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Blake Patterson
Posts 4
01 Jul 2016 16:17
| I recently saw the video of the Vampire 500 in an Amiga 1000 ( EXTERNAL LINK ) and would like to do this with my A1000. Let me verify, though, for classic Amiga games and demos, my NTSC A1000 would still be limited to 512K CHIP RAM, correct? I have other questions, but they will follow. Thanks. bp
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Tim Kovack
Posts 47
01 Jul 2016 16:23
| Yes it will not be very usable. It will have 512k chip and 128MB Fast and run very fast but be limited as it only has 512k chip RAM. I have an A1000 with ACA500 with an ACA1233 55MHz 030 and it runs amazing, but I cannot do much with only 512k chip. Lots of WHDLoad games will not run as they require 1MB Chip RAM. Hopefully in a future core update they can do a chip RAM hack, along with the AGA chipset that would be an amazing upgrade to the A1000!
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Manuel Jesus
Posts 155
01 Jul 2016 17:17
| The best thing to do is get a nice machine like the A500+ and use that as a nice Vampire Rig that retains use of the peripherals for the most widely released Amiga "classic" model. The 2mb Chip feature is great and they shipped with 1mb chip on the motherboard as standard. Kipper2k sells a nicely built and fairly priced 1mb chip ram board for the A500 range. If you pickup an A500+ ask for shots of the battery and surrounding area. I did this in anticpation of the A500 release months ago.
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Blake Patterson
Posts 4
01 Jul 2016 17:41
| | Yes it will not be very usable. It will have 512k chip and 128MB Fast and run very fast but be limited as it only has 512k chip RAM. |
As I suspected. I will pass or at least put on hold plans to upgrade the A1000 with a Vampire.
bp
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Blake Patterson
Posts 4
01 Jul 2016 17:44
| Manuel Jesus wrote:
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The best thing to do is get a nice machine like the A500+ and use that as a nice Vampire Rig that retains use of the peripherals for the most widely released Amiga "classic" model. ...
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Well, I have an A2000 '020 already ( EXTERNAL LINK ) that runs WHDLoad great. It's 1084S died recently, which I want to replace, but I do have an Indivision ECS on it, with LCD. bp
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Gunnar von Boehn
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 6222
01 Jul 2016 19:15
| I like to disagree ...
First of all, the typical need for chipmem is much lower with the Vampire, as your Workbench will need _no_ chipmem at all.On the ACA the Workbench will eat chipmem so of your 512 KB chipmem is a lot used on Workbench. But not so on the Vampire, of the 512 KB chipmem you have most of the time 500 KB free. So the situation with Vampire is MUCH better than on 68030 cards...
Also for running MAC games you need zero chipmem.
So games like Sim-City2000, Duke Nuke-Em, Warcraft 2, or Heroes of Might and Magic will run great and fast without any problem on the A1000.
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Blake Patterson
Posts 4
01 Jul 2016 22:54
| Gunnar, Interesting points. It's a bit outside the scope of this forum, but are there ethernet / LAN solutions for the A1000? I have SCSI on my A1000 (Starboard II) and on the Mac Plus (with same NCR SCSI chip) I use the Asante EN/SC SCSI-based ethernet adapter. It's got Mac drivers, though. Solutions for A1000? Thanks. bp
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Marcus Gerards
Posts 58
06 Jul 2016 09:45
| Blake Patterson wrote:
| It's a bit outside the scope of this forum, but are there ethernet / LAN solutions for the A1000?
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The PlipBox works fine with the A1000.
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Claudio Guglielmotti
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 185
06 Jul 2016 11:21
| the V500 will have a connector for ethernet and other expansions...
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Daniel Sevo
Posts 299
06 Jul 2016 19:17
| Is this a confirmed feature and will it make it to the V1200 as well? ;-)
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Claudio Guglielmotti
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 185
06 Jul 2016 21:55
| it is a rumor
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Documentation about the Vampire hardware