Vampire GOLD2.12 Core Released.

Changelog:

• New 15/16Bit RTG modes (R5G5B5PC, B8G8R8A8)
• HW mouse improvements (sprite area size, x/y-position coords)
• VampireSupport 40.41.
• fpsp080_00f4000_07Mar20.
• Apollo specific CPU support library in ROM, named 68040.library (to be picked up by 3.1 and later SetPatch)
• New minimal boot pic with the new melody.
• SLOW CPU when PC in chipmem & rangermem (auto Turtle, select “ExpChip” with WHDLoad)
• Improved Turtle Mode compatibility.
• Enabled faster 32bit write for the IDE.
• Improved rebooting, when using a MAPROM.
• Updated EmuTOS ROM to 0.9.12 release (boot from uSD option added)
• Improved FMOVEM.

Download: Vampire Core (871)

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Vampire GOLD2.10 Core Released for V600 v2 (.1) & V500 v2(+) and new Saga Driver v1.4.

Vampire GOLD2.10 Changelog:

• Added 4 different IDE speeds (V500)
• Fixed SBCD instruction
• Fixed ChipRAM detection
• Improved CIA timings (V600)

SAGA Driver v1.4 Changelog:

• Updated VControl to 1.6
• Updated VampireSN for Vampire V4
• Updated SDNet to 1.92
• Updated V2ExpEth to 1.92

Download: Vampire Core & Saga Driver (1336)

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Vampire GOLD2.9 Core Released for V600 v2 & V500 v2(+) and new Saga Driver v1.3

Vampire GOLD2.9 Changelog:

• Improved Power-OFF/ON on Amiga
• Allow software to access on-board ROM chip
• MapROM mapping support for Atari roms
• Memory management support for Atari memory map
• FPU Speed-up (51Mflops at x11 according to SysInfo)
• FPU fully working under TOS
• Modified Expansion post pin-out
• Boot to EmuTOS with FIRE button on Power-ON

SAGA Driver v1.2/1.3 Changelog:

• Updated VControl to 1.4
• Added V2ExpEth.device 1.2
• Updated SDNet.device to 1.2
• Some more work on TX stability
• Should recover from ENC Module hangs more often
• Aligned with future EXPnet

Download: Vampire Core & Saga Driver (1237)

source: apollo-accelerators.com

Vampire GOLD2.8 Core Released for V600 v2 & V500 v2(+)

Vampire GOLD2.8 Changelog:

• Improved HDMI DMA support for misaligned screen pointers.
• Minor FPU fix.
• A500 RTC fix (V500).
• Improved SDCard/SDNet support.
• V500 V2+ Expansion port enabled.

SAGA Driver v1.1 Changelog:

• Updated VampireGFX.card to 1.12
  • Adds Scanlines settings.
  • Assumes SOFTSPRITE=YES by default if not set in tooltypes.
• Updated SDNet.device to 1.1.
  • Fix for x12 cores.
• Added VampireGFX tooltypes documentation.

Download: Vampire Core & Saga Driver (1251)

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Vampire GOLD2.7 Core Released for V600 v2 & V500 v2(+)

Vampire Changelog:

• Added fully pipelined hard FPU with peak 78 MFlops
• Added native support for all 68882 FPU operations without need of extra libraries
• Added new high performance memory controller, reaching 600MB/sec memory speed
• Added MapRom support
• Added Workbench Hardware Sprite support
• Added Scanlines optional mode for retro look of games on HDMI output
• Added RangerMem (A500 slow memory) for better compatibility with some old games/demos
• Added new boot picture
• Improved MPU (memory protection) with catching memory access error Enabled
• Improved AMMX2 instruction set with acceleration features for Video decoding, Image Decoding, 2D-games, 3D-games
• Improved WHDLOAD compatibility
• Improved Faster Boot time

SAGA Driver Changelog:

• Added VControl 1.1 (replace VampireTool)
• Updated SAGA driver installer
• Updated SDNet to 1.0 (Bax)
• Improved VampireGFX performance with AMMX (Bax)
• Complete VampireGFX driver rewrite in ASM (flype)

Download: Vampire Core & Saga Driver (1210)

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Vampire GOLD2 Core Released for V600 v2 & V500 v2.

Changelog:

• AMMX greatly improved.
• Added CPU counters.
• Added TURTLE mode.
• Modified PCR register. 68080 now acts as a 060.
• Modified MOVEC Rc,Rn (reads in User mode and Writes in Supervisor mode)
• Improved some loops patterns.
• Improved self-modifying code support.
• Improved memory controller to be full 32-bit.
• Improved HDMI core.

Also, SAGA Driver package has been updated to v0.11 to accomodate new things.

Download: Vampire Core & Saga Driver (1465)

source: apollo-accelerators.com

The Vampire 600 V2 is the newest and the fastest accelerator available for your Commodore Amiga 600.  There is nothing on the market that can compete with its performance and price. It is intended to be used as an educational tool to allow users to be able to learn programming for the 68K series of CPU’s and see the capability of todays powerful FPGA’s.

This is not the final product as there will be constant impovements to the board and core and new programming instructions are being continually added.

Main Features:

• 128MB Fastmem RAM.
• Digital video output (HDMI).
• SD card for HDD storage.
• 64 bit core, full 32 bit compatibility.
• Directly update core from the Amiga without need for external programmer.
• FPU and 16 bit Audio is planned for future updates.

Gallery of the installation and testing:

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Video Vampire A600 V2 Unboxing/Testing (sorry only in Italian language)

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