With regards to this I'm with
@fitzsteve I'm disappointed with the Apollo team basically something has happened and now we have to suffer from it, surely they could honour the cards which have been made by Igor prior to the announcement.
knowing my luck I got an unlicensed one but it was offered to me via the "your card is ready to go please pay in 7 days or it will be offered to the next person" method
In some ways I don't like the " we have a new product we are no longer supporting the older model" mentality they have too, I know you got to progress with new ideas and it will be the main focus but usually there is some support for the older models with other companies.
With the Vampires the V1, these were dropped almost immediately on release of the V2, its not even mentioned on the Apollo site and it was the thing which started them off. Now with the new Ice Drake the new statement for the V2 is " The physical limits of the possibilities in the V2-Series FPGA have been reached. This means the current functionality will be frozen. In practice, this means there are no new features to be expected." . There was so many promises made with the V2 Series of cards which have not been fulfilled and this to me, is just there way of getting out of it but at least with the v2 there is support to get the existing cores at this moment in time.
I've been a big supporter of the vampire series and have most of the Vampire Addon model with the exception of the new one, I'm not sure if I will pursue the ice drake due to things like this unless one comes up really cheap second hand
Don't get me wrong I like the fact they are bringing new Amiga hardware to the community and I hope they do it for many years to come but look after your supporters even when something happens which was unbeknown to them and support the hardware. Stop this "end of life" bollocks the amiga itself is "end of life" its the community, Apollo's potential customers, that keeps these wonderful machines going.
