Vampire 600 V2 - Amiga 600 FPGA accelerator Pre-order

[cyberstormer]

How to get on the list? I'm interested.

You can sign up only through e mail


I'm already four times via e-mail registered long time ago, I do not know if I In waiting list or not !

No response, nothing !

[demolition]

I'm already four times via e-mail registered long time ago, I do not know if I In waiting list or not !

If you sent a mail, you're on the list. So you might be getting four boards.

[majsta]

https://youtu.be/hyDZnrWYYjY

[Kresko]

So,does soldering machine increase the speed of production or what?

Btw,you are busy man,I must admit,regarding the video!

[gseb]

It's all really great and good for us but I'am starting slowly to not understand all this waste of time.
Just to say, an ACA1221 cost 80€ for the end user and Jens is not building them in his home and is also not loosing money selling them..... Also with the optionals things on the card that have to be unlock with more money, the card would not be sooooo expensive.
The ACA card does not looked really more complicated to build than the Vampire and even if it is, it could still cost the double to produce it.
This show that it's possible to let build such cards from a specialised society to an attractive price, and delay is probably better than a "I do all myself" and the quality of your life will be also better. Last point is important if you want to have a long healthy life ! With the number of cards already sold and the upcoming numbers of V500 cards, should be no problem to do the way icomp is doing. I mean let produce the cards industrially (and not about using this optional unlock feature system that is a nonsense, I do not want to pay a part of people aca cards that keep them cards with the minimum feature when I unlock my. But this is another subject that has nothing to do with Vampire card).

I do not understand anymore but maybe I am totally wrong on the subject....

Anyway, long life to the vampire, best accelerator we have until now.

[Ernoman]

Wow, that is some work. I hope you be careful with that soldering paste. It is not very healthy. If you are doing this all day you may poison yourself. Be careful ok?
At that pace you'll probably be busy forever filling all the orders. Have you talked to Gideon (of 1541 Ultimate fame)? He has its boards produced at very reasonable prices. Leaves more time for less hazardous work.

Good luck and take care of yourself while doing this!

[majsta]

@gseb we can do it by professional manufacturer and from us there will be more products done like that, much better than this one. That will increase the price of final product a lot and then everyone will say that my approach was good. Do you know what is the price of FPGA we are using and that I have managed to keep prices low by pure luck but now is not the time to talk about that. Don't you think that in past few years I didn't tried all options. In other words if amiga community want's V600 fast, in designed box, manual and everything looking perfectly then we are talking about 300-400Eur per card. I didn't wanted that to happen and that's why I m wasting my time on this. From all of this I have earned to buy oscilloscope, again needed for this project. Few days ago on e-bay V600 went for 800USD(if I m informed right). So if we want to keep prices low I must suffer. For other future project this will not be the case because I have lot of things to pay. I have no problems to see some shop manufacture cards but that must be licensed properly and no one seems to take this serious enough. Eventually complete core will be sold to some company and if we want to see that as success anything that has something to do with the core needs to be licensed. Anyway lot of things will change but no one should complain when that happen.

[CraigsBar]

@gseb we can do it by professional manufacturer and from us there will be more products done like that, much better than this one. That will increase the price of final product a lot and then everyone will say that my approach was good. Do you know what is the price of FPGA we are using and that I have managed to keep prices low by pure luck but now is not the time to talk about that. Don't you think that in past few years I didn't tried all options. In other words if amiga community want's V600 fast, in designed box, manual and everything looking perfectly then we are talking about 300-400Eur per card. I didn't wanted that to happen and that's why I m wasting my time on this. From all of this I have earned to buy oscilloscope, again needed for this project. Few days ago on e-bay V600 went for 800USD(if I m informed right). So if we want to keep prices low I must suffer. For other future project this will not be the case because I have lot of things to pay. I have no problems to see some shop manufacture cards but that must be licensed properly and no one seems to take this serious enough. Eventually complete core will be sold to some company and if we want to see that as success anything that has something to do with the core needs to be licensed. Anyway lot of things will change but no one should complain when that happen.

300 to 400 per card is still cheap for a card that makes an 060 look slow

Look what 040 and 060 cards that are 20plus years old are selling for.

Put it this way. When the 1200 vampire comes along I don't think manual making will be an option for your own sanity. I'll gladly stump up 400+ for that if that is what it takes

[Gravislord]

I don't mind waiting (I am waiting for the A500 and A1200 versions personally) but I do understand people being anxious / excited for this product. Keep up the good work Majsta!

[Tuxbar81]

@Majsta: I'm lucky since I have my A600 Vampire 2. I had to change the socket by an another. Now the board stays plugged.
The A1200 version of the Vampire is interesting, the A500 also, Okay... but for me the most interesting Vampire accelerator would
be for the A4000. Today, it's a quite hard to find a A3640, and when we find one, the price is just crazy...

Don't you plan an A4000 version of the Vampire? No? If yes, I take three!