I have been browsing these forums for long enough and finally decided to actually create an account and post/contribute where I can if at all possible. I purchased my Vampire 500 V2+ about maybe a year ago I think. It sits happily in my beloved Amiga 500 and has really provided a lot of enjoyment to me over the course of time that I have owned it. I just wanted to make my first post a simple "thank you" to everybody involved in this project. I am in the USA (Northern NJ) and was luckily enough to have a lot of exposure to the Amiga computer growing up. I purchased my first Amiga (a 500!) in the Willowbrook Mall here in NJ at a store called "The Program Store" in 1989 for a whopping $699. Well, it was whopping to my parents at least. To this day I still do not know what I said to convince them to spend that much on me...but I am glad they did! I expected to be using this computer "forever" in those younger days. Later in life, I moved on. But I never lost the love for it and came back many years later (over 20 years later) to re-investigate my former passion. Never did I expect something like this incredible FPGA acceleration to happen to my old friend! Anyway, I just wanted to say hello and thank you all for the hard work you have invested into this. It is wonderful and extremely special.
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