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Shoot 'em up for the vampire: preview video for 'Jake and Peppy (26. Apr. 2021)
In a Youtube video, the graphic designer of the development team presents a shoot'em up that is being developed specifically for vampire accelerator. The release of 'Jake and Peppy' is planned for late 2021, early 2022....

FPGA accelerator card: Raptor 1200 (26. Apr. 2021)
In a video interview, Gunnar von Böhn of Apollo team announces a feature-reduced variant of the FPGA accelerator card Vampire. If everything would proceed well, he expects the first cards already next month. The new card, too, would be produced by Igor Ma...

Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.88 (19. Apr. 2021)
RedPill developed by Carlos Peris is a Game Construction Kit written in AmiBlitz 3.8, which can help developing games of diverse genres - see our little review of two games. Recently a preview video of the forthcoming game "Putter" has been released being...

CDXL play: AGABlaster 0.9.82 (23. Jan. 2021)
AGABlaster plays Commodore's CDXL videos. In version 0.9.82 support for standard 12-bit AGA6-8 and HAM8 videos (used in several games in the late 90s) was added. Additionally optimized versions for all 68k processors inclusive Vampire are available. ...

Book announcement:'From Vultures to Vampires' splitted into two parts (21. Jan. 2021)
Last summer the second book of the former Commodore-UK manager David Pleasance, written together with Trevor Dickinson (A-EON), was successfully financed by a Kickstarter campaign. According to Pleasance in two updates (1, 2), they "seriously underestimat...

Apollo core: Release 5 for Vampire 4 (20. Jan. 2021)
The Apollo core is a FPGA reimplementation of the m68k series of Motorola providing a new graphic resolution called SAGA. The core is used in the Vampire accelerator boards. Apollo Release 5 provides the following changes: Copper compatibility fixed....

Aminet uploads until 16.01.2021 (17. Jan. 2021)
The following files have been added until 16.01.2021 to Aminet: jansson_library.lha dev/c 215K OS4 native lib for manipulating J... NoMoreDiv0_Debug.lha dev/debug 20K 68k Division by Zero Debugger FamousAmigaUses.lha docs/lis...

Aminet uploads until 02.01.2021 (03. Jan. 2021)
The following files have been added until 02.01.2021 to Aminet: Streamer2ItaCat.lha comm/www 12K Italian catalog for Streamer2 The_Future_Sound.zip demo/sound 153K 68k Musicdisk void-absolutedolle3.zip demo/sound 575K 68k Musicp...

Vampire 1200 also available in RELEC shop (11. Dec. 2020)
The Swiss trader RELEC has announced that the first batch of Vampire-1200 accelerator boards will be delivered to purchasers around the turn of the year. The first purchasers should have been informed to confirm their orders. RELEC will offer V1200 and V5...

Video: 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast #80 - accelerator board Vampire 500 V2 in A100 (15. Nov. 2020)
In issue 80 of his videocast 10MARC, Douglas Compton shows how he put the FPGA accelerator board Vampire 500 V2 into his Amiga 1000. ...

Print magazine: Amiga Addict announced (25. Oct. 2020)
"Amiga Addict" aims at reestablishing a british Amiga print magazine after 14 years. Required are 500 buyers, though. Currently, 84 copies of issue #1 have been preordered. Included will be all Amiga flavours from 68k via PPC and AROS to Vampire. ...

Vampire configuration tool: VControlGUI (17. Oct. 2020)
VControlGUI (video) is a graphical user interface for VControl which is a tool for configurating Vampire cards. The source code has been released on Github. ...

CDTV extension: Improved video signal using 'Ultimate CDTV video board' (24. Sep. 2020)
On Arananet the "Ultimate CDTV video board" is available which replaces the original CDTV video board of a CDTV "adding a great output quality" and completely removing "the verticals bars made on some monitors". The card offers a 15-khz-VGA-port and the t...

Workbench distribution: AmiKit XE 11.3 (16. Aug. 2020)
A free update for the Workbench distribution AmiKit, meant for emulators or Vampire hardware, has been released for users of the Version XE (11.x). The changes include several Software updates as well as a reworked startup-sequence, which according to the...

Apollo team launched AROS-based operating system project (10. Aug. 2020)
First the developer team of the Apollo-FPGA-Core used in the Vampire products did choose AROS as official operating system. After having had some problems with the free AmigaOS clone, the Kickstart-ROMs officially licenced from Cloanto were used. From aro...

Commercial Workbench distribution: Amikit XE for Vampire (06. Aug. 2020)
Version 11 ("XE") of the commercial Workbench distribution Amikit is now also available in a dedicated 'Vampire edition'. The distribution is described as "fully compatible with the Vampire V2 core". But since the V4 core is still in active development, t...

Announcement: Workbench distribution Amikit for Vampire planned (27. Jul. 2020)
On his website Ján Zahurančík has announced a version of his Workbench distribution 'Amikit' for Vampire boards. Currently more details are not available. The Amikit version is supposed to be released in August. ...

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. ...