Happy do what little I can.

Thanks for all the support over the years Santi! Great folks like you are what keep us motivated to do this stuff

It is. I love all these new projects in the retro community

It is a sweet piece of gear!

Glad you liked it

Our pleasure I hope you learned something.

Glad you enjoyed it.

Thanks so much for the kind words DevilBunny. Yeah the Vampire can sure trigger some emotions! Keep up the great work over at Amigos. You guys rock!

It's polarising due to comments like this; 27:00 That's just... yeah, no, that machine isn't an Amiga 500 "running Doom AGA" anymore than running WinUAE on an ITX board inside a Amiga 500 shell, is.

I bet you don't know what LP is associated with the COMMODORE AMIGA A600?

Us too!

Thanks it was fun to share my time with this user group.

You are welcome! Just note that as you heard in the video there are no Amiga interlaced modes available through the Vampire HDMI output yet, but that is something they will address.

Thanks for the reminder, I missed that in the vid somehow.

My pleasure. I mentioned it but there is a lot of stuff in this video so it is easy to miss. It is just a point that stood out to me because I need my hi-res modes with all the work I do in DPaint and ADPro

Thanks so much Pete. Appreciate the support as always!

So good I watched it twice! :-) I am fortunate enough to be able to have backed Stephen Jones Checkmate 1500 kickstarter (I loved the live stream you hosted for that BTW, really enjoyed it), so I'll have a case coming next year in classic white... which is super sweet! The problem I have is, what do I put in it? I change my mind almost by the day LOL. After watching this, I am tempted to get a V4 for it. The issue is I have an A1200, and I haven't heard much about availability of the 1200 version other that it will probably be later than the 500 / 600 version? So i'm not sure it'll be ready in time?

If you get the standalone Vampire 4, you will have the FASTEST bootup Amiga in existence.... also, no interference of old, slow, possibly flaky hardware making it look like the Vampire is not working right, maybe.

Dis you spot the Commodore monitors in the back?

So much of the Amiga was well thought out and way ahead of it's time!

Thanks!

Thanks Amiga Bill is a pro

Thanks VincentGR! Love you man!

I think the stand alone Vampire will basically be a SBC Amiga. Ha ha! Yeah I suppose Vodka would help, or at least make me not care that my fingers don't work well anymore!

The Vampire 4 will have a model that is a standalone. They have made them already but are still fine tuning the code blueprint that recreates the AGA circuitry, and all the other features that the Apollo Core makes possible. This is THE AMIGA that we have been waiting for since 1995!!!! It is the LAST *personal* computer.

That would be brilliant...I'm sure the Gurus will cover its release, but please keep us posted.

Excellent comment, thank you. I totally agree about the CRT. I feel like connecting my Amiga to a modern flat panel is 1/2 way to emulation anyway. Whenever I exhibit at a computer show I always connect my Amiga to a classic CRT like a 1084s. That brings back the experience for me and looks the best. But I do think the Vampire is a great project and has its place as well - weather you want to put it in a real Amiga or just get the stand alone when it comes out.

@@TheGuruMeditation I purchased a new old stock Amiga 2000 a few years ago and used it with my 60 inch Panasonic plasma TV via RGB SCART, it looked glorious. I understand there was no RGB analog input on US Televisions so your experience today on modern plasma/LCD/DLP TVs is not going to be as nice. RGBa via SCART from any Amiga is not far off the quality of PC VGA input as far as low resolution screenmodes are concerned (non interlaced modes).

@@TheGuruMeditation A flat panel has absolutely nothing to do with emulation at all. It's just a display device.

@@thorham1346 You need to stop being so literal. A modern TV upscales the original image, which was might only be around 320x256 or 640x256 pixels, to match the monitor's native resolution. Otherwise you would have a tiny little picture in the middle of the screen. So by definition, the TV is taking the original signal and modifying it by inserting data that wasn't originally there. The TV is (automatically) emulating a low resolution display.

@@another3997 Upscaling isn't emulation.

No ATX cases but no doubt an adapter can be developed for 3d printing on thingiverse. I used a classic CDROM drive for this demo and modern day DVD drives didn't work. That is not to say modern day DVD Drives won't work if you have the right driver. The IDE 97fix software controls the CD-ROM access in this demo, you can use whatever cd driver you like. AGA in this demo is an alpha demo, in the final release AGA, Pamlea 16 bit audio, S-AGA (think RTG graphics with chunky modes) and FPUand 68080 with AMMX will all live in the FPGA. No plans for 603/604. The intent here is to use FPGA tech to eventually surpass PPC in every way as the designers of this project believe the 68K architecture to be a better design than PPC. So no PPC support planed or implied ever.

That is basically what the standalone version of this will be!

@@TheGuruMeditation that's what I want. Just throw in some Amiga keyboard stickers!

Nice! I wonder what the standalone will come with? I have a hunch it will just be the board, but you never know. There are some great options for it now with the A1200, A500, and Checkmate 1500 cases

What for? Get an ITX board and run WinUAE instead, it's faster, more reliable and a hell of a lot more accurate.

in this video kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bK6Ki7BnyLK6hZs.html it's said the best and fastest Amiga runs on a Raspberry Pi3 (U$45 with plastic case) using the emulator Amibien, tailored specifically for the Pie platform

Thanks

Thanks David!

Thanks for the info kmonyt!

Thanks Christopher

That is an excellent question. I was thinking the same when I was editing it. I didn't notice them at the meeting, but I was mostly looking through my camera so I wouldn't have noticed. Manny supplied me with the screen recordings from the Vampire so I will ask him. I THINK it may be the recording software he used because there was also a red flashing "REC" light in the upper left corner of the recording outside the picture area that I cropped out, but I am not 100% sure. I will ask him.

Yes scanlines are turned on and 4mb chip ram cores have been tested. More chip ram is possible

Thanks! Sounds like there are many options for the CD-ROM so I am sure you could find one that would work fairly easy

Sure... But I would lose out on the Single Speed Caddy-loading CDTV goodness!

So do I! I am very excited that there is so much happening in the Amiga community right now!

Thanks!

you need to inform all the insane hardcore amiga fans, like me, when you have something which i can buy for my A1200.... and please don´t listen to the "....naah i use UAE an a PC...blah..blah guys" they don´t have a working machine anyways anymore and just weep that they can´t use this great thing of art. :) #AmigaRulez!!

Thanks for clarifying Manny!

True, while planar is slower then chunky, it not so easy to do some effects like transparency, and multi layered scrolling (parallax). At least you don't get that for free, if Amiga had gone with chunky.

Yup I really stepped in it with my explanation.

No worries. It is very difficult to explain technical concepts spontaneously on the fly live in front of a group of people. I say things live on stream that I kick myself for. I really know better but it doesn't come out right

Well, it's about compromise and staying compatible. WHEN the Vampire goes ASIC, and it's operating at 2.7 GHz, and 1080p output, would chunky vs. staying with bitplanes (16 or 24 bits) STILL be a problem???

Aw, thanks so much for the positive feedback. Much appreciated!

This goes on the inside int the 68k socket so it wont run as a slap on the side accelerator unless someone made a 68k CPU holder for the slap on the side expansion port. But I don't know if that would work.

:)

We are playing around with ATARI ST and the core can boot right into EMUtos

Installation in the A1000 requires CPU risers. AGA core is the best thing for an A1000 as it replaces the 512 Agnus with a 2MB AGA Alice. It makes your beloved A1000 come full circle and become the Alpha and the Omega of the Amiga universe.

Good question. I haven't heard anything about an A4000 Vampire but that doesn't mean it isn't in their plan.

Actually it was popular in video production for a time in the USA. The Amiga was the red haired stepchild of the computer industry.

Yes. Standalone Vampires are now booting, but I don't know of a release date yet.

@@TheGuruMeditation cheers for the reply, i'll just have to be patient for a while longer. : )

@@bamdadkhan Yeah, it is coming, but like a lot of this stuff it is a labor of love and not coming from a large company so we just have to be patient. I am sure the standalone will be the next release from them, then the Vamp 1200. But those are just my guesses. That isn't info from them.

Our pleasure. Thanks for the kind words and for watching!

Deull u2410

Looks like the V4 is actually standalone only now

Sadly one does not exist. I use a RaspberryPi, but you can also use something called a MiSTer which is a FPGA board and supposedly the closest thing to a real Amiga from what I have heard. You can also use other, more powerful than the Pi, ARM devices.

I use a scart to hdmi scaler to run the RTG core and Amiga RGB core. There IS a slight lag when using the scaler. This has not been a deal breaker for me. I have never heard a team member complain about latency using HDMI.

nope but I have run the 68k warp 3d engine library that uses the FPU to do calculations. There are some videos on my youtube channel back when we were running the software FPU.

You can plug into the 68k socket, with AGA mode you need a HDMI monitor. If you use the Gold rtg core all ECS modes work through the amiga RGB port. If you use RTG mode you need a hdmi monitor. I use a SONY PVM monitor (pro sony video monitor very 1084 like) and the dual monitor setup works great.

The standalone version is now working so there is continuous improvement being made.

Thanks Flash! The v4 exists, but I have no idea when it will be available for the public. I think it should be on the sooner side, but I don't know. We may have a V4 standalone demo soon in Westchester County NY if you are interested

Thanks

The A1200 version is the Vampire holy trail to mw.

Oh cool. Glad I was on target with that comment. Thanks for clarifying Vicky! Great point about Lomax. I have it ready to play on my RaspberryPi but haven't gotten to it yet. That is high up on my to-do list! Henk Nieborg is an amazing talent.

I haven't tried rtg core in V4 yet. There is betterband with on V4 so higher resolutions are possible whilst maintaining a stable system.

Hi A1200 now uses C5 FPGA so it makes more sense to work on V4 then migrate work from V4 to V1200 as far as I understand. V1200 is a work of art.

hi Check my youtube channel there are a few on there

Being a huge fan of Final Writer on my old & stored Amigas, I am interested in this upgrade path in order to glean my many Final Writer documents so I can print them once again on paper. So I am confused about how to print them on new Hp laser printers - will I need new printer drivers to do so? And where will I get them? Email me. Templar2b1ask1@mei.net

@@templar2b1ask as far as i remember, final writer can export to a postscript file which you can open with ghostscript, convert to PDF etc

It's best used for productivity, I guess

AMIGAAAA!!!!

That is a great question. I simply haven't had time to make a WAUG website but it is on my to do list. The best way is to get into our Google group where we discuss if we will meet that month or not. Would you like to join the group?

yes

Use a TV with switchable aspect ratio so you can get 4:3.

@@manueljesus3147 yes, but can't the team implement something for monitors? I don't think I am alone in having my AMIGA setup next to my PC. My PC monitor has VGA/DVI/HDMI but no 4:3 mode/switch. So I would have to use/buy a dedicated HDMI TV :( One thing to test is the Vampire's HDMI output, is it 576p 50Hz? (PAL) I have an FPGA device (crowdfunded - FleaOhm) running a Minimig Core. It's ouput is 576p @ 50Hz and the 3 Samsung LCD TV's in my house will not recognize the HDMI signal (Our Panasonic TV is ok). I don't know if the Vampire is outputting a native Amiga resolution over HDMI or it is scaled/upscaled. Is it possible for the testers to check it works on Samsung TV's? I am happy to assist if required. I guess not an issue with RTG resolutions as you can run at screen sizes which are compatible with our new digital age! Thanks P.S. I like your presentations and I think you are a good speaker/ambassador for Vampire.

@@TheSeanBean I have seen team members use a cheap HDMI to vga a adapter if I remember correctly.

naa your just shit

Oh for pete's sake.

The indie scene now it jam packed with soul, you're just looking in the wrong places.

Some games have it, very few indeed.

Good question. I am not sure

Yep, that would be cool. I also have a 1200 with 030. It is pretty much the sweet spot, except that I would love to be able to run more of the demoscene stuff

That would be cool.

That would be great, not sure if the demand is there though

Good question. I am not sure. Hopefully Manny can answer when he reads the comments

Curious to know this too...

Yup thanks for the breakdown and clarification.

Or tilebased systems is even more memory efficient

Not sure. But the v4 standalone was available at Amiga 34 and sold out in 2 hours!

There will be a Standalone version, the one for the A500 is going to be released first though. An A1200 version is in a long term plan.

Yep, exactly what Roy said!

Sweet, thanks :D

It will be the FASTEST BOOTING personal computer that there is.... The standalone!!!!!!!!!

@Sjarken www.winuae.net/

I think the new cases from A1200net and Stephen Jones are more the answer. I would hate to see people rip apart their original machines just to put a stand alone Vampire in them. I am all for the stand alone Vamp, but I wouldn't kill a perfectly good Amiga just to make a case for the Vampire. Great point about the CRT as well. Personally, I think LCD screens are 1/2 way to emulation for me anyway. When I exhibit my Amigas at shows it is CRT all the way.

I am surprised by how many questions are still raised, people still in essence asking "What is a Vampire"? Vampire 2 has 128 Megabytes of RAM. Vampire 4 has 512 Megabytes of RAM. The Vampire 4 will be an accelerator for the A500, A600, A1000, A2000 and A1200 and a standalone model is coming out too. I think it will work in a CD32. More a question of will it fit in there. (A3000, A4000, not sure.) Vampire 4 is about 20 to 27% faster than a Vampire 2. Vampire 4 standalone is the "real deal" when it comes to AMIGA *as it should have been* from 1995 to ~2001. 1) What you get is 512 Megabytes that can be configured to *at least* the 3 options of 2 MB chip/510 fast, 256 Chip/256 FastRAM and 512 MB ChipRAM. (To change these options, it's most likely one would have to reboot the system.) 2) 16 instruction/data and 16 address registers, instead of 8 each on the old CPUs. 3) Full FPU. 68040 and 68060 had some of the FPU instructions in libraries that had to be loaded to do computations. 4) 32K instruction and 32K data caches (okay, it might be 16K, depending on how much extra functions they put into the FPGA as they may run out of room, but it still would be double that of the 68060 that has 8 K of each.) 5) Just about ALL of the instructions that the 68000, 68020, 68030, 68040 and 68060 CPUs have. 6) Some assembler commands are 64 bit. 7) AMMX. That is SIMD. The equivalent is SSE that was first introduced in 80586's (pentiums) by intel. 8) 720p resolution, and I think even 1080p. 9) 16 bit audio, through upgraded Paula custom chip. It is called Pamela. 10) Ethernet port and SD card slot. Ethernet speed, unknown. SD transfer rate of *at least* 20 MB per second should be possible. 11) Don't need a flicker fixer or scan doubler. 12) Standalone reliability. Doesn't have to rely on being connected to old, possibly dodgy hardware. 13) Boot up time of under 10 seconds!!!!!!!!! (No one knows yet what's possible.) 14) There are other subtle enhancements. 15) The DOOZY of them all is, IF you SUPPORT THIS EFFORT by buying any Vampires, it INCREASES the VERY GOOD CHANCE that they will EVENTUALLY make an ASIC of this CPU core!!!!!! What does THAT mean? Well, *imagine* a Vampire (AMIGA) that runs at 800MHz, or 1.2GH, 1.8GHz..... *or even* 2.5 GHZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Also, Hyperion is willing to entertain the thought of making AOS3.1.x that SUPPORTS 68080 instructions!!!!!!! HOW AWESOME WOULD THAT BE???? AND IF THAT ISN'T ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Imagine if you will, the custom ASIC that is the Vampire, having 2 or 4 or 8 megabytes of L2 cache in it...... This is "impossible", and I mean IMPOSSIBLE by the "competition"............ The WHOLE operating system running INSIDE the CPU! !!! W O W !!! VAMPIRE (Amiga/AOS) F. T. W. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the screen is being stretched to 16:9 from 4:3 and being upscaled to hd. Aside from that nothing else is going on. It looks better when run on a 4:3 aspect ratio monitor using hdmi.There are better scalers for sure. But anytime I take an Amiga NTSC or Pal scree and scale it to a HD screen that runs at say 1920X1080 naïve res there is a hit in quality due to scaling, This is a known artifact of using HD era LCD screens with NTSC / PAL SD gfx. ECS and AGA screens look better on a CRT PVM and 1084. Lots of folks confirm this. There is also a bit of lag when using the LCD but its not a deal breaker. When using the RRG core that runs at higher resolutions closer to the NATIVE resolution of the LCD screen the display quality improves as there is less scaling.

No, we haven't yet

@@TheGuruMeditation look forward to your detailed review

German factory handled production and the production by some other team members. (not Majsta)

No one knows when they will become available. It is *anywhere* from November of this year (2019), though that's unlikely, to summer 2019. :-(((( They have ONE overriding obstacle. Money. But, if one were to invest, there really wouldn't be a substantial profit to be gleaned from it, unless the buyers are prepared to pay premium prices. Small production runs, high prices, desperate customers...... Amiga is stuck in the mud (and lots of FUD, by the looks of it too.)

I was in queue 2 years for the vampire v2 for the amiga 600. It just seems ridiculous promoting something that most people will never be able to buy.

@@cherrystarscollide too bad about your wait. I suggest contact Majsta direct if you are still interested. It took 4 months to get my v600 and a year to get my V4 and I am a team member.

@@Atheist7 money isn't an obstacle as they are made in small batches. Can't give a date in release. I think your timelines are realistic. There was a one year delay as the migration from C3 to C5 took longer due to a pesky bug. One plus here is that core updates are free. So those that purchased a v500/v600 can now download latest core and aga alpha 3 for free. You don't have to pay for a driver update or core update. Vampire core updates are hardware upgrades in a software download. In my case Amiga is my hobby so I am willing to wait. Core dev is time consuming and it's literally guys doing core dev and testing on spare time. That being said progress is surprisingly good given the constraints.

No worries Anthony. Busy is good!

Interesting thanks!

The Vampire is pretty amazing!

Currently in development and not available just ewy. Vampire 2 for the A500 and A600 are available the wait time is a 2-3 months. You can declare interest at the Apollo accelerators site. You will also be able to use the very same core I used in the demo to try AGA yourself.

Thanks!

Yes Manny is a great speaker and product demonstrator. I believe he did it professionally for a while if my memory serves me right, but at this age my memory may be incorrect, LOL!

@Vojin Vidanovic lol

I demo'd Tricasters unofficially from 2006-2010 in the NYC area! lol

WOW I am impressed. It is a Pioneer SA-7800. Amazing eye. You can see photos of the room here: facebook.com/pg/thegurumeditation/photos/?tab=album&album_id=2696914840348433

@@TheGuruMeditation wasn't too sure as It's far and blurred. I've got a new old stock boxed sa-9800. Bloody amazing amplifier Thanks for the reply much appreciated

@@abc-ni9uw cheers. I am blown away that you could recognize it there. Sadly my dad had to retire this semester so we are trying to find homes for all this stuff. This pioneer amp went to our great friend Thierry who now has it up an running in his home!

@@TheGuruMeditation sorry to hear that. Yes I've always had a keen eye. The second I spotted it i had to ask

I am not sure, because I don't think the software development is there, but that certainly would be nice!

Yeah a few people mentioned that. It is a great point

Arananet, one of the Apollo team members has made a IDE to SATA adapter for use on the A1200 and A600

When they sell enough of them, they will go for ASIC. Imagine, Vampire running at 1.8 (or more) GIGAHERTZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anthony is like the Loch Ness Monster. You never know when he will appear! I doubt if they plan on these being a big commercial hit. More of a niche product for the retro community, but who knows what will happen.

@@TheGuruMeditation I'd still love for it to go back into mainstream. That would be crazy. But I guess we can all dream.

It would be really cool it it was, but mainstream would probably be something like an AmigaMini

The Guru Meditation ... If you're going mainstream, maybe it could use a product like Siri / Alexa. So, what would we call our amiga? Surely not Eva because when it crashed, instead of a guru meditation it might sing "Don't Cry for me Argentina". 🤩

V500 proved working in A1000

Yes. Yes it does.

The standalone (Vampire 4) is the SUPERSTAR Amiga "clone", though. They wanted to release it in Nov./Dec. 2017, but things just didn't work out. So probably, they may be able to get it out between Nov. 2018 to summer 2019. NO ONE KNOWS when it will be ready.

For today my Amiga 1000 works fine with the ACA500plus 👍🏼

I am not sure, but yeah an HTML5 browser would be great!

There are lots of new cool projects out for the blessed A500. Fun times.

I love the old stuff too, but it is neat that people are still making things to update them.

thanks for the info!

Thanks for the info Stephen and congrats on the Kickstarter!

That's really good information to know! My favorite add on for the 500 is the A570.

@Will Williams, I'm glad you mentioned the a570 because I was just about to search for information about the vampire using that. Considering the a500 uses a 68000 CPU normally, the a570 has problems with CPU upgrades (accelerators or chips) except the 68010 CPU on account of timing issues. So basically it is fine with the 68010, which runs at about 8MHz approximately. Well, this is interesting when it comes to the Vampire (or any "full on" FPGA accelerator) because I *think* the a570 would in theory thereby also work with the 68012 without any timing issues. In the video you can see the GuruMeditation guys observing that options menu such as _"force it to behave like a 68040"_ (words pretty much to that effect). It would really cool if it also had the option to say _"force it to behave like a 68010 instruction set and also a 68012"._ That would mean you'd get that a570 kickstart compatability and CDTV software (such as homebrew) software going on it. However the interesting thing about the 68012 is that it was made to allow for usage with an MMU so that you could build computers (like say a freescale server, running its own OS or even BSD now) with multiple CPUs in it (man 68012, like maybe up to twelve but hey two would do fine). That way, if the intruction set was adhered to in such a vampire options menu, software could be written that would use it. Yeah I know that is niche but it is still cool. I would also help move over to the custom _"future amiga mockups"_ that might have the dual CPU in them. So you could switch between a single CPU or dual CPU, even if you were merely "emulating" the latter or using the "array architecture" instead. The reason this is important is because both the a570 and CD32 have special kickstart ROMs. The CD32 has a modified a1200 kickstart that allows for CDROM booting. Leading the way into buying those kickstarts would be awesome for amigas with ROM switchers and customised boards. Games could run on CDTV (or a570) and therefore obviously also work on the CD32 by CD-booting without being forced to use the vampire. This would actually help the vampire because people can write software that uses the vampire but also use vanilla (purist) amigas (maybe with the settings turned down) all booting from CD (without needing to use say the CDBoot floppy disk you could once purchase for the a1200). There are so many thing a person could do with a vampire and I reckon subtle ideas like that for homebrew will be some of those cool little ideas that percolate down and get the purists onboard. The vanilla a1200 is a bit like that as well, in the way it has those subtle _"you know it is an amiga"_ aspects to it. So for example, take "blitter choking" in software (especially in games, like say Elite2Frontier). It is a "limitation" which means that coders with fast a CPUs in their amigas might abandon the usage of the blitter in the game (or software) they write. However, the fact that the a1200 does not allow you to change the clock speed of the FPU if you solder one on the mother board, means that your a1200 will still get some usage out of that blitter even though your cpu and FPU are chugging along at about 14MHz (ish). So either side of the CPU a small amount of help comes from the blitter and the FPU, just about taking the edge of and helping with some pre-calc maybe. With no on-cpu-cache in that, it helps against being stuck if you thereby cannot rely on cache-friendly routines in your code. Then if you want to flick a switch and activate a mega powerful trapdoor expansion containing a PPC and 68040/060 once the computer has been turned on and off again, you still can do. The 14MHz vanilla mode though means that the blitter being there makes sense and therefore the 2meg chip RAM limit is all part of that coding challenge. I mean you really know it is an amiga when these hard and fast standard expectations are there as the default. For example, see the new a1200 motherboards with the FPU instructions in the first minute of this video by chucky and mjnurney: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gbd8d8xotdOddGw.html To my mind, even though the FPU wasn't supplied wit the a1200, I think it being on the motherboard is a De Facto a1200 standard and it just needs a breakout containing a lever so you can literally disconnect the entire thing (pull-up resistors, caps and all) when you power off the machine on those days you wish it to not get in the way of trapdoor expansions' FPU accelerators. Just to extend this enthusiastic comment a tiny bit more _(because I'm sure you're loving wearing matchsticks in your eyes right now - They're all the rage),_ it means that when low MHz (say 33MHz, 68030 like the MC68EC0300) CPUs intended for embedded solutions get used in homebrew handheld amigas, the software written to expect a modest amiga will run on that. I think "atari lynx" style handheld for the amiga (say called the "amiga Rock Lobster Shrimp") with specs like that could (should?) be made, and could use 8cm CDROM disk that hold about 200meg (or 180meg). These days a big fat lithium battery could handle it, totally. The lynx had such a batery addon but for D batteries. Definitely needs to happen. Hoik a vampire up that! Reference to the MC68EC0300 notion is here: www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/68030/

The Amiga S-AGA is FAAAAAAARRRRRRRR from over!!!!!!!!!!!!

@Atheist7, Indeed. It would be cool of the FMV cartridge could be made for a1200 (with the akiko gate array dumped into FPGA for good luck too) although with the FMV cartridge supporting mpeg2 also. That way, when such a cartridge is used in a CD32 or a1200, some games or software (just some of them, mind you) could use the mp3 playback capabilities of the FMV cartridge (which obviously can play mpeg2) and also those games or software could use the FMV cartridge to handle jpeg. So a game like Myst could use that but perhaps even some 3D games could use jpeg compression on textures, although it might really be a proof of concept for those depending on how practical it is. But then again, if a vampire is running of the CPU on an a1200 or cd32, the trapdoor and/or sx32-pro bay can be free for that (mpeg2 compatible) "futuristic FMV" cartridge. You made a good 3D model a1200 case btw.

Someone named Marko Hirv made that "Amiga Fantasy" case. I don't know who he might be on Amiga.Org or AmigeWorld.net. Seems that he isn't around anymore, and that would be, if even he ever was.

I dunno Karl is someone would have offered me an AGA and FAST cpu upgrade for the A500 back in the day I would have loved it. The A500 casework is a nostalgic touch! The blood still runs through the veins of the old hardware in some crazy way. At the end of the day this is complete insanity as a PC with emulation trounces many FPGA solutions.

Some people will like the experiences of pimping their Amiga. It is a different experience sitting at an actual Amiga with floppies, original mouse, controllers, etc... vs. a standalone board with a new keyboard, mouse, and so on. But keeping your Amiga original and going with a standalone V4 when it comes out is a very viable option as well. I will likely get a standalone and put it in one of the new cases.

I think a standalone board with a 5 pin header to connect an A500 keyboard, and 34 pin floppy drive controller is the way forward now.

[At the end of the day this is complete insanity as a PC with emulation trounces many FPGA solutions.] Manuel Jesus, I respectfully DISAGREE!!!! The emulators run the CPU, then the FPU, then one custom chip, then another, then another then back to the CPU. It "sort of" works. There are hiccups, as well, as win-dohs does vile and corrupt activities in the background too. I'm not talking, spying on your activities, but some OS junk that *personal computer users* aren't interested in. And to top it off, NO emulator does AMMX, 64 bit assembler commands, increased sized data/instruction caches, extra registers, OoO (who knows what else I'm missing) and our QUEEN enhancement Super-AGA! Vampire, short of going ASIC at 1.8, 2.2 or 2.7 GHz is EVERYTHING that I've been waiting for since 1995!!!!!!! (Oh, it's VERY sad to not have a full 2GB of RAM!!!!)

Karl Hamilton Exactly. At the end, you better use only the case, to avoid relying on an aging motherboard just for the inputs. And by the way, what's the point of using a ball mouse in 2018? And what's the point of using a yellowed case too when there are brand new cases out there? This model business is based on the frustration of Amiga fans due to the lack of competitivity and reactivity that killed C= Why don't you just sell complete systems in brand new cases, along with a brand new fpga motherboards with all the modern inputs, Eth, USB, SD and the old external floppy one, joystick et voilà. Wait. I know why. Because it will cost twice the price of a modern PC without the capabilities. Crap.