Vampire 600 V2 - Amiga 600 FPGA accelerator Pre-order

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As IDE cables are straight through, as long as you reverse the pins on both ends you could put it the other way around anyway if you needed too, as I said, as long as it's reversed on both ends of the cable
 
A second option is to buy a 20cm ide cable. And let the cable go between vampire and motherboard. Im awaiting 20cm cable from aliexpressi try this first on aca620. Until vamp 600 arrives

I have tried to do the "other way around" with cable it works with cf card. But i got Sata adapter and ssd.

Third option is to buy a cf adapter with angeled female 44 pin connector and attach adapter to mobo without the ide cable. Im not 100% sure it would fit though

Edit:i mean fit between motherboard and vampire.

I can see if it fits since a got an female adapter @ home.
 
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A second option is to buy a 20cm ide cable. And let the cable go between vampire and motherboard. Im awaiting 20cm cable from aliexpressi try this first on aca620. Until vamp 600 arrives

I have tried to do the "other way around" with cable it works with cf card. But i got Sata adapter and ssd.

Third option is to buy a cf adapter with angeled female 44 pin connector and attach adapter to mobo without the ide cable. Im not 100% sure it would fit though

Edit:i mean fit between motherboard and vampire.

I can see if it fits since a got an female adapter @ home.
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If you are not specifically tied to a cf card, then my solution was to use a 44 pin ide DOM directly onto the socket. It stands up from the board to about 2cm. Everything else fits fine with it.

Craig
 
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Would it be possible to configure fpga to create a "fake" zorro card in zorro configuration space with a small ExpansionRom (that points to the code that adds ) that is executed by exec on boot so Expansion.library adds the memory in an os-friendly way?

Advantages: you would forget about messing with roms and legal issues, users could use any rom version, they could cook their own roms... it would improve compatibility with other OSes like AROS/BSD/Linux as these kernels will scan boards located in zorro2/3 configuration space.
 
I originally brought a DOM but I had a tough time connecting it to my PC to load images of previous Amiga OS installs. When using a CF this comes in very handy if anything goes wrong. If I have trouble fitting the CF ill revisit the DOM route.
 
Any word if it is compatable with the A604A / Rapid Road USB controller?

Thanks
 
Once kickstart3.1 uploaded (1 week ago for me), should we let someone special know about it or is the process engaged ? So far I still see my kickstart in the root directory of the server...
 
"Kipper2k's website is where you order now" ....

i ask to the email on Kipper2k's website but he does not answer ....

is it possible to order a vampire II here ?


 
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"Kipper2k's website is where you order now" ....

i ask to the email on Kipper2k's website but he does not answer ....
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He will answer... eventually. If you'll take look on the homepage you'll find out that Kipper2k opened preorders December 21st and by January 23th he fullfilled all preorders up to... drumroll... December 23rd.

Apparently now, when we know that VampireII is not a vaporware so many sudden Amiga 600 lovers materialized that they clogged all the communication channels with Majsta, Kipper2k and others involved in the project, LOL.

For now the only recourse is to wait, I guess. Eventually everything will be resolved.
 
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Once kickstart3.1 uploaded (1 week ago for me), should we let someone special know about it or is the process engaged ? So far I still see my kickstart in the root directory of the server...
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No need, he will check it eventually when they become ready to ship the boards. As long as the file is on the ftp all that is left to do is to wait for your board. :)
 
Hi Guys

I'm at a loss here with this Kickstart extraction/upload.
I am fine with following instructions, just don't know what to google for.

Could we have an easy guide linked to the first post page of this thread with instruction form start to finish for doing this?

I am sure there are pieces of useful info in this thread, but it's 78 pages long... also it would be nice to know that the instructions have been validated by the developers.


All the best
 
@CraigsBar

:) I could hardly find it myself the other day when I read about people uploading their ROM images, maybe it will be easier to find for the people who are reading the later posts. I'm pleased to see that you would have pointed it out if I hadn't, its help like that, that makes a big difference :thumbsup:
 
don't worry about kipper 2k. I bought an A2000 8mb ram card last year, superb workmanship and am sure he is catching up with orders as this is sure to sell in huge numbers
 
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