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Do You Recall How It All Started?

Gunnar von Boehn
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 6207
31 May 2022 09:24


Reviving the Amiga was our goal.
And with your help we did manage to do this.
Today there are thousands of Apollo/Vampire users worldwide.

But do you recall how this long journey started?
Many years ago it started with the NATAMI.

Here are some pictures from 2011 from the NATAMI MX bringup.




Nikos Pagonis

Posts 109
31 May 2022 10:44


This is indeed a hell of a journey especially if you think what you have achived until today!! Well done to the whole team!! You all gave our Amigas a new life!!


Tommo Noorduin

Posts 132
31 May 2022 11:28


I like pictures of the very first concepts.
And reading how a bunche of friends came together to make there dream come true.
Attracted to the 68k successor, i love what the vampire (stand-alone) has become.

Thank you for that.
And with YOU i mean all people involved to make this happen.


Tommo Noorduin

Posts 132
31 May 2022 11:29


mrt 2011: NatAmi ‘Native Amiga’ interview
EXTERNAL LINK


Amiga Johan

Posts 12
31 May 2022 14:45


Tommo Noorduin wrote:

  mrt 2011: NatAmi ‘Native Amiga’ interview
    EXTERNAL LINK   

 
  Have a Natami64 MX 1 somewhere but it was to unstable to use. Hope that the Vampire 4+ Standalone not go the same direction. For me the updates are very important to give it a future. No updates is no Reviving the AMIGA. The reason that I use the Vampire V4+ Standalone is to explore and have fun with it.


Rob M

Posts 60
05 Jun 2022 01:29


I remember back when Natami was a Commodore One with some hand built cards and wires everywhere.


Gunnar von Boehn
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 6207
08 Jun 2022 16:46


AMIGA JOHAN wrote:

Have a Natami64 MX 1 somewhere but it was to unstable to use

   
Please note that, the Natami MX was only given to developers from the Natami Team. I don't know how you got it and if your system has the latest update. Maybe not? If you are none of the developers then you were of course never included to get any updates.
   
AMIGA JOHAN wrote:

Hope that the Vampire 4+ Standalone not go the same direction.

 
Please understand that the NATAMI MX was a development system only given to Team Members.
 
The V4-Standalone is on a complete different level - its not a developer only system its a market ready sold system.
Much more years of core work went into the V4 system.
The V4 a regular sold system with several thousand units on the market. The V4 is a normal official product with roadmap and regular quarterly releases and updates.
   
The V4 Standalone is on the market since 2019.
And since then there have been regular updates each year with 4 major releases per year.

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