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Brian Robotham
Posts 52
04 Nov 2016 23:31
| Mo Retro wrote:
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look at the red light, it is a small board, you can see the zig zag trace of the antanna
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Mo Retro
Posts 241
05 Nov 2016 11:58
| Brian Robotham wrote:
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Mo Retro wrote:
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I'm trying very hard to look for it, but can't locate it :D
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look at the red light, it is a small board, you can see the zig zag trace of the antanna
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Thanks Brian i've located it ;)
On the left of the JTAG and above the DIGITAL-VIDEO connector.
That's very good news.:D Does this mean that we will see also a A600 Vampire 2+.
Will this expansion header available on the A1200 Vampire 2 and Standalone?
Is this exansion header a standard one?
What else can be plugged in there? All the best,
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Nixus Minimax
Posts 416
05 Nov 2016 14:40
| Mo Retro wrote:
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That would be possible but then the a600 can have wifi via pcmcia without any problems.
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Roman S.
Posts 149
05 Nov 2016 15:32
| The WiFi via PCMCIA is not a good solution:
- you are forced to use aging cards (manufactured long time ago); will you be able to find such a card a year from now, if needed?
- only some of them support WPA2
- they can't use 5 GHz networks (serious turn off for me; my home network runs at 5 GHz; the 2.4 GHz band is really crowded here)
- they are only partially within the computer case, large part of the (ugly) card is sticking outside
- the A1200 crashes if during startup the card is in the slot (you have to install a HW patch or use a custom Kickstart to go around this), or constantly reinsert/eject the card, wearing the slot
- we have just one PCMCIA slot, some of us would prefer to use it for something different, line a Compact Flash card reader
Modern WiFi chip inside the Amiga case is a way better approach.
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Ian Parsons
Posts 230
05 Nov 2016 16:32
| I imagine designing a new V600 isn't a high priority with so many other things to do and the V600 having already gone through several iterations before main production. The IO expansion header is expected to be included on the V1200 and stand alone from what I've read. When the other work has been done maybe the team will choose to revisit the V600. Until then there seem to be reasonable supplies of PCMCIA network cards still available.
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Mo Retro
Posts 241
05 Nov 2016 21:40
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I imagine designing a new V600 isn't a high priority with so many other things to do and the V600 having already gone through several iterations before main production. The IO expansion header is expected to be included on the V1200 and stand alone from what I've read. When the other work has been done maybe the team will choose to revisit the V600. Until then there seem to be reasonable supplies of PCMCIA network cards still available.
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OK but we need then a multifunction PCCARD with SD, WIFI, USB on it ;)
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Michael Nurney
Posts 283
06 Nov 2016 16:16
| Truly awesome, this is possible the best Amiga news ever...since the Commodore days anyway :) Brilliant :)
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Mo Retro
Posts 241
06 Nov 2016 17:58
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Brian Robotham wrote:
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Mo Retro wrote:
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I'm trying very hard to look for it, but can't locate it :D
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look at the red light, it is a small board, you can see the zig zag trace of the antanna
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Thanks Brian i've located it ;)
On the left of the JTAG and above the DIGITAL-VIDEO connector.
That's very good news.:D
Does this mean that we will see also a A600 Vampire 2+.
Will this expansion header available on the A1200 Vampire 2 and Standalone?
Is this exansion header a standard one?
What else can be plugged in there?
All the best,
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Anyone else from the Apollo Team who can answer my questions please?
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Documentation about the Vampire hardware