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That was a fantastic presentation and thanks to Manuel and Bill for the kind mention of my Checkmate A1500 Plus case project.

It is going to be hard to wait for the A1200 v4. Really looking forward to it.

The vampire for the A1200 will be the most important accelerator card in all of humankind's history.

Awesomes :) so glad A600 version coming back into production. Great presentation on all things vampire, and nice mention of new case.

You made a perfect relaxing video to watch Bill.

Great work all. Following the development of this closely. Was excited by the boards for the A500/600, but even more excited now about the prospect of a standalone board. Haven't had an Amiga in over 16 years, but getting itchy for one again now.

Exciting stuff. I'm gonna jump on the Vampire 4 once it becomes a real thing. Let's hope it's sooner rather than later. :) Love these types of talks by the way! Great-looking video too, very sharp. Can't wait for part 2.. :)

Thanks a lot for the upload. Hats off to the team : amazing work, really.

Well done on the sound!

Good job boys!!

This was a great talk! Big props to Manuel for giving an awesome presentation and being a really nice guy as well! Side note: Manuel was on Amiten TV very recently and was telling Johnny and Maddi about the talk! He enjoyed giving it a lot, and Johnny and Maddi wished that they could've been there with us! Maybe next time we have a presentation like this, should set up a laptop with Skype and a webcam, invite them on, and let them watch us live!

This was very interesting, look forward to part 2 :-D

Excellent vid guys!

I just caught up. Bill this is such a brilliant video! I was wondering what future goals they have for this. It would be cool to see Amigas being used next to PCs just for general use. Such passion. It's crazy cool

great vid looking forward to part 2

Every video is a joy, thank you very much!

Really enjoyed this video guys, looking forward to part 2!

V1200 is what I am waiting for.

Terrific information! I hope they get to the point they are just in-stock when you want one. :-)

Great video, and talking of Manuel.

This is wonderful to see!

fantastic stuff good for all Amiga lovers

Very interesting! I sold my accelerator card for my 1200, to put cash towards and now waiting for the v4 to come out.

Great video (as always)! I am looking forward to the stand alone V4 to pretty much try & replace my upgraded A1200, although I wish they had included a header for a floppy drive.

Great video, guys! Guru meditation quality seal..

The way this guy talks about hardware, I thought he was part of the hardware/design team as well but he mostly just handles graphic design. Great video though with some interesting stuff. I have never owned a Commodore product but I have always been interested in the older computers I never had a chance to try out when I was a kid.

This is great stuff! Good job Manny and Apollo. Yes, it would be nice if we had this in 1999. Instead we got a lot of bogus vaporware. Remember the Neila Phase 498? (Alien BoXer) Anti-gravity offered preorder discounts and took people's money, though they had no new Amiga to deliver. I lost $2000 I could use today to buy one of these.

Great video! :D

Great video

Very good!

Looking forward to the A1200 version... just need to get a new PSU and mouse for my A1200.

I still own my A1200 along with a blizzard 1230/scsi. I put it in the attic about 20 years ago...if you do a PCB that either needs the A1200 mainboard, or even a replacement, where i just need the A1200 case and put your card into and it recognise the keyboard right...then i gonna buy it. My A500 is gone as well as my A2000 due to space problems, but i had so much fun with the A1200 and the AA gfx...so i kept it, over the years.

Those insanely high prices of Blizzard accelerators will hopefully get more reasonable with some competition.

I'd like to drop this into my old dusty Amiga 1000... :)

The talk about cases. I wish they look at the reproduction A1200 cases that are now available. It would be nice to put a standalone V4 system into the new A1200 case.

Vampires haven't been this sexy since "Interview with a Vampire".

did you consider doing a x68000 implementation aswell?

I'm still hoping for a 4000 version. As it seems there won't be one, that the stand alone version is what I will have to go for. There's a bit of mixed messages about this. For me I want a card that fully integrates with my original hardware and the zorro cards I already have in it as well as using the built-in features of the card. If that makes any sense.

Thanks guys I enjoyed the presentation. I thought Manuel Jesus was very impressive. It would be nice to see an off the shelf Amiga at some point something like the SNES mini ? Everyone talks about AAA but Commodore had scraped this chip-set as it was to expensive/slow in favour of Amiga Hombre 64 bit chipset from Dr Ed Hepler.

I wonder if some aspects of the Hombre chipset are worth adding in later revisions.

Great presentation and a top development but my question is : Will a V4 fit in an A3000 ? Not much info on the internet concerning a Vampire and an A3000..

so why is the FPU not a part of the 68080 like it is in the 68040 ? the point of being in the CPU and not a stand alone FPU is that its faster

why did they go for IDE instead of SATA?

Am watching this video one year after it was uploaded and went to the Apollo accelerators web site and there is no mention of the V4 as a product. The only products featured are Vampire 600 V2 and Vampire 500 V2+. What happened, did the V4 effort crash and burn? (A standalone retro Amiga-like computer board is really going to be the only product that matters going forward.)

that was awesome. next time you get to another event like that any chance you get get some of our questions in advanced and ask the speakers? i would love to know if someone will be building something for the Amiga CD32 like the SX-32 expansion port, seem's to be getting left out lol

So the standalone runs a 68080 Amiga on a bare FPGA board?

Could that stand alone version be fitted to a cd32 case?.

Wish that the audio didn't go via HDMI and it would come with a regular 3.5 mm audio plug instead, i'm already having a hard time figuring out where to get a splitter so i can get sound out to my speakers from my C64 Mini. Everyone does not have a TV and my monitor do not have speakers...

Very interesting! I have to get a standalone Vampire. :-D :-D :-D

Part 2 . . . hurry up will ya!

Part 2?

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isnt this just an fpga that just uses the keyboard and inputs? so not using the amiga as such

Majsta, it easier to read Maysta, a hardware guru!

"..fastest on the market, no-one can even attempt to get close to [the vampire]". With all respect this is a fact with some modifications. Emulation no longer works like stated in this video; we fixed this for ARM during the spring of 2018 for cheap, off the shelves SBC's. This means that the Amibian build for ARM, which covers the Raspberry PI, the Tinkerboard and the ODroid presently, has a completely re-written core and it balances muscle-power between the cpu and chipset in a more natural way. This means the benchmarks finally reflect reality and that the cpu is no-longer the number one priority of UAE. Its even multi-threaded now, which is a huge thing. So as of writing (24.06.2018) a $35 Raspberry PI 3b (not to mention the 3b+) runs rings around the vampire. Im not writing this to be a jerk or anything, just saying that things have changed in the world of Amiga emulation, which deserves some attention. I love the vampire just to say that. Its probably the most exciting product since the original Amiga. Far more interesting than the next-gen alternatives. So absolutely no bashing from my corner on the spectacular Vampire. But for people on a budget who dont have the money to get a vampire, or who just recently have come back to the Amiga after decades in the PC world -- A Raspberry PI 3b+ in a good case with safe shutdown mechanism, will set you back roughly $80-$100 depending on your location. Which in my view is more cost effective. If you have a real Amiga and want to upgrade that, which ultimately is what the vampire is about, then naturally the vampire is the way to go. And personally I cant wait to see the performance of the stand-alone model :)

He'd better be introducing the Vampyre for the A4000 :)

Love the part about feeding others LOL. To me, looking at my father and how much he spend for his Amiga collection, feels more like "we know the target is old people with plenty of money; we can charge you whatever we want". As someone who has a degree in marketing, I am well aware of how you drive the market based on target; so when I hear certain reasoning behind price, I just smile. It is totally fair to say "we make this, we ask whatever we want"; I just wish there was less "magic" in the wording used...Apple can do that because they did brainwash people, but from a community of enthusiasts (and I put myself in too, since I grew with my father A600 and A4000 as first computers, because he did banish anything Intel-based), it would be nicer to just say the things for how they are. I don't get the craze for original hardware, since I did not "have" one; but I get that nostalgia is 80% of the reasoning here; while I am totally fine to play the same games emulated on a RPI that cost 40 bucks. Although I can hear my dad yelling about cycle correctness and other quirks that you get only on the original.

This would be the fastest mac ever!

Where is Part 2 ??

I hate to be a devil's advocate here, but seeing that the vampire runs the 32 bit TOS, why not also release this beast for the Atari ST. The big kicker here is to not completely replace all Amiga hardware, but to provide a fast CPU with extra ram. Like the Amiga, there are a pile of ST enthusiasts out there that would love this machine. I own several Amiga's, but also some Atari's as well...just a thought. Also, regarding running Neo Geo emulator and such...who cares? You can run these on $50 products these days, I viewed the Vampire as the ultimate ability to run Amiga things, properly and at full speed.

"The v2 is an accelerator card you can get now" I wish !

....and now we already have FPU + AGA. This shit is fast.

Nice presentation. Priority one (in my eyes/book) should have always been getting RGB/classic video modes all out of the HDMI port....AGA can come later. Having to swap between HDMI for the RTG mode and the Amiga legacy RGB mode (or have two displays connected to one Amiga!) just sucks. It REALLY sucks. I have to once again emphasize how much that SUCKS. Ok, I'm done. Please work on getting this working!

No problem with paying a decent price for a decent product, all the people whining about the price should shut up already, for the Amiga to have a future the devs need to pay the bills.

Dude this was legit amazing. Found you via Twitter and am enjoying your videos -- subbed! Would love for you to check us out too if you have time. Keep up the good work!

The problem with Amiga today is that there is barely anyone developing software for it, the newer hardware developed for it, is ridiculously overpriced and at least 12 to 20 years out of date when compared to modern PC systems of today. Playing a few really old games at a faster frame rate....is hardly cutting edge. Until the Amiga is capable of running even fairly old games like Bad Company 2 or even Battlefield 3 at a least 1080p within the next 5 years...I think the interest in Amiga will just fizzle out...and be another, ''We tried but failed"....ala Escom... scenario. Amigas are retro items, you can't reinvent time, when time itself has moved on. Even I'm running a quadcore I7 920 PC System ( 4 core / 8 thread) at 3.56 Ghz / 16 gigs of RAM from 2009, yet will beat any Amiga, even the latest ones that cost twice what I paid to build my own to death in performance stakes.

Embarrassed you should be that you think we were only playing games on this thing in Europe. Commodore UK outlasted commodore USA by far. Lol. Get a grip vampire guys. Get your head out! Explains a lot a lot about why amiga died. Laughable

What i find troubling about these products in general is that they simply do not seem to be designed for people who actually "enjoy" old hardware. Nothing about them is authentic. The fact that you do not actually require an Amiga of any kind is telling to me. No real chips are used and functions of the Amiga are taken over and replaced by something artificial and unreal. This really is the Amiga-haters version of an Amiga. How much of the system can you replace and make completely redundant before it isn't the original system anymore? How is this ACTUALLY better than using emulation?

Great to see this happening, it's only 18+ years to late, and i wish the Amiga Vampire Accelerators had SATA 3 and a OCS or ECS or AGA upgrade, that the Amiga Vampire Accelerators also had his own GPU add on. And do the Amiga CD32 also get a Amiga Vampire Accelerator?

Part 2 ?