New V4 Card: the Manticore Is Coming! | page 1 2
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| | Gunnar von Boehn (Apollo Team Member) Posts 6254 28 Sep 2022 08:11
| Hello Alexander, Alexander Gent wrote:
| HI Gunnar, Any idea when these cards will be publicly available for purchase?
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next month Alexander Gent wrote:
| Will there be an order page? |
Yes of course. The Manticore will first presented on the A37 Amiga event in 2 weeks. Come to A37 World biggest Amiga event, you can buy your the Manticore there! Or over our webshop next month.. Alexander Gent wrote:
| I noticed that the new Manticore card will have an IDE port. How will this device work in conjunction with the existing A600 motherboard IDE controller? |
Yes the Manticore has the following features: 1) 512 MB memory 2) FastIDE controller, while the A600 IDE reached ~3MB/sec the FastIDE controller does speed this up to about 20MB/sec You can use in theory both together at the same time. 3) USB ports to connect Mouse and Joystick, Joypad is automaticlaly handled like CD32 pad allowing to play CD32 games 4) 100MBit Ethernet with 64bit DMA 5) AGA - you can play AMIGA AGA games 6) Amiga Video output over DIGITAL-VIDEO 7) 3D acceleration (Amiga Maggie Unit) 8) Super-AGA chipset with 16bit Amiga audio 9) SDcard for data exchange 10) RTC port and Expansion ports (for connect Analog 16bit Audio module and others)
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| | Alexander Gent
Posts 77 29 Sep 2022 04:27
| Coming from Australia is a bit hard at present. Any idea on the approximate cost of these new cards?? Thank you...
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| | Gunnar von Boehn (Apollo Team Member) Posts 6254 29 Sep 2022 13:20
| Manticore Bringup status update Yesterday we got the first batch from solderhouse. Test done yesterday: 1) Chipmem test =GOOD 2) Fastmem test =GOOD 3) DIGITAL-VIDEO video out =GOOD 4) CPU kickstart boot =GOOD Test done today: 5) Boot from A600 IDE Workbench =GOOD 6) Display of PAL over DIGITAL-VIDEO =GOOD 7) Display of truecolor RTG Workbench =GOOD 8) Play of AGA Amiga =GOOD 9) Usage of USB mouse =GOOD 10) Usage of USB Joypad as CD32 controller =GOOD
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| | Gunnar von Boehn (Apollo Team Member) Posts 6254 24 Oct 2022 07:43
| The Manticore sales started on A37. Jens the designer of the board did present it there.All four V4 cards were available for purchase on the A37.
The Manticore is also available for purchase in our webshop now.
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