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AMIGA Or ATARI ?

Gunnar von Boehn
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 6207
29 Mar 2018 20:29



 
The question is: AMIGA or ATARI ?
 
My answer is: How about both ?
 
 
The upcoming next GOLD release will allow switching your system
at POWER-ON to ATARI mode and start EMUTOS allowing you to run ATARI MINT OS.
 
Now you will have the choice to use both. :-D


Ingo Uhlemann

Posts 35
29 Mar 2018 21:30


Both sounds a good idea :)


Simo Koivukoski
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 601
29 Mar 2018 22:07


Vampire Gold 2.9 ATARI mode test

EXTERNAL LINK 



OneSTone O2o

Posts 159
29 Mar 2018 22:37


But this is still an A500 board as the base... In the ATari scene there will not be much acceptance until it is alive with an ST board as the base.


Simo Koivukoski
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 601
29 Mar 2018 22:41


For that we will need revision upgrade for V500 or V4.


Tim Trepanier

Posts 132
30 Mar 2018 05:02


Can you still boot into Amiga and then start EMUTOS allowing you to run ATARI MINT OS?



Gunnar von Boehn
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 6207
31 Mar 2018 11:59


oneSTone o2o wrote:

But this is still an A500 board as the base... In the ATari scene there will not be much acceptance until it is alive with an ST board as the base.

 
Yes we work on different things:
 
1st)
All AMIGA+Vampires can with upcoming GOLD 2.9 with 1 click boot into EMUTOS / MINT.
This means AMIGA+Vamp can be compared very much to a Firebee in regards running ATARI OS.
 
2nd)
Yes you can plug a VAMP physically into an ATARI ST.
The smoke test we survived already.  ;-)
 
We are testing software, meaning the booting of TOS  and EMUTOS right now. The booting of the Vamp in real ATARI is at an early state, we gets Bombs still.
 
3rd)
We started speed tuning the ATARI SAGA VDI driver.
Some functions already run 50% faster than before.
Here is great potential for more tuning,
and VAMP can soon be one of the fastest GFX solutions for ATARI.
 
 
I think in the near future VAMP can be used by ATARI owners for maximum speedup.
 
 
Credit for our progress goes to Ingo, who is helping us understand ATARI OS better.


Mallagan Bellator

Posts 393
31 Mar 2018 12:16


Simo Koivukoski wrote:

Vampire Gold 2.9 ATARI mode test
 
 
 
  EXTERNAL LINK 
 

This is cool


Vojin Vidanovic
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31 Mar 2018 12:45


Gunnar von Boehn wrote:

  I think in the near future VAMP can be used by ATARI owners for maximum speedup. 
  Credit for our progress goes to Ingo, who is helping us understand ATARI OS better.

Its a great news for itself. With right promotion, it could bring some fresh blood, FreeMINT apps and development and even some skilled 68k coders that dont have "Amigan excessive lugagge" while giving some potential sales on Atari side too ...

My question is will target remain FreeMINT or in future (v4 Vampire) we could expect some Atari banging chipset app compatibility? Software like DTP and music that was not avail on Amiga.


Tango One

Posts 102
31 Mar 2018 13:46


what about vampire for C128. ? (commodore C-128)


Olivier Landemarre

Posts 147
31 Mar 2018 14:46


Thanks for update

Very nice, wait V4 standalone!



OneSTone O2o

Posts 159
31 Mar 2018 17:38


I think this is a good milestone.

If you can see bombs, that is already a good news. Because then TOS already started, memory test is done and video shifter is initialized. Well done! Continue that way and soon the Atari world will have the ultimate accelerator and graphics card. In a future step you can try to do mapping of the Atari video modes, all from ST over TT to Falcon on Saga...


Sebastian Blanco

Posts 148
01 Apr 2018 13:43


Man this is very cool :D


Marlon Beijer

Posts 182
01 Apr 2018 14:53


tango one wrote:

what about vampire for C128. ? (commodore C-128)

You are joking, right?


Alan Haynes

Posts 140
01 Apr 2018 22:59


Marlon Beijer wrote:

tango one wrote:

  what about vampire for C128. ? (commodore C-128)
 

  You are joking, right?

Of course he was it was first of April.


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