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13.Aug.2016

Game engines for DOS games Catacomb 3D and Keen Dreams
Szilárd 'BSzili' Biró has released ports of the engines of Catacomb 3D - which is the (technical) prequel of Wolfenstein 3D - as well as of the jump'n run game Commander Keen: Keen Dreams. The engines always need the level data of the original versions.

Additional to the original "Catacomb 3D", there is also the sequels "The Catacomb Abyss", "Curse of the Catacombs" (aka "Catacomb Armageddon") and "Terror of the Catacombs" (aka "Catacomb Apocalypse"). Although all five (Commander Keen included) games are in one Github archive, BirÃ³ has provided a separate executable for each game. The author recommends a 68030 processor, Commander Keen works with 2 MB RAM.

Commander Keen - Keen Dreams:

Catacomb 3D:

Download page for the engine

The Catacomb Abyss:

Catacomb Armageddon:

Download page for the engine

Catacomb Apokalypse:

Download page for the engine

The full version of Commander Keen: Keen Dreams is available for Windows, MacOS and Linux on Steam, the full versions of all Catacombs games are available at gog.com in the Catacombs Pack. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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10.Aug.2016
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Vampire 500: First pictures of FPGA-accelerator board for A500/A2000
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 also delivered.

According to a short review from the CommVEX 2016 (Las Vegas), Jim Drew (ex Microcode Solutions, e.g. iFusion) is the "North American Rep" and presented a working Vampire 500 running, as he said, at 234 Mhz. He also said that "the Vampire 1200 would be released around Christmas".

Similar to the Vampire 600, the Vampire 500 provides a separate graphic chip, which under AmigaOS can be used as graphic board. The pricing has been set at 150 Euro. According to the official website, the board has the following features:

128MB FastRAM
Digital video output
Fast IDE-port
SD-card for HDD storage
64 bit core, full 32 bit compatibility
directly update core from Amiga without need for external programmer
FPU and 16 bit audio is planned for future updates

Obviously the board can be only purchased from the Canadian "kipper2k". Concerning the Vampire 600, there were long waiting periods between the order and the delivery. Besides, the Canadian seemed to ignore inquiries via email up to this moment, when he could deliver the board to the customer. But obviously all ordered boards were delivered without any defects. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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09.Aug.2016

C64 remake: Raid Over Moscow (prototype)
A very early version of a remake of the C64 classic Raid over Moscow was released. Author 'earok' would finish developing the game if there is sufficient interest.

Still there are not any sound effects. Besides, not all scenes of the original game have been implemented. Currently a joystick or joypad with two buttons is required. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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