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APOLLO-CORE Release GOLD 2.7 Coming Soonpage  1 2 3 4 

John Mautz

Posts 35
21 Aug 2017 16:43


Is 2.5 an official Core?  It is not on the Wiki site and some my not have moved to it for that reason.  If 2.7 is treated the same there may be the same issue.

Happy for the progress on v4.


Niclas A
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 219
21 Aug 2017 17:44


John Mautz wrote:

Is 2.5 an official Core?  It is not on the Wiki site and some my not have moved to it for that reason.  If 2.7 is treated the same there may be the same issue.
 
  Happy for the progress on v4.

It's an official Beta core.


Thierry Atheist

Posts 644
21 Aug 2017 21:03


Simo Koivukoski wrote:
Video is from V2. Both, V2 and V4, will start from Gold 2.7 (RTG) level and go together to the Gold 3 (RTG+AGA). We will also offer "rangermem" REMUS module which is for Vampire's fastram.

Hi Simo,
I've never seen mention of this before...

Is this REMUS?

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Otherwise, what's it do?


Simo Koivukoski
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 601
21 Aug 2017 21:33


@Thierry Atheist. I recommend to check nice guide/blog how to create custom kickstarts by mfilos. REMUS is not a Vampire specific thing, but a general Amiga stuff.


Peter Heginbotham

Posts 214
21 Aug 2017 21:55


I belive its this:
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What about the other updated modules?




Thierry Atheist

Posts 644
21 Aug 2017 22:03


Thanks very much Simo and Peter.

It's simply AMAZING how much scrutiny has been applied to the innards (all things) of AMIGA!!!!!

The LAST *personal* computer!!!!


Simo Koivukoski
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 601
21 Aug 2017 22:09


@Peter. Maybe VampireSupport and RangerMem modules, but I can not confirm yet. TBA


Roman S.

Posts 149
22 Aug 2017 19:30


@Simo, how much space will we have for the MapROM function? Will it be possible to have a 1 MB kickstart? Or maybe even something bigger?


Simo Koivukoski
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 601
22 Aug 2017 20:39


MapROM supports 256kt, 512kt and 1MB ROMs. ATM 1MB ROM has almost half of the space left with the all stuff in.


Vojin Vidanovic

Posts 770
22 Aug 2017 20:44


Simo Koivukoski wrote:

  MapROM supports 256kt, 512kt and 1MB ROMs. ATM 1MB ROM has almost half of the space left with the all stuff in.
 

 
  Could VampireBoot,SDNet and some features added to VampireROM?
 
  Nice one can "map" whatever KS one needs.

Sounds like some new age MMU stuff >:-)


Simo Koivukoski
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 601
22 Aug 2017 21:24


SDNet is already in Gold2.5 kick. VampireBoot? You mean boot from micro SD card? For that you might want to ask from "heiroglyph" if he will find time to finish drivers (or someone else). Anyway, we are almost done and time window is too small before the 2.7 release.
 
Actually mapped KICK ROM is already protected by 080 MPU.
 


Henryk Richter
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 128/ 1
22 Aug 2017 21:39


Vojin Vidanovic wrote:

  Could VampireBoot,SDNet and some features added to VampireROM?

The SDNet driver itself doesn't belong in Kick. It's a SANA-II driver that goes into DEVS:Networks/.

Since Gold 2.5, the kickrom has a prerequisite component (vampire.resource) for proper hardware arbitration of expansion ports and other Vampire features.


Vojin Vidanovic

Posts 770
22 Aug 2017 21:44


Simo Koivukoski wrote:

    SDNet is already in Gold2.5 kick. VampireBoot? You mean boot from micro SD card? For that you might want to ask from "heiroglyph" if he will find time to finish drivers (or someone else). Anyway, we are almost done and time window is too small before the 2.7 release.
   

   
    Nice to see some piece of software using MMU, just to break some amiga.org myths :-)
   
    Well, if you ask me, full blown acessability from both mouse button boot menu, or VampireBoot to manage SD Card/HDD partition booting would be nice feature. There are also LinuxMint FAT16/32 and AROS partitions to think of, beyond AOS/Amikit FPS/PFS.

Also SDNet/Ethernet Kickstart support for once for all, if possible.
 
  It would also be nice for IDE Catweasel mk2 to be supported for people that would love to add floppy to Standalone for sentiment and hardware protected "backups" :-)
 
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Henryk Richter wrote:

  The SDNet driver itself doesn't belong in Kick. It's a SANA-II driver that goes into DEVS:Networks/.
 
  Since Gold 2.5, the kickrom has a prerequisite component (vampire.resource) for proper hardware arbitration of expansion ports and other Vampire features.
 

 
  Nice. Couple of drivers and requisite components would be exactly what I believe should be in ROM. Hey 512KB space to waste :-)


Michael Nurney

Posts 283
23 Aug 2017 22:30


Will audio over hdmi be available anytime soon or is that something for a future update...

Thanks


E Penguin

Posts 46
24 Aug 2017 09:27


If it's in the kickstart you could netboot the Amiga. Might be useful for the inevitable Vampire4 super cluster ;)


Vojin Vidanovic

Posts 770
24 Aug 2017 09:54


michael nurney wrote:

  Will audio over hdmi be available anytime soon or is that something for a future update...
   
    Thanks
 

 
  Should be part of v3 core, if not released before.
 
  For v2 users and future v4 standalone
  AGA over DIGITAL-VIDEO is far more important, as eliminates second monitor.
 
  But yes, why not also audio over DIGITAL-VIDEO :-)
 
 
Daniel Lakey wrote:

  If it's in the kickstart you could netboot the Amiga. Might be useful for the inevitable Vampire4 super cluster ;)
 

 
  Well, would not dream of superclaster, some local LAN party maybe.
 
  But that netboot would be nice! Or enough stuff in ROM for minimal but functional CLI boot (boot with no startup sequence).


Simo Koivukoski
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 601
27 Aug 2017 19:25


NMI-Button Test With The Vampire 500 - A2000 CPU Slot Adapter

When WHDLoad is running NMI-button can fire-up HRTMon from the custom KickStartROM (Mapped with the VampireMapROM).

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Gunnar von Boehn
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 6207
01 Sep 2017 08:43


Playing with FEMU FPU on GOLD 2.7 alpha



Stefano Briccolani

Posts 586
01 Sep 2017 09:20


It seems to be a BIG improvement over Gold 2. Sysinfo 4.1beta20 on my vampire600 with gold2 and femu started report 0.30 Mflops. 2.23 is 7/8 times faster???


Andrea "Andry"

Posts 1
01 Sep 2017 12:46


Stefano Briccolani wrote:

It seems to be a BIG improvement over Gold 2. Sysinfo 4.1beta20 on my vampire600 with gold2 and femu started report 0.30 Mflops. 2.23 is 7/8 times faster???

Sysinfo 4.1beta20 ??? Is it available for download somewhere?


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