O: Amiga 2000 (ZII) grafárna postavená na Spartanu 6 - VA2000

INFO:
Dear MNT VA2000 customer,

First, thank you for your trust, support and patience. You are helping to make this project a reality!

In the last weeks, I have been working hard with Scarab Hardware to turn the prototype into a finished product. Around a week ago I received the first sample of the first release candidate. I managed to get it working in my A2000 and A3000 and sent it off to an EMC (electromagnetic compatibility) lab for CE compliance testing. This is required for me to be able to legally sell this product. I also made a contract with a company that takes care about recycling (WEEE), another legal requirement for shipping the card.

As expected, the sample only partially passed EMV testing in the first round. It sends out some peaks in the RF spectrum that are a bit too high. In parallel I discovered that 3 signals on the board have to be rerouted to make the Zorro III mode possible. Scarab are working on the second sample that will include EMV filtering, ESD protection and fixes to the routing. I expect that we will be able to pass the testing with this second sample which I should receive between the 8th and 12th of August. If all goes well, we can start production of the first 100 boards. As the main chips have already been ordered, we expect this to go quickly and you should receive your boards in the middle of September.

Some good news:

• Hardware sprite (for the cursor) is implemented
• Hardware accelerated rectangle filling and block copying (blitting) works
• 8bit palette mode works
• Experimental 32bit color mode works
• MicroSD card driver works
• The card has a 26 pin expansion header for upgrades and experiments

And finally, some pictures of the sample:



Cheers,
Lukas

O: Amiga 2000 (ZII) grafárna postavená na Spartanu 6 - VA2000

OK - chapala

O: Amiga 2000 (ZII) grafárna postavená na Spartanu 6 - VA2000

Ja jsem myslel to co jsi psal v prispevku #40.

O: Amiga 2000 (ZII) grafárna postavená na Spartanu 6 - VA2000

Nevím, Jens se zatím přiznal k autorství toho emailu, kde chce licenční poplatky za P96.

O: Amiga 2000 (ZII) grafárna postavená na Spartanu 6 - VA2000

Majsta zverejnil nekde primo zneni toho emailu?

O: Amiga 2000 (ZII) grafárna postavená na Spartanu 6 - VA2000

Ten email s vyhruzkama ze je znici jak zverejnil Majsta, to psal taky Jens?

O: Amiga 2000 (ZII) grafárna postavená na Spartanu 6 - VA2000

Já mu nevěřím ani slovo od Indivision AGA mk2.

O: Amiga 2000 (ZII) grafárna postavená na Spartanu 6 - VA2000

Mimochodem se vcera k autorstvi emailu prihlasil skutecne Jens, a ten celou vec vysvetluje uplne jinak - v zasade to dela pro Amigisty (a vypada to, ze mu to zas nekteri zerou). API pro vyvoj ovladacu bude pro vyvojare zdarma, jen si budou muset uzivatele za P96 zaplatit. Ale ze by to zarucovalo dalsi vyvoj P96, o tom slovo nepadlo...

O: Amiga 2000 (ZII) grafárna postavená na Spartanu 6 - VA2000

Tohle asi nebude pravda. Narazil jsem na diskuzi z roku 2011, kde se k tomu vyjadril jak Michael Böhmer tak Chris Hodges a podle vseho se nepohodli mezi sebou a uz to nejde nijak "spravit" ani skrze nezavisleho prostrednika.

O: Amiga 2000 (ZII) grafárna postavená na Spartanu 6 - VA2000

P96 support pro WinUAE ma na triku Brian King. Ten to vytvoril pravdepodobne na zaklade licence (tento driver nikdo nezpochybnuje), ale nikde v zadnem souboru neni uvedene, ze by to King releasnul pod nejakou rozumnou licenci, na ktere by se dala postavit legalnost ovladacu vzniklych na zaklade techto souboru. Vsede je jen uvedeno Copyright 1997 Brian King.

O: Amiga 2000 (ZII) grafárna postavená na Spartanu 6 - VA2000

A winuae jako takovy je na tom jak? protoze thomas psal v tom blogu, ze z toho vysel
To jako zakazeme i winuae?

O: Amiga 2000 (ZII) grafárna postavená na Spartanu 6 - VA2000

@ExiE

Proto jsem napsal pololegalni - nazory na tuto vec se ruzni - ja osobne v tom legalni problem nevidim. Co se tyce Hyperionu, zverejnene podminky jsou pochopitelne (zaplatte, udelejte si driver, ale od nas nic necekejte...).

Edit: Gunnar na A1k.org uvedl, ze Hyperion se Apollo teamu dotazal, zda by radeji nechteli delat hardware s PowerPC.

O: Amiga 2000 (ZII) grafárna postavená na Spartanu 6 - VA2000

tak jsem tu diskuzi procetl celou az dokonce a chce se mi blejt

Proc pololegalniho? Minimalne v Evrope to je pravdepodobne z pohledu vyrobcu Vampire naprosto legalni. Ale i tak je moznosti vice. Zjistuji se podminky, za jakych by slo misto P96 pouzit CGX a jako dalsi moznost se rysuje pouziti RTG z AROSU (klon CGX).

P96 je ted hodne shnile jablko a do budoucna bude lepsi nechat autory, at si ho nacpou do
Stejne tak se predvedl Hyperion, pro nez je zvyseny zajem o 68K neprijemny a v podstate prima konkurence.

O: Amiga 2000 (ZII) grafárna postavená na Spartanu 6 - VA2000

Shnileho? Zdurela ega a spasitelsky komplex - s tim se prece potykame uz 20 let...

Predpokladam, ze Vampire/Apollo se nakonec vydaji cestou pololegalniho driveru bez podpory (a proti vuli) vlastniku Picasso96. Reseni to neni optimalni, ale pravdepodobne nikoli za hranou zakona. Pokud jednotlive strany dostanou rozum a nakonec se dohodnou, bude to jen plus. Asi bych mel sundat sve ruzove bryle...

O: Amiga 2000 (ZII) grafárna postavená na Spartanu 6 - VA2000

Zitat von majsta
Let me say only this, my mailbox are full of blackmail messages and I have saved all logs from IRC when few people tried to blackmail us inside apollo-team directly talking to me. At the time I wanted to publish all of this but agreement inside team was that we should continue to work and not waste time on this. Most interesting story was when one manager contacted me on IRC saying that BigGun is not telling the truth to the rest of us. Same time they were talking to him trying to convince him that such core can't work in amateur designed card like Vampire and that he should move on, to you know who. After all of that I received "contract" on my mail where basically says something like pay us money and we don't own license yet but we will and when we buy license we won't provide any upgrades or support you in any way. But at the end when you pay you can freely distribute what's already on aminet as a free package. If this story continues I ll provide all logs, "contracts" offers and even pictures of the card who was an offer from someone else in same group to replace Vampire and to destroy everything what's good inside apollo-team. Same people who tried same thing with minimig and I have also pictures to prove even that, pictures never published anywhere. Complete story is because Vampire and Apollo core will replace every card for Amiga. Milking time is over. Get over it!


neco shnileho jest na Amiga scene...