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FPGA: Apollo-Core-Update "Silver6" (24. May. 2016)
The Apollo core is a FPGA-reimplementation of the m68k series of Motorola which also provides a separate graphic output called SAGA. Currently the accelerator boards "Vampire 600 V2" are using the core. Already last week the latest update "Si...

FPGA: Vampire-600/Apollo update "SILVER5" (07. May. 2016)
The Apollo-Core is a FPGA-reimplementation of the m68k-series of Motorola which also features an emulteg) graphic chip named SAGA. The latest update of the core which currently is used in the Vampire-600 accelerator boards togehter with the included ve...

FPGA: Vampire 600/Apollo-Update "SILVER3" (09. Apr. 2016)
The Apollo-Core is a FPGA-reimplementation of the m68k-series of Motorola, which also provides an (emulated) graphic chip named SAGA. The latest update of the core which currently is used in the Vampire accelerator boards provides the following improvemen...

Podcast: AmiCast 10 interviewed Gunnar von Boehn (Apollo-Core) (28. Feb. 2016)
In its tenth issue, the English-language podcast AmiCast has interviewed the developer Gunnar von Boehn who is working on the Apollo-Core as well as on the accelerator board Vampire II. ...

Amiga-Emulator: WinUAE 3.2 emulates PCI-hardware and bridgeboards (13. Nov. 2015)
For the first time, version 3.2 of the well-known Amiga emulator WinUAE can emulate a lot of additional hardware extensions. Besides, the 680x0 JIT and the PPC-emulation are now 64-bit compatible. WinUAE now requires a processor with Streaming SIMD Extens...

Amiga-Emulator: WinUAE 3.1 (08. Jun. 2015)
Version 3.1 of the well-known Amiga emulator WinUAE emulates a lot of additional hardware extensions for the first time. Besides, the sound of Paula can be mixed with other sound sources (CD, CD32 FMV, Toccate) and many other improvements have been implem...

FPGA: Phoenix-Core, Apollo-Core with 68020-support (19. Feb. 2015)
The Apollo-Core is a FPGA-reimplementierung of the m68k-series of Motorola. The new version, which is called Phoenix-Core by the developer, offers now support for the features of the 68020-processor. Beta testers already have access to Phoenix. ...

Apollo-Core: Photograph of Phoenix prototype (Update) (18. Jul. 2014)
Under the title link the developers of the Apollo-Core, which also is tested in the Vampire-600 accelerator board (amiga-news.de reported), have published a photograph of Rev. A of the Apollo-Phoenix-board. Probably in the third quarter of this ye...

68k-Core for FPGA: The "Apollo-Core" in use (13. May. 2014)
The "Apollo-Core" is the reimplementation of a m68k-CPU in a FPGA, which was originally developed for the Natami. Because instead of a CPU the Vampire 600 has a FPGA-unit, it can be used as test environment for the Apollo-Core. Now the developers (gr...

System-Patch for A3000/4000: ApolloFix loads 680x0.library to OnBoard-RAM (27. May. 2013)
André 'Ratte' Pfeiffer has written a patch for A3000-/A4000-users which always loads the 68040 and 68060 libraries to the virtual memory of the main board. This helps Apollo accelerator boards working without any problems with the reset-routines of some v...

Aminet-Uploads until 02.02.2013 (03. Feb. 2013)
The following packages have been added to Aminet until February 2nd, 2013: ToDisk2.6.lha disk/misc 65K 68k Thomson disk/k7 manager &... MCE.lha game/edit 934K 68k Multi-game Character Editor MCE-MOS.lha ...

Real AmiKit: Distribution for AGA-Amigas (beta version) (28. Jan. 2013)
The well-known distribution AmiKit for users of emulators now was reworked so it can be also used on real Amigas which is called "Real AmiKit". The original AmigaOS files and Kickstart-ROM of the AGA-chipset and at least 16 MB RAM are required. An...

Apollo accelerator boards: Purchase of Mach-131-Chips possible (04. Jun. 2012)
On request by a petition Individual Computers offers all interested users Mach-131- and EPROM-Chips for Apollo-1260 accelerator boards for 150 Euro each plus shipping as spare parts. Yet Jens Schönfeld emphasized that he would prefer that the existin...

Pictures: Amiga 4000/060 with 100 MHz (04. Jun. 2012)
After André 'Ratte' Pfeiffer succeeded in overclocking an Amiga 4000 with 68060-processor to 90 MHz (amiga-news.de reported) he now succeeded in overclocking an Apollo-4060 accelerator board to 100 MHz. According to him the CPUs of revision&n...

Apollo-040/060 accelerator boards: RemApollo 1.8 (14. Jan. 2012)
Benedict Dziubaltowski obtained the permission of releasing version 1.8 of "RemApollo" which is a program archive written by Mikolaj Całusiński for Apollo accelerator boards with 68040 or 68060 processors. Please note that the documentat...

Indivision ECS and Apollo 630 in Amiga 600 (25. Oct. 2009)
On his "extreme A500 upgrading page" Christian Krenner has documented how he managed to upgrade his Amiga 600 as much as possible. The computer has now an Indivision-Scandoubler, a 68030-CPU with 40 MHz, 34 MByte RAM, 20 GByte harddrive, PCMCIA-Netwo...

Hardware Compendium: Update of Amiga Hardware World (13. Jan. 2005)
Right now at AHW there are over 850 expansions listed for the Amiga, each with its own description, many of them with pictures. The current update includes countless new hardware articles and expanded descriptions and 66 new photos - for example a ...

Update of the New Edition of the Turbo-Card Apollo 630 (24. Jun. 2004)
Matthias Bertram wrote to provide an update of the new edition of the Amiga 600 turbo-card Apollo 630 (68030@40 MHz, SIMM socket for up to 32 MB RAM, connection for 68882 FPU) through Individual Computers (amiga-news.de reported): "There's news again on ...

Elbox: New driver software for FastATA 1200 controller (17. Jun. 2004)
Elbox has released new driver software for FastATA 1200 (Power Flyer 1200, Winner 1200 High-Speed) controllers. The update is available free of charge for all registered users of FastATA 1200 and includes new versions of ATA3.driver, ATA3Prefs and Allegro...

A600 accellerator: Current number of preorders for the "Apollo 630" (27. May. 2004)
Matthias Bertram informs us that he received 48 pre-orders for a potential new production run of the "Apollo 630" until now (we reported). 18 people contacted him but did not place a final order yet. If Matthias is able to collect 100 or more pre-orders...