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Vampire A1200 and Dpaint AGA

Mister Cartoonmonkey

Posts 57
20 Aug 2016 07:40


I used to create animated films on the Amiga 1200 in the early 90's on a Blizzard 060 with 64 mb of ram...

Brilliance and Dpaint V handled hundreds if not thousands of frames in memory, with a 32 color palette at 720x480 resoluton. This was great for the films I was making for Sesame Street at the time, and the Amiga could play it all back in real time.

I'm a little concerned that the Vampire 1200 might not be as fast as an 060 Blizzard in a program that bangs the custom graphics chipset like Deluxepaint... (Or even work at all with the Vampire's memory) 

Can anyone assuage my fears?! :-D
Also, I'd like to get on an early list to stand in line for my Vampire 1200.

If you need any marketing help with the vampire boards, I'm happy to donate some cartoon illustration to the team.

Cheers
C



Mr-Z EdgeOfPanic

Posts 189
20 Aug 2016 08:31


Be Assured that a Vampire is way faster then a Blizzard 060 50Mhz.
Even an overclocked 060 at 80Mhz doesn't stand a chance.
A v600 leaves a 68060 in the dust.
Once FPU and AGA is added to the Apollo core i don't think you'll ever want a 68060 again :)
 


Renaud Schweingruber
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 378
20 Aug 2016 08:45


Why fear ?

The answer is 2 mouse clicks away :
CLICK HERE


Gunnar von Boehn
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 6207
20 Aug 2016 08:48


Apollo 68080 strength is memory speed.

The speed comes not only because we use more modern memory
but mostly because the Apollo 68080 memory controller design is so much better than all precious CPUs.

All previous 68K did had 1 memory controller.

Apollo 68080 has 2 memory controllers.
Both are unblocking and can be used in parallel.

Apollos memory controller can burst and prefetch / and automatically detect memory streams and automatically prefetch.
This makes Apollo magnitudes faster than all previous 68k Cores.

This design allows APOLLO to easily reach memory speeds 10 times faster than the fastest 68060 could reach.

There are a number of benchmarks on AMIGA which measure bus speed.
Both Chipmem bus speed and fastmem bus speed.
No AMIGA CPU card before was better than the our cards are.


Amiga 4Life

Posts 101
20 Aug 2016 13:07


Thank you... I hope this performance increases as Vampire cards are produce for higher end Amigas...
something seem strange about the Amiga 600 keeping up with a A4000 :):) ...(thats just me)...



Mister Cartoonmonkey

Posts 57
20 Aug 2016 16:52


Amazing. I can't wait to try it. I might even go back and make another animated film or two done wholly on the Amiga. Ha

One more thing:
Using the DIGITAL-VIDEO output, is it possible to run true color desktop modes, to run programs such as TVPaint in 24 bit color?

Cheers! And hats off & many thanks to the incredible devs that breathe new life into my favorite machines!


Gunnar von Boehn
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 6207
20 Aug 2016 17:03


Mister Cartoonmonkey wrote:

Amazing. I can't wait to try it. I might even go back and make another animated film or two done wholly on the Amiga. Ha

I look forward to this.
 

Mister Cartoonmonkey wrote:

  One more thing:
  Using the DIGITAL-VIDEO output, is it possible to run true color desktop modes, to run programs such as TVPaint in 24 bit color?

Yes of course.
24bit color Workbench / Screens works perfectly - and also fast!

Mister Cartoonmonkey wrote:

  Cheers! And hats off & many thanks to the incredible devs that breathe new life into my favorite machines!

Thanks :)


Thierry Atheist

Posts 644
20 Aug 2016 20:30


Mister Cartoonmonkey wrote:

I used to create animated films on the Amiga 1200 in the early 90's on a Blizzard 060 with 64 mb of ram...

I'm a little concerned that the Vampire 1200 might not be as fast as an 060 Blizzard in a program that bangs the custom graphics chipset like Deluxepaint... (Or even work at all with the Vampire's memory)

Hi Mister Cartoonmonkey,

"64 Megs"?

Are you aware that a standalone (no need for ANY old Amiga model to use it) is coming out?

It will have 1 gigabyte of RAM on board. And the RAM will be DDR2!

Also, it will do 1920*1080 output as well!

Built in OCS/ECS and AGA capability, and a "new and improved" SUPER-AGA upgrade will be in there as well.

The CPU is much much much faster, but so will the custom chipset be too!


Mister Cartoonmonkey

Posts 57
20 Aug 2016 20:50


(Is this TVP Thierry by any chance?) :-D

I meant MB not megs. I have heard, about the standalone Amiga, but do you have any links? Reference?

I hope it has built in joystick ports and midi. I'll be buying one of those too. :)



Thierry Atheist

Posts 644
20 Aug 2016 22:24


Mister Cartoonmonkey wrote:

(Is this TVP Thierry by any chance?) :-D

Hi Mister Cartoonmonkey,

Sorry, but I don't know what "TVP" refers to.

Mister Cartoonmonkey wrote:
I meant MB not megs.

Sorry for any confusion, I meant "MegaBytes" too.
Mister Cartoonmonkey wrote:

I have heard, about the standalone Amiga, but do you have any links? Reference?

Look at Gunnar's posts #7 and #16.
CLICK HERE 
Mister Cartoonmonkey wrote:
I hope it has built in joystick ports and midi. I'll be buying one of those too. :)

It'll have USB, then you'd need a MIDI, oops, and a driver.

Alternatively, there's this:

EXTERNAL LINK 
... YIKES!


Alan Haynes

Posts 140
25 Aug 2016 15:21


Thierry Atheist wrote:

 
  Alternatively, there's this:
 
  EXTERNAL LINK 
  ... YIKES!

Looks like someone is trying to cash in before the new Stand Alone Vampire.

Bring it on Team Apollo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This might even get Nic Wilson of Sys Info fame to write an up to date version. I think he still lives in Toowoomba which is not far from me here. About 130klm away.

Alan from OZ
Cheers from Australia

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