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Gunnar von Boehn
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 6207
12 Mar 2017 16:13





OneSTone O2o

Posts 159
12 Mar 2017 16:42


It looks like you have implemented OCS/ECS and maybe AGA into Apollo. Great!


Claudio Guglielmotti
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 185
12 Mar 2017 18:03


i think that somewhere on the desk there is a scandoubler or
something similar...


Wawa T

Posts 695
12 Mar 2017 18:25


looks like my desk minus vampire. but seriously what is the content here. i see shat appears to be an amiga and a detached vampire boars. is it vampire with the chipset emu running stand alone?


Thierry Atheist

Posts 644
12 Mar 2017 21:03


I don't know what that is, BUT,... I am CERTAIN that I want it!!!!!!


M Rickan

Posts 177
12 Mar 2017 21:51


Hmm... could this be the rumoured Denise scandoubler device?


Carlos Milán

Posts 95
12 Mar 2017 23:15


Bitplannar on the Apollo-Core? :O


Crow Mohikan

Posts 78
13 Mar 2017 07:56


I supposed that turrican came to amiga on 1991 :P


Roger Shimada

Posts 30
13 Mar 2017 15:11


claudio guglielmotti wrote:
i think that somewhere on the desk there is a scandoubler or something similar...

I think it's called a "Vampire."

Hm...may need to take 2MB of RAM, but well worth it.

I wonder how floppy drives work.


Claudio Guglielmotti
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 185
13 Mar 2017 16:36


possible that you can't see the scandoubler ?
It is on the desk !!


Crow Mohikan

Posts 78
13 Mar 2017 20:38


it is I think hmmmm. Something like some frequenses from rgb to fpga board and native screen from hdmi but not over directly from saga. It doesnt seem direct enject native rgb to saga but something with other useful signals. Rgb planar core on fpga? Hmmm  I dont know


Eric Gus

Posts 477
14 Mar 2017 03:20


be nice when they can bring AGA to non aga machines (if this is what I think they are demoing .. )


Crow Mohikan

Posts 78
14 Mar 2017 06:52


eric gus wrote:

be nice when they can bring AGA to non aga machines (if this is what I think they are demoing .. )

this game is ocs/ecs.


Olaf Schoenweiss

Posts 690
14 Mar 2017 09:59


bringing ECS/OCS to DIGITAL-VIDEO is nice too

the old Natami chipset implementation included AGA as fat as I know but was not finished/complete


Carlos Peris

Posts 11
14 Mar 2017 10:41


Between many awesome achievements, this is one of the greatest ones!


Mo Retro

Posts 241
14 Mar 2017 11:59


Beware Indi(vision) of the Vampire bite :P


Peter Heginbotham

Posts 214
14 Mar 2017 12:43


I really like the thought of long term been able to run AGA only software on an OCS\ECS machine.




Martin Soerensen

Posts 232
15 Mar 2017 10:17


Peter Heginbotham wrote:

I really like the thought of long term been able to run AGA only software on an OCS\ECS machine.

Screw AGA, just give me ECS (or maybe just OCS) through DIGITAL-VIDEO and it will cover me 99% of the time. :)


Gunnar von Boehn
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 6207
15 Mar 2017 12:44


OK lets clear up this riddle.

The above screenshot is PARASITE.
PARASITE is a hardware extension which grapes the 100% original AMIGA signal and feed it back to the VAMPIRE.

This allows to give out the 100% original AMIGA signal, over the same video out of the Vampire.
The signal is scandoubled.

This means this signal looks original as in the game.
This signal has NO LACK !!!
So you can play the game in realtime.
You can view it on modern LCD.

PARASITE is targeted for original game feeling on modern monitors.
PARASITE will NOT enable you to run AGA games on A500.


Wawa T

Posts 695
15 Mar 2017 14:02


ermm, a bit puzzled, so it is a dfferent thing that what produces highres saga workbench modes, as the later is assumably just an extension in fpga core.
 
  i wonder why/if this needs to be approached via two different ways. is that the issue that vampire cannot hijack/take over particular signals/functionalities of the chipset without rendering necessary parts of genuine hardware non functional (floppy?)?
 
  how does parasite interface between vampire amiga, is it a simple plug in hardware, or will it make more advanced modifications necessary?

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