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Work In Progress : AGA Integrationpage  1 2 3 4 5 

Simo Koivukoski
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 601
02 Jul 2017 09:28


GOLD3 bring-up - Slam Tilt AGA
 

 
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An Amiga 600 with the Vampire 600 V2 accelerator board. Audio and video are played through DIGITAL-VIDEO.


Niclas A
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 219
02 Jul 2017 12:00


Effin excellent!
But this game does not favor the scanlines. Strange as i think it have look ok on all other games shown so far.


Thomas Blatt

Posts 200
02 Jul 2017 13:25


Amazing!!!My favorite AGA game. Can't wait die Gold3


Thomas Blatt

Posts 200
02 Jul 2017 19:17


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Eric Gus

Posts 477
03 Jul 2017 05:29


Niclas A wrote:

Effin excellent!
  But this game does not favor the scanlines. Strange as i think it have look ok on all other games shown so far.

Hopefully we can select scan lines on the fly for these cases (or for folks like me who just dont like fake ones)


Martin Soerensen

Posts 232
03 Jul 2017 14:14


eric gus wrote:
Hopefully we can select scan lines on the fly for these cases (or for folks like me who just dont like fake ones)
 

Yes, some way of configuring the scanlines as a WHDLoad tooltype would be handy. :)

But the videos are very impressive nonetheless. It seems like it  is maturing very nicely.


Simo Koivukoski
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 601
03 Jul 2017 19:59


AGA comparison: Amiga 1200/030@42 vs Vampire 600 V2/GOLD3
 

 
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Saladriel Amrael

Posts 166
04 Jul 2017 08:06


Very nice!
  Is it me or the color output is very different between the A1200 and Vampire?

Vampuire seems to give more solid colors, while A1200 seem to be watered down


Simo Koivukoski
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 601
04 Jul 2017 08:12


I use two different capture cards, one is for the Amiga's RGB signal and another one is for the Vampire's DIGITAL-VIDEO signal. These are not processed RAW captures, so color difference comes from this.


Saladriel Amrael

Posts 166
04 Jul 2017 08:29


Uh, ok! Thanx


Eric Gus

Posts 477
05 Jul 2017 07:40


Saladriel Amrael wrote:

Very nice!
  Is it me or the color output is very different between the A1200 and Vampire?
 
  Vampuire seems to give more solid colors, while A1200 seem to be watered down

I also wonder how much brighter and sharper the Vampire image would be if the fake scan lines were turned off.. seems to dim the image quite a bit..


Simo Koivukoski
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 601
05 Jul 2017 08:24


eric gus wrote:
I also wonder how much brighter and sharper the Vampire image would be if the fake scan lines were turned off.. seems to dim the image quite a bit..

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E Penguin

Posts 46
05 Jul 2017 13:19


Personally I prefer without the scan lines.


Pedro Cotter
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 308
05 Jul 2017 16:05


DO you like Wagner?

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Stefano Briccolani

Posts 586
05 Jul 2017 17:05


AWESOME!!!


John Heritage

Posts 111
06 Jul 2017 00:09


Does the AGA Integration negate the need for 2MB Of chipram to run AGA software?  How about ECS?

(I have a NTSC Rev 5 ..  512KB On board, and the 512KB trapdoor expansion which I know can be used as chipram with the right chips/wiring.  Getting to 2MB though really isn't feasible :( ).  CLICK HERE


Johannes Schäfer

Posts 47
06 Jul 2017 01:26


John Heritage wrote:

Does the AGA Integration negate the need for 2MB Of chipram to run AGA software?  How about ECS?
 
  (I have a NTSC Rev 5 ..  512KB On board, and the 512KB trapdoor expansion which I know can be used as chipram with the right chips/wiring.  Getting to 2MB though really isn't feasible :( ).  CLICK HERE 

The integration of AgA within the Vampire inheret that the chipset now offer you more CHIP Ram. In the test core there had been shown 4MB Chip Ram. This kind of chip ram is within the Vampire and will be used when displaying everything (ECS/AGA/RTG/SAGA) through DIGITAL-VIDEO.


Eric Gus

Posts 477
06 Jul 2017 06:04


Simo Koivukoski wrote:

eric gus wrote:
I also wonder how much brighter and sharper the Vampire image would be if the fake scan lines were turned off.. seems to dim the image quite a bit..
 

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Thanks..! IMHO it looks much nicer without them..


Eric Gus

Posts 477
06 Jul 2017 06:08


Johannes Schäfer wrote:

John Heritage wrote:

  Does the AGA Integration negate the need for 2MB Of chipram to run AGA software?  How about ECS?
 
  (I have a NTSC Rev 5 ..  512KB On board, and the 512KB trapdoor expansion which I know can be used as chipram with the right chips/wiring.  Getting to 2MB though really isn't feasible :( ).  CLICK HERE 

 
  The integration of AgA within the Vampire inheret that the chipset now offer you more CHIP Ram. In the test core there had been shown 4MB Chip Ram. This kind of chip ram is within the Vampire and will be used when displaying everything (ECS/AGA/RTG/SAGA) through DIGITAL-VIDEO.

Honestly its this stuff eg more chipram / aga / rtg / DIGITAL-VIDEO that excites me the most about the vampire.. the CPU stuff is nice but to me, this is going to make the biggest impact personally. Just amazing my old OCS 512kb A500 (stuck with NTSC) will now have so much more capability/flexibility.


Roman S.

Posts 149
07 Jul 2017 11:20


One question: why 4 MB of chip RAM, not 6 MB? (I understand the 8 MB would block the PCMCIA on A600 or A1200)

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