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Workench On Vampire GFX OUT

Gunnar von Boehn
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 6207
28 Dec 2015 21:21


Some screenshot showing Workbench on Vampire
 


Niclas A
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 219
28 Dec 2015 22:39


Do i spot maybe 800x600 res and 16 bit ?!?

F**ing amazing progress!


Simo Koivukoski
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 601
28 Dec 2015 23:42


Video = Digital output / Audio = Delfina Flipper
 
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Olaf Schoenweiss

Posts 690
29 Dec 2015 10:24


Gunnar von Boehn wrote:

Some screenshot showing Workbench on Vampire
 

any news regarding Aros 68k?

I will try to be in chat today


Niclas A
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 219
29 Dec 2015 10:26


F A N T A S T I C ! ! !


Tango One

Posts 102
29 Dec 2015 12:55


amazing


Simo Koivukoski
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 601
30 Dec 2015 14:44


Playing video with RiVA - 68k MPEG Player. Note that our digitalvideo output driver is in very early stage atm!
 
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Ole Eitels

Posts 21
30 Dec 2015 14:52


That is pretty frigging awesome! Well done.

How does these new screen modes work with software launched through Whdload and non-wb software?

As soon as the A1200 version of this accelerator is available, I'm gonna get one ;)

I'm also looking forward to a Natami-style stand-alone Amiga compatible based on this development.




Simo Koivukoski
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 601
31 Dec 2015 14:29


Quick screenmode test with Vampire 600 V2b - developer card's digital video output.
   
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Simo Koivukoski
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 601
31 Dec 2015 18:27


ADoom on AMIGA 600 RTG 800x600

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Thierry Atheist

Posts 644
31 Dec 2015 20:23


WOW, just WOW!!!!

I remember this on a 33 MHz 386, and this is about (seems) 35% faster, and you also needed a Voodoo 3 I think. It was most likely, though, running in 640*480, while this is in 800*600, right?

I hate to nitpick, but, and it's apples/oranges comparison deal, but it IS a 68060 @ ~70-80 MHz performance vs. 33 MHz 386.... right?

What I'm not clear on (and MAGIC is an acceptable reply) is the picture coming from the ECS on the Amiga 600 motherboard, or ECS emulated by the FPGA???

Anyhow HAPPY NEW (& oh so VERY PROSPEROUS) YEAR to you all!!!!!

(Can't WAIT FOR A STANDALONE VERSION!!!!!!)


Gunnar von Boehn
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 6207
31 Dec 2015 20:36


Thierry Atheist wrote:

What I'm not clear on (and MAGIC is an acceptable reply) is the picture coming from the ECS on the Amiga 600 motherboard, or ECS emulated by the FPGA???

The GFX comes from the Super-AGA chipset which is inside the FPGA.
For example the MPEG video is played on a 65.000 color screen.


Thierry Atheist

Posts 644
31 Dec 2015 20:45


AWESOME EXCELLENTE GUNNAR!!!!

I've misunderstood the state of the project to this point. I thought that you guys were still working out emulating the 68060 CPU and ECS, which is relatively easy compared to the S-AGA Amiga chips.

I can't understand what held you back in the NatAmi project, when this seems to have just "arrived" so quickly from when the other project was abandoned*!

Anyhow, as I've said, I plan on getting 3 of these FANTASTIC mechanisms when they become available!!!

* NatAmi being abandoned for reasons that I have no idea what they were.


Simo Koivukoski
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 601
02 Jan 2016 13:07


Another run with RiVA - 68k MPEG Player.
This time video is in 352x288 resolution.
 
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Niclas A
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 219
02 Jan 2016 13:24


Thierry Atheist wrote:

AWESOME EXCELLENTE GUNNAR!!!!
 
  I've misunderstood the state of the project to this point. I thought that you guys were still working out emulating the 68060 CPU and ECS, which is relatively easy compared to the S-AGA Amiga chips.
 
  * NatAmi being abandoned for reasons that I have no idea what they were.

Wow.. just wow. So making a fully piplined and modern cpu (which all said was impossible) is in your world easy compared to what took like 2 month to make... I think i can say that you still dont understand it :)

Biggest problem with Natami was that it was not cost effective. Wht it failed has been discussed by BigGun on both IRC and on the Natami forum.



Niclas A
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 219
02 Jan 2016 13:26


Simo Koivukoski wrote:

Another run with RiVA - 68k MPEG Player. This time video is in 352x288 resolution.
 
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Always nice to see more videos. Excellent choice of music in all videos too :D



Simo Koivukoski
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 601
02 Jan 2016 23:04


A little video collection:

      Yet another RiVA - 68k MPEG Player test with a fev movie clips:
       
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      Music vids:
       
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      Quick water ripple effect test:
       
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      RiVA version for Vampire:
     
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      VICE C64 emulator:
 
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