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Apollo Team Announces the Vampire V4page  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 

Eric Gus

Posts 477
12 Aug 2017 02:31


Mallagan Bellator wrote:

 
  So in other words, the bus speed of the motherboard has no influense what so ever?
 

Its no longer used with CORE3 .. all those functions are transferred to the FPGA implementation of the custom chips.


Roy Gillotti

Posts 517
12 Aug 2017 16:50


V4 Mentioned in the latest Retro Hour Podcast.

YouTube video linked where it's mention:

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Michael Borrmann

Posts 140
12 Aug 2017 19:04


Just a quick question....
In the initial post it was written that the V4 will be able to be installed into an Amiga 1000. Is the original piggy back NTSC Model included in this?

thanks, greets,
Michael


Stefano Briccolani

Posts 586
12 Aug 2017 20:22


For standalone board why not make a deal with Philippe Lang and sell it in this vampire branded case/keycaps?
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Roy Gillotti

Posts 517
12 Aug 2017 20:35


Stefano Briccolani wrote:

For standalone board why not make a deal with Philippe Lang and sell it in this vampire branded case/keycaps?
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Fairly good idea, but still would require getting an original A1200 keyboard and something to convert the connector to that the standalone can use. Maybe the actual mechanical part of the keyboard will be the next unannounced product Phillippe Lang will be doing.


Stefano Briccolani

Posts 586
12 Aug 2017 20:41


Yes, a joint effort is necessary, but this would be the very best case for the standalone vampire (and is already branded)


Lorenzo Pistone

Posts 22
13 Aug 2017 17:54


What about the power supply for the standalone? A normal mobile phone charger will be enough or something different will be necessary?


Renaud Schweingruber
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 378
13 Aug 2017 20:26


Vampire V4 caught attention of mainstream international websites.
 
HardOCP :
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OSNews :
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TheRegister :
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Hexus :
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SlashDot :
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Przemyslaw Tkaczyk

Posts 155
13 Aug 2017 22:07


...and Kotaku:
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Saladriel Amrael

Posts 166
14 Aug 2017 07:29


Spotted this on Tom's HW Italy:

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Nadyr Nick

Posts 54
14 Aug 2017 12:55


I'm interested to buy two Vampire4 for two A4000. Will be available this model of Vampire in Q4’17 or later ? and Could I'll buy them in AmigaStore in Spain ?

thanks for the support


Mr-Z EdgeOfPanic

Posts 189
14 Aug 2017 19:03


On tweakers (very mainsteam dutch tech site)
 
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Mallagan Bellator

Posts 393
14 Aug 2017 23:34


I still wanna know if the V4 A1200 version will be connected to the normal accelerator card slot, or connect directly onto the cpu or whatever, like the V600.
And also if it will work with the Mediator


Renaud Schweingruber
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 378
15 Aug 2017 07:01


GameStar.de :
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Teemu Korvenpää

Posts 26
15 Aug 2017 07:30


finnish TIVI.fi

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Martin Soerensen

Posts 232
15 Aug 2017 08:36


Mallagan Bellator wrote:

I still wanna know if the V4 A1200 version will be connected to the normal accelerator card slot, or connect directly onto the cpu or whatever, like the V600.

It is not possible to connect anything directly to the CPU in the 1200 as it is not PLCC like the CPU in the 600. All the signals are present in the expansion slot so it makes sense that the V1200 will be located there.


Chris Dennett

Posts 67
16 Aug 2017 11:58


Correct, it is a CPU slot as opposed to a Zorro slot. With an adaptor you can get a Zorro slot/busboard out of it if desired. The A500 has a Zorro slot and a CPU slot (the ACA uses this, V500 connects on top of the CPU). I believe A600 just has a Zorro slot, but has exposed CPU legs.


Eric Gus

Posts 477
16 Aug 2017 20:17


Isn't there a problem locating those connectors in bulk? (I forget if its the A1200 or A3000/4000 CPU connectors that are hard to source now) ..


Mallagan Bellator

Posts 393
16 Aug 2017 23:12


eric gus wrote:

Isn't there a problem locating those connectors in bulk? (I forget if its the A1200 or A3000/4000 CPU connectors that are hard to source now) ..

It's the A1200 channel Z connector. The original manufacturer of those, stopped making them a very long time ago. Unfortunately, Commodore were stupid and didn't want a standard solution for their A1200 accelerators. Or they could have gone with Pci connectors, since they didn't really need all the pins on the Channel Z edge connector anyway


Rekrab Rek

Posts 3
21 Aug 2017 17:44


@Gunnar

Any more news about the Kippa A600 adapter that's required for the V4 as mentioned in the reveal PDF please?

Failing that, can you confirm that more A600 V2's will be produced if no adapter is made available?

Thank You

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