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Operating system for Amiga 3000/4000: Status update of "Apollo" (04. Nov. 2023)
About a year ago, we reported on the start of Dietmar Planitzer's project to write "Apollo", an experimental operating system for the Amiga 3000/4000. We asked the developer what the current status of the work is, and he kindly summarised the following f...

Development tool: vasm 1.9e (01. Oct. 2023)
Frank Wille has published an update of the modular assembler vasm. Changes: Exit before reading the source (from stdin) when there were errors already.Make sure the relocated blocks within all sections are closed after parsing. Otherwise the firs...

AmigaGuide magazine: Issue 11 of "WhatIFF?" published (15. Sep. 2023)
"WhatIFF?" is an English language Amiga magazine in AmigaGuide format which in his eleventh issue again offers a demo version of a game: "Aeon Legends" from BitBeam Cannon. The other topics: Reviews: ImageFX 4.5 OmniPort A1200 AmigaKit RED LEDs ...

Apollo team working on a port of "Robin Hood: Legend of Sherwood" (04. Sep. 2023)
Willem Drijver from the Apollo team informs us that the team is working on porting the Realtime Strategical Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood to the Apollo hardware. The game was published in 2002 for Windows and ported to MorphOS by e.p.i.c. / Runesoft ...

Tool: identify library 43.1 (05. Aug. 2023)
A few moments ago, Richard Körber has released version 43.1 of his identify.library (amiga-news.de reported). Changes: Added more manufacturers and boards AmigaOS 3.9 wasn't detected under certain circumstances Fixed a crash on ACT Apollo A620 dete...

MP3 player: Reel Deck V1.06 (30. Jul. 2023)
At the beginning of February, Sami Vehmaa had released 1.00 of his MP3 player "Reel Deck" for Amigas with graphics card (amiga-news.de reported). Since then he has made minor improvements and bug fixes. The changes: removed case sensitivity in file n...

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...

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...

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....

Event: Information on the Amiga38 (15. May. 2023)
Markus Tillmann wrote: Yesterday, Sunday 14 May 2023, ticket sales started shortly after 8pm with a few minutes delay (amiga-news.de reported). Amiga38 is expected to be the biggest worldwide again this year - despite several old and new Amiga events -...

Apollo team organises demo competition at "Amiga 38" (01. Apr. 2023)
The Apollo team is organising a demo competition at the "Amiga 38" (7 October, Mönchengladbach). Demo coders can demonstrate their skills in three categories (A500, A1200, Apollo Standalone): Participants should apparently register in advance by ...

Portable assembler: vasm V1.9c (31. Mar. 2023)
Frank Wille has updated his portable and retargetable assembler vasm to version 1.9c. AmigaOS 3, 4 and MorphOS as well as TOS, MiNT and Windows are supported. Changes of version 1.9b and 1.9c: Fixed a rare expression evalulation bug. Previous version...

Video: ApolloBoot Omni 9.1 released (30. Mar. 2023)
ApolloBoot is a preconfigured utility for easier installing and booting of several operating systems from different AmigaOS variants over AROS to Atari TOS and Mac OS on FPGA turbo boards with Apollo core. Free for all registered users versio...

Article on Amiga use in film productions by Digital Domain (13. Feb. 2023)
Befores & Afters is a (primarily online) magazine on visual effects and animation. At the title link, it dedicates a current article to the use of the Amiga in the film industry - to be more precise, it is simply a reproduction of memories of Digital Doma...

MP3 player: Reel Deck V1.00 (06. Feb. 2023)
In October 2022 Sami Vehmaa had released a first version 0.60 of his MP3 player "Reel Deck" for Amigas with graphics card (amiga-news.de reported). Now version 1.0 has been released with four more GUI variants and an integrated volume control including va...

RTG Solitaire: "Solitare match" V0.93 (07. Jan. 2023)
At the beginning of December, Sami Vehmaa had published a demo version of his graphics card Solitaire conversion "Solitare match" (YouTube video), which is primarily intended for Amiga emulators or Apollo cards due to the high CPU requirements. The demo v...

RTG Solitaire: "Solitare match" V0.89 (02. Jan. 2023)
At the beginning of December, Sami Vehmaa had published a demo version of his graphics card Solitaire conversion "Solitare match" (YouTube video), which is primarily intended for Amiga emulators or Apollo cards due to the high CPU requirements. The demo v...

Aminet uploads until 24.12.2022 (25. Dec. 2022)
The following files have been added until 24.12.2022 to Aminet: ApolloExplorer.zip comm/tcp 26M 68k Apollo Explorer ZitaFTPServer.lha comm/tcp 14M OS4 A fast and secure FTP(S) server. COP.lha dev/debug 166K 6...

RTG Solitare: "Solitare match" V0.85 (24. Dec. 2022)
At the beginning of December, Sami Vehmaa had published a demo version of his graphics card Solitare conversion "Solitare match" (YouTube video), which is primarily intended for Amiga emulators or Apollo cards due to the high CPU requirements. The demo ve...

Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 160 - 25 years - preview and excerpts (18. Dec. 2022)
Preview and excerpts of Amiga Future issue 160 (January/February 2023) have been published online meanwhile at the title link. Content includes a preview of Reshooot Proxima 3, a review of Apollo Manticore and an event report from Amiga37. Amiga F...