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Documentation about the Vampire hardware

Maprom Function

Chris T.

Posts 136
25 Feb 2017 22:02


Is it possible to map a kickrom 1.3 to start classic programs or games on DISKS, when the vampire is installed? AND is their a way to switch the 68080 to 68000 TEMPORARY?


Gunnar von Boehn
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 6207
27 Feb 2017 05:47


Chris T. wrote:

Is it possible to map a kickrom 1.3 to start classic programs or games on DISKS, when the vampire is installed? AND is their a way to switch the 68080 to 68000 TEMPORARY?

WHDLOAD is a pretty good solution for running old games.
With GOLD3 the Vtune tool does support the maprom option for any kick. This includes old AMIGA kick versions but also EmuTos (Atari) or AROS.




Peter Heginbotham

Posts 214
27 Feb 2017 11:10


Gold3 sound like it will have a lot of nice features.

Will the vampire specific amiga modules be available to download via the "Apollo Accelerators Public Wiki" for building a custom 3.9 rom

How will the maprom work in a pratical sense. Start-Sequence \ early vampire bootmenu to select ROMs file from SDCARD

 


Chris T.

Posts 136
27 Feb 2017 19:44


Thanks Gunnar...the feeling arise over and over again to use classic disks.-)Same thing with the sound of harddisks vs. noiseless CF/SD Cards or SSDs...it's a nostalgic factor. But great, if Gold3 will support that. But can be the Vampire easily deactivated? Would be a nice feature (just for the old games .-) for sure...so we all need only "The One" Machine/Amiga.


Michal Warzecha

Posts 209
28 Feb 2017 11:09


Probably vampire cannot be deactivated, until You find a way how to force Amiga to work without CPU :)
That's why turtle mode is created, to run some old stuff


Chris T.

Posts 136
28 Feb 2017 17:57


Yes,right. But to slow down to MC68000 speed at least.


Niclas A
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 219
28 Feb 2017 18:51


Chris T. wrote:

Yes,right. But to slow down to MC68000 speed at least.

That would be close to impossible.


Nixus Minimax

Posts 416
01 Mar 2017 06:11


Chris T. wrote:

Yes,right. But to slow down to MC68000 speed at least.

Turtle mode has approximately the speed of a stock A1200. That should be good enough to run badly programmed software for A500 to A1200.


Vincent Rivière

Posts 87
05 Mar 2017 00:37


Gunnar von Boehn wrote:
With GOLD3 the Vtune tool does support the maprom option for any kick. This includes old AMIGA kick versions but also EmuTos (Atari) or AROS.

Latest EmuTOS snapshot provides a special ROM optimized for Vampire. It will just work fine with upcoming MapROM feature of GOLD3 :-)


Chris T.

Posts 136
18 Mar 2018 19:29


Does anybody know, how I can use Maprom now with Gold2.8 and CoffinR49? Thanks in advance.


Renaud Schweingruber
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 378
18 Mar 2018 19:35


>C:VControl HELP


Chris T.

Posts 136
18 Mar 2018 19:48


Thank you!


Vojin Vidanovic
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Posts 1916/ 1
18 Mar 2018 21:47


Gunnar von Boehn wrote:

  WHDLOAD is a pretty good solution for running old games.
  With GOLD3 the Vtune tool does support the maprom option for any kick. This includes old AMIGA kick versions but also EmuTos (Atari) or AROS.
 

 
  A1200 is turtle compared to 080 >:-) WHDload is very nice solution and it has helped 030,040 and 060 users also. Its great its in development and slowly does support the Vamp.
 
  MapROM function seems great. I suppose it will greatly aid booting EmuTOS and AROS without creating complex versions of startup sequences :-) MacOS is covered under Coffin :-)
 
  Or is there any other idea how to solve the multiboot or will MapROM be enough in combination with Amiga boot menu (e.g AmiKit / Coffin / AROS / EmuTOS).

I suppose enabling booting from SDCard and real Vamp IDE with CORE3 will provide sufficient disk space and options.
 
  This seems to be trivia compared to other tasks, but yet would aid system usability, advertising as real 68k successor and every day life and experimentation.


Martin Soerensen

Posts 232
21 Mar 2018 10:45


How is the memory detected when using the maprom feature? I remember that you previously used a patched exec.library to add the Vampire memory but if one can use any ROM, then I guess you can no longer use that solution or do you also patch exec somehow with custom ROMs? Or do you use autoconfig?

I saw in the maprom demo video that even when booting with Kick 1.3, it still showed all 128MB fast mem in WB. I guess then you'd need to make ROM-specific solutions in regards to making the memory detectable as Atari is using other methods of detecting extra memory.

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