Overview Features Coding ApolloOS Performance Forum Downloads Products Order Contact

Welcome to the Apollo Forum

This forum is for people interested in the APOLLO CPU.
Please read the forum usage manual.
Please visit our Apollo-Discord Server for support.



All TopicsNewsPerformanceGamesDemosApolloVampireAROSWorkbenchATARIReleases
Documentation about the Vampire hardware

Summary of My Vampire 600 V2 Problemspage  1 2 

Bart Mikulski

Posts 101
26 Apr 2018 11:19


Adam Whittaker wrote:

shapeshifter is an emulator and like all emulators they can be a bit unstable from time to time - shapeshifter works great most of the time but every now and then i will get a random lock up... i dont understand why you think its the vampire hardware? if it was your vampire everything else wouldnt work either - trust me I know from experiance as I had mounting issues at first but now its mounted solid!!!

I'm not sure whether this is Vampire hardware or not. I'm trying to find out here and in the other channels seeking advice from people with expertise. For example - Majsta's initial impression is that the hardware might be faulty.

I would love it to be only software problems, as my aim is to fully assemble the vampirised A600 and just enjoy it :)


Gunnar von Boehn
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 6207
26 Apr 2018 12:20


Bart Mikulski wrote:

I'm not sure whether this is Vampire hardware or not. I'm trying to find out

My first check would be the memory test.

My second check would be putting the card under some heavy stress
e.g. playing a Video with Riva. This is a lot stress.
Or running Quake Demo.

As third I would stress the IDE little.
Like copy something from IDE to Ram and then check if it was 100% correctly read. E.g. copy a Zip file and check it for integrity.




Bart Mikulski

Posts 101
26 Apr 2018 16:32


Gunnar von Boehn wrote:

Bart Mikulski wrote:

  I'm not sure whether this is Vampire hardware or not. I'm trying to find out
 

 
  My first check would be the memory test.
 
  My second check would be putting the card under some heavy stress
  e.g. playing a Video with Riva. This is a lot stress.
  Or running Quake Demo.
 
  As third I would stress the IDE little.
  Like copy something from IDE to Ram and then check if it was 100% correctly read. E.g. copy a Zip file and check it for integrity.
 
 

Thanks for the advice.

I will leave Quake 2 demo running for more than 1 hour. I've played Quake a lot, as well as some videos, never had any freezes/ reboots.

As for IDE - I must do some tests, as I have mostly copied from PCMCIA to RAM so far.

BTW how do I check files for integrity on the Amiga?


Mike H

Posts 7
26 Apr 2018 17:33


Mr-Z EdgeOfPanic wrote:

  Sounds like your V600 also needs the power fix, did you try with a x10 core ?

That will be my next course of action after I get my recapped motherboard back! I just don't trust myself to do it, I'll probably see if the guy who recapping my motherboard would be willing to do the power mod to the vampire as well. He should be able to handle that, right? ;)


Mike H

Posts 7
26 Apr 2018 17:38


I purchased the board second hand, not from eBay but from Amibay. The guy I bought it from is pretty well known on that forum and was REALLY helpful and seemed on the up and up. He even sent me videos before removing it from his A600 of it booting and running, and it was running for longer than the 30 seconds my system runs for so I think its my Amiga. I'm really hoping the recap fixes my problem, I sent it off a few weeks ago and should get it back any time.

I do know that the board was a kipper2k board, and was part of the batch from January 2017. I also know that the board was part of the batch of boards that are capable of running the x13 "black edition" core, hopefully those AREN'T the faulty ones (but knowing my luck it will be from the bad batch :P)

At least the community here is awesome and helpful, and the Apollo guys genuinely want to help vampire owners and I'm thankful for that. I'm just keeping my fingers crossed the recap fixes my issues!

posts 25page  1 2