This reports itself as a “68080” processor and being a FPGA-based solution, it can also be updated on a regular basis with downloads from the Apollo site.

The Vampire boards from Apollo take a different approach: Rather than sourcing original Motorola processors (or requiring the end-user to find and separately purchase a processor, as in the case of the Warp series of cards), they designed a new 68000-compatible core and implemented it in FPGA form. Notable examples include the open-source TerribleFire range, and the new Warp 1260 which utilises a Motorola 68060, the fastest of the 68000 series of processors produced by Motorola and used in the original Amigas. New products are being designed and released even today, with the accelerator scene - providing faster processors and often other additions - seeing a resurgence of late. Faster processors, more memory, PCI expansion boards, graphic cards, network adapters… There really is seemingly no limit to the ingenuity of the scene, even going so far as to re-purpose the A1200 clockport into providing USB connectivity! I would imagine that most in the Amiga scene are familiar with the Vampire range of accelerators, but here’s a brief recap: The Amiga was always a very expandable and flexible system - over the years, a wide variety of add-on cards were produced that pushed the machine beyond its original design limitations and opened up a whole world of expansion possibilities. You could try for the content and I’ll try and update this article with any archived copies I can find. A lot of the links to the Apollo Wiki and other documentation have disappeared or now redirect to different sites. So grab a coffee and read on below!Īs is tradition in Amigaland, there has been a serious case of link-rot below. This has ended up as one of my longer blog posts, with lots of screenshots and photos, but if there’s anything in particular I have missed that you would like to know about please feel free to leave a comment or get in touch with me. What follows is a review/retrospective on my first month or so of usage of this card - I’ll cover the ordering experience, hardware, installation, updates and software and wrap up with my thoughts and reflections on the project.

Process 15: Loaded as command: AmIRC.os4-3.1.After months of being on the waiting list, I recently recieved my Apollo Vampire V1200V2 accelerator! Since then, my Amiga has had a new lease of life so I thought I’d write an update covering all the stuff I would have wanted to know while I was waiting for the package to arrive. Process 13: Loaded as command: CSD2:Internet/ZitaFTPServer/ZitaFTPServer Process 12: Loaded as command: Work:Internet/VNC/RVNCd/RVNCd Process 11: Loaded as command: sys:UHC/c/Synerg圜lient Process 10: Loaded as command: alt-wb:OtherUtilities/Hostsmgr-1.0/HostsMgr Process 9: Loaded as command: LIBS:Hollywood/polybios.ext Process 5: Loaded as command: AAMP:Common/bin/httpd Process 4: Loaded as command: AAMP:Common/libexec/mysqld Process 3: Loaded as command: AAMP:Common/bin/xlaunch You can use 'status' to see what apps are running. To install AmiSSL I have to shutdown the following: Certainly, this is something I can revisit for 3.1, to see if I can come up with a better solution, although obviously it is too late for those who already is common.

If this is the worst thing to go wrong with the 3.0 release, I'll be very happy. Those who upgraded their installs from a 2.3 or earlier install, this will be especially true - they might even have the old pre-2.4 imageset installed still (it bugs me when I see people posting screenshots with those old images, which we already changed 17 years ago!). The thinking was that some users may either not have installed any custom images or may have a load of junk in there. Yes, I did ponder heavily over what to do in cases like this - I should probably have mentioned in the installer that you'll need to copy over any custom images manually, just as you installed them originally. Installer should copy across the entire directory including any images I have added. Took me a few moments to figure out what went wrong. So when I first started 3.0 I got a bunch of missing images error messages. These sit in the same dir as the other button images but for some reason were not migrated. But I had some custom buttons that I had custom images for. The installer detected the version bump, and created a new directory for 3.0 and migrated files across. Daveyw wrote:BTW, had a slight hiccup when I upgraded from 2.5 to 3.0.

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