This is a laptop drive in a holder designed to adapt laptop drives for large 5.25" bays. The drive itself is SATA and I used ab IDE--->SATA adaptor to connect it to the Vampire accelerator.

I tried using a CD32 emulator but with limited success. The V4 cards do have Akikio (the C2P conversion logic part) built in but there were so few games that used that. It is hard to boot from CD32 games like on a real CD32 because the Amiga 1200 and AFAIK the Amiga 500 didn't really boot from CD. Hence the need for some sort of emulation. I was a little disappointed with how few CD32 games worked properly. But this is the nature of CD32 games on A1200s.

This is a standalone FPGA board, though.

1. The Icedrake is the next version of this card and has more features. The V1200 isn't produced any more but you will still find it second hand. 2. It will run OS3.9 just fine. I used OS 3.9 without any issue. As for the mediator..........I don't know that it does work. I seem to recall someone saying they had tried it and it didn't work for them. I would assume that it doesn't until you find someone who has got it working.

There was a beta core (firmware) released this week. It does this I believe but also increases chip ram to 9MB. A nice upgrade.

​@@RonnieBeck Ok, that's good to know, thanx. I really love my original A1000 (Ser# 0000066) and having my A1000 Vamped would be cool. But, most of me things keeping it stock is best. I really thought Commodore got it (mostly) right with the A1200 -- so an IceDrake equipped 1200 could be my ideal daily Amiga -- but I wouldn't want to be missing out on the ChipRAM speed of the Firebird and V4SA in doing so. So yeah, if they're doing this in the new firmware, that would be ideal.

I figured I'd check out some other Amiga accelerator and graphics products... Here are my findings. I have a ZZ9000 and 060 in an A4k... compared to say a V4 equipped A2k and A1200. In terms of ZZ9000 ecosystem the IRC support is empty but there are good forum posts. The card itslef has color shifts on HDMI out as it doesn't sit securely in the zorro 3 slot, IF you run a pal game on an NTSC machine the scan doubler chokes and displays a distored image in the top half of the screen. USB disk support didn't work for me as stated in the manual. Available RAM comes and goes...For the CPU component of this setup ...The 060 card, well that a BFG 68060 50mz LC chip. IT's all you can get nowdays... and it is SLLOOOWWW compared to anything on the Vampire range. In can say the V4 range represents the best value for dollar compared to other offerings. I respect the other product offerings and they have their place and I appreciate the time, passion and effort to make them. But when I look at the total package V4 is the way. I will replace the slow 060 card and nicely made ZZ9000 when Kraken comes out for sure.

and Doug yes the interlace jitter is a pain in the ass. The V4 doesn't have an AGA Amber implementation internal scan doubling option AFAIK. But benefit of FPGA dev is this can eventually be sorted out.

That is for sure not the experience you should have. It sounds like there is something seriously wrong with your Amiga or you have defective Firebird. OS 3.2 works perfectly fine. It is stable for me at least on the two cards I have. If you join the Apollo Team discord server we could try and help you troubleshoot it.

@@RonnieBeck hours wasted with support and they couldn't get my systems to work. I sold everything.

@@mauricedoerr1992 With a sample size of one, and not actually having found the cause, you can't definitevely point the finger of blame at the Apollo team. Amigas are old, they're not the most reliable things even before you put in modern kit. You could have asked them, or someone else, to test it for you in another Amiga. They'd replace faulty equipment, assuming you bought it new.

No AGA amber implementation to scan double.. What do you need interlace mode for?.... Aside from NTSC / PAL and higher res for graphics and video compatibility it offered very little. Yes a higher res screen mode but it flickered. It was actually a sales killer when displayed alongside flicker free Macs and PCs of the era... For flicker free video I use the RTG modes.

Interlaced Screen modes work, but they aren't deinterlaced. Sorry that I didn't make that clearer. That said, no game I am aware of ever used them for game play and productivity software can usually use RTG screens or be mode promoted. I agree it would be nice if it were deinterlaced but the need for them is the exception rather than the rule.

@@manueljesus3147 Dpaint, Brilliance... these hires interlaced screenmodes are essential for video work. And the programs really don't shine without them. It's a drag to have to work at half the resolution just to have to avoid flicker. Half the amount of pixels to work with in ntsc / pal modes. Had to sell my V4 and stick with my V2. Not a real Amiga in my opinion without them. Amiga was designed specifically around Pal / NTSC. Taking it away, I think it's a mistake.

I agree, this whole range is not finished, for the price it is exaggerated

@@manueljesus3147 I actually use Interlace modes almost exclusively. I would say 95% of my Amiga use is in 640 x 480, and much higher resolutions on my A1200 with my Indivision MK2 - of course with that they are not interlaced... but you know what I mean!

One of the problems with a dedicated GPU is drivers. Assuming they could implement the interface, there are no drivers for "new" PCI-E cards, and I doubt there are many people prepared to do any. Which cards? You'd never get access to the majority of features built in to modern GPUs, and you'd only have drivers for one or two specific cards at best. I also doubt the V4 devices could handle the data transfers to and from a modern card to make it worth while.

The FPGA that was used in the V2 wasn't produced and was impossible to find in large enough quantities. This coincided with the developer Majsta, the man who designed and produced the board, retiring from the project. The decision to discontinue the V2 was a sad but inevitable and eventually all good things come to an end. This board will replaced with the something aligned to the V4. The claim that "every game released today requires more than 128MB of available RAM." is just silly. Even if it were the case (and it isn't) how could the apollo team force independent software developers to adhere to such a ridiculous restriction. Which games enforce this fake requirement, unnecessarily? Your disappointment in the discontinuation of the V2 is understandable. Your other claim is just baseless rubbish.