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18.Aug.2025



 Demo party: Amiga productions of Evoke 2025
Last weekend, this year's edition of the "Evoke" demo party took place in Cologne (amiga-news.de reported). Numerous Amiga productions were presented there:

Invitations Alternative Platforms One Screen ANSI / ASCII (Amiga) (dr)

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18.Aug.2025



 FPGA: Apollo core 11k
The Apollo Core is an FPGA reimplementation of Motorola's m68k series, which also includes its own graphics output called Super-AGA. The current version 11k can be installed in all models of the V4 series. Read the official press release:

Hello Amiga and Vampire fans The new Core Release 11K is finished and ready for you. One year development time went into this Core release. What does it bring you?
  • Compatibility with a number of games has been improved
  • The CRT like display of old Amiga games got nicer, making the game look even more authentic now.
  • The built-in deinterlacer/flicker fixer has been improved so that you can use old games or applications that used interlaced modes
  • For improved compatibility with old games, the CPU speed can now be set in 4 stages: A2000 speed, A1200+ speed, A4000 speed, full throttle.
  • The FPU (floating point unit) has been improved / compatibility has been increased
  • Some FPU commands like FADD / FSQRT have been accelerated
  • The CPU has become more powerful - this is very noticeable in demanding tasks such as video playback or demanding games like Robin Hood.
  • Maggie 3D texture mapping has been significantly improved.
  • Maggie has become much faster,
  • and Maggie also supports more features and alpha blending modes.
  • We added new screenmodes.
  • System Super-AGA DMA was upgraded to do 256 Bit bursts
ROM Improvements
  • The ROM includes a debugger like "actionreplay" this is very useful for coding or for hacking games.
  • The built-in drivers can now also boot from the SD port (not just from CF).
  • Users can now save their preferred settings for SAGA or CRT mode in the software acceleration settings – no more cumbersome jumpers required.
  • IDE drivers support now CDrom, and several drives in connected.
  • IDE drivers support also several controllers, e.g. IDE on A600 mainbaord + IDE on Manticore.
This release includes a great many improvements and over a year of work. In my opinion, this is the absolute best core.

The new cores work very good together with APOLLO-OS distro 9.5.

If you want to install your own OS version, or continue to run older release - please mind that you need to update some tools/drivers.

We improved the way IDE drivers are loaded. This change does require that you update APOLLOMAP and APOLLOFLASH tool!

In general I would recommend to either use APOLLO-OS 9.5, or if you run anything else to update the whole SAGA-Driver package.

Please note that the Accelerators Cards not need a jumper anymore for selecting Super-AGA /CRT mode. They will per default run in Super-AGA mode and you can by software set them in the mode you want. We will publish a tool maybe with gui for this soon. Please remove the jumper! If you dont want to run them in Super-AGA mode, please wait with the update for the tool the coming days. (dr)

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18.Aug.2025
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 Point-and-click adventure: NEONnoir 1.2.2
The point-and-click adventure "NEONnoir", in which the player takes on the role of a down-and-out private detective who has to track down a drug-addicted daughter from a good family, has been updated. Version 1.2.2 fixes a few minor bugs, and a WHDLoad version is now available for the first time. (cg)

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18.Aug.2025



 Open source A4091 software package: A4091 version 42.33
For ReA4091, the open source replica of Commodore's Fast SCSI2 controller "A4091", there is also an open source software package available, which contains AmigaOS drivers, a ROM image, a test utility and software for debugging the driver. Since our first news item, versions 42.32 and 42.33 have been released, offering improved support for CD-ROM/DVD drives (especially with ACARD adapters) and A4000T support (including boot menu and CD boot support), among other things. (dr)

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18.Aug.2025
Allanon


 Preview video: "The Gate"
At the beginning of October last year, we presented Fabio 'Allanon' Falcucci's AMOS game "The Gate", a mixture of "Impossible Mission" and "Project Firestart" with his own ideas and concepts. The developer reports on the current status of the project in a recent Patreon post and has also published a short video under the title link. (dr)

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