[Freemint-list] fVDI driver for Amiga + Vampire V2: SAGA.SYS

[Rob M]

I really hope they make that APOLLO CORE 68080 board.. will be very
interesting.

Rob


On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 8:08 PM, Vincent Rivière <
vincent.riviere at freesbee.fr> wrote:

> Hello.
>
> I have written an fVDI driver for Amiga + Vampire V2 SAGA HDMI output.
> Basically, this means that real Amiga + Vampire V2 accelerator give the
> same
> feeling as ARAnyM, including speed and high resolutions.
>
> See result there:
> https://s11.postimg.org/pev2e9kw3/saga.jpg
>
> There is no blitter on SAGA, but the Apollo 68080 is fast enough to provide
> a fast and pleasant experience. Currently, only 16-bit video modes are
> supported. It works fine up to 1024x768. It even works in 1680x1050 on my
> 22" monitor, but due to hardware memory bandwidth limitation, the screen
> automatically blanks when there are too many memory access in those modes.
> I
> also suspect bad timings somewhere, for sure there is room for improvements
> (both FPGA and software) regarding to high resolutions.
>
> As usual on foreign hardware, such setup is only able to run clean software
> which doesn't make direct access to Atari hardware. Compatibility should be
> more or less the same as Milan.
>
> Binaries and sources (from GitHub) are available there:
> http://vincent.riviere.free.fr/soft/m68k-atari-mint/archives/mint/fvdi/
>
> Really, this is another very pleasant platform to run FreeMiNT and Atari
> programs.
>
> More than 2300 people expressed their interest in buying Vampire V2 boards.
> You should see this as an opportunity to get more FreeMiNT users. And best
> of all: spread FreeMiNT stuff among Amiga people :-)
>
> --
> Vincent Rivière
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