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Gold 2.7 Release for the Vampire Accelerators

Pitteloud Stephane
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 69
02 Mar 2018 10:27


Hi
 
  The Apollo team is happy to announce the immediate disponibility of the Gold 2.7 core for all Vampires 500, 500+ and 600. You can right now dowload the appropriated core on this link :
 
  http://wiki.apollo-accelerators.com/doku.php/start#latest_core
 
  The Gold 2.7 core has many inprovements, the most notable one being of course the hardware FPU. But this is not the only one new thing ! Here is the changelog :
 
  [GOLD2.7] (02.03.2018)
  * Added fully pipelined hard FPU with peak 78 MFlops
  * Added native support for all 68882 FPU operations without need of extra libraries
  * Added new high performance memory controller, reaching 600 MB/sec memory speed
  * Added MapRom support
  * Added Workbench hardware sprite support
  * Added Scanlines optional mode for retro look of games on DIGITAL-VIDEO output
  * Added RangerMem (A500 slowmem) for better compatibility with some old games/demos
  * Added new boot pic
  * Improved MPU (memory protection) with catching memory access error Enabled
  * Improved AMMX 2 instruction set with acceleration features for video decoding, image decoding, 2D-games, 3D-games
  * Improved WHDLOAD compatibility
  * Improved Faster Boot time
 
  Like always, we are waiting your feedback on IRC :
  chat.freenode.net 6697 (SSL)/6667 (non SSL) #Apollo-Team
 
  We wish you a good installation !
 


Leigh Russ

Posts 151
02 Mar 2018 14:52


The instructions in the V600 V2 package states V500 V2+ and not V600 V2. (maybe the wrong file, or a copy and paste without correcting the info).

As the instructions file relates to the V500 V2+, can you you please confirm that the "C:SetPatch NOROMUPDATE QUIET" command is also correct for the V600 V2.


Pitteloud Stephane
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 69
02 Mar 2018 14:57


the .exe in the v600 package is the right one, this is the instructions file that was false, sorry ! Now it's should be corrected. noromupdate quiet is the right instruction, yes. skipromupdate will certainly hang the system at boot.


Peter Heginbotham

Posts 214
02 Mar 2018 17:49


Damn i'm a 120 miles from my amiga :( one small question:-
Is there any detail on the Maprom support and are the specific vampire modules avaible to build a custom 3.9 rom


Elko 3000

Posts 12
18 Mar 2018 17:07


is there any doc or instruction to use the new features

posts 5