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Red Fern Manufacturing: Ultimate Expansion Board for Vampire 4 Standalone (04. Jun. 2023)
The announced Ultimate Expansion Board for the Vampire 4 Standalone FPGA Amiga clone, which has been available since 2019, can now be ordered - within the EU it will be sold by the Apollo team, outside directly by the New Zealand manufacturer Red Fer...

Apollo team: Comparision of Vampire accelerator boards (21. May. 2023)
Under the title link, the Apollo team has created an overview (PDF file) that compares the features of the different Vampire models....

Event: Information on the Amiga38 (15. May. 2023)
Markus Tillmann wrote: Yesterday, Sunday 14 May 2023, ticket sales started shortly after 8pm with a few minutes delay (amiga-news.de reported). Amiga38 is expected to be the biggest worldwide again this year - despite several old and new Amiga events -...

Apollo team organises demo competition at "Amiga 38" (01. Apr. 2023)
The Apollo team is organising a demo competition at the "Amiga 38" (7 October, Mönchengladbach). Demo coders can demonstrate their skills in three categories (A500, A1200, Apollo Standalone): Participants should apparently register in advance by ...

Portable assembler: vasm V1.9c (31. Mar. 2023)
Frank Wille has updated his portable and retargetable assembler vasm to version 1.9c. AmigaOS 3, 4 and MorphOS as well as TOS, MiNT and Windows are supported. Changes of version 1.9b and 1.9c: Fixed a rare expression evalulation bug. Previous version...

Video: ApolloBoot Omni 9.1 released (30. Mar. 2023)
ApolloBoot is a preconfigured utility for easier installing and booting of several operating systems from different AmigaOS variants over AROS to Atari TOS and Mac OS on FPGA turbo boards with Apollo core. Free for all registered users versio...

Article on Amiga use in film productions by Digital Domain (13. Feb. 2023)
Befores & Afters is a (primarily online) magazine on visual effects and animation. At the title link, it dedicates a current article to the use of the Amiga in the film industry - to be more precise, it is simply a reproduction of memories of Digital Doma...

MP3 player: Reel Deck V1.00 (06. Feb. 2023)
In October 2022 Sami Vehmaa had released a first version 0.60 of his MP3 player "Reel Deck" for Amigas with graphics card (amiga-news.de reported). Now version 1.0 has been released with four more GUI variants and an integrated volume control including va...

RTG Solitaire: "Solitare match" V0.93 (07. Jan. 2023)
At the beginning of December, Sami Vehmaa had published a demo version of his graphics card Solitaire conversion "Solitare match" (YouTube video), which is primarily intended for Amiga emulators or Apollo cards due to the high CPU requirements. The demo v...

RTG Solitaire: "Solitare match" V0.89 (02. Jan. 2023)
At the beginning of December, Sami Vehmaa had published a demo version of his graphics card Solitaire conversion "Solitare match" (YouTube video), which is primarily intended for Amiga emulators or Apollo cards due to the high CPU requirements. The demo v...

Aminet uploads until 24.12.2022 (25. Dec. 2022)
The following files have been added until 24.12.2022 to Aminet: ApolloExplorer.zip comm/tcp 26M 68k Apollo Explorer ZitaFTPServer.lha comm/tcp 14M OS4 A fast and secure FTP(S) server. COP.lha dev/debug 166K 6...

RTG Solitare: "Solitare match" V0.85 (24. Dec. 2022)
At the beginning of December, Sami Vehmaa had published a demo version of his graphics card Solitare conversion "Solitare match" (YouTube video), which is primarily intended for Amiga emulators or Apollo cards due to the high CPU requirements. The demo ve...

Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 160 - 25 years - preview and excerpts (18. Dec. 2022)
Preview and excerpts of Amiga Future issue 160 (January/February 2023) have been published online meanwhile at the title link. Content includes a preview of Reshooot Proxima 3, a review of Apollo Manticore and an event report from Amiga37. Amiga F...

Print magazine: Boing #5 (French) (11. Dec. 2022)
"Boing" is a French print magazine by Boing Attitude (among others Dir Me Up and Word Me Up XXL) for all Amiga systems and contains 52 A4 pages in colour. The fifth issue contains among other things an interview with the musici...

Advent Calendar: Door 9 - Jérôme Senay (09. Dec. 2022)
Jérôme 'Glames' Senay is the patron of our ninth advent calendar door. He is the manager of and programmer for Boing Attitude and a few days ago could celebrate the tenth anniversary of the quiz game AskMeUp at the beginning of December, which was fi...

RTG Solitare: Demo version of "Solitare match" (08. Dec. 2022)
Sami Vehmaa has released a demo version of his graphics card Solitare conversion "Solitare match" (YouTube video), which is primarily intended for Amiga emulators or Apollo cards due to the high CPU requirements. The demo version contains five levels. Tho...

Advent Calendar: Door 4 - The Apollo team (04. Dec. 2022)
For the fourth door and thus for the second Advent, the Apollo team contributes an anecdote. Their approach of FPGA-based turbo cards for Amigas represented a new alternative in terms of upgrading aged hardware besides the accelerator boards carrying a re...

Dock: QDock V1.27 (26. Nov. 2022)
At the end of October Sami Vehmaa had published the first version of his start bar "QDock" (amiga-news.de reported), which he constantly develops further (YouTube video). Since our last news item he has added a second row of icons and with the version V1....

Experimental operating system for the Amiga 4000: Apollo (16. Nov. 2022)
Dietmar Planitzers unfortunately named "Apollo" project is an experimental operating system for the Amiga 4000. It is incompatible to existing systems, but tries to implement modern concepts on the Commodore computer - the author mentions a pr...

Dock: QDock V1.17 (06. Nov. 2022)
Sami Vehmaa had released the first version of his start bar "QDock" almost two weeks ago (amiga-news.de reported). The new version 1.17, as the developer writes to us, "has gone trough a big transformation and is now working more like it was intended." A ...