Amiga: Behold the Vampire!

Amiga 600

With the Vampire V2, your A600 will be much faster than an Amiga 4000 with a 040 CPU! Wow!

Hi guys,

If you have an Amiga 600 you want to upgrade, then you’re in luck. The Vampire V2 turbo-card is due for release soon, and it’ll make your 600 faster than it has ever been before. Please have a look at the specs below. The information is from the Apollo Forum:

VAMPIRE V2 (A600):

The Vampire V2 is a CPU and Memory Upgrade for the Amiga 600. It comes with some extra features on top.

Main Features:

  • APOLLO CPU: Apollo CPU is a new 64bit core which is backwards compatible with 680×0 CPU-cores. According to AMIGA AIBB, Apollo plus Vampire provides the performance of an 68030 @ 500 MHz
  • 128 MB Fastmem: 128 MB of Fastmem which which deserves this name. According to AIBB memtest and AMIGA bus-speed, this fastmem is the fastest AMIGA fastmem ever. Its even faster than the memory on several PowerPC Neo Amigas.
  • Extra features: Not all might be enabled / will be enabled via update later.
  • Digital Video Out: Supporting up to 24bit truecolor and FULLHD 1920×1080 resolution
  • 16bit Audio
  • SD-Card is Hard drive

Wow, that is some list! :) Look at those features, and not least the speed! Do I want one? Yes. Do I have an Amiga 600? No. Hopefully it’ll be out for the Amiga 1200 as well in the future. If not, then I’ll get an Amiga 600 to play around with. ;)

Anyone reading this interested in purchasing the Vampire V2? If yes, what will you be using it for? Games, productivity, showing off demos? :) I’d be using it for all those reasons, hehe.

Here’s a screenshot of Sysinfo testing the speed of the card:

 

 

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