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Thierry Atheist

Posts 644
21 Sep 2016 01:28


Salteadorneo salteador wrote:

Anyway sure the team will be evaluating this solution.

There is also this alternative:
EXTERNAL LINK  EXTERNAL LINK 
Though I do not know how complicated it can be to use.

A greeting.


! THANK YOU ! THANK YOU ! THANK YOU !

EVERYBODY SHOULD LOOK AT THOSE PAGES...

especially one of the "features" bubbles* on the second link!!!!
(* on page 4)


Alan Haynes

Posts 140
21 Sep 2016 04:20


Hi Thierry,

I read that brochure and did you see one of the features on page 9:
No minimum order
I wonder what the cost is per unit.
Any way I asked Majsta if the Vampire 2 a500 was a black edition.
He replied that he had not tested it against higher clock speeds but did not see why it shouldn't work.
This leads to: How does one change the clock speed?

Looks like we are nearly there with the Vampire 2 a500


Thierry Atheist

Posts 644
21 Sep 2016 08:29


Alan Haynes wrote:

Hi Thierry,

I read that brochure and did you see one of the features on page 9:
No minimum order

YES YES YES Alan!!!

I saw it on page 4 in a "bubble", though! (I didn't read the whole brochure, it's also, as you say, on page 9 too.)

I'll BUY IT!!!!!

Did you know, I paid something like $400 to $500 dollars for a custom made 1 Gigabyte RAM simm chip for my Amiga One XE/SE in ~2005? (I bought another one about a year later to max out at 2 Gigs.)

Heck, I would pay $1,200.oo Canadian for the standalone Apollo Core'd AMIGA!

It's NOT a question of "how much is it?", but rather, "can I raise that much money?"


Roman S.

Posts 149
21 Sep 2016 18:57


Alan Haynes wrote:
I would think that ASIC would be at least 2 and possibly 3 years away if ever. Let us encourage them and wait and see what they come up with.

Idea: don't put the whole Amiga into ASIC - put there just the Apollo 68080 CPU! Two reasons:

1. Look at the UAE development - after all these years, Toni is still fixig the OCS/ECS/AGA emulation from time to time! The CPU emulation (especially the no-JIT) seems to have much less bugs / unimplemented quirks. I expect the Vampire will go the same way - few years from now the CPU implementation will be much less problematic (possibly as close to bugfree as one can reasonably expect). And once we have ASIC, it's over, no more fixes until we have cash for a new ASIC.

2. Amiga-on-a-chip is interesting for amigans ONLY. Fast and compatible 68k CPU is interesting for Amiga fans, Atari St/TT/Falcon fans, maybe Sam Coupe fans, maybe for MacOS classic fans, and no one can tell for sure who else can find this chip interesting. If the team plays it right, it might be easier to get the required money, especially thanks to the 'big' Atari fans.

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