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Alex Cleak

Posts 21
05 Mar 2020 17:35

Is anything actually happening with the V2 cores at all? It's been an extremely long time since the gold 3 alpha and nothing apparently happening for existing installed userbase.


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05 Mar 2020 17:45

alex cleak wrote:

Is anything actually happening with the V2 cores at all? It's been an extremely long time since the gold 3 alpha and nothing apparently happening for existing installed userbase.

Hi Alex, I'm of the same mind, It's been well over a year since an update, although we have been spoiled with Amiga goodies lately, so i can't blame them.

I will give you the standard answers, before the naysayers come on, and quote it chapter and verse.

"No one was ever promised AGA"
"You Should have bought the card for the features it had at the time, not in the future"

this goes down and down, until it gets to ...

"You musn't trouble the Apollo team, they are very busy, and doing wonderful things, and don't have the time to answer your questions, you must be patient, they are god amongst men, please pick me as a tester!"

Seriously though, there hasn't been an update on anything in over 6 months, although i am loving my A1200, so I can't complain too much  :)


Marlon Beijer

Posts 182
08 Mar 2020 15:29

It's a small team, and focus is on gettin V4 standalone to an acceptable first official core. The V4 development has been taking longer than expected due to unforeseen circumstances at the beginning and now they're bug fixing and making it run as stable as possible.
 
  If they wouldn't focus on the V4 to get it to a first stable core, the V4 crowd would do the complaining instead.
 
  Once V4 has its first official stable core, the features that would be beneficial to v2 users will most likely be backported to Cyclone 3 FPGA and then I think development will continue side-by-side between v2 and v4 as things progress.
 
  v2 has been at stable state for some time now, so it hasn't been urgent to work on that, while v4 hasn't gotten there yet. So all we can do is to be patient.

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