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Podcast: AmiCast 26 - Interview with Steve Jones (18. Mar. 2018)
In Issue 26, Krzysztof Radzikowski has interviewed Steve 'ClusterUK' Jones (YouTube channel) in his podcast. Topics are the A1500, the Siamese system, Gateway, the Vampire accelerator boards and AROS. ...

Vampire accelerator boards: SAGA driver 1.1 (12. Mar. 2018)
SAGA is "a softcore reimplementation of the Commodore AGA chipset" which provides "some improvements over the original chipset". The corresponding driver now was updated to version 1.1 featuring the following changes: Updated VampireGFX.card to 1.12:...

FPGA: Apollo-Core-Update Gold 2.7 / SAGA driver 1.0 (01. Mar. 2018)
The Apollo core is a FPGA-reimplementation of Motorolas m68k-series, which also provides a separate graphic output called SAGA. Currently the core is used in the accelerator boards 600 V2 and 500 V2(+). Changes in the latest core "Gold 2.7": Fast Har...

New articles on Obligement website (01. Mar. 2018)
The articles below have been added to the French Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement's website during the last two months. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information. January/February 2018 news. News: Present...

Collective purchase order: Motherboard, network card, 68030 accelerator board (15. Feb. 2018)
Amy-ITX is an Amiga motherboard in standard ITX form factor. The board has to be equipped with the usual Amiga custom chips, offers two Zorro slots (DMA is only supported on one of the slots) and is compatible to accelerator boards like the Vampire 500, w...

Vampire accelerator board: SAGA driver 0.14 (28. Jan. 2018)
Under the title link for Vampire accelerator boards version 0.14 of the SAGA driver has been released. The latest Apollo core "Gold 2.5" is required. ...

Amiga motherboard in ITX form factor: Amy ITX (25. Jan. 2018)
Already for some years "Amy", which is an Amiga motherboard in standard ITX form factor (170x170 mm), is developed. The board has to be equipped with the Amiga-Custom-Chips, offers two Zorro slots (DMA is supported on one of the slots) and is compatible w...

Games launcher: X-bEnCh 1.1 X-mas Public Beta Release (26. Dec. 2017)
Jim Neray's X-bEnCH is a graphical user-interface with up to 640 colours (AGA; 128 on OCS/ECS-computers) which can replace the Workbench for launching WHDLoad-games and other applications and requires low hardware resources. An integrated command line as ...

FPGA processor: 68080 is to licenced to hardware producers for free (06. Nov. 2017)
Gunnar von Boehn offers to provide his reimplementation of a 68k processor calles 68080 to further hardware producers. Currently the Vampire accelerator boards ("Apollo Cores") are equipped with a 68080 which are available for A500/A600 and announced for ...

Dock in Mac OS style: New version of MacLikeDock (update) (19. Oct. 2017)
In a tutorial for beatifying Workbench, Stefan Egger has pointed out that an updated version of the dock MacLikeDock is available. The program which was originally written for AmigaOS 4 imitates the look and the performance of the dock of Mac OS...

French print magazine: aMiGa=PoWeR 59 (14. Oct. 2017)
Since 1998 the French printed magazine aMiGa=PoWer has been published by the Association Française du Libre Essai (AFLE). Among others issue issue 59 offers a review of the Vampire accelerator board as well software reviews of Reshoot, Bubbelsche de luxe,...

Operating system: FreeMiNT distribution for Vampire (04. Oct. 2017)
MiNT ("Mint is now TOS") is the successor of Ataris TOS with multitasking functionality. Stefan Niestegge has arranged a distribution of the open source operating system which now is called FreeMiNT for Amiga computers equipped with a Vampire accelerator ...

Podcast: Amiga Users Ireland Podcast #7 - Mamma Miga (13. Sep. 2017)
In the seventh issue of the English-language podcast of the Amiga Users Ireland they have talked about the accelerator board Vampire 4. ...

A600: Vampire HDMI mount/ESC VGA mount (23. Aug. 2017)
Stefan Egger offers slf-made mounts for the HDMI port of a Vampire 600 and for the VGA port of an Indivision ECS. If you have removed the TV modulator from your Amiga 600, you can set up Egger's mount instead of it - the case has not to be ...

Amiga Impact: Further pictures of FPGA accelerator board Vampire V4 (09. Aug. 2017)
For the fourth quarter of 2017 version 4 of the FPGA accelerator board Vampire was announced (amiga-news.de reported). Under the title link today Amiga Impact has published further pictures which show the standalone version and a bare board in a alum...

Hardware: Vampire V4 announced inclusive A1200 and standalone version (03. Aug. 2017)
In a press release and in the forum of the project the Apollo team has announced the next generation of the FPGA-based accelerator board, which for the first time will be also offered as "standalone" version. Three different versions are offered: ...

Vampire: Videos about integration of AGA chipset into Apollo core (21. Jun. 2017)
Under the title link during the last days some videos have been published which demonstrate the progresses "on the integration of the AGA chipset into the Apollo core" of the FPGA accelerator board Vampire. The video signal is carried on HDMI. ...

Aminet-Uploads until 03.06.2017 (04. Jun. 2017)
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until June 3rd, 2017: AFile_src.lha biz/misc 180K AFile source code AGraph_src.lha biz/misc 70K AGraph source code LiquidMIG.lha demo/intro 565K 68...

FPGA accelerator board: Vampire available in shops (30. May. 2017)
Since about a year the Vampire accelerator boards have been no longer manually put together which made it more expensible but also enabled mass production. Therefore meanwhile diverse shops can be delivered: Relec (Switzerland) and Amigakit (Great Britain...

3D print: Vampire mount for Amiga 600 (30. May. 2017)
An user of a Vampire has created a mount, which fixes the FPGA accelerator board within an A600. It consists of two frames: Both frames can be printed with a 3D printer. Corresponding templates are available at Thingiverse. ...