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Documentation about the Vampire hardware

The Opposite of the Usual Vampire Problem!!!

Adam Whittaker
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16 Sep 2018 12:59


Ok so I have read there are a few people who struggle to keep the Vampire attached to 68000 cpu? well mine stays on fine however I still cant close my case as I have another problem (and I know this problem isnt really a vamp problem but you guys are miggy experts so I figured it would hurt to enquire) my A604 1Mb Chipram expansion dosnt always make a full connection and I get either a green screen or yellow screen or it boots to workbench with only the onboard chip ram... when this happens I have to wiggle and jiggle the bloody thing until it works properly - I have cleaned the edge conecter with both an eraser and IPA and cleaned the ram expansion with IPA too... it just seems erm well flakey lol


Sean Sk

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16 Sep 2018 15:35


How do the pins look within the edge connector of the expansion card itself? Sometimes they can get a bit flattened or bent.
   
Bear in mind that the chipram expansion will be rendered useless with GOLD 3 since it will come with it's own 2MB of chipmem. The only time the expansion card will be useful of course is if you want the freedom to flash back to GOLD 2.X at any time for any particular reason and still have 2MB of chipmem.


Adam Whittaker
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16 Sep 2018 15:55


sean sk wrote:

Bear in mind that the chipram expansion will be rendered useless with GOLD 3 since it will come with it's own 2MB of chipmem. The only time the expansion card will be useful of course is if you want the freedom to flash back to GOLD 2.X at any time for any particular reason and still have 2MB of chipmem.

Yes this is one of the main reasons I cant wait for GOLD 3 tbh... people are probably gonna hate on me for saying this but I have had 3 different devices from individual computing - the A604, Indivison ECS and I had had 3 Rapid Roads!!! non of it works how it should all flakey and buggy and I gave up on the rapid roads as they kept burning out! but anyway I am going off point here I have checked all the pins and they seem fine so who knows eh? One thing I do know is both that and the Indivision are going in the bloody bin when we get Gold 3!


Andy Hearn

Posts 374
19 Sep 2018 10:04


same here. gold3 will mean I can pull out the minimegachip chipram booster in my A500 and sit the vampire in the actual socket instead of on risers, and then sit the keyboard in the right place, and maybe, just maybe close the lid :)

i'm curious about your A600 issues. i'd have a look at the edge connector on the 604n. I have one myself, and run an indievisionECS and subway off of it - without the issues you describe. but my V600's IDE connector has shed some pins - so its all relegated into a "to be looked at later" box.
I have been tempted to plug in a rapid road, but with all the burn out reports i'd rather not, and save it for the XSurf100 in my A4k when that gets up and running. got another RR and XS100 combo running in my A3k and it's been absolutely perfect.


Adam Whittaker
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19 Sep 2018 13:33


Andy Hearn wrote:

i'm curious about your A600 issues. i'd have a look at the edge connector on the 604n. I have one myself, and run an indievisionECS and subway off of it - without the issues you describe. but my V600's IDE connector has shed some pins - so its all relegated into a "to be looked at later" box.
  I have been tempted to plug in a rapid road, but with all the burn out reports i'd rather not, and save it for the XSurf100 in my A4k when that gets up and running. got another RR and XS100 combo running in my A3k and it's been absolutely perfect.

Have you ever been able to run the Indy config software? I cant get it to work and have been told before its a conflict with the vampire - as a result its output is terrible becasue it needs adjustment in the settings i cant accesss! I tried all my Individual stuff on 3 A600's in total and had the same problems more so with Rapidroads... 1 day they are working then the next posoiden cant find it... put my finger on the fgpa on the Rapidroad and its Redhot!!! I got sick of forking out tbh!

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