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Documentation about the Vampire hardware


Roy Gillotti

Posts 517
03 Jul 2020 22:42


So use your Raspberry Pi... For your A500 to have AGA output Gold 3 basically disables most of the Amiga original chipsets... that essentially turns your Amiga into a Vampire interface and not an Accelerator. So you may as well gut out your Amiga and put that RPi4 in there with a Keyrah. If you want to enjoy an Accelerated Classic Amiga with RTG, FPU and everything else that makes the Amiga still  an Amiga, I'd suggest just sticking with Gold 2.X


Nova Coder

Posts 27
04 Jul 2020 04:11


Yep I agree.

If you are just after a fast little hobby computer then use your Raspberry Pi and be happy :)

I don't see Raspberry Pi and Vampire as direct competitors for your dollar, Raspberry Pi is a general hobby computer that can do a bit of everything.




Thumptech 1

Posts 13
04 Jul 2020 04:37


I reckon Mister is the way to go.  Far more options for display outputs and far more going on in the community if you reach outside the amiga part of it.  I haven't seen anything exciting enough happen to justify switching my V600 on in over 2 years.  I do hope one day we see some revelation like an ASIC but that's wildly optimistic to say the least.


Sean Sk

Posts 488
04 Jul 2020 05:20


thumptech 1 wrote:

I haven't seen anything exciting enough happen to justify switching my V600 on in over 2 years.

 
I think the problem is that people get bored very quickly and are always looking for that next thing to come out to kickstart their interest again, only to find that the excitement doesn't last for very long and that it didn't really do much more than what they previously had. Sorry, but other than AGA, I don't see how all this other stuff is going to keep you interested for very much longer than what the V600 did.

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