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Book: Volume 3 of "From Vultures to Vampires" announced (update) (27. Aug. 2022)
In a video message the former Commodore UK manager David Pleasance announced that the book "From Vultures to Vampires" (amiga-news.de reported), which was originally divided into two volumes, will be extended by a third volume. As he explained, they...

Two new OmniPort multiport adapters for Amiga 1200 (07. Aug. 2022)
Press release: Alinea Computer is pleased to offer two new versions of the OmniPort multiport adapter for the Amiga 1200 (amiga-news.de reported). On the one hand, it is a version for the Vampire 2 accelerator and on the other hand, one for the ScanPl...

Jump'n Run: Demo version of NinjFeratu (01. Aug. 2022)
The busy developers of Amiten Games - among others 'EmotiWorld' and 'CyberPunk Alien City' (amiga-news.de reported) - are in the process of writing another Jump'n Run for Amigas called 'NinjFeratu' using their 'AmiGen' game engine (YouTube video). A demo ...

Apollo-Team: Manticore accelerator board for Amiga 600 announced (13. Jul. 2022)
In addition to the currently already available turbo cards FireBird (for the Amiga models 500, 1000 and 2000) and IceDrake (for the Amiga 1200), which are based on the core of the Vampire 4 (amiga-news.de reported) the Manticore for the Amiga 600 is now a...

Apollo-Team: Two other games announced (13. Jul. 2022)
Kevin Saunders, graphic designer, artist and game designer (e.g. Boss Machine and RESHOOT PROXIMA 3) has given a taste of two games that are each being developed in collaboration with the Apollo team in two blog posts on Patreon: Work has already beg...

Apollo Space Invaders: Eighth developer version of the remake (08. Jul. 2022)
Arne von Boehn is writing a Space Invaders remake in 68K assembler on a Vampire4 standalone (amiga-news.de reported). Besides a new preview video there is also a new developer version for testing. As Gunnar explains, the game is playable,...

Italian Print/PDF magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 8 (24. Jun. 2022)
The Italian magazine 'Passione Amiga' is available in digital (3 Euro) or printed (7,50 Euro, Amazon) form. Its current issue consists of 36 color pages and includes the following topics: COVERDISK: World Premiere Playable Demo of SNAKY - T...

Video preview: Space Invaders Remake (20. Jun. 2022)
Arne von Boehn is writing a Space Invaders remake in 68K assembler on a Vampire4 standalone. The state of the game shown in this preview video was programmed in one day. It is not quite finished but already playable. Under the title link you can download ...

Real-time strategy: Vanilla Conquer with 'Mission Pack' support (07. Jun. 2022)
Artur Jarosik is known for various game ports like the platformer Hydra Castle Labyrinth or the action adventure Heart of Darkness besides his SDL implementation of the browser NetSurf. As a contribution for the AmiGameJam he started to port the first par...

Competition: 'Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam' started (01. Jun. 2022)
Today indie game developer Dan 'zooperdan' Thoresen (Wheel of Fortune implementation 'YAWoFFA') started the Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam: until September 1st 2022 Amiga developers are invited to write and submit games in AmiBlitz or Blitz Basic (amiga-news....

Workbench distribution: AmiKit survey on additional platforms (29. May. 2022)
The Workbench distribution 'AmiKit' is currently available for the target systems Windows, macOS, Linux, Raspberry Pi and Vampire V2 (amiga-news.de reported). In a current poll on Twitter the developer wants to know if more systems should be supported and...

Workbench distribution: AmiKit XE 11.5.0 for Vampire V2 (21. May. 2022)
Version 11.5.0 of the Workbench distribution AmiKit specially adapted for Vampire processor cards has just been released (amiga-news.de reported). The AmigaOS files, Kickstart ROMs and the Picasso96 graphics drivers are required. The update includes the f...

Real-time strategy: Vanilla Conquer V1.0 released (16. May. 2022)
Artur Jarosik is known for various game ports like the platformer Hydra Castle Labyrinth or the action adventure Heart of Darkness besides his SDL implementation of the browser NetSurf. As a contribution for the AmiGameJam he started to port the first par...

Amiga 500 HDD LED Adapter (14. May. 2022)
Matthias 'DJBase' Münch has designed a simple HDD-LED adapter for the Amiga 500, which visually displays the activity of a hard disk on accesses (e.g. on a Warp 560, Vampire 500 and many other expansion cards) via the original LED board (DISK LED). The ne...

Vampire V4+ Standalone: Mini-ITX I/O Board (11. May. 2022)
Matthias 'DJBase' Münch has designed a simple, modular and cost-effective I/O Board im Mini-ITX Format for the FPGA-based motherboard Vampire V4+ Standalone, which facilitates installation in standard desktop or tower cases. Those who want to rebuild...

Programming language: AmiBlitz 3.9.2 / 'Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam' announced (28. Apr. 2022)
At the end of March the new major release 3.9.0 of the programming language AmiBlitz was made available. Today with version 3.9.2 a second bug fix release was added. Changes: fixed some enforcer hits fixed drawing problem with text cursor updated sev...

Apollo Team: Deluxe remake of Menace in development (28. Apr. 2022)
Already in August last year Kevin Saunders, graphic designer, artist and game designer (Boss Machine and RESHOOT PROXIMA 3), announced the HD conversion of the Menace game for Vampire Amigas with an animated end boss on his homepage (amiga-news.de reporte...

Programming language: 'AMOS Professional Unity' project updates (21. Apr. 2022)
Almost exactly one year ago we reported last time about Frédéric 'AmiDARK' Cordier's attempt to add new features to the classic BASIC compiler AMOS Professional with 'AMOS Professional Unity'. In the meantime the project has been moved to a new website...

Italian print/PDF magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 6 (11. Apr. 2022)
The Italian magazine 'Passione Amiga' is available in digital (3 Euros) or printed (7.50 Euros) editions. The current issue has 36 colored pages (DIN A4) and covers the following topics: Videogiochi: Attack of the Petscii Robots, Jump!, Ermentrud, Th...

Book: Status update and ordering option for 'From Vultures to Vampires', Volume (16. Mar. 2022)
The first book of the two-volume "From Vultures to Vampires" by former Commodore UK manager David Pleasance and A-EON Technology co-founder Trevor Dickinson on Amiga history was delivered in the middle of last year. The Kickstarter campaign to fund the se...