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Media player: EaglePlayer 2.06 (17. Jul. 2020)
EaglePlayer is a media player for the Amiga playing a lot of audio formats (MP3, AIFF, MOD...). The program has been available for many years and still is being updated. Version 2.06 provides many minor improvements and a new "Skin" for the user-interface...

Asteroids clone for Vampire: Preview videos for 'Jake and Peppy' (15. Jul. 2020)
"Jake and Peppy" is a clone of the classic game Asteroids and Super Stardust which is written for the Vampire architecture and therefore requires its Fast-RAM access as well as the extended command set AMMX. On Youtube some preview videos are available wh...

Scene World Podcast Episode 91: David Pleasance talked about his new book (03. Jul. 2020)
In the 91th issue of the Scene World podcast, Jörg Dröge and Arthur Heller have interviewed David Pleasance (Commodore UK) talking about his time at Commodore and his new book From Vultures to Vampires. ...

Source codes of MUIMapparium and Leu released, development abandoned (17. Jun. 2020)
Marcus "ALB42" Sackrow has released the source code of some of his Amiga applications on Github, among others his spreadsheet Leu as well as the OpenStreetMap viewer MUIMapparium. In an entry in his blog Sackrow explained that he discontiniued developing ...

Crowdfunding: A book from David Pleasance and Trevor Dickinson (12. Jun. 2020)
After Commodore - The Inside Story, the former "managing director" of Commodore UK, David Pleasance, is working on a second book, this time in co-operation with Trevor Dickinson from A-EON. The book with the subtitle "From Vultures to Vampires" will tell ...

Modplayer: AmiModRadio 0.9995 (29. May. 2020)
AmiModRadio is "a program to automatically download, extract, and play modules from Aminet." A rating function is included as well. The new version includes new skins, fixes bugs and now also runs on an A4000/30, an A1200 with 68060 processor and an A600 ...

File manager: MCAmiga 0.5 for all Amiga systems (update) (28. May. 2020)
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's MCAmiga is a file manager similar to Norton and Midnight Commander which additional to the mouse interface can be also completely controlled with the keyboard. MCAmiga is available for AmigaOS (m68k, PPC), MorphOS and AROS (x86, x...

Aminet-Uploads until 11.04.2020 (12. Apr. 2020)
The following archives have been added to Aminet until April 11th, 2020: whatmask.lha comm/net 143K 68k Subnet mask notation conversi... IndivisionAGAVampireP... driver/mon 1K 68k Patch Indivision AGA software... happybat.lha ...

Platformer: Hydra Castle Labyrinth (10. Apr. 2020)
Artur 'Arti' Jarosik has ported the Metroidvania clone "Hydra Castle Labyrinth" to AmigaOS. His version supports joysticks and (CD32-) gamepads, runs in windows or fullscreen mode, scales the screen solution as required and supports "save points". An Amig...

FPGA: Apollo-Core update Gold 2.12 (22. Mar. 2020)
The Apollo-Core is a FPGA reimplementation of the m68k series produced by Motorola which also provides a separate graphics driver called SAGA. The core is used in the Vampire accelerator boards 600 V2, 500 V2+ and 1200 V2. Among other ch...

New articles on Obligement website (01. Mar. 2020)
The articles below have been added to the website of the french AmigaOS and MorphOS magazine Obligement during the last two months. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information. January/February 2020 news Old...

Another FPGA-based CPU card in developement (29. Feb. 2020)
Mike Stirling is building a FPGA-based accelerator board which will use the open source 68k core TG68 as CPU. The latest prototypes still use a FPGA developer board (Terasic DE0 Nano) which is connected to the CPU socket of the Amiga. Using self made boar...

3d model: Enclosure for Vampire V4 Standalone (30. Jan. 2020)
Jorgen Bilander has created a 3d model for a Vampire enclosure inspired by classic Commodore keyboard cases. Hints and a lot of pictures he has also provided. ...

FPGA accelerator board: Vampire 1200 V2 can be ordered (07. Jan. 2020)
Already before Christmas it was announced, that the first 100 of the Vampire-1200-V2 accelerator board produced by Igor Majstorovic can be ordered under the title link. According to the developers, "there will be another batch of 100 cards very shortly." ...

AROS: Summary of development from 2017 to 2019 (05. Jan. 2020)
Under the title link, Nick Andrews and Matthias Rustler have summarized the development of the open source operating system AROS during the past three years. Keywords are the move to GitHub, the experimental support for several cores, the accelerated d...

New articles on Obligement website (02. Jan. 2020)
The articles below have been added to the website of the French Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement during the last two months. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information. November/December 2019 news. Old art...

Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 141 (06. Nov. 2019)
The English and German editions of Amiga Future 141 (November/December 2019) have been released today and can be ordered from the magazine staff or various Amiga dealers. The publisher points out that the magazine was selling very well recently, resulting...

Vampire team distributed pirated software during 'Vampire Standalone' launch (04. Nov. 2019)
For years, a customized, unlicensed distribution of AmigaOS 3.9 targeting the FPGA based 'Vampire' accelerators and Amiga clones has been available on the net. The package comes with tons of preinstalled software - including hundreds of games and pro...

Print magazine: Amiga Future 141, preview and excerpts (23. Oct. 2019)
A preview and excerpts of issue 141 (November/december 2019) of the Amiga Future have been released today. Among other things, this issue features "The Niggemann Files", ein report from the Gamescom 2019 und a review of the Vampire V4 'Standalone'....

Shoot'em Up: RESHOOT R Classic Disk Edition & AROS port (23. Oct. 2019)
Press release: The development studio spielscherreiber and the publisher APC & TCP today announce the availability of the retro action game RESHOOT R in two new variants. From now on the game is also available as a floppy disk version under the name RESHO...