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Documentation about the Vampire hardware

Vampire V500 V2page  1 2 

Simo Koivukoski
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 601
25 May 2016 21:29


First official boot of the Vampire V500 V2:
   
EXTERNAL LINK     
   
and coulple of the JPGs:
   
EXTERNAL LINK 
EXTERNAL LINK     
   


Niclas A
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 219
25 May 2016 22:06


Wow... just WOW!


Gregthe Canuck

Posts 274
25 May 2016 22:49


Congratulations to the team. Another milestone!


Wawa T

Posts 695
26 May 2016 01:36


hit after hit! congrats!


Mr-Z EdgeOfPanic

Posts 189
26 May 2016 04:14


Well done team!
You just keep going on and on, one after another cool update!
I want one for my very mint A500+ with ks 3.1. :-)


Michal Warzecha

Posts 209
26 May 2016 12:15


At last! V500 is working, amazing stuff!


Marlon Beijer

Posts 182
26 May 2016 13:04


Sweet! :D


Alan Haynes

Posts 140
26 May 2016 14:27


Wonderful, Marvelous. Who would ever have thought that an Amiga 500 could ever be expanded like that even 5 years ago.
Well done everyone in Team Apollo. You are the real "A team."
Now one question Team: When can we place our order?

regards,
Alan from Oz


Salteadorneo Salteador

Posts 20
26 May 2016 16:48


¡Awasome!
Congratulations to the team.


Alan Haynes

Posts 140
26 May 2016 22:29


Simo Koivukoski wrote:

First official boot of the Vampire V500 V2:
     
  EXTERNAL LINK     
 

Only one improvement could be made in the video that I can think of or request please:

When you do the next one please keep the camera on the screen from when the "insert disk animation" comes up until workbench has loaded. Did you notice; we were watching the screen then took a look at the floppy drive working and by the time we came back to the screen which did not appear to be very long in time but workbench had loaded. Would just like to keep on the screen to get a real idea of how quick this loads.

Simo Koivukoski wrote:
   
  and coulple of the JPGs:
     
  EXTERNAL LINK   
  EXTERNAL LINK     
     

I see from the photos that the board looks very clean. Well done Kipper2k.
I also note that the SD Card slot is not yet mounted and also that it is a Micro SD card as it states on the board.
Excellent work!!!!!!!!!

Cheers,
Alan from Oz




Nixus Minimax

Posts 416
27 May 2016 11:50


Alan Haynes wrote:
When you do the next one please keep the camera on the screen from when the "insert disk animation" comes up until workbench has loaded. Did you notice; we were watching the screen then took a look at the floppy drive working and by the time we came back to the screen which did not appear to be very long in time but workbench had loaded. Would just like to keep on the screen to get a real idea of how quick this loads.

Um, times doesn't run faster or slower when you are not watching the screen. If you want to know how long it takes to boot, just watch the timeline in your video player.



Lord Aga
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 119
27 May 2016 12:20


Well it was loading from the floppy drive, so nothing would magically speed it up :)

And you can see it anyways. When the camera turns back to the screen WB icons are popping up.

But as I said, floppy reading is irrelevant anyway. Real speed stunts will come from CF and SD :)


Alan Haynes

Posts 140
27 May 2016 22:23


Uhmmmm!
Yes I realise it was loading from floppy but normally when you load from floppy you get the shell (dare I say it) Window appearing first with some version info etcetera. This is followed by the Workbench Window which is what was shown in the video.
  I am not trying to be pedantic but it just seemed to me that all of this seemed to go faster than loading on a normal A500. I have been watching a few lately as I test the ones I have.
Is it that because this screen information is now loading into the Vampire's ram and thus displaying faster? I don't know. I am a rank amateur when it comes to programming and so on. I bought my Amiga's for everyday use of programs such as Superbase, Maxiplan, Wordworth and many others with the ability to play games when I needed a break.
I am really looking forward to being able to use the Amiga again as the everyday computer with the Windoze junk for movies until you people in the amazing Apollo Team bring us the ability to play Blu-ray movies in full 1080p. I am not in any rush. Just keep to the plan. Here is an old saying that fits perfectly with many Amiga failures but your amazing success:
"If you fail to plan, you plan to fail"

Alan from Oz


Brian Robotham

Posts 52
28 May 2016 13:38


Hi,

  Nothing fancy about the loading of the floppy it is just a standard 3.1WB install disk.


John William

Posts 563
28 May 2016 14:35


Brian Robotham wrote:

Hi,
 
  Nothing fancy about the loading of the floppy it is just a standard 3.1WB install disk.

You all missed the point! It is not showing you the POOOWWWEEEEEERRR * background music, background random flashing colors * of Vampire. The video is basically showing you that Vampire works enough to boot something and have kickstart screen. Give it time for real cool stuff to come up. Look at that poor suxur it came out of the womb 6 month early and you are asking it to do math, accounting and left a 500 lb weight?


Michael Nurney

Posts 283
29 May 2016 21:09


simply awesome my A500+ is weeping with excitment


John Heritage

Posts 111
24 Jun 2016 22:16


Just here to post I'm jealous.  I have an A500 and A1200 (and various Atari ST's).. and no way to experience vampire yet:)

Speaking of which - would it be prudent to buy Kickstart 3.1 roms for the A500 prior to the arrival of Vampire?


Szyk Cech

Posts 191
24 Jun 2016 23:03


My mother cant believe that!!!


Martin Soerensen

Posts 232
27 Jun 2016 05:34


John Heritage wrote:
  Speaking of which - would it be prudent to buy Kickstart 3.1 roms for the A500 prior to the arrival of Vampire?

If you mean to use it with the Vampire, then there is no need since it will use its internal KS (which is a patched 3.1). If you don't have any 3.1 as required for the Vampire, Kipper2k will sell you one for a (very) small fee.


John Heritage

Posts 111
11 Sep 2016 19:46


If I have an A500 with 512KB of ChipRAM and want more ChipRAM, I assume I still need to upgrade the Agnus chip?  The Vampire won't help with ChipRAM here?. 

I have the 512KB trapdoor expansion already in showing as slow ram. 

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