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Programming language: 'AMOS Professional Unity' project updates (21. Apr. 2022)
Almost exactly one year ago we reported last time about Frédéric 'AmiDARK' Cordier's attempt to add new features to the classic BASIC compiler AMOS Professional with 'AMOS Professional Unity'. In the meantime the project has been moved to a new website...

Italian print/PDF magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 6 (11. Apr. 2022)
The Italian magazine 'Passione Amiga' is available in digital (3 Euros) or printed (7.50 Euros) editions. The current issue has 36 colored pages (DIN A4) and covers the following topics: Videogiochi: Attack of the Petscii Robots, Jump!, Ermentrud, Th...

Book: Status update and ordering option for 'From Vultures to Vampires', Volume (16. Mar. 2022)
The first book of the two-volume "From Vultures to Vampires" by former Commodore UK manager David Pleasance and A-EON Technology co-founder Trevor Dickinson on Amiga history was delivered in the middle of last year. The Kickstarter campaign to fund the se...

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...

FPGA accelerator board: "Multiport Modul" for Icedrake (04. Mar. 2022)
Matthias 'DJBase' Münch has designed a Multiport Modul for the FPGA-based A1200 turbo card Icedrake - successor of the well-known Vampire series - which relocates HDMI and network ports as well as the microSD slot to the rear expansion slot of the A1200 a...

New article on Obligement website (02. Mar. 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. January/February 2022 news. Old ar...

Apollo-Team: Apollo V2 Accelerators Support Statement (06. Feb. 2022)
Press release: Dear V2 users, Apollo V2-series have been an extremely successful and hugely loved Amiga accelerator since 2014. Vast amounts of Amiga’s were resurrected from a lonely existence in the attic by “Vampirising” with the ...

Looking for demand: Zorro II/III graphics card with SAGA (16. Jan. 2022)
At the title link, in the forum of a1k.org, Gunnar von Boehn (Apollo team) is looking for interest in a graphics card based on the FPGA chipset of the Vampire turbo cards for Amigas with Zorro II or Zorro III slots. In prospect are the known SAGA graphics...

Trevor Dickinson on: A1222+/Enhancer V2.x/From Vultures to Vampires Vol 2 (13. Jan. 2022)
In response to our inquiry, Trevor Dickinson (A-EON) provided a brief summary of the current status of some projects: A1222plus motherboard Hardware works as expected, including network and audio DVD drive support still problematic at the moment ...

Vampire 1200 V2 accelerator board: Availability, reviews (12. Dec. 2021)
In summer the Apollo team had announced two new accelerator boards: the FireBird (A500/A1000/A2000) and the IceDrake (A1200). Meanwhile, a third card has been added, the Apollo Kraken V4 (Amiga 3000/4000). While the latter is announced for the fourth quar...

Scene World Podcast Episode #128 - Gunnar von Böhn (Apollo team) (05. Dec. 2021)
In episode 128 of the Scene World Podcast, Jörg Dröge and Arthur Heller talk to Gunnar von Böhn of the Apollo team, programmers of the FPGA implementation of an 68k-like CPU used for the "Vampire" accelerator boards. Interview starts at 37:38 minutes...

Accelerator board: Last Buffee status update for 2021 (20. Nov. 2021)
In our last new item we reported that the Buffee accelerator boards had to be sent back for revision. Now the developers have published a last bog entry for this year (pictures available under the title link): "I have many words for the last year, no...

Anniversary: 20 years AmigaSource (11. Nov. 2021)
For 20 years now Scott Pistorino collects on his site AmigaSource all information around the Amiga. On October 19, 2001 he introduced his project on amiga-news.de. Beside several interviews with Ben Hermans or Fleecy Moss from 2002 there are numerous cate...

Text adventure: "Darkest Hour" released (29. Oct. 2021)
Darkest Hour is an old-fashioned text adventure game, available for several platforms and also for AmigaOS 3. Die Story: "Halloween is almost here, but something is happening that's much scarier than the annual haunted house at the fire hall. T...

Single-Screen-platformer: 'Inca Man' V1.1 released (10. Sep. 2021)
Only a few days ago, Amiten (e.g. Cocoa Banana, Parallel Worlds 2) released the single-screen-platformer 'Inca Man' (video) and now provided an update to version 1.1. Changes: Fixed lives counter. Fixed colour to bat, vampire and wrong pixel to pl...

Game announcement: 'Menace' remake for Vampire (10. Aug. 2021)
Kevin Saunders, graphic designer, artist and game designer for Amiga projects (among others Boss Machine and RESHOOT PROXIMA 3), has announced a remake of the game Menace for Vampire Amigas by presenting an animated end level boss. He also encourages Amig...

Jump'n Run for Vampire V4: SonicVamped 1 and 2 (04. Aug. 2021)
'SonicVamped' is a port of the 2013 Android version of SEGA's Sonic The Hedgehog 1 & 2 to AmigaOS optimised for Vampire V4 computer. The games ported by Artur "Arti" Jarosik and "Quetzal" also run under Vampire V2 accelerator boards but not at full speed....

From Vultures to Vampires: Shipping of book by Pleasance and Dickinson (vol. 1) (02. Aug. 2021)
The first volume of "From Vultures to Vampires", a book by the former Commodore UK manager David Pleasance and the A-EON Technology co-founder Trevor Dickinson, is currently shipping to those crowdfunders who pledged for the e-book version. Printing ...

Print-/PDF Magazine: Amiga Addict, Issue 7 (31. Jul. 2021)
Seventh issue of British magazine "Amiga Addict" is available for pre-ordering. The lead article is about Psygnosis, but there are also articles about the Vampire, a review of Turbo Tomato and a look at how comic books helped sell the Amiga back in the da...

Apollo team: change in staff, new accelerator boards annouced (05. Jul. 2021)
As announced by Apollo team at the title link, Igor Majstorovic, developer of the Vampire accelerator boards, has left the group. On the other hand, Thomas Hirsch returned, the original developer of the former Natami project. The press release mentio...