Vampire 600 V2 - Amiga 600 FPGA accelerator Pre-order

[CrazyBob]

@GWCNS: 120 euro + shipping needs to be paid to Majsta's PayPal address which is the e-mail adres you mention: imajstorovic at yahoo.com
where the 'at' part needs to be replaced by @
This is to prevent spamming robots picking up his e-mail adres from this forum

 

[cyberstormer]

Interested in One piece !

 

[semthex]

Also thinking about one

 

[CraigsBar]

Decided to preorder one card. PM and payment sent.

Thanks

 

[Neraka]

Interested. Payment and PM sent. Fantastic project

 

[Rakeim132]

I really wonder how many people have pre ordered a Vampire II... Must be a nice figure by now.

 

[khimru]

About 100 pre-orders. Not that many if you'll recall that it's not one-man project, there are about dozen of developers involved.

 

[eXeler0]

About 100 pre-orders. Not that many if you'll recall that it's not one-man project, there are about dozen of developers involved.

Well it kind off started a lot like a one man project (majsta). The Apollo-core team were developing the core regardless but asked Majsta to join the team because they had no easy way to distribute the new core. So the original Vampire v2 grew into something bigger than originally intended. Then later, kipper2k was asked to help build the boards because he's a legend at soldering and building stuff ;-)
So win-win.. now lets see how quickly the beta testers can squash most of the bugs so that we can get our cards. And then of course the wait for cards for other Amigas begins ;-)

Edit: Obviously I meant beta testers would *find* the bugs, not fixing the code themselves ;-)
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[UberFreak]

If pre-orders are low, its probably due to the target machine.
I assume that many people (including myself) are waiting for the A1200 or A4000 versions.

 

[CraigsBar]

If pre-orders are low, its probably due to the target machine.
I assume that many people (including myself) are waiting for the A1200 or A4000 versions.

That's harsh. As a late arrival to the Amiga scene (i never had one in the 90's) I have had, and sold 2 1200s, they never really did it for me. My new 600 however is wonderful. I love its compact form factor and wonderful keyboard. This vampire will give it the power to match the compact looks.

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[UberFreak]

Well, its simple math: the number of people owning an A600 is small compared to A1200 owners.
For example, in my country very few A600 were sold, and mostly to schools.

I'm sure it was the same in many other countries.

 

[trydowave]

For a (very short) while I was thinking of getting rid of my A600 as I also own an A500 with 3 external drives for my Nostalgia needs and a fully kitted out A1200 for everything else. I've always liked the A600 and had one back in the day; Its a very cute machine and never understood all the hate it gets. But, at the end the day I wasn't using it... not to mention its floppy drive is on its last legs.

Thank god for this Vampire project. Its going to breath new life into the A600 and its going to trounce my A1200 in terms of power. Can't wait for it. I am preparing myself for the initial installation or the card. Got a feeling there's going to be some frustrating moments .

 

[khimru]

If pre-orders are low, its probably due to the target machine.
I assume that many people (including myself) are waiting for the A1200 or A4000 versions.

Indeed. I wanted to do so as well, but in the end decided wait will just be too long: I'm 99% sure project will be quite successful in the end but I'm also 90% sure that half-year-to-year after it's release will be spent fighting stupid incompatibilities found in various versions of A600 (I swear: it almost looks like Commodore purposefully built all Amiga systems in a way which makes them quite hard to expand) and then similar time will be needed to develop Vampire 500... In the end I've decided that it just easier to go grab A600 which I did.

P.S. And yeah, Amiga 600 looks pretty nifty. Almost like a toy near the heavy and bulky A500 or A1200. Add [relatively] fast CPU and 64MiB of RAM... and we have serious power right there. Will it be possible to read AmiBay.com directly on that machine? Only time will tell...

 

[majsta]

Hi, I don't think that number of pre-ordered card is low, in fact it is huge number when we talk about any kind of retro equipment. To build for retro scene anything in series of hundreds it is achievement. Yes, A600 are rare but this is matter of principle when you figure out that weakest and badly commented Amiga become most powerful. I m again not talking much anywhere and preparing my equipment for for production run. Latest PCB, stencils should be with me in matter of days. Also I will have some other things to show. On the other side I see that other part of the apollo-team work hard on the core, lot of nice results in past few days but only few of them are showed publicly on forums. For now I don't have the time to do all the testings and save some videos but after I assembly last version of the board I ll find some time to do it.

 

[k0x]

Interested. PM and payment sent.

 

[iddqd]

That's harsh

Not really. There are far more users on the A1200 than on the A600. And even though I do love how cute my A600 is, I am waiting for a A1200 version of the V2, as many others are.

 

[Tajmaster]

Hi, I don't think that number of pre-ordered card is low, in fact it is huge number when we talk about any kind of retro equipment. To build for retro scene anything in series of hundreds it is achievement. Yes, A600 are rare but this is matter of principle when you figure out that weakest and badly commented Amiga become most powerful. I m again not talking much anywhere and preparing my equipment for for production run. Latest PCB, stencils should be with me in matter of days. Also I will have some other things to show. On the other side I see that other part of the apollo-team work hard on the core, lot of nice results in past few days but only few of them are showed publicly on forums. For now I don't have the time to do all the testings and save some videos but after I assembly last version of the board I ll find some time to do it.

The work you guys have done is fan-bloody-tastic! Keep it up, dont worry about numbers as its a niche market. I may buy one myself next month should budget allow it

 

[CraigsBar]

That's harsh

Not really. There are far more users on the A1200 than on the A600. And even though I do love how cute my A600 is, I am waiting for a A1200 version of the V2, as many others are.

Like I said,I never had a mig back in the 90's looking back I should have bought a 600 instead of the 6128plus I did buy!

But I have had a couple of 1200, one with a working blizzard 030 and the other a very temperamental apollo 040. But neither really did *it* for me. I cannot define what it was they were missing.

Now I have a 600 and I love it. It takes up next to no desk space has a wonderful keyboard that is a dream to type on.

Supports all the games I want to play. Once the vampire gets here they will all be installed in whdload and launched from os3.9 (which I kept the CD for when I sold the 1200s)

Excited, hell yes!

 

[gregvl]

Interested

 

[MoRetro]

Also interested.