. The best you'll get out of 1080p safely is 24Hz.
   
Chris Long wrote:

2. Will it support AmigaOS 3.2, etc, so you can still run WHDLoad, other things as well?

   
Yes it will.
   


Chris Long

Posts 2
21 Aug 2021 22:14


Thanks for the response!  One last question for a noob (I never had a flicker fixer in the 90s).

Does DIGITAL-VIDEO support, etc, mean the same thing as providing scandoubling and flicker fixing support? 

Thanks again!


Gunnar von Boehn
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 6207
21 Aug 2021 23:06


Chris Long wrote:

Does DIGITAL-VIDEO support, etc, mean

This means high speed Graphic card Video out.
- you have real Chunky modes needed for Quake and other games
- you have real Truecolor GFX for best quality
- you can watch Videos 
- High resolution Workbench

All you want :)


Akiko 080

Posts 4
05 Sep 2021 09:47


I'm just curious will the new boards include a jumper/software solution allowing the deactivation of the the card enabling the Amiga ruturn to stock? This is a simple yet very useful feature that allows the user the flexibiliy of ocaasionally switching back and forth for nostalga purposes to run those old floppies etc like we did back in the day.  It's something Phase 5 always incorporated into their designs, ACA and TF cards have retained but it's sadly missing on the Warp and Vampire cards.


Kenneth Gjøsund

Posts 1
07 Sep 2021 22:18


EXTERNAL LINK 
EXTERNAL LINK 
  As soon as I became aware of the new Firebird and Icedrake cards, I registered my interest on the old "order"-page (second link) where I had already been waiting (in vain) for the V1200 for a while. 
 
  Now I am wondering if I should also register at the first of these links which has a different form containing "pre-order"?  The other one has only registered me with "Expressed interest".
 
  Are these "queues" equal or will registering at the "pre-order" be beneficial?
 
 


Örjan Olofsson

Posts 17
30 Oct 2021 12:45


Hello :)

Seems I can't post a new topic, why's that?

Anyway, nice that the Firebird has arrived, would be a great addition to my A500, still pondering which Vampire I want the most :)

My first question today is: seems that there will be 5 external ports that need a home somewhere: hdmi, usb*2, sd-card and ethernet.

How about analog audio out? Of course it's possible to buy a hdmi-audio extractor like the one I'm using with my laptop and TV, just seem to recall a discussion about it.

My second question is: I get that Apollo OS is an Amiga-optimized
version of AROS, but how is that related to Coffin?

Is Apollo = kickstart and Coffin = workbench? Probably a stupid
question but I'm a bit confused over here :)

/Örjan


Tim Noyce

Posts 156
30 Oct 2021 17:06


Örjan Olofsson wrote:

..  My second question is: I get that Apollo OS is an Amiga-optimized version of AROS, but how is that related to Coffin?
 
Is Apollo = kickstart and Coffin = workbench? Probably a stupid
  question but I'm a bit confused over here :)..

My take on them:

There is no direct relationship between Coffin & ApolloOS, other than they can both run on the Vampire. They are completely different images.

Coffin is based on a modified AmigaOS 3.9 ROM, and is packed with many different applications, games and demos. The desktop offers lots of enhancements over the classic Amiga Workbench.

ApolloOS is a continually modified fork (branch) of AROS code, which has been and continues to be, enhanced to run well on Vampire boards. It uses its own ROM and binaries, which are compatible with Amiga applications, but are compiled from completely different code that is in the public domain. It uses Wanderer rather than Workbench, which has a similar 'look & feel' to vanilla Amiga Workbench.

Hope that helps.


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