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Documentation about the Vampire hardware

Some Informations About V4 Standalone

Player 22

Posts 5
12 Jul 2021 11:01


Good morning everyone!
  I've been keeping an eye on Vampire V4 standalone since the beginning of the year, but I have some more questions and I can't find any answer, I hope you could help me and this is the right section.
  1) Does the V4 support combined keyboards with trackpad, since it has determined ports for mouse and keyboard?
  2) Since there are those ports, could be possible to connect usb hubs and use external DVD/Floppy dives?
  3)There's and add-on for real time clock. Does something similar for wi-fi (I saw it exists on expansion cards for Amiga)?
  4) Has enyone tried AmigaOS 3.2 on this machine? Maybe with preconfigured CF Cards like those sold online?
  Thanks in advance.


Frank Preazics

Posts 14
12 Jul 2021 11:08


1. I bet the device won't work : https://wiki.apollo-accelerators.com/doku.php/vampire:compatible_usb_input
 
  2. No
  3. In the wiki is a RTC-modul, but this modul is not available. On amazon there is another RTC-modul that works, but not official supported. Don't know about wifi-modules that works with V4.
  4. Yes, works fine.


Gunnar von Boehn
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 6215
12 Jul 2021 12:55



2) The USB ports are for using Keyboard, Mouse and Joypad
3) The V4 can be ordered with RTC module included.
4) KICK 3.2 works normally


Player 22

Posts 5
14 Jul 2021 15:25


Thank you for your answers, I'm having a better vision of the machine, now. :)
  So there still no chance to have wi-fi, but I think as long as there's the Ethernet port the OS can be kept up to date.
  What about transferring and installing software? Is there a port capable to read pendrive or I have to load it on MicroSD?
  Are floppy images natively managed by Apollo OS?

Just a little off topic: how ca I change my avatar? Can't see any profile management panel... ^^"


Chris Green

Posts 29
14 Jul 2021 15:46


On the wifi front, I've had good success using one of these with the Vampire (using a USB power supply for it):
EXTERNAL LINK


Player 22

Posts 5
14 Jul 2021 20:29


Chris Green wrote:

On the wifi front, I've had good success using one of these with the Vampire (using a USB power supply for it):
  EXTERNAL LINK 

Ah, I saw one of these once! They receive the signal and redirect it via Ethernet, right?

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