Hi Huno,

Apollo team is landing Vampires on "to do basis"
If you have a Classic A500/A600/A2000 somewhere
and want to do some backports good coders are needed
CLICK HERE 
Sometime this year standalone Vampire is expected.

Downside of Vampire is no Warp3D now,
only RTG and very soon speeded up AGA but compatibile,
known since Natami days as SAGA.

It also requires personal setup of OS 3.9BB2 with patches,
but due to legal limits there isnt any software package.
Just few Vampire related tools and all is up to Classic user.

In time its likely 68k AROS will be its main OS
due to OS 3.x legal limits of no development possibilities
and 3D might come out of there.

Upside is it really generated interest and in non commerical ways
a lot of people started to revive 68k scene. Due to Classic community
size, there are few thousands users already, something NG community
can only dream of. Compatibility is sooo great out of box (currently OCS/RTG but soon AGA even on non AGA systems A500-A600-A2000-A1000 and A1200 edition is soon out) as well as solutions
to Classic bootlenecks. Only Internet remains on user, but

Basic info and discussion
CLICK HERE 
More mature presentation
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Wiki database compatibilty and tools
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Porting an 2D title might be far easier.

HUNOS ANSWER

Hello,
  First of all, I would like to thank you for your interest in my work for the Amiga.
  To answer your questions:
  Yes I have the whole range of CLASSICS Amiga commodore, on the other hand I do not have VAMPIRE and my current budget does not allow me to get one (purchase of an X5000 recently).
  Yes RTG I know very well that's where I made my first coding.
  Is Warp3D support planned ?? It will be much more interesting anyway and will open new doors to porting.
  In the end, what do you expect from me for the VAMPIRE ??
  Thank you for your answers
  PS: I went to see the forum, there are actually a lot of people who move.
  Good night
 
  A+
 
  Hunoppc
 
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Most updated versions as well as "warp3d nova" are PPC only but they are even not 100% compatibile with most used Warp3D in old software games, and needs a bit of patching when running old apps.
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    Problem in our Vampire is that it is for A500/A600/soon A1200 that cant attach it and gfx card or gfx cards are rare/expensive and we would like some 3D.
   
    So we need "Warp3D over AGA or by CPU". First existed for PPC sadly only and second exists as slower software emulation (also used in WinUAE, PPC amigas with no w3d compatibile gfx, whoever doesnt have a real gfx card) EXTERNAL LINK     
    Surely, best would be Vampire native w3d driver, but ... owner
    of w3d license is not aware of potential interest, not interested, not having manpower etc.
   
    Also having a w3d driver for chipset in Vampire FPGA would make a standalone with "integrated 3d gfx" so you wouldnt (initally) have to buy gfx card (if it is supposed to have PCI slots at all) - this is all distant future now, but its good to think of it.
 
  Sidenote: I see Vampire (current design) can be expanded. So W3d compatibile gfx card (e.g. emulating super fast Voodo chipset :-) would be a solution. Here might come Ethernet
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  Sidenote: seems WaZp3D is also able to use 68881 if present.So once we get 68881 compatibile FPU (next core release? :-) software emulation might get better
 
  There is a guide for UAE users, but relates to 68k executables
 
  "IMPORTANT Wazp3D is not perfect but it was good enough for me :-) This Wazp3D
  binary is intended to be used within a very fast 68040 AmigaOS (= UAE emulator
  with JIT like WinUAE) This Wazp3D binary is compiled for 68020/40-68881 (adjust
  your WinUAE settings) Also need "full screen RTG" & JIT both to be activated to
  obtain enough speed (also need picasso 96/cybergraphics and a 32 bits screen)
  Wazp3D is NOT an UAE hack and so (should) not depend on a particular UAE version
  But it only need much speed for his software rendering Some 3Dprogs need a big
  stack to be able to run without crash (glsokoban,etc...)"

The idea is to have a standardized 68k platform so that your software runs on all platforms without changes, be it vampire in amiga or standalone

adding graphic cards would break the concepts, even if you could add one who will develop drivers for it. It makes no real sense. What might be possible is to improve Thelliers Open Source implementation of Stormmesa with optimized asm routines specific for Apollo. Everything else is just wishful thinking, similar to the discusses if and when Amiga OS 3.1 will be open sourced or if Hyperion backports 4.X to 68k. People should accept the situation and I think it is not that bad at the moment. Warp3D was bought by A-eon and development also is financed by a-eon. We all know that Trevor is a big 4.X supporter and not that much interested in 68k stuff. I do not think that he would finance 68k port of Nova.

alains wazp3d is working as accelerated wrapper in winuae. similarly its been implemented in aros being wrapper to accelerated mesa. however its not up to date anymore and it had almost no sense on aros x86, as ther ie no software for it.

i dont think alain has time to share with us, even if you sponsored him wiat a free vampire. thats hao i perceive him. you want w3d, you have to find someone else to build upon his work.

Go for warp3d. I do understand your logic and agree with it,
but same people would buy something new for Classics and new for NGs and those who have just classics, just that. So its possible to have both markets where larger (Classic) finances the other.

Vampire gives them oportunity and target to example update PPaint to OS4 level at least and offer a OS3 product, Ehancer and W3D Nova too (except w3d nova was build for Radeon Southern Islands only).

I am ager to see what they will do with Octamed, Alladin
and ImageFX, PP wasnt much of my thing.If they would do advanced
OS3 ports would be great.

Thellier, pardon mon francais :-)
  Can you please contact him and see is he willing to share sources? His work is our last hope of 3D :-)

If someone is seriously interest in writing software for AMIGA but can not effort a Vampire then he/she can get into contact with us and we can talk about a loaner card.

Regarding 3D stuff I think its more sensible to focus on strong points  of the Vampire - which you can fully utilize today.
I would not focus on 3D coding today - you will be depending on beta cores from the CPU-team. Which creates dependencies and also stalls if you get no update core. This creates unneeded frustrations.
Better use the powers and features that are already released in stable cores.
 
 

I would MUCH rather have AMIGA based audio, rather than an audio card bolted on, and even though they have 1024 bit GPUs with 8 GB of DDR5, I would RATHER HAVE >AMIGA< based 3D hardware accelerated CHIP RAM solutions implemented.

Why? COMPATIBILITY!!!!!!!!

Rather than umpteen amounts of drivers for the crazy amounts of variable cards that could be used with the system... WHO'S GOING TO WRITE ALL THOSE, anyway?

Audio is in the works, SAGA is AGA/RTG compatibile, seems Warp3D will come via software emulation. Nothing to be upset, its going just as you say. Bigger FPGA, if they ever decided to do so, for standalone (meaning higher price also) could alliviate the video frequency prob, maybe accomodate some extras.

In my humble opinion what original Amiga concept yet needs is a 3D chip and it would be best to be some already old w3d compatibile one - in FPGA, onboard in PCI slot. Drivers do exist.
 
But that is just me. I ll drop the subject, its not on
developers list (yet). One day in future.

No need to yell (BIG LETTERS!) :-)

Btw, completely blacklisted by AW.net, no more pvt messages.

@Gunnar

I ve told Huno to apply for loan scheme via Apollo Accelerators contact form, hope its OK.

Are you sure? Maybe your PM inbox is full?

Oh, and, the Vampire order page, JUST CROSSED 2,500!!!!!

I know, I know, that page is probably not applicable anymore because sales will go through AmigaKit store in England from now on I suppose?

I predict, 7,000 to 8,000 Vampires sold by Dec. 2018!

P.S. Oooohhhhh, 3D custom chipRAM Amiga style GPU!!!!!!! :-D

Know who else "wants a Vampire"?

Dave Haynie, will probably get a Vampire too!!!

He said so on facebook!!!!!!

I was for celebrities to get it last :-)

Gunnar and friends made a 3D unit for the Natami. It's more likely that this will reappear in some future Vampire (certainly not the V2) than some off the shelf 3D chip. Until then 3D is the lowest of all priorities.