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Dreamvision 14
Posts 7
25 Aug 2024 08:33
| I have a vampire 500 installed with a 32gb coffin Os r57 image, I have two demo sections, one of which has several with aga architecture and I can see them correctly, but in the other section through whdload it doesn't let me see the aga demos or the ones that ask for increased memory, I hope I have explained myself well. I need help to configure. Thank you very much.
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Gunnar von Boehn
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 6254
26 Aug 2024 09:13
| Hello,
I understand you want to run AGA demos? The AGA is the chipset of the Amiga 1200 and Amiga 4000
AGA chipset can display more colors and has more features than previous ECS and OCS chipset of the Amiga 500.
Amiga 500 has either OCS or ECS chipset with most having 0.5 or 1.0 MB chip memory
To play AGA demos or AGA games you need AGA chipset and typically you also need 2 MB chipmemory.
There is one option to get AGA demos/games work on Amiga 500.
The only option for getting AGA chipset to your Amiga 500, is the Apollo V4 Firebird.
 The V4 Firebird allows you to upgrade the Amigas 500 to AGA chipset
and also upgrades the chipmem to 6 MB.
With the Firebird installed you can then play AGA games.
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Roy Gillotti
Posts 521
29 Aug 2024 04:07
| @Dreamvision 14, If you have a newer V4 Firebird, there is a jumper you will need to set, that is documented here in the documentation: EXTERNAL LINK
However if you have an older V2 series Vampire for the 500, there currently is no supported core that does AGA.
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Gunnar von Boehn
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 6254
29 Aug 2024 11:29
| Roy Gillotti wrote:
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@Dreamvision 14,
If you have a newer V4 Firebird, there is a jumper you will need to set, that is documented here in the documentation: EXTERNAL LINK
However if you have an older V2 series Vampire for the 500, there currently is no supported core that does AGA.
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The older V2 is a very nice card but its FPGA is not big enough to be able to include features like AGA chipset. The newer V4 has a more powerful and twice as big FPGA and because of this can provide AGA chipset and flickerfixer and more features.
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