Because its a new one. You have to do that with your CPU.Quote:
Originally Posted by Amilord
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Because its a new one. You have to do that with your CPU.Quote:
Originally Posted by Amilord
Sorry, may be I miss some posts in this thread, but where I can find detailed specifications of Vampire V2?
I've reread first post and dedicated site, but all that I can find is: "Emulated MC86K or MC68020 based on available cores capable anywhere from 2Mips to 300Mips, 64 MB of FastRam".
How about _real_ specs? CPU type and speed? MicroSD max size and speed? hdmi resolutions? Compatibilty and incompatibility with other boards (indivision ECS?)?
Yes I know that you have to do this on the V2 but mine arrived already sanded, and that is good. I said it because if not people would have asked me to polish it. But it's done already and the vampire fit well on top of the CPU and even without the white plastics parts it will not get loose. Would you mean that I have to sand my CPU too ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Walter01Because its a new one. You have to do that with your CPU.Quote:
Originally Posted by Amilord
Envoyé de mon HAMMER en utilisant Tapatalk
The Processor of the Vampire V2 is a new 64Bit FPGA softcore design called Apollo. It is backwards compatible to the MC680X0 line. It is a work in progress and the full specification has not been fixed yet, it continues to improve with each release. The card has 128MB of RAM which is shared by the processor and the onboard graphics of the Vampire 2. Size and speed of the MicroSD will depend on the card you use, the driver which is under development, the file system you use and the speed of the core which as previously discussed is still improving. The next release is likely to make a wide range of resolutions and colour depths available over HDMI (currently only 320x240 and 640x480 are supported in 8bit, 15bit and 16bit IIRC). I can't comment on compatibility with other boards other than to say indivision ECS is a non-standard graphics architecture for the Amiga and the Vampire is designed to augment the standard graphics architectures.Quote:
Originally Posted by easy_john
The indi ECS isn't really a "non-standard" graphics architecture, In fact it's more an interceptor of the graphics signals. the reason it doesn't work with vampire 2 is more likely because the vampire 2 seems to emulate a lot of the amigas chipset internally, so I suspect you'll find a lot of a600 add ons don't work with it as the a600 is more of a host to the vampire. IMHO. Still..... The vampire 2 is a very nice bit of kit and designQuote:
Originally Posted by IanPThe Processor of the Vampire V2 is a new 64Bit FPGA softcore design called Apollo. It is backwards compatible to the MC680X0 line. It is a work in progress and the full specification has not been fixed yet, it continues to improve with each release. The card has 128MB of RAM which is shared by the processor and the onboard graphics of the Vampire 2. Size and speed of the MicroSD will depend on the card you use, the driver which is under development, the file system you use and the speed of the core which as previously discussed is still improving. The next release is likely to make a wide range of resolutions and colour depths available over HDMI (currently only 320x240 and 640x480 are supported in 8bit, 15bit and 16bit IIRC). I can't comment on compatibility with other boards other than to say indivision ECS is a non-standard graphics architecture for the Amiga and the Vampire is designed to augment the standard graphics architectures.Quote:
Originally Posted by easy_john
The V2 does not currently emulate a lot of the Amiga's chipset internally - actually I don't think it emulates any part of the custom chipsets yet. It has a CPU, memory, SD controller and HDMI output, but the latter two exist in parallel with the existing custom chipset. It is planned to have SAGA implemented as well which can replace the ECS chipset, but again, this will exist in parallel. The A600 is far from just a docking station for the Vampire in its current state. The reason it doesn't work with the Indivision ECS is because it uses the memory that the Indivision uses for registers so they can't coexist. Otherwise it would probably work just fine.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pghulme
Got my Vampire 600 v2 up n running, so far no real issues. As promised I took a few pictures of the "fitting process" and they can be seen here:
http://www.exretro.com/galleries/com...ire/index.html
Maybe it could be of help to someone who still hasn't done this yet.
After fitting all the hardware, it booted without hick-ups and I ran Sysinfo (3.x). Did not get the same stellar result as some other ppl, but it might just be that the core wasn't updated to the latest and greatest.
I have no games on the CF card, and no GoTek drive on my A600, so I tested a couple of games from floppy. First test was Psygnosis Infestation. Ran fine through the intro, then Guru. Tried Microprose F1 GP. Worked fine, but not sure it ran smoothly. Could be the Chip ram issues I've heard about with previous core versions. WB feels *very* snappy.
That's it for now, will do more testing in the days ahead.. (need to install WHDLoad ;-)
Checked Vampire2 by playing a hour in "deluxe galaga" - no issues found.
But found some strange behaviour of onboard IDE - it won't boot from CF every reboot (this can be a mobo problem too).
1) Does microSD card should work? What device should I use? Can't find anything using scsi.device.
2) What about kickstart in kickstart socket? Since I have 3.1 in Vampire - can I remove kickstart from mobo? Or may be swap to old-one from secondary a600? Does OS or some software require kick on mobo?
Where X=?Quote:
Originally Posted by IanP
Does it have 020 instructions now?
Yes, but I want to know what I got for now?Quote:
Originally Posted by IanP
Of course, but some cardreader is limited to some sizes. So, for example, I've got a bunch of 64 gb microSD cards, should they work in Vampire2, or I need a smaller size?Quote:
Originally Posted by IanP
@easy_john
1. Offical Apollo-core page says pretty clearly SD-card is "coming soon", so no, not working yet.
2. I still have my KS in the mobo socket, but I heard, you don't need it. It is my understanding, that as long as the Apollo-Core CPU is active, it does not read the ROM from the motherboard socket.
Apollo-core is currently the most feature compatible 68k CPU of all. It is however not a final product. So current instruction set is at least up to EC040 and probably 060 + a number of new instructions never seen in previous 68k CPUs
("EC" meaning, no FPU and no MMU)). MMU is not a priority, but FPU is planned. Not sure exactly which implementation though.. as there are quite a few differences between the old 68881/2, the one in the 040 and then the 060. Missing instructions in an FPU can always be trapped and emulated by CPU but then you likely need an updated library for that.
With FPGA your CPU specs and speed can change a lot between versions, so the fact is that as we speak, people have different versions of the core running in their Vampires. Your specs right now are probably something similar to a 68EC040 (could be 060 but not sure why no benchmark prog is identifying it as a 060 rather than 040) running at 133MHz but with much higher memory bandwidth than anything previously seen on Amiga.
Regarding your Micro SD cards, I have a few myself, not worrying about that right now. When the SD driver is ready, we will know and then it makes sense to spend time on thinking what size to get.
Regarding Vampire testing.. I also noticed soft-boot (Ctrl Amiga Amiga) does not work well.. On at least one occasion I got red flashing screen. Then I simply turned off the PSU and turned it on again and everything worked just fine again. (Computer boots off a pretty standard 4GB CF card.)
Ok, no problem.Quote:
Originally Posted by eXeler0
That why I asking for specs - I've spend some time to find, that I can't see any of my SD cards in VampireV2. If I found this info earlier - will save some time for me.
Checked - Yes, my amiga able to boot without kickstart on mobo.Quote:
Originally Posted by eXeler0
It's better, than I've expected. I think, that only 020 set is planned to support.Quote:
Originally Posted by eXeler0