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Fitting Vampire V500 V2 + Into A1000

Keith Matthews

Posts 39
03 May 2017 06:05


Hi All,
 
  I just got the email saying my Vampire is on the way...Yay!!!! the excitement is growing 8-)
 
  Even though I could put it into one of my A500's, I would dearly love to install it into a stock PAL A1000 that I have been keeping aside just for a project like this 8-)
 
  Just wondering, can anyone tell me what extra bits I might need to successfully install it into an A1000?
 
  I seem to remember talk of a riser for the CPU slot?
 
  Another question I have is.
 
  How does the Vampire handle the fact that the A1000 has the special daughter board for the Kickstart RAM and usually loads kickstart from floppy?
 
  Does that all become superfluous once the Vampire is installed?
 
  Thanks for any help or pointers anyone can provide for installing the card into my A1000
 
  8-)
 


Ian Parsons

Posts 230
03 May 2017 07:36


The Vampire uses its own kickstart loaded from the flash storage on the board into the fast ram of the board. Any existing kickstart ROM, kickstart RAM or kickstart floppy image of the Amiga do indeed become superfluous.

As for the mechanical fitting I'm not sure if you'll need riser sockets or not. I think I've seen both with and without for different configurations of the A1000.


David Wright

Posts 373
03 May 2017 13:08


It seems with only 512k chipram, your vampirized Amiga would be limited.


Eric Gus

Posts 477
04 May 2017 01:31


David Wright wrote:

  It seems with only 512k chipram, your vampirized Amiga would be limited.
 

 
  As I said in the other thread I really **do** hope they are working on a solution for 512kb chip machines to be able to access 2mb (or more?) chip ram once the vampire is installed.. (even if that new chip ram is vampire ram remapped)


Roger Shimada

Posts 30
04 May 2017 01:49


Keith Matthews wrote:
...what extra bits I might need to successfully install it into an A1000?
 
  I seem to remember talk of a riser for the CPU slot?

If the A1000 has a daughterboard, yes, a riser will be necessary. I remember someone mentioning that they added 5 more rows of header pins.
How does the Vampire handle the fact that the A1000 has the special daughter board for the Kickstart RAM and usually loads kickstart from floppy?

The Kickstart RAM gets ignored, however the board provides some of what became the Gary chip in the later machines. So the board is still necessary.

The Vampire is quite the Kickstart ROM upgrade for A1000s!


Keith Matthews

Posts 39
05 May 2017 12:55


David Wright wrote:

It seems with only 512k chipram, your vampirized Amiga would be limited.

Ah, crikey, I forgot about that slight limitation. I assumed Vampire could use some of its memory. 


Keith Matthews

Posts 39
05 May 2017 12:57


Thanks for all the reply's gang.

I guess I'd better crack open that old A1000 and see what she looks like inside. 8-)


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