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Returning Amiga Users - Good News

Gregthe Canuck

Posts 274
24 Aug 2017 05:10



A recent posting on Amigaworld here: EXTERNAL LINK 
A user thinking about coming back to Amiga ... their interest sparked by the Vampire.

Nice work A=Team and V=Team... keep going!


Vojin Vidanovic

Posts 770
24 Aug 2017 09:38


Its always good to see crowd growing.
 
  More, children the marrier :-)
 
  Macka B - Children
  EXTERNAL LINK 
 
  I am not sure how Vampire as inspiration will fit AW.net discussion style.

Note the team appraisal:

" have been very much in tune with their philosophy of targeting the budget conscious market!"


Mr Niding

Posts 459
24 Aug 2017 12:06


Seems like the new poster is a grownup able to ignore all the noise on forums.

Which is a blessing.


David Wright

Posts 373
24 Aug 2017 16:20


Give them time.


Wawa T

Posts 695
24 Aug 2017 17:00


its fine that there are examples for people who register on forums being attracted by a particular option. it happens from time to time, due to apollo/vampire or aeon proposals and publicity, as well as people who discover aros (mostly on x86) or other follow-ups. an ocassional new user wont work wonders, nevertheless. whats more impoerant is a mindset update among existing users, to realize that for common good one should participate in a wider project rather than refrain to his own cave, which is of course most comfortable.


Szyk Cech

Posts 191
24 Aug 2017 17:41


I feel I can back only when stand alone will be selling and will have other name than Vampire.
Because I feel Vampire is just negation of the friendly Amiga name...


Roy Gillotti

Posts 517
24 Aug 2017 19:06


Szyk Cech wrote:

I feel I can back only when stand alone will be selling and will have other name than Vampire.
  Because I feel Vampire is just negation of the friendly Amiga name...

Not sure if they will drop that name it's kind of a brand now, but you can call it an Apollo-core enabled FPGA board if it makes you feel better.


Vojin Vidanovic

Posts 770
24 Aug 2017 20:45


Szyk Cech wrote:

I feel I can back only when stand alone will be selling and will have other name than Vampire.
  Because I feel Vampire is just negation of the friendly Amiga name...

Surely, it will be called Vampire Standalone.

Name origin?
Check Trivia :-)
CLICK HERE 
Its good to have you back.



M Rickan

Posts 177
25 Aug 2017 02:51


Roy Gillotti wrote:

  Not sure if they will drop that name it's kind of a brand now, but you can call it an Apollo-core enabled FPGA board if it makes you feel better.

Beyond the nomenclature, the fact remains that the Vampire is limited to being a fringe offering. And no, that's not a criticism.

But for a market that struggles to find sources of revenue, it's pretty obvious that a sanctioned, professionally marketed and supported Amiga retro system would be compelling.

I'm not suggesting that the technology is there yet and the effort would be unprecedented but the opportunity is certainly there and likely the interest.

For the first time in decades it will be possible to produce an Amiga that would appeal to the millions who originally discovered it.


Gregthe Canuck

Posts 274
25 Aug 2017 03:02


m rickan wrote:

But for a market that struggles to find sources of revenue, it's pretty obvious that a sanctioned, professionally marketed and supported Amiga retro system would be compelling.
 
I'm not suggesting that the technology is there yet and the effort would be unprecedented but the opportunity is certainly there and likely the interest.
 
For the first time in decades it will be possible to produce an Amiga that would appeal to the millions who originally discovered it.

The hardware has to exist before the software can take advantage of it. That is the uphill battle the Vampire project will likely face for a while.

With the V4 specs one can produce a very usable "retro" computer. The challenge going forward is improving both the operating system support and the applications.



Thierry Atheist

Posts 644
26 Aug 2017 11:26


gregthe canuck wrote:
With the V4 specs one can produce a very usable "retro" computer.

Hi gregthe canuck,

I'm going to lose very little sleep over what the Vampire can't do....

As far as "very usable" goes... All of the mundane things, the Vampire will have NO TROUBLE doing.

Set up SuperBase correctly and everything will be done LIGHTNING FAST... Making and searching collections of things you have, to-do lists, calendar schedules, accounting, drawing, playing audio, word processing, DTP, reading PDFs (newer PDF encoding might not be readable, not sure), all of that NO PROBLEM!

And now, with S-AGA, really long animations drawn with DPaint (various others) or Disney Animation Studio will be a breeze too!!!! ( EXTERNAL LINK Gosh darn it, I thought they open-sourced it!!)

On top of all that, the way things are going, we MAY even be able to get full screen MPEG2 playback!!!

So, we'll have limited 3D video game capability. I'm not that concerned about that either as I'm certain that as beautiful games as Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (PS1) calibre are possible to be made on this new system.... :-DDD

What we suffer the most from will be limited use of the internet. We should be able to at least watch low resolution videos on youtube, though. :-D

I'm as thrilled as a pig could be in wet mud!!!!


Kresimir Lukin

Posts 65
26 Aug 2017 11:34


I agree with Thierry,Internet usage with 512 MB will be very limited.
I hope that 1 GB version will be available.
Also in future good thing will be if just a socket will be provided and that we can choose how much memory will buy, like in PC world.
At least for standalone.


Mr Niding

Posts 459
26 Aug 2017 13:05


These days, the only thing I use the internet for is;

-Emails (hotmail/gmail)
-Scheduling of work within the company thru a webpage
-Alot of streaming from youtube to watch documentaries and news.
In particular political history AND current events (severe newsjunkie checking in).
With news, I dont really need great resolution, as long as I got decent soundquality.

I realise that 512MB is a bit limiting, but Id say there is alot of improvements to be done on the browserside utilizing AMMX for encoding etc, before the memoryissue becomes the main hurdle.

I would be all for donation to arti if thats whats needed for him to accelerate improvements to Netsurf, but I assume between reallife, work etc its hard to find time for these things, bounty or not.

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