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Nixus Minimax

Posts 416
06 Sep 2016 10:09


Amiga 4Life wrote:
  ok let say i have a sampled (acoustic piano) keyboard split across 5 octaves all notes sampled at 44khz for 8sec..
  (44khz x 2) x 8sec = 705,600 bytes (1 sampled key)....60 keys x 705kbytes = 42MBs...

How many of the 60 keys do you use in a piece of music? It's not twelve-tone music, is it? :o)


Amiga 4Life

Posts 101
07 Sep 2016 07:21


@Szyk Cech
Blizzard 2060@50khz with 128MB ram, I never thought that I would ever be replacing this board with
something better...The blizzard board runs out of steam if you try to do too much and use a RTG card...
the best thing about Vampire expansion is all of the bandwidth hogging devices have been moved away
  from the zorro slots...the cpu,saga,ram and i/o on the same board is the best design...

@Nixus Minimax
I'm usually hitting chords on the pentatonic scale, thats 5 notes per octave...some tracks may cross
  over to about 3 1/2 octaves, for the notes that i'm not using I would pull those samples out in order
  to free up some memory...

dont get me wrong 128MB is a lot ram (classic Amiga), but with this new cpu core and faster memory
  interface Amigans may try to push classic hardware harder than normal....Look at Aros68k, i believe
Gunnar had to double Vampires ram size from 64MB cause Aros68k needed more ram....
(ok, people can scream at me now..lmao)...



Thierry Atheist

Posts 644
07 Sep 2016 08:51


Amiga 4Life wrote:

@Nixus Minimax
I'm usually hitting chords on the pentatonic scale, thats 5 notes per octave...some tracks may cross over to about 3 1/2 octaves, for the notes that i'm not using I would pull those samples out in order to free up some memory...

dont get me wrong 128MB is a lot ram (classic Amiga), but with this new cpu core and faster memory interface Amigans may try to push classic hardware harder than normal....


Hi Amiga 4Life,

You're clearly a person that "pushes the envelope" with what you want to do on an AMIGA computer... I APPLAUD YOU!

So, get the standalone, as you require what it has to offer.


Szyk Cech

Posts 191
08 Sep 2016 12:19


@Amiga 4Life
You should also be aware that they planing implement 16bit audio via DIGITAL-VIDEO port...


Simo Koivukoski
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 601
08 Sep 2016 18:13


A quick AmigaOS 3.9 BB2 bootup test from Oktagon 2008 SCSI Z2 board:

EXTERNAL LINK


Thierry Atheist

Posts 644
09 Sep 2016 10:28


Hi Simo....

EXCELLENT, so the boot-up time on an Amiga 2000 is 24 seconds....

However, that is including waiting to establish proper communications with the Amiga 2000 motherboard that runs at only 7 MHz.

The standalone Apollo Core'd AMIGA should be about 3 times faster, booting in about 8 seconds and maybe an extra 2, those needed to check the 1 gigabyte of RAM that's installed on it???

(Tablets FRAUDULENTLY are "instant on"... They start right away only because they are in SLEEP MODE!!! It takes them longer to turn off than the Amiga will turn on in!)


Gunnar von Boehn
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 6207
09 Sep 2016 10:32


Thierry Atheist wrote:

Hi Simo....
 
  EXCELLENT, so the boot-up time on an Amiga 2000 is 24 seconds....
 
  However, that is including waiting to establish proper communications with the Amiga 2000 motherboard that runs at only 7 MHz.
 
  The standalone Apollo Core'd AMIGA should be about 3 times faster,

This is just a test to show that old SCSI controllers work fine with Vampire.

If you want fast boot then better use a modern CF.
The on board IDE on the V500 is 4 times faster than the old SCSI-Z2 controller.



Szyk Cech

Posts 191
09 Sep 2016 13:16


Thierry Atheist wrote:

    However, that is including waiting to establish proper communications with the Amiga 2000 motherboard that runs at only 7 MHz.
 

  AFAIK: Amiga custom/specialised chips run only 3.5MHz. 7MHz runs only CPU... Sadly 3.5MHz is true even for AGA... (CPU is faster of course for AGA machines)


Simo Koivukoski
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 601
09 Sep 2016 15:40


A2080 / A quick AmigaOS 3.1 bootup test from Vampire 500 V2 IDE:
   
EXTERNAL LINK   
 
Default Kick 3.1 (only fastmem patch i.e pure gold).


Nadyr Nick

Posts 54
10 Sep 2016 00:06


Szyk Cech wrote:

Thierry Atheist wrote:

    However, that is including waiting to establish proper communications with the Amiga 2000 motherboard that runs at only 7 MHz.
   

    AFAIK: Amiga custom/specialised chips run only 3.5MHz. 7MHz runs only CPU... Sadly 3.5MHz is true even for AGA... (CPU is faster of course for AGA machines)

sure ? I remember 7 mb/s in AGA machines



Gregthe Canuck

Posts 274
10 Sep 2016 02:14



Thanks for that demo. :)


Szyk Cech

Posts 191
10 Sep 2016 13:27


nadyr nick wrote:

   
Szyk Cech wrote:

     
Thierry Atheist wrote:

          However, that is including waiting to establish proper communications with the Amiga 2000 motherboard that runs at only 7 MHz.
       

        AFAIK: Amiga custom/specialised chips run only 3.5MHz. 7MHz runs only CPU... Sadly 3.5MHz is true even for AGA... (CPU is faster of course for AGA machines)
     

      sure ? I remember 7 mb/s in AGA machines
   

    Maybe due to "dual channel"?!? Or DDR?!?
    BTW: m == mili == 10^-3, b == bit, M == 2^20, B == byte, so: What do you mean?


Artur Jarosik
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 94
21 Sep 2016 14:00


My port of HHexen 1.6.3 running on V500 GOLD:

EXTERNAL LINK


Mr-Z EdgeOfPanic

Posts 189
21 Sep 2016 15:18


Nice work, but the download link doesn't work (you are routed back to the page)


Szyk Cech

Posts 191
21 Sep 2016 17:21


Mr-Z EdgeOfPanic wrote:

Nice work, but the download link doesn't work (you are routed back to the page)

You are wrong!
I just click links and went to the page:
EXTERNAL LINK 


Mr-Z EdgeOfPanic

Posts 189
21 Sep 2016 18:12


Szyk Cech wrote:

Mr-Z EdgeOfPanic wrote:

  Nice work, but the download link doesn't work (you are routed back to the page)
 

  You are wrong!
  I just click links and went to the page:
  EXTERNAL LINK 

Let me be more specific,

when you click on the link to download the non FPU Binary only on EXTERNAL LINK  Then it points to EXTERNAL LINK


Artur Jarosik
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 94
22 Sep 2016 02:22


Link fixed now, thanks for report.


Renaud Schweingruber
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 378
23 Sep 2016 05:10


Majsta demonstrating the V500
EXTERNAL LINK


Lord Aga
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 119
23 Sep 2016 10:41


Aaaa is that my tank mouse near the A500 :)


Salteadorneo Salteador

Posts 20
23 Sep 2016 10:47


EXTERNAL LINK 
Very interesting... Asic. But we can also evaluate this one:

EXTERNAL LINK

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