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Apollo V4: Ultimate Expansion Board (27. Feb. 2022)
The developers 'Quetzal' and 'Owl' have developed a board in mini-ITX format that can accommodate an Apollo V4 standalone and offers a variety of additional features and inputs and outputs. A detailed description of the specifications can be found on the ...

Real-time strategy: Command & Conquer is ported to the Amiga (06. Feb. 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, as a contribution to the AmiGameJam, he has started to port the...

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 ...

Event: Amiga37 announced (16. Jan. 2022)
Markus Tillmann writes (translation): "After the 2015, 2017 and 2019 events in Neuss, the fourth major German Amiga event will take place in 2022 with Amiga37 Germany. Compared to previous years, however, it will no longer be held in the Rheinisches Lande...

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...

Aminet uploads until 01.01.2022 (02. Jan. 2022)
The following files have been added until 01.01.2022 to Aminet: MUIbase-4.4.lha biz/dbase 6.8M Programmable relational datab... sqlite-3.34.0-amiga.lha biz/dbase 20M SQL database engine 2021XmasIntro.lha demo/intro 51K...

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...

Aminet uploads until 14.08.2021 (15. Aug. 2021)
The following files have been added until 14.08.2021 to Aminet: AmiGemini.lha comm/net 60K 68k Gemini protocol browser RawIO2Parallel.lha dev/debug 5K 68k Redirect debug output to para... Parallel2Serial.lha docs/hard ...

Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 151 (05. Jul. 2021)
The German and English issue 151 (July/August 2021) of the print magazine Amiga Future has been published today and can be ordered directly from the editorial office and from Amiga retailers. Among the topics are test reports on Inviyya, ApolloOS Release ...

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...

New French print magazine: "Boing" can be pre-ordered (03. Jul. 2021)
'Boing' is a new French print magazine whose first issue is to be published in mid-July. For five Euros, 52 color printed glossy pages are offered. The main topics of the first issue are the Vampire V4+ with ApolloOS as well as AmigaOS 3.2. ...

FPGA accelerator card: Raptor 1200 (26. Apr. 2021)
In a video interview, Gunnar von Böhn of Apollo team announces a feature-reduced variant of the FPGA accelerator card Vampire. If everything would proceed well, he expects the first cards already next month. The new card, too, would be produced by Igor Ma...

Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 150 - preview and excerpts (20. Apr. 2021)
Preview and excerpts of Amiga Future issue 150 (May/June 2021) have been published online now at the title link. Its content includes an interview with Alinea, an ApolloOS review and a workshop for mySync. Amiga Future magazine is available as an Engli...

Apollo core: Release 5 for Vampire 4 (20. Jan. 2021)
The Apollo core is a FPGA reimplementation of the m68k series of Motorola providing a new graphic resolution called SAGA. The core is used in the Vampire accelerator boards. Apollo Release 5 provides the following changes: Copper compatibility fixed....

Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.85 (06. Jan. 2021)
RedPill developed by Carlos Peris is a Game Construction Kit written in AmiBlitz2, which can help developing games of diverse genres - see our little review of two games. Recently a preview video of the forthcoming game "Putter" has been released being al...

Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.84 (16. Dec. 2020)
RedPill developed by Carlos Peris is a Game Construction Kit written in AmiBlitz2, which can help developing games of diverse genres - see our little review of two games. Recently a preview video of the forthcoming game "Putter" has been released being al...

Action adventure: Port of Heart of Darkness (1998) (26. Nov. 2020)
Heart of Darkness, released in the late 1990s, is inspired by Chahi's classic Another World but was delivered on CD and therefore offered more animations. Now Artur "Arti" Jarosik has ported the game to AmigaOS. Additionasl to the original files of the ga...

Apollo team launched AROS-based operating system project (10. Aug. 2020)
First the developer team of the Apollo-FPGA-Core used in the Vampire products did choose AROS as official operating system. After having had some problems with the free AmigaOS clone, the Kickstart-ROMs officially licenced from Cloanto were used. From aro...

FPGA: Apollo-Core update Gold 2.12 (22. Mar. 2020)
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. Among other ch...