Vampire 600 V2 - Amiga 600 FPGA accelerator Pre-order

[Tuxbar81]

Take a look at the website of Majsta, you'll see that the connector is an HDMI output. There is an interesting video.

 

[hardcore8uk]

Hi,

I'm interested in one and will send cash soon,

Kind regards,

Brian.

 

[cthulhu]

Hi Majsta,

I'm interested in one as well. Money is on its way via PayPal and PM sent.

 

[cgugl]

everyone should be happy, because the connector named "jtag" is used to make easy upgrades through a PC

and yes, on the board you can see 3 connectors: jtag, hdmi and secure digital

 

[khimru]

:interested:

 

[gump]

everyone should be happy, because the connector named "jtag" is used to make easy upgrades through a PC

and yes, on the board you can see 3 connectors: jtag, hdmi and secure digital

An easy upgrade should be trough sd-reader. Cool if it works both as a core uploader and for hdd/ide interface.

Damn im sooo excited to this

 

[eXeler0]

The latest posts on Majsta's site look nice:
We seem to have a good team here in Majsta & Kipper2k
http://www.majsta.com/modules.php?name=News&file=categories&op=newindex&catid=1

 

[trydowave]

Is there any information about all the functions of the accelerator, as new things keep getting added? For example, will it make my Indi ECS and 4gb flash redundant?

Any info would be good. This is the only thing I've brought where I don't understand half of what it does.

Cheers

 

[khimru]

Is there any information about all the functions of the accelerator, as new things keep getting added? For example, will it make my Indi ECS and 4gb flash redundant?

Nobody knows yet, LOL. As in: nobody at all.

I'll try to show by analogy. Suppose that instead of Vampire accelerator you are building a house. There are fridge, bath and gas kitchen stove planned. Connections to electricity network, water and gas pipes are there and tested. But kitchen stove and bath are NOT INSTALLED yet! There are not even FULLY DESIGNED yet! Connections are thoroughly tested, there are no visible leaks... but who knows what'll happen when they ACTUALLY try to attach bash and kitchen stove? Will it work? Nobody knows.

House is sold with just a fridge (fast CPU core) and rooms (64MB of RAM), the plan is to add other bits and pieces later. Will that work? Only time will tell.

If it'll work then yes, 4GB flash and Indi ECS will become obsolete. If they will find out that pipes worked on pressure tests but leak with "real" bash and "real" kitchen sink installed then you'll be left with just a fridge forever.

 

[cgugl]

about the HDD, you should prefer the SD slot to boot, because it is much faster (10mb/sec).
about the video output:
1) now we have only the normal amiga output, so you need the INDIVISION;
2) Soon, we will have a picasso96 driver. WB will work on HDMI but the old game needs the amiga output. You need two monitors, a switcher, a modern TV with scart + hdmi...
3) in the future we should have AGA or SAGA, and then no need of indivision, switcher...

 

[khimru]

Wow. That's great progress. But if you'll implement an AGA and everything in a Vampire then why would that thing need an Amiga? I mean: at all? Just an adapter for the keyboard?

 

[eXeler0]

@khimru Remember the C64-direct-to-TV? ?
Or the Chameleon you put into a c64?
And more recently, MIST...
Yea, in the end, practically the entire Amiga logic end up on that FPGA.
But the Apollo-core is the new "Natami" so if you think about it, this is the only way to get an improved Amiga 68k AGA compatible experience...


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[trydowave]

Would it be possible to have 2 hdds on CF and microsd. one for the os and the other for data

 

[gump]

It will probably work with cf card in ata native or pcmcia. If the ram is located in the right memoryspaces.

I hope you dont mess with pcmcia mem area. Becouse i hope it can use 64mb ram co-op with pcmcia. Like be able to browse internet with vampire.

I have a silly question. But the 2 holes on the vampire. Is this for tighten vampire to motherboard with screws. Just like aca620 does?

 

[majsta]

PCMCIA will work just fine, since our memory is located in another space, so we don't have anything even near PCMCIA addressed. Holes are for securing the board to the motherboard, there is also another way just using one hole and gluing some screw directly to MC68K chip. But, people will find other ways, at least that's something Amiga users are famous

 

[milo]

Payment sent for one Card.

 

[CraigsBar]

Have I missed the boat on this one? I expect to be looking for an accelerator for my 600 at some point in the not to distand future, and I guess the options are a Vampire v2 or an ACA620.

I assume being FPGA based the Vampire can support alternate cores (Space permitting) has a 030 or 040 been tested.

If I am too late here then I suppose the ACA620 will be the one, but this certainly looks like a VERY interesting project that I's like to be part of.

Craig

 

[khimru]

Send PM to majsta and you'll know. Apparently production have started but I'm pretty sure majsta have ordered PCBs and other components with same reserve.

But note: ACA620 will give you decent accelerator today, while Vampire v2 will be a great accelerator sometime in in 2016 (developers are sure that everything will work as it should in the next month or two but if we'll apply the usual π coefficient... yeah.. the middle of next year is more-or-less realistic estimate).

 

[CraigsBar]

Pm sent, fingers crossed, thanks.

 

[GWCNS]

Interested in buying
but not kinda understand "to imajstorovic at yahoo.com" part