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George Gonzalez
Posts 3
23 Apr 2017 03:04
| Thanks Michael, I hope a member of the Apollo team checks into the notification problem, Ill keep checking my Email and this Forum.
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Michael R
Posts 281
23 Apr 2017 19:44
| David, I'm really glad you received your accelerator card because you waited so long! And for everyone else who paid but haven't received a confirmation or anything else yet we're all in the same boat. I received a 7-port usb hub from China a few days ago. I ordered it and paid for it about four weeks ago. I was just getting ready to report it as "missing in the mail". That literally gives new meaning to "slow boat from China"! :-)
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David Wright
Posts 373
23 Apr 2017 20:01
| Michael you just reminded me I never got my flashlights! It must be over a month ago I impulsively ordered two for $5 from a slickdeals promo.
From Gearbest which I didn't know was chinese. I did get a shipped notice way back but forgot until your post here. Have to watch the source of some products. Hey it's only five bucks in this case.
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Michael R
Posts 281
23 Apr 2017 20:42
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Michael you just reminded me I never got my flashlights!
It must be over a month ago I impulsively ordered two for $5 from a slickdeals promo.
From Gearbest which I didn't know was chinese. I did get a shipped notice way back but forgot until your post here.
Have to watch the source of some products. Hey it's only five bucks in this case.
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Hehe! Sometimes if you have only waited 30 days, it pays to wait a little longer! A miracle could happen on that 31st day! ;-) But for those of us who are a little impatient, that might seem like forever!
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Thierry Atheist
Posts 644
23 Apr 2017 22:20
| Michael R wrote:
| | But for those of us who are a little impatient, that might seem like forever! |
"forever"?Been waiting since April 1st*, 1994!!!!!!! (* No, not a joke.)
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Michael R
Posts 281
23 Apr 2017 23:22
| Thierry Atheist wrote:
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Michael R wrote:
| | But for those of us who are a little impatient, that might seem like forever! |
"forever"?
Been waiting since April 1st*, 1994!!!!!!!
(* No, not a joke.)
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LMAO! What did you pay for in 1994? Talk about slow delivery!Ok. I've probably overdosed on Hydrocodone due to a recent leg injury and I can't see straight, but something is a little odd here! April 1st, really?
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Thierry Atheist
Posts 644
24 Apr 2017 00:03
| Michael R wrote:
| | LMAO! What did you pay for in 1994? Talk about slow delivery! Ok. I've probably overdosed on Hydrocodone due to a recent leg injury and I can't see straight, but something is a little odd here! April 1st, really? |
Hi Michael,I've been insulted and humiliated 1000's of times (since 1997) by people telling me that the DREAM of anything even remotely similar to the Vampires coming out could ever come about.... Even then, IF such an item came out, I was informed by people with "certified knowledge of market and people's desires" who knew with absolute certainty that it would be "impossible" AND a "complete loss of effort and capital" to pursue. An insane folly to attempt. So, me "waiting" since April 1st, 1994, is in effect me saying; "I want to buy the successor to the Amiga 4000." This computer is as though Commodore ceased activity on April 1st, 1994, then began making them again in about the year 2000 or so!!!! So, minus all the glamour of some of the tricks the video cards of that time could do, I say, "works for me".
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Michael R
Posts 281
24 Apr 2017 01:15
| Thierry Atheist wrote:
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Michael R wrote:
| LMAO! What did you pay for in 1994? Talk about slow delivery!
Ok. I've probably overdosed on Hydrocodone due to a recent leg injury and I can't see straight, but something is a little odd here! April 1st, really? |
Hi Michael,
I've been insulted and humiliated 1000's of times (since 1997) by people telling me that the DREAM of anything even remotely similar to the Vampires coming out could ever come about....
Even then, IF such an item came out, I was informed by people with "certified knowledge of market and people's desires" who knew with absolute certainty that it would be "impossible" AND a "complete loss of effort and capital" to pursue. An insane folly to attempt.
So, me "waiting" since April 1st, 1994, is in effect me saying;
"I want to buy the successor to the Amiga 4000."
This computer is as though Commodore ceased activity on April 1st, 1994, then began making them again in about the year 2000 or so!!!! So, minus all the glamour of some of the tricks the video cards of that time could do, I say, "works for me".
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Thierry, (you make me laugh!) I won't disagree with you in principle at least. I want a successor to the Amiga 4000 and the Amiga 1200 as well. Many people, especially at work, criticise me for using 30 year old Amiga computers too! Civil Engineers think they know everything!
Couldn't you have chosen a better date than April 1st, 1994? You've got me wondering if that's precisely when Commodore went out of business! But I suppose that's appropriate. The joke is on us! Commodore brought us this awesome computer called the Amiga, then they conveniently went out of business! Thank goodness for Vampire accelerators! (Will I ever get used to saying that?) Some say that the Amiga 68k is the computer platform that just wouldn't die!
Perhaps "Phoenix" is a good name for the Apollo standalone board, as in the fire bird that rises from the ashes of Commodore's untimely demise (besides I used to live there)! Yes. We've been waiting for a long time. But fortunately the V600 orders are complete, and now we are on to the v500's then v1200's and v3000/4000... The Amiga Dream is alive again!
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Thierry Atheist
Posts 644
24 Apr 2017 01:56
| Michael R wrote:
| | Many people, especially at work, criticise me for using 30 year old Amiga computers too! Civil Engineers think they know everything! |
Hi Michael,Not just me then?!! ;-) Michael R wrote:
| | Couldn't you have chosen a better date than April 1st, 1994? You've got me wondering if that's precisely when Commodore went out of business! |
Error on my part. It was April 29th, 1994 that they went out of business.
Michael R wrote:
| | But I suppose that's appropriate. The joke is on us! |
It would have been more logical, for certain.Michael R wrote:
| | Some say that the Amiga 68k is the computer platform that just wouldn't die! |
I know... it's crazy, huh?
Michael R wrote:
| | Perhaps "Phoenix" is a good name for the Apollo standalone board, as in the fire bird that rises from the ashes of Commodore's untimely demise (besides I used to live there)! |
Well, that was used for a morphos computer, I believe. They probably wanted to not be confused with that "Amiga branch".
Michael R wrote:
| | Yes. We've been waiting for a long time. But fortunately the V600 orders are complete, and now we are on to the v500's then v1200's and v3000/4000... The Amiga Dream is alive again! |
Yes... YES IT IS!!!!!!These will be on sale for a VERY VERY VERY long time!
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Michael R
Posts 281
24 Apr 2017 03:04
| If the name "Phoenix" is already taken what about "Firebird"?
Instead of a Vampire logo for the standalone motherboard, imagine a Firebird with wings spread wide dripping red and yellow flames!
The legend of the Firebird is part of Slavic Folklore:
Firebird (Russian: Zhar-ptitsa; Ukrainian: Zhar-ptytsia; Serbian: Žar-ptica; Croatian: Žar ptica; Bulgarian: Zhar-ptitsa; Macedonian: Žar-ptica; Polish: Zar-ptak; Czech: Pták Ohnivák; Slovak: Vták Ohnivák; Slovene: Rajska/zlata-ptica). It is a magical glowing bird from a faraway land with magical properties.
"A modest and gentle orphan girl named Maryushka lives in a small village. People would come from all over to buy her embroidery, and many merchants asked her to come away and work for them. She told them all that she would sell to any who found her work beautiful, but she would never leave the village of her birth. One day the evil sorcerer Kaschei the Immortal heard of Maryushka’s beautiful needlework and transformed himself into a beautiful young man and visited her. Upon seeing her ability he became enraged that a mere mortal could produce finer work than he himself possessed. He tried to tempt her by offering to make her Queen if she would embroider for him alone, but she refused saying she never wanted to leave her village. Because of this last insult to his ego he turned Maryushka into a Firebird, and himself into a great black Falcon, picked her up in his talons, and stole her away from her village. To leave a memory of herself with her village forever she shed her feathers onto the land below. As the last feather fell Maryushka died in the falcon’s talons. The glowing rainbow feathers were magic and remain undimmed, but show their colors only to those who love beauty and seek to make beauty for others."
Isn't Falcon the name of Atari hardware? Maybe Firebird is more appropriate as a name for the Apollo standalone motherboard? And it is blazing fast compared to other Amiga 68k accelerator cards! Besides that it sounds similar to Firebee. Isn't the Rainbow Checkmark also an Amiga symbol? We could draw a few more similarities for "Firebird" in connection with the Apollo motherboard; Firebird is like Cold "Fire" and David said the V500 v2+ cards "come from Igor (Majsta's) house in Bosnia". I think we're onto something here!
With a name like that not only will sales of v600 be successful, but also v500, v1200, etc will sell quickly! Popularity of Apollo products, especially the main board, will catch on like a wildfire!
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Michael R
Posts 281
24 Apr 2017 05:15
| Seriously, though! Now that orders for v600 are fulfilled and depending on the success of the v500 cards, the popularity of Vampire accelerators is going to really catch on!
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Michael R
Posts 281
26 Apr 2017 02:04
| Oh what a beautiful day! Just got this message:
//***************************************************//
"Today is a big day : your Vampire card has been shipped !
Thanks again for your support to Apollo team"
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From the UK shipments take 5 to 7 days by Royal Mail.
So 7 days from Europe means I might get the package by Cinco de Mayo! (May 5th).
But from recent stories from others on this forum...let's
See...31 days from now...I might have it on or before
May 23rd. The sooner it arrives the sooner I start programming!
Either way it's still a good day!
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David Wright
Posts 373
26 Apr 2017 03:10
| It begins.
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George Gonzalez
Posts 3
26 Apr 2017 05:35
| Congrats Lucky Michael ;), I'm still waiting for my message!
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Michael R
Posts 281
27 Apr 2017 20:25
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Congrats Lucky Michael ;), I'm still waiting for my message!
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Thanks! Just checked Apollo Accelerators website. My order status
now reads: "SHIPPED"! Nice! At least that part of the notification
process works well. It would be great if we also had received a status of "PAID" or at least an automated confirmation email for the same.
When we buy the V1200 accelerator we'll see if we get that payment confirmation message. ;-)
(Yes! The long wait begins as it crosses the ocean.)
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Daniel Krueger
Posts 8
01 May 2017 18:38
| any news about the shipping date of the next batch?
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Szyk Cech
Posts 191
01 May 2017 20:32
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any news about the shipping date of the next batch?
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Did you think for a while before that question?!?
Do you realize that one Vampire is produced from pieces from all over the world?!? Only fortune teller can tell you when it could be happen!
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Gunnar von Boehn
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 6214
01 May 2017 20:45
| Szyk Cech wrote:
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Daniel Krueger wrote:
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any news about the shipping date of the next batch?
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Did you think for a while before that question?!?
Do you realize that one Vampire is produced from pieces from all over the world?!? Only fortune teller can tell you when it could be happen!
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Do you try to make bad tasteless joke? Vampire is in regular production.
Right now about each month a new batch is produced.
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Michael R
Posts 281
07 May 2017 04:10
| Not sure about the next shipment, but this shipment has arrived! Wow! My first impression when I saw the black box with red logo and lettering, "It's so small, yet so powerful!!". Vampire has arrived. Best of all, and maybe David Wright was the exception to the 7-day rule, is that my accelerator card arrived on "Seis de Mayo" (May 6th, day after Cinco de Mayo). That's just EIGHT days since the shipment notification! ;-)
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Michael R
Posts 281
07 May 2017 04:18
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Vampire is in regular production.
Right now about each month a new batch is produced.
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The Production, Notification, and Delivery Systems are working great. Production and Delivery for the V500's is much faster!! Hopefully I'll receive a "payment received" confirmation just after I pay for my new Vampire 1200 V3++? ;-) But we'll see...
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