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Hardware: Vampire V4 announced inclusive A1200 and standalone version (03. Aug. 2017)
In a press release and in the forum of the project the Apollo team has announced the next generation of the FPGA-based accelerator board, which for the first time will be also offered as "standalone" version. Three different versions are offered: ...

AROS: Weekly progresses (since 30.05.2017) (14. Jul. 2017)
Last week's progress in development of the open-source AmigaOS clone AROS includes start of development of a FastATA class as well as reworks of several language files and of network drivers. since 30.05.2017: M68k ATA fixing/debugging continues (...

Vampire: Videos about integration of AGA chipset into Apollo core (21. Jun. 2017)
Under the title link during the last days some videos have been published which demonstrate the progresses "on the integration of the AGA chipset into the Apollo core" of the FPGA accelerator board Vampire. The video signal is carried on HDMI. ...

Zelda ROTH Enhanced Vampire Edition 0.99 (13. May. 2017)
Artur 'Arti' Jarosik has updated his Amiga port of "The Legend of Zelda - Return of the Hylian" which is a fan continued sequel of Nintendo's adventure series. Additional to some new sounds, the game now is available as m68k-version as well as version for...

AmiCast: Text interview with Norbert Kett (11. Apr. 2017)
Issue eight of the English language podcast AmiCast had an interview with Norbert Kett, who is the author of AmigaCloudHandlers available for all Amiga systems for accessing DropBox and Google Drive. Currently he is working on an implemantation of Op...

WHDLoad: Version 18.3 and new installers until 08.04.2017 (09. Apr. 2017)
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. Three days ago version 18.3 was released now supporting the Apollo core of the Vampire accelerator b...

Looking for testers for Vampire 600 Fast-IDE (28. Feb. 2017)
The Apollo-Core is a FPGA reimplementation of the m68k-series of Motorola, which also provides a separate graphic mode called SAGA. Currently the core is used in the accelerator boards Vampire 600 V2 and 500 V2(+). For the forthcoming version 'Gold 3' tes...

FPGA: Apollo-Core-Update "Gold2" (24. Jan. 2017)
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 "Gold2": ...

FPGA: Apollo-Core-Update "Gold" (06. Sep. 2016)
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 board Vampire 600 V2. Changes in the latest core which is called "gold": Add...

Vampire 500: First pictures of FPGA-accelerator board for A500/A2000 (10. Aug. 2016)
Simo Koivukoski has published some first pictures of the Vampire accelerator board for A500/2000 at Google+. The board "will sit on place of your original CPU" or can be plugged into the CPU-slot of an Amiga 2000 using an adapter platine which is als...

FPGA: Apollo-Core-Update "Silver9" (04. Aug. 2016)
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 board "Vampire 600 V2". Changes in version 9: Fix fusing bug Fix MMU w...

FPGA: Apollo-Core-Update "Silver8" (30. Jul. 2016)
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 board "Vampire 600 V2". Changes in version 8: Enabled Vector instructi...

FPGA: Apollo-Core update "Silver7" (11. Jul. 2016)
The Apollo core is a FPGA-reimplementation of the m68k-series of Motorola which also provides a seperate graphic mode called SAGA. The core currently is used in the accelerator board "Vampire 600 V2". Among others the update "Silver7" provides too...

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. ...

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...