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Vampire V4 Prototype, First Contact

Pedro Cotter
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 308
10 Jun 2018 18:23


First contact with the upcoming Vampire V4.
Tests on the Amiga 2000 with and without CPU adapter and on the Amiga 500, Rev 5

EXTERNAL LINK


Michael Nurney

Posts 283
10 Jun 2018 19:13


Looks great , I’ll look more later


Vojin Vidanovic
(Needs Verification)
Posts 1916/ 1
10 Jun 2018 19:22


New heights of A500/A2000 :-)

119Mhz - Is 16X clock standard, or relative to 060?
SysInfo is currently 117+ MIPS and 64MFLOPS
AGA is there and all caches :-)


Szyk Cech

Posts 191
10 Jun 2018 20:24


2MB Chip Ram and 128MB Fast Ram... So it isn't final stage prototype...


Vojin Vidanovic
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Posts 1916/ 1
10 Jun 2018 21:04


Szyk Cech wrote:

2MB Chip Ram and 128MB Fast Ram... So it isn't final stage prototype...

I suppose 512mb edit is just larger chips on board and patching mapROM /Vampire ROM. It might even be card now has 512mb and only 128mb is visible (system detectable).


Gregthe Canuck

Posts 274
11 Jun 2018 04:14



Wow 119Mhz!!

It is probably too soon to ask about the memory bandwidth? The 512MB isn't showing up either. I presume this is one of the next items on the to-do list.

Nice to see the board running well in both A500 and A2000.


Vojin Vidanovic
(Needs Verification)
Posts 1916/ 1
11 Jun 2018 06:35


gregthe canuck wrote:

  It is probably too soon to ask about the memory bandwidth? The 512MB isn't showing up either.

Its just a first contact. Memory bandwith should increase with faster RAM, we will see test results when done :-) v2 was already a champ.

2MB chip should not be of much worry, as soon fastmem will be mappable as chipram (that was promised) so you will be able to select how much chip you wish to dedicate. Another nice SAGA feat.!


Mr-Z EdgeOfPanic

Posts 189
11 Jun 2018 17:35


Szyk Cech wrote:

2MB Chip Ram and 128MB Fast Ram... So it isn't final stage prototype...

The 512MB is on the board but not all is enabled yet.



Andy Hearn

Posts 374
13 Jun 2018 15:19


:D great stuff! just need those "free beer" jumper pins and we're golden ;)

posts 9