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Indivision and Vampire Together?

Adam Whittaker
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Posts 270/ 1
12 Mar 2018 14:44


is there a work around for using the indi config software with the vampire yet? its a pain having to remove the vamp and boot from floppy everytime i want to adjust the indivision.


Samuel Crow

Posts 424
12 Mar 2018 15:30


Adam Whittaker wrote:

is there a work around for using the indi config software with the vampire yet? its a pain having to remove the vamp and boot from floppy everytime i want to adjust the indivision.

I wouldn't think that it's a priority since Gold 3 will implement all the capabilities that I know of that Indivision has.


Adam Whittaker
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Posts 270/ 1
12 Mar 2018 16:17


its important to me as until gold 3 this is how i use my amiga


David Wright

Posts 373
12 Mar 2018 18:56


So what do people do in the mean time waiting for Gold 3? It has been in the offing a long time. Not complaining but some want intermediate solutions.


Matthew Langtry

Posts 199
12 Mar 2018 19:30


i use a rgb to vga adapter on my dell st2210 monitor and hdmi out on vamp, have to mainly switch to rgb when use rgb via monitor buttons


Manfred Bergmann

Posts 226
12 Mar 2018 19:35


Adam Whittaker wrote:

is there a work around for using the indi config software with the vampire yet? its a pain having to remove the vamp and boot from floppy everytime i want to adjust the indivision.

Why do you have to adjust the Indi?


Martin Soerensen

Posts 232
12 Mar 2018 20:02


David Wright wrote:

So what do people do in the mean time waiting for Gold 3? It has been in the offing a long time. Not complaining but some want intermediate solutions.

I use an Open Source Scan Converter to convert from Amiga RGB to DIGITAL-VIDEO. Close to perfect quality and since it is external I can use it with all my Amigas. I also have an Indivision ECS in my Vampire-powered A600, but I never use it since the OSSC is so much better.


Adam Whittaker
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Posts 270/ 1
12 Mar 2018 20:12


because its a buggy peice of crap that sometimes forgets its settings lol


Manfred Bergmann

Posts 226
12 Mar 2018 21:48


Adam Whittaker wrote:

because its a buggy peice of crap that sometimes forgets its settings lol

Weird. I haven't ever used this tool.


David Wright

Posts 373
12 Mar 2018 23:58


Matthew, I went back to check one of my spare monitors, and what do you know, a Dell2210!
I attached just like you have with the convertor. Both signals work, but when in rgb I can’t get monitor menu from side to display so I can switch,
When I am in Rtg mode, no problem switching over to rgb.


Renaud Schweingruber
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Posts 378
13 Mar 2018 15:23


On V600, you can erase content of FPGA using Quartus and fallback to original A600 to reconfigure the Indivision.

TBH - Indivision ECS has an horrible bug - it lose its parameters every when and then. This issue is well known by vendor and should have been adressed since years.
 
AC68080 core won't address it.


Adam Whittaker
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Posts 270/ 1
13 Mar 2018 16:17


I wish id have thaught of that instead i stripped my amiga down!!! thanks for the tip and yes you are right its developers should have fixed its bugs ages ago... the rapid road is just as dodgy... I have got through 3 of them as they just randomly die!


Renaud Schweingruber
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Posts 378
13 Mar 2018 19:53


RapidRoad is a terrible product, dying without notice under normal utilization. I got rid of mine as soon as I could.


Adam Whittaker
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Posts 270/ 1
14 Mar 2018 08:18


i mainly used it for networking and a usb mouse both things other devices can do so after the 3rd one died i got rid. its a shame there is no way of hacking usb onto the sdcard slot in a simular fashion to sd net!!


Jan Vonka

Posts 60
14 Mar 2018 09:11


Renaud Schweingruber wrote:

RapidRoad is a terrible product, dying without notice under normal utilization. I got rid of mine as soon as I could.

That's why I use Deneb and waiting for a Vampire USB solution.


Adam Whittaker
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Posts 270/ 1
14 Mar 2018 10:25


unfortunatley cant plug a deneb into my 600 lol


Marlon Beijer

Posts 182
14 Mar 2018 10:59


Who's saying there won't be USB via the SPI in the future? I'm wishful.

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