Awesome hardware. Amiga was a big part of my past as I was the Action Replay developer

Amiga was my first computer in 1988 I was so impressed with performance and software can do. Shame that lost behind competitors. But still have the lovers. VIVA AMIGA

I love the pure joy in your voice, Dan.

Now the amiga port of outrun will finally be playable.

Superb review ! Once I finish tinkering with my A1200 setup, I'm after a vampire and a 600 for my self. AGA support has me sold. The 600 was the machine I had as a boy. My Dad got one for the kids to keep our sticky fingers off his 1200 :)

Exactly what I have been waiting for, what a video, perfect! Cheers mate!

subbed!!! just bought a A600 off ebay because of this video and pre order myself one a Vampire 2 card! Thanks for the video!!

I PM'd and 're-sold' a palette of 20 A500's, one was dead, one had no voltage to RF. The other 18 sold on for £200 a pop. When you go to work one working as a field service Engineer and find they are selling everything one Monday morning, you think on your feet. My bro was working for a company in East Anglia that feel on it's sword. I took RF'less 500 + Philips CM8833, got an A590 +2Mb +20MB Connor drive + 1/4 tape drive on SCSI box [ KNOWS TAR very well ;0) ] and started writing 100% portable UNIX code. I ended up a coder because of this machine. The g/f used to call it 'the wife'. Great work Konrad :0D

Thanks for uploading this Dan, as a lifelong Amiga fan it is great to see people still developing hardware and software for it. The Vampire 2 chip looks amazing and really pushes the hardware way above it's original design. Unfortunately I don't have an Amiga A600 but I do have 2 x A1200 so I look forward to a A1200 Vampire being released some time in the future.

Brilliant development I will be ordering one and watching progress with the same excitement! Keep us updated great video

When I heard you mention this on your podcast I wasn't interested but having watched this comprehensive tutorial I'm a lot more sold on it. Thanks.

I've played Gloom on CD32 but seeing it through the Vampire 2 was something else. Very impressive. Great video.

Thanks for the review and good choice for the games !! Keep going mate, your videos are perfect !

excellent review as usual Dan. keep up the great reviews.

Gaaah I just gave my Amiga 600 away, still I really enjoy these quirky videos from the amiga-age. Keep up the good work Dan.

My first computer was a TI99/4a My second was a Commodore 64. I've always wanted a Amiga but was just to poor to get one but I always followed there progress. Now we're in the 21st century and I still love Amiga! I never got to own one but now times has changed. I have the fastest gaming processor today (8700k) and the best graphics card. (1080 ti). Loved the video, took me back to the days when I longed for one. Thanks for sharing this video!

Cheers for the video. Takes me back a few years seeing some of the games.

Damn. Would love to see how the Vampire does in 3D rendering. I used to do 3D animations on my 600HD back in the day, this card would have made things a lot easier.

Excellent video Dan the Vampire looks amazing cant wait for the A1200 version very tempted to get an A600 again in the meantime

I'm currently not a vampire fan but this video contents is very interesting and well presented. Thanks Dan!

Great review! i´d love to see a video on how to properly setup the software to work on the vampire 2.

Another great video Dan and well done for not running Doom! That POP sprite looks great running Fusion. Hopefully they can get all the video outputs out of HDMI soon. The A1200 one almost seems like a dream come true lol

Your videos made me getting my 600 back up and running.... and now in know what i will buy for it

I have to say, I was blown away by this video!!!! I can honestly say this - I have an A1200 with the ACA1233 accelerator, and the Indiv Mk2 Scandoubler, and there is no way I can run Gloom like you can with the Vampire 2! And to be able to run the Demos which I simply cannot run, due to the 030 on my accel card is just amazing! Same for the game and other apps too. Maybe I should just sell my ACA1233 and Scandoubler now, and put that money aside for when they release the Vampire for the A1200!! The specs you mentioned sound INSANE!! Very good video and well done! Would be nice to learn some more from you about the applications I saw on your WB 3.9 setup. I didnt even know WB 3.9 would install on a A600 as I know you need the 3.1 Rom in the A1200 for that!

Great review Dan. Watching closely for the A1200 version.

I loved the A600. I took it on stage for years as a live sequencing/sampling platform before upgrading to an A1200.

Wow, this is great! I'd be very interested in the A1200 version. Exciting!

Nice, this is really cool news. Can't wait to get my hands on the 1200 version, sounds absolutely insane!

Mac running on Amiga **mind blown**... I've actually sold my A1200 in anticipation of getting one of these instead. I always thought Gloom and Alien Breed 3D II were AGA only.

I remember when the 68060 accellerator card was released for the Amiga 4000, it was the worlds fastest Macintosh for a while :) Would have been nice to see some rendering in Real 3D or Imagine.

Great informative video as always Dan! Thumbs up :)

Never owned an Amiga and grew up with all the PC stuff. But I still can't stop watching these videos. I very much like the idea of the Vampire, shows how much of a following these things have!

Can't wait for the A1200 one! Great video, thanks for sharing.

Wonderful job, Dan! Sorry that it took me over a year to re-take an interest in the Amiga.

Love your videos Dan.

I started with a computing with A600 I loved it dan

Suuuuperb! Finally after two decades something useful on amiga.

OMFG at the DHRYSTONES speed test result in SYSINFO. I almost fell out of my chair when i seen it! Wow

Great video thanks a lot for all the goodies, could you please make a demo with 3D software from the old days Calgary, sculpt 3D and tests with pagestream? Loved the gloom and fusion emulation

Hi there, awesome video, would love to see early amiga games like "Obliterator" that taxed the cpu like crazy, running smoothly on Vampire 2

super great video, and heck yes if one has this Amiga hardware to be able to run it on flat panels so easily the way to go for sure. best of luck great channel sorry to comment on old video for you new for me lol.

I love the Amiga 600, especially with all of the upgrades readily available and still being produced

I think my Amiga A600 is great. Had it since April 1994 and still have it set up and use it.

Great one! Hope you do vamp stand-alone this automn

This is awesome. Wouldn't it be cool if you could take this back in time about 25 years and show them....?

I think FPGA chips are a great deal for the future of retro imitation/recreation. Imagine a all in one System for the living room with original and up to date features at the same time...

Fantastic! Nice to see your experiences with the Vampire 2! Looking forward to the 500 and 1200 models!

Amazing! I cannot wait for the 1200 version. Thanks for the video I just wonder if the card with hdmi output would fix all the NTSC issues I have on my USA amiga?

I have that same Logitech speaker system with the big knob! What a different world we could be living in if Amigas had been this powerful back in the 90s. Those FPS games are silky smooth, very nice indeed. That Payback intro was pretty damn exciting too.

Awesome video, as a sidenote and updating the news a little bit, the A600 is now not the fastest... The A500 is now the fastest due to the new IDE implementation. The Vampire 500 is achieving IDE (CF card) reads of up to 11.5MB/sec which is 4 times faster than a standard a600/a1200. As we progress we are trying to improve so hopefully the specs will improve accordingly.. (i really don't understand the thumbs down you received, was it something you said ??... Kipper2k

Defo watching this after the footy been waiting for this video cheers Dan ;)

After all these years it is still amazing what the AMIGA is capable of! Only AMIGA makes it possible!

Great video, I love seeing more about the Vampire and its incredible capabilities. I'm confused about one thing though, you say that you have to use SCART for workbench/older games but the devs are adding AGA chipset Core at a "later date" which would let you run entirely from HDMI ... but... isn't the AGA Core out now? It's been out for a while, hasn't it?

You could even fit an entire Amiga on an FPGA. I haven't tried it (yet) but I tried to fit an sparcstation 5 on an FPGA couple of years ago.

Absolutely amazing Dan, this would be very cool if the A500 version worked in my A1000 :-)

- I had an ZX Spectrum 48K, then an Timex Sinclair 2068, then an Atari 130XE, then an Amiga 600, then an Amiga 1200 AGA across that years. - And since my friends had all the other "dream" machines, like the Commodore 64, Amiga 500, Atari 600XL, Atari 520ST, Atari 1024FM, Amiga 4000, etc... I was very luck to see, play games and code on all those machines too... I´ll never forget those days... Was a real magical era! - Can´t forget ours firsts multiplayer games (everyone on the same computer)... And (mostly) because playing the "Barbarian" and "Skidmarks" with my friends, we destroyed so many many tvs, computers, keyboards, joysticks... Unforgettable days !!!... eheheheh... :) - My favourite software ever, was not a game, was "OctaMED" on the Amiga! :D

Nice video man, i ordered one too, hope to get it this year though this vampire thing really took off! And Your workbench needs some Birdie2000 and magic menu :-)

Wish I haddent seen this, the vampire 1200 might make me dust off my old power tower Amiga, will keep an eye on this project. Good vid as always.

I've only followed the Vampire at a cursory level (no A600 here), and damn. I'm seriously impressed with the performance. Certainly so when seeing Alien Breed 3D II ('cause even under *UAE, I never got it feeling solid). Roll on the A500/A1200 versions. I'd certainly be tempted to rip the accelerator out of my A1200 for one of those. ^_^

Informative and interesting. So glad to see someone who is able to _explain_ what they are doing. Too many KZfaqrs cannot or simply _do_ not do that. One question, though: since this card features a non-68000 CPU, I suppose it does have slight compatibility issues? Back in the 90s, I installed a 68010 CPU (hoping for a meager speed boost of less than 10%, which I found completely neglible ever after), and I found that I had to revert to the original 68000 for about 5% of my games (which were really the point of getting a speed upgrade). Does this apply to the Vampire 2 as well?

FGPA's really are awesome. That's a really cool piece of tech there! :D

Great video mate, thanks

Great video, really well presented. The Vampire 2 is quite amazing. This is how the Amiga should ALWAYS have been. If this chip had come as standard back in 1992, the Amiga would surely have reigned supreme, and everyone on the internet would probably be using Amigas today!

Eagerly awaiting the A1200 version, i'll buy it for sure when its announced.

love all your Commodore videos. Brings back alot of good memories. Did you present the Gem Am show this morning?

This is friggin Amazing !! I can't find an Amiga 600 on ebay now. lol Will it work on other Amiga Models ??

Anyone who can program an FPGA gets's my respect.

Great video, I hope they will make some kind upgrade for the A500.

Watched the whole video despite never owning an A600. Really impressive stuff! I'd be interested in the A1200 version.

how good is that vampire card tho Dan, excellent vid as always pal :)

Great video, just got my vampire2, any chance of a tutorial video on how to setup the Hard Drive in Winuae ready to use with an A600 and vampire 2.

Vampire 2 seems a great piece of kit .. as you said switching from scart to hdmi would do my nut in ..just need a modem tv for the high res .... Gloom, AB2KG, Payback runs perfect on the Vampire wow !! couldn't believe the frame rates and the demos scene a lot of these now needs the 060 to run should be a doddle now I got the mickey taken out of me buying the A600 when I was at school than buying A500 glad I did now Cheers Dan cracking review .

wow this vid makes me want to get an amiga and the vampire card, intriguing

I have an Amiga 2000 which I have just booted up after a long time...it still works perfect..it there a vimpire card for the 2000?

I can't wait to get one for my 1200!

I am working on the first ever amiga 600 laptop built from original amiga 600. it is the first to use an original pc laptop case, it uses a pc case and its matching pc lcd monitor. it has working laptop buttons for sound and monitor functions attached to the lcd controller, sounds: uses the pc speakers and a headphone socket. i have also managed to build in a keyboard that fits in the hole for the pc one, it also has a vga out for a monitor and it supports the vampire 2 and the aca620ec and the indivision ecs. its supports df0: as an external device. it has 2 fans for cooling, one under, one on the back. this was a 2 year project, i will make only 5 additional to sell! watch out for me on youtube!

wow i was just reading about this ,amazing to see this card in action wish i kept my old a500 now arg

Hi Dan, quick FYI the beta of the AGA core is now out. Imagine that, finally a compact A1200 alike.

Fantastic Video, best Vampire 2 video yet and so glad you looked at Gloom and Alien Breed 3d 2 rather than the usual doom etc. Video is too short :(, please revisit it again when youve tried some more cool stuff, F1 GP( might need the mod ), Frontier, maybe Genetic Species? Oh podcasts are brilliant btw, listen every week, keep up the great work.

Great video! Very impressive hardware, even if the scrolling performance in the high-res Workbench and iBrowse looked rather sluggish. Were you using the RTG version of AB3DII? Still great memories using the Amiga, and later years putting the 'AmigaInABox' package together. Maybe I should pick up an A600 and this board and relive my teens?

Got to get this for my A500!

Can't wait to pick this up

I loved my A600. Best Christmas ever. So ner!

Really cool! Looking forward to the Amiga 1200 version :)

Well! i never much go on the Amiga systems before, well i had a bit of experiences with the Commodore 64, tho that rocks to see that there is still new stuff made to make those machines more up to date. I guess if i ever find an Amiga, i will give that thing a shot for sure!

I can here the excitement in your voice. you probably had a semi too. jealous!

Cool video. I had no idea such things existed.

Is it possible to run AGA games and applications on A600 + Vampire 2?

Nice to see someone else using Cool Edit Pro 2.0 as I do.

Awesome- will watch this later.

every time Dan says Vampire he sounds like a kid at christmas time , love the enthusiam

I still have a fully loaded Amiga 3000 tower with Keyboard & Mouse. Been knocked about a bit but still works.

I remember this one video game, they would sing this weird song "are you there space station amigos oh" (Help needed finding this rare and Fun classic game)

Top vid Dan

Crazy how slow the speeds we put up with 7mhz? Just shows how efficient the Amiga os and programmers were. I remember the first pc with windows I faced was 133mhz 32gb ram in about 1996 - slow as a sloth. I use macs now much better. Viva Amiga !

Will you do a Vampire V4 board/Vampire V4 standalone video?

Cool stuff! Waiting for the Vampire for A1200! I have a question: I have tried to emulate MacOS on my A1200 (with a 020 accelerator + 64mb of ram) but I never get past the boot logo. Any chance you would make a small tutorial on how to correctly setup the Mac emulation on Amiga? Cheers!

I wonder if this will lead to a small industry of software and games designed to run only on amiga upgraded with these cards. Amigas might become usable modern machines for browsing etc.!

Seriously impressed with this kit, and for a second I almost rushed to order an A600 on ebay. If they fix the resolution output so there is no swapping of channels, and they make the flash drive bootable, this is the hardware which would bring the Amiga range back up to speed with modern technology - and that is amazing to think hobbyists are still doing this for us. Certainly light years ahead of the Gotek Floppy Emulator. It made me wish that flash was available on IBrowse, and then I could leave my PC and go back to classic hardware. Its like the Amiga 5000 that we never got. Im not into technical software stuff, but they did release Unix for the Amiga, so does that mean it will run modern Linux? No idea. Staggering to see MAC games running quickly. I wonder if that means we can run Magnetic Fields Mobil 1 Rally at last on Amiga? And why is it that the Amiga scene just keeps on getting better!!! A rhetorical question perhaps. :)