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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." ...

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...

Video: Retro-Recipes-Episode about Amiga 4000 used for Apollo 13 and Titanic (17. Dec. 2019)
After introducing an Amiga of the former video game developers Team 17 (amiga-news.de reported) in the latest issue of his video series called "Retro Recipes", Christian 'Perifractic' Simpson has presented an Amiga 4000 which supposedly was used...

Amiga34: Announcements, videos and further pictures (Update) (14. Oct. 2019)
In this news item we want to summarize all other news additional to the MorphOS for x64 as well as some further pictures completing the ones from yesterday. In his speech Trevor Dickinson (A-Eon Technology) has announced an "Early-Adopter-Edition" of t...

A1200.net: Announcement of new Amiga keyboards (11. Oct. 2019)
On the ocassion of the Amiga 34 in Neuss which is taking place this weekend, the team of A1200.net representing on table 44/45 has announced its next project, a new Amiga compatible replacement keyboard: 100% Mechanical 100% Compatible with Mitsu...

FPGA computer: Vampire-V4 standalone version available at Amiga 34 (28. Sep. 2019)
At the Amiga 34, which will take place on 12./13. October in Neuss (Germany), the standalone version of the FPGA accelerator board Vampire V4 will celebrate its debut. For the Amiga 34, a special bundle was composed including the stand...

Event: Dickinson and Tyschtschenko at Amiga Future Gamescom booth (16. Aug. 2019)
Press release: Amiga Future: Again at Gamescom - Also this year the Amiga Future will be represented with APC&TCP at Gamescom in the retro area. Visitors can get detailed information about the Amiga computer system at the almost 90 m² booth and, of ...

Event: Apollo team at Gamescom 2019 (Germany) (12. Jul. 2019)
Additional to APC&TCP this year also the Apollo team will have their own stand at the Gamescom in Cologne (Germany). The developers of the FPGA core of the Vampire accelerator boards will be present from 21. to 24. August in Hall 10. ...

Video interview: Mike Battilana (Cloanto) (03. May. 2019)
In February the managing director of Cloanto, Mike Battilana, succeeded in transferring all Amiga rights from Amiga Inc. to "C-A Acquisition Corp." which was founded by him. After that Stephen 'ClusterUK' Jones (e.g. Checkmate A1500 Plus) started a crowd ...

Vampire V4 (standalone) boots AmigaOS 3.1 (29. Oct. 2018)
For the first time a video shows how the standalone version of the Vampire is booting AmigaOS 3.1. First it is booted without any volume and you can see that a modified Kickstart-ROM is used: "68080 Apollo Team, Test Exec Build, Not for public Use!". The ...

Print magazine: Amiga Future 134 - preview and extracts (14. Aug. 2018)
A preview and extracts of issue 134 (September/October 2018) of the Amiga Future have been released today. Among other things, this issue features reviews on Worthy and Bomb Jack Beer as well as a preview to the Gold3 AGA Apollo core ("AGA on the Amiga 60...

FPGA: Apollo core update Gold 2.10 / SAGA driver 1.4 (25. Jul. 2018)
Apollo core is an FPGA reimplementation of Motorola's m68k series that includes its own graphics called SAGA. The latter is available in version 1.4 now. The core is currently being used by Vampire turboboards 600 V2 and 500 V2(+). Among othe...

Podcast: Amiga Users Ireland - Commodore Power (10. Jun. 2018)
The latest podcast of the Amiga Users Ireland is about the MorphOS programs RNOWidgets, OpenXCom and MilkyTracker, the closure of the Apollo registrations this month and about the news that sufficient money was collected for producing new Amiga-500 cases....

Apollo-Team: Delay of Vampire V4, Vampire 600 V2.1 being produced (26. May. 2018)
Under the title link the Apollo team has announced that the release of the FPGA accelerator board Apollo V4 continues to be delayed. A single bug makes it necessary to rewrite an important part of the core. The team wrote: "Hundreds of hours have bee...

FPGA: Apollo-Core-Update Gold 2.9 (08. Apr. 2018)
The Apollo core is a FPGA-reimplementation of Motorolas m68k-series, which also provides a separate graphic mode called SAGA. Currently the core is used in the accelerator boards 600 V2 and 500 V2(+). All changes are listed under the title link: Bett...

FPGA: Apollo-Core-Update Gold 2.8 / SAGA driver 1.2 (22. Mar. 2018)
The Apollo core is a FPGA-reimplementation of Motorolas m68k-series, which also provides a separate graphic mode called SAGA. Currently the core is used in the accelerator boards 600 V2 and 500 V2(+). Changes in the latest core "Gold 2.8": Improved H...

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...

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. ...

Developer tools: vasm 1.8b and vlink 0.16b (02. Jan. 2018)
Frank Wille has released updates for the modular assembler vasm and the corresponding linker vlink. Changes: vasm 1.8b: Option -noialign disables the automatic instruction alignment.m68k: New Apollo Core instructions (core >=4035.jic), provi...

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 ...