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Michael Nurney

Posts 283
14 Jun 2016 19:43


I'm not sure if this is a bit cheeky but have any current Amiga devs bought these cards ? Nova coder springs instantly to mind..

His ports with RTG would open up new worlds to the Amiga.

Scummvm and dos box for example




Ulf Andersson

Posts 29
14 Jun 2016 21:07


There is a new RTG port of ScummVM made for the Apollo core/Vampire 2! .. :)


Michael Nurney

Posts 283
14 Jun 2016 22:14


yes I've seen that 1.18 ? I'm testing it out now :-)


Daniel Sevo

Posts 299
15 Jun 2016 22:37


michael nurney wrote:

I'm not sure if this is a bit cheeky but have any current Amiga devs bought these cards ? Nova coder springs instantly to mind..
 
  His ports with RTG would open up new worlds to the Amiga.
 
  Scummvm and dos box for example
 
 

Mike, half a year or so ago, Nova Coder unfortunately retired from Amiga programming, although I still think he is curious to see where this FPGA revolution goes. (I even think he sold his 80MHz 060 equipped A1200.)

Its a pity to lose a good programmer, but he is moving on to do other things in life, and I wish him luck in future.
Fortunately, he uploaded all of his sources to Aminet so other brave souls can continue his great work.

But you're right, it would be nice to sponsor some key devs with boards if it would help some development.


Michael Nurney

Posts 283
15 Jun 2016 22:44


yes i only recently saw that Novacoder had left the scene and thats a real shame , his ports needed cpu power and now we have it...


Cunn Pole

Posts 29
15 Jun 2016 22:51


He still posts on Amiga.org so there may be hope yet!


Michael Nurney

Posts 283
15 Jun 2016 23:01


i'll have a chat with him :-)


Thierry Atheist

Posts 644
16 Jun 2016 01:04


"Support for Daves" you say???

I proposed a while back, if some people felt that they could afford it, pay an extra 5% on top of the most expensive priced MASSIVELY powerful standalone motherboard that will be produced in the near future so that if 20 people did it, we could send one to none other than DAVE HAYNIE!!! (What a GREAT "stamp of approval" THAT would be, eh?)

Daniel Sevo wrote:

michael nurney wrote:

I'm not sure if this is a bit cheeky but have any current Amiga devs bought these cards ? Nova coder springs instantly to mind..

His ports with RTG would open up new worlds to the Amiga.

Scummvm and dos box for example

Mike, half a year or so ago, Nova Coder unfortunately retired from Amiga programming, although I still think he is curious to see where this FPGA revolution goes. (I even think he sold his 80MHz 060 equipped A1200.)


Know what I think?
I think that NovaCoder will come back, as the standalone Vampire (III?) will be totally undependant on old dodgy hardware and be THE FASTEST AGA and HIGHER graphics capable Amiga on the face of the planet!
michael nurney wrote:

Its a pity to lose a good programmer, but he is moving on to do other things in life, and I wish him luck in future.
Fortunately, he uploaded all of his sources to Aminet so other brave souls can continue his great work.

But you're right, it would be nice to sponsor some key devs with boards if it would help some development.


Sponsoring key devs is a definite desirable push that we should do.

I'm still very confident that people will want a TRULY "open yet simple" system to produce to their hearts content on. Sure Linux is "open" but it's a hideous tangle of dependencies and BLOAT just like win-dos is a complicated mess too, but in other ways.

We're all here because we know that AMIGA has NOT YET been explored to it's fullest potential!!!!


Michael Nurney

Posts 283
26 Mar 2017 11:50


I have spoke to Novacoder and he says he's not interested in the old Amiga hardware but the stand alone version would probably bring him back to the Amiga scene....


Mr Niding

Posts 459
26 Mar 2017 12:28


Yeah, noticed he showed some intrest in the Vampire thread on AW.net.
Would be great to have NovaCoder back in the "fold".


Ulf Andersson

Posts 29
26 Mar 2017 12:39


I met Dave Haynie at "Datastorm 2017" in gotenburg Sweden. He LOVES the work Apollo team are doing! He give his blessing to anything new that brings the amiga forward, new or old hardware. I was so starstruck by him that i almost shed a tear. Everyone gave him free beer :). 


Thierry Atheist

Posts 644
26 Mar 2017 14:33


Slowly but surely, the Amiga Checkmark is ticking all the boxes.
;-) :-D


Przemyslaw Tkaczyk

Posts 155
17 May 2017 12:35


Ulf Andersson wrote:

I met Dave Haynie at "Datastorm 2017" in gotenburg Sweden. He LOVES the work Apollo team are doing! He give his blessing to anything new that brings the amiga forward, new or old hardware. I was so starstruck by him that i almost shed a tear. Everyone gave him free beer :). 

<3


Vojin Vidanovic

Posts 770
24 May 2017 17:20



Coming back of Nova Coder is indeed a great news, reason more to have a standalone as soon as humanly possible and good enough to go public.

I hope he can grasp the understanding that current A500,A600,A2000 or A1000 :-) equipped with a Vampire is exactly a developers system.

I would donate 20$ to bounty for Vampire for him or a loan system scheme for current Vampirezided Classic (which needs to be what? Well kept A500 with Vampire and SD Card and a net solution?

A Vampire for a skilled coder is far more important then one for "I", so we can all have software that will (ab)use the Vampire.

While Vampire is revolutionary product, it has the same "Amiga curse" as our favoured OSs: no software to really prove it :-)

I would also opt for "systems of honour" in few years future:
community donation of full boards to all existing Amiga developers
with idea to give them a option to privately, or if market becomes large enough, publish reworked and upadted, and most important Vampire versions of any of their past, current or future software products.

List isnt big, I suppose legaly several entities exist, but as living entities Cineware, members of Hi-Torro team, Grasshoper software, Newtek and couple more companies or surviving individuals would do the treat.

On other news, VivA Amiga DVD is coming back from vapourware status, and maybe some extended or next Amiga movie should feature Vampire :-) So would enlist Zack even he was included in Amiga curse for some time, and maybe few more suggestions.

So devs first, celebrities second or third :-)


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