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FPGA: Apollo-Core-Update GOLD 2.17 "Bronto" (19. Jul. 2023)
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. Changes: Car...

Book: From Vultures to Vampires, Volume 2 available (09. Jul. 2023)
Two years after volume one of the "From Vultures to Vampires" books about Amiga history by former Commodore UK manager David Pleasance and A-EON Technology co-founder Trevor Dickinson, starting July 14 the second of in total three volumes will b...

Aminet uploads until 01.07.2023 (02. Jul. 2023)
The following files have been added until 01.07.2023 to Aminet: encore_morphiller.lha demo/misc 11M MOS Morphiller by Encore - demo f... ssh2fs.i386-aros.lha disk/misc 94K x86 SSHv2 file system client ssh2fs.m68k-amigaos.lha disk/misc...

Red Fern Manufacturing: Ultimate Expansion Board for Vampire 4 Standalone (04. Jun. 2023)
The announced Ultimate Expansion Board for the Vampire 4 Standalone FPGA Amiga clone, which has been available since 2019, can now be ordered - within the EU it will be sold by the Apollo team, outside directly by the New Zealand manufacturer Red Fer...

Audio player: AmigaAMP 3.34 (22. May. 2023)
Thomas Wenzel has released an update of his audio playback program AmigaAMP at the title link. Version 3.34 includes the following bugfixes: MHI is only released when it has to be. Volume settings are now restored correctly when reassigned Stutterin...

Apollo team: Comparision of Vampire accelerator boards (21. May. 2023)
Under the title link, the Apollo team has created an overview (PDF file) that compares the features of the different Vampire models....

Video: AmiTube and AmiFox running under AmigaOS 3.9 (26. Apr. 2023)
Dave 'Skateman' Koelman, who among other things wrote the article Using two graphics cards in the AmigaOne X5000, shows in a short video how he uses AmiTube and AmiFox on his Vampire Standalone under AmigaOS 3.9....

Trevor's Amiga Blog: Spring/Fall edition (20. Apr. 2023)
Trevor Dickinson of A-EON Technology has published a new article in his "Trevor's Amiga Blog" and titles it "Spring/Autumn Edition", alluding to his recent stays in England and New Zealand. He reports in detail about the upcoming visits to various tr...

Audio player: RNOTunes 1.1 for all Amiga systems (12. Apr. 2023)
RNOTunes is a GUI based audio player application with support for many different audio formats, embedded cover images, and Last.fm scrobbling (amiga-news.de reported). 'jPV^RNO' now has released version 1.1. Changes: Added button graphics previews in...

Blog: Benchmarks for "Lightwave 3D 5" for several hardware configurations (29. Jan. 2023)
The developer George 'walkereo' Sokianos reports in his latest blog entry on Ko-fi about benchmarks and findings to be drawn from them for the 3D graphics software LightWave 3D, which is also available for AmigaOS 3 until the release. The following hardwa...

Adventure interpreter: ScummVM 2.2.0 (17. Jan. 2023)
The developer 'NovaCoder' has been porting the adventure interpreter ScummVM to AmigaOS 3 for a long time: while there are current implementations of version 1.9 for RTG Amigas and AGA Amigas with 68060 processor, the version for AGA Amigas with 68030 pro...

Tool: identify-library 41.0 (23. Dec. 2022)
A few moments ago, Richard Körber has released version 41.0 of his identify.library (amiga-news.de reported). Changes: Removed IDTAG_Secondary (has never been fully realized anyway) VMC Amithlon is detected Updated Vampire names Warp1240/1260 is d...

Print magazine: Boing #5 (French) (11. Dec. 2022)
"Boing" is a French print magazine by Boing Attitude (among others Dir Me Up and Word Me Up XXL) for all Amiga systems and contains 52 A4 pages in colour. The fifth issue contains among other things an interview with the musici...

Advent Calendar: Door 4 - The Apollo team (04. Dec. 2022)
For the fourth door and thus for the second Advent, the Apollo team contributes an anecdote. Their approach of FPGA-based turbo cards for Amigas represented a new alternative in terms of upgrading aged hardware besides the accelerator boards carrying a re...

Guest article: Trevor's personal review of the Amiga37 (30. Oct. 2022)
Trevor Dickinson traveled from New Zealand to present A-EON and AAA Technology at Amiga37, which took place two weeks ago. We asked him for his impressions of his stay in Germany and the event, which he has described to us below. Many thanks to Trevor. ...

Event: Amiga Apollo Meetup in Alkmaar (NL) (27. Oct. 2022)
On November 19, the "Amiga Apollo Meetup" will take place in Alkmaar, the Netherlands. Hosted by the Dutch Apollo Vampire user group, all other Amiga and AmigaOne systems are also welcome. Social exchange is the main focus, but there is also enough space ...

Trading simulation with RPG elements: download version of 'Aquabyss' available (24. Oct. 2022)
The trading simulation 'Aquabyss' (screenshots, video), which was released at Amiga 37 a week ago, is now also available in the developer's web shop for just under 30 euros . The one-week delay was caused by problems with payment provider Paypal, which ha...

Amiwest: A-EON, Amigakit and ExecSG presentations (23. Oct. 2022)
Traditionally, representatives of the AmigaOS 4/AmigaOne camp are attending AmiWest to give presentations about the current state of affairs and announce the next releases being worked on. This year, Trevor Dickinson and Matthew Leaman from A-EON/Amigakit...

Amiga37: Information on exhibitors and its booths (update 5) (24. Sep. 2022)
There are still three weeks to go until Amiga37 in Mönchengladbach. For all those who were able to get hold of a ticket, we asked some exhibitors what visitors can expect at the respective booths, if there are any special events planned etc. AAA Tech...

Real-time strategy: Update of Vanilla Conquer (16. Sep. 2022)
Artur Jarosik had released version 1.0 of his port of the first part of the real-time strategy series Command & Conquer to the Amiga in May (amiga-news.de reported). Now he has released a separate version ("vanillatd_no_vamp.zip") for Amigas without Vampi...