Vampire 600 V2 - Amiga 600 FPGA accelerator Pre-order

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Hey guys, i have a prob. To order the vampier we need the 3.1kick. I have the latest version of amiga forever but i cant find the .bin file of the kick. Can someone help me please?

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RetroRoby said:
Hey guys, i have a prob. To order the vampier we need the 3.1kick. I have the latest version of amiga forever but i cant find the .bin file of the kick. Can someone help me please?

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Trydowave just managed to fix it :)

Read a few pages back. Find a 3.1 file a500.rom file some pages back you will find example on correct filename. If you cant input the file in a emulator etc. You can try to byteswap the file in msdos or something then crc check it and rename it to a bin file and upload.

Bin and rom etc are the same type of file in this case.

Vsmpire team only wants them to be named name_kickstart3.1.bin :)
 
Today i'm upload my kickstart 3.1 to the FTP for my order of Vampire 600 v2.
I'd make this post, because i'm never post here for the order and i think that kipper use this forum to trace orders. I'm make the order direct to majsta email some time before.
I'm waiting for my new and incredible vampire v2 accelerator for my old A600.
 
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RetroRoby said:
Hey guys, i have a prob. To order the vampier we need the 3.1kick. I have the latest version of amiga forever but i cant find the .bin file of the kick. Can someone help me please?

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Trydowave just managed to fix it :)

Read a few pages back. Find a 3.1 file a500.rom file some pages back you will find example on correct filename. If you cant input the file in a emulator etc. You can try to byteswap the file in msdos or something then crc check it and rename it to a bin file and upload.

Bin and rom etc are the same type of file in this case.

Vsmpire team only wants them to be named name_kickstart3.1.bin :)
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I find it, thanks

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Vampire 600 V2 - Amiga 600 FPGA accelerator Pre-order

Hi! I was thinking to buy benq monitor to use with the amiga. But with this expansion, if I buy it with the hdmi output, is it neccesary a monitor compatible with 15 khz? Or can I use with anyone? Thanks in advance.
 
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Hi,
I have a question :
I have an A600 with a 2.05 rom and cloanto's cd with rom 3.1
Do I need to have the 3.1 really fitted in the A600 for the Vampire2 to work ?
 
Amilord said:
Hi,
I have a question :
I have an A600 with a 2.05 rom and cloanto's cd with rom 3.1
Do I need to have the 3.1 really fitted in the A600 for the Vampire2 to work ?
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As I understand it, yes. Same goes for my 3.X, I need to downgrade to 3.1 once the card arrives. But I believe if you own the CD you are legally allowed to burn the image to an eprom? If someone can confirm this I am more than happy to burn the image for you.

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I don't understand why we need to upload our 3.1 rom images in order to flash the Vampire with, if we still need to have the same rom fitted on the original motherboard...
 
@Amilord, some assumptions:

- Vampire 600 v2 is being tested with the latest official rom version (v3.1) for maximum compatibility with the Apollo core.

- This 3.1 rom version is being stored in the Vampire card, maybe for better access times? Probably the rom on the Amiga motherboard is not even needed anymore.

- When building this amount of Vampire cards you want to automate things, therefore probably one rom version has been chosen. (builder perspective)

- From the legal aspect: you are allowed to make a backup of roms you own. If you don't own the 3.1 rom there is an issue for the Vampire team delivering the card to you with a 3.1 rom version programmed into it.
That's why you need to prove you have the v3.1 rom binary file by uploading it to the FTP server.
 
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This is barely acceptable. When we went to sponsor this beautiful project it wasn't specified that we needed rom3.1 to run the card...
Don't misunderstand me: I'm very happy they over-spec'd and out delivered above specifications, I just say this process is a bit messy, not everyone will be able to produce a legal rom file, how are they going to receive their Vampire boards??
 
@Rakeim132, I fully understand the confusion.
Actually it would help if the Vampire team would let us know a bit more about the decisions in the design.
 
As is being demonstrated in this thread, most of us have at least 3.1 ROMs either installed in our a600 machines or as part of amiga forever. As a result of that I do not see an issue here. I guess they chose the most widely used modern ROM release.

So long as the installed ROM image is user flashable I have no issue with proving I am a legal owner of the pre flashed version.
 
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So long as the installed ROM image is user flashable I have no issue with proving I am a legal owner of the pre flashed version.
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That's the real question, the very same I've asked before, but it remained unanswered (I think it's something still in development):

- will we be able to re-flash our Vampires with kickstarts different from the 3.1?
- will it be a requirement to have the same physical kickstart rom?
 
Hiya, it's mark, just curious, how I'm missing off the pre order list, christer was going to drop you a line for me, as I'm in the philipinines with my family at the moment and have no way of sending you my Kirk start version as my amiga 600 is home in the UK. I'm running 3.1

Cheers Mark
 
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That's the real question, the very same I've asked before, but it remained unanswered (I think it's something still in development):

- will we be able to re-flash our Vampires with kickstarts different from the 3.1?
- will it be a requirement to have the same physical kickstart rom?
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I saw a post from a beta tester on Google+ that the ROM file is loaded into RAM at startup. Aparently it does not read the actual ROM chip on the motherboard at all. In fact, he had no actual ROM chips installed and it still worked.

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Vampire 600 V2 - Amiga 600 FPGA accelerator Pre-order

Do I get this right:

For owners of the AmigaForever CDs

Simply setup a A600 System in the Emulator.
Than use a Romgrabber inside the emulated Amiga and rename the rom-file as wished and upload to ftp

Yes?
 
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