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Apollo-Team: Manticore accelerator board for Amiga 600 announced (13. Jul. 2022)
In addition to the currently already available turbo cards FireBird (for the Amiga models 500, 1000 and 2000) and IceDrake (for the Amiga 1200), which are based on the core of the Vampire 4 (amiga-news.de reported) the Manticore for the Amiga 600 is now a...

Apollo-Team: Two other games announced (13. Jul. 2022)
Kevin Saunders, graphic designer, artist and game designer (e.g. Boss Machine and RESHOOT PROXIMA 3) has given a taste of two games that are each being developed in collaboration with the Apollo team in two blog posts on Patreon: Work has already beg...

Word processing: Beta testers for Finalwriter wanted (12. Jul. 2022)
In mid-February we last published an article about the current state of development of FinalWriter. And the work on the word processor is going on: Timothy "Terminills" Deters is currently looking for beta testers for AROS 68K and ApolloOS. If you are int...

Apollo Space Invaders: Eighth developer version of the remake (08. Jul. 2022)
Arne von Boehn is writing a Space Invaders remake in 68K assembler on a Vampire4 standalone (amiga-news.de reported). Besides a new preview video there is also a new developer version for testing. As Gunnar explains, the game is playable,...

French print magazine: "Boing" Nr. 4 (05. Jul. 2022)
'Boing' is a French print magazine published by Boing Attitude (e.g. Dir Me Up and Word Me Up XXL). The fourth issue has 52 pages in A4 format and among others includes an interview with John Girvin, one of the developers of the game Turbo Tomato and work...

New articles on Obligement website (02. Jul. 2022)
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. May/June 2022 news. News : Apollo, ...

Real-time strategy: Vanilla Conquer with 'Mission Pack' support (07. Jun. 2022)
Artur Jarosik is known for various game ports like the platformer Hydra Castle Labyrinth or the action adventure Heart of Darkness besides his SDL implementation of the browser NetSurf. As a contribution for the AmiGameJam he started to port the first par...

Workbench distribution: AmiKit XE 11.5.0 for Vampire V2 (21. May. 2022)
Version 11.5.0 of the Workbench distribution AmiKit specially adapted for Vampire processor cards has just been released (amiga-news.de reported). The AmigaOS files, Kickstart ROMs and the Picasso96 graphics drivers are required. The update includes the f...

Real-time strategy: Vanilla Conquer V1.0 released (16. May. 2022)
Artur Jarosik is known for various game ports like the platformer Hydra Castle Labyrinth or the action adventure Heart of Darkness besides his SDL implementation of the browser NetSurf. As a contribution for the AmiGameJam he started to port the first par...

Vampire V4+ Standalone: Mini-ITX I/O Board (11. May. 2022)
Matthias 'DJBase' Münch has designed a simple, modular and cost-effective I/O Board im Mini-ITX Format for the FPGA-based motherboard Vampire V4+ Standalone, which facilitates installation in standard desktop or tower cases. Those who want to rebuild...

Video: Installation of AmiKit XE on Apollo V4 system (29. Apr. 2022)
In a short video Willem Drijver has demonstrated how to install the Workbench distribution AmiKit XE on a system equipped with a Apollo-V4....

Apollo Team: Deluxe remake of Menace in development (28. Apr. 2022)
Already in August last year Kevin Saunders, graphic designer, artist and game designer (Boss Machine and RESHOOT PROXIMA 3), announced the HD conversion of the Menace game for Vampire Amigas with an animated end boss on his homepage (amiga-news.de reporte...

Video: ApolloBoot Omni R8 - Starting different operating system versions (25. Apr. 2022)
At the title link, Willem Drijver undertakes a "journey through time" in his video in the form of different operating systems, which he starts one after the other in real-time on his Apollo V4 standalone. For this purpose, ApolloBoot Omni was...

Real-time strategy: Vanilla Conquer V0.99a (update) (20. Apr. 2022)
Artur Jarosik is known for various game ports like the platformer Hydra Castle Labyrinth or the action adventure Heart of Darkness besides his SDL implementation of the browser NetSurf. As a contribution for the AmiGameJam he started to port the first par...

Real-time strategy: Vanilla Conquer V0.98 (06. Apr. 2022)
Artur Jarosik is known for various game ports like the platformer Hydra Castle Labyrinth or the action adventure Heart of Darkness, besides his SDL implementation of the browser NetSurf. Now he is porting the first part of the real-time strategy series Co...

Apollo-Team: Maggie 3D Chip - preview video (28. Mar. 2022)
The Apollo team shows a preview of the Apollo Maggie 3D chip, which is already included in all V4 models, in a short YouTube video. This Maggie chip is also intended to make the Amiga 3D capable. This first early preview video demonstrates basic 3D modeli...

Real-time strategy: Vanilla Conquer V0.95 (22. Mar. 2022)
Artur Jarosik is known for various game ports like the platformer Hydra Castle Labyrinth or the action adventure Heart of Darkness besides his SDL implementation of the browser NetSurf. As a contribution for the AmiGameJam he started to port the first par...

Minimig: Revision 1.8 (update) (20. Mar. 2022)
In 2005 we reported on the start of the Minimig project by Dutch electrical engineer Dennis van Weeren: the reimplementation of the one Amiga 500 in an FPGA. Based on this approach there were other projects like the Mist, which uses its own hardware but f...

Demo party: Revision 2022 (06. Mar. 2022)
Revision " is the world’s biggest pure Demoscene event", according to the organizers. This year's edition will take place from April 15 to 18, 2022. A dedicated website has now been launched online. Due to the ongoing pandemic, the event will be str...

Apollo-Team: Icedrake accelerator board for A1200 available (05. Mar. 2022)
As Gunnar von Boehn announced in the Apollo forum earlier this week, the Icedrake turbo card for A1200 can be ordered now for 570 Euros (incl. VAT). The specifications: Apollo 68080 CPU Performance is application dependent up to ~ 1000MHz 68030 /...