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

[Philippe Noble]

Great !!!

How does it compare in term of speed, vs CT60 or Firebee?

Philippe

> On 25 Feb 2017, at 22:08, 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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