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Event: Saku 2019 on 28. September in Oulu (Finland) (20. Sep. 2019)
On Saturday 28th September the group of Finnish Amiga users will host the 12th Saku in Oulu. Additional to Amiga computers, the FPGA computer Minimig and Vampire accelerator boards, MorphOS systems and the AmigaOne X5000 will be presented as well. As s...

Event: Dickinson and Tyschtschenko at Amiga Future Gamescom booth (16. Aug. 2019)
Press release: Amiga Future: Again at Gamescom - Also this year the Amiga Future will be represented with APC&TCP at Gamescom in the retro area. Visitors can get detailed information about the Amiga computer system at the almost 90 m² booth and, of ...

Hardware: Kickstart-ROM switcher Romulator (04. Aug. 2019)
In the EAB forum, kipper2k has announced the latest product of his team, the "Romulator", which in an Amiga 500, 600 or 2000 allows you to switch between several Kickstart-ROM images (video). Amiga On The Lake will sell the Romulator. Below you c...

Plexiglas cases for Amiga 500, 600 and 1200, ACA500 and Vampire Standalone (02. Aug. 2019)
On plexilaser.de transparent acryl cases for retro computers are available, among others a keyboard case for the A500 or desktop cases for the A600 and A1200. A "box" for the external extension board ACA500 or a case for the Vampire Standalone are offered...

Event: Apollo team at Gamescom 2019 (Germany) (12. Jul. 2019)
Additional to APC&TCP this year also the Apollo team will have their own stand at the Gamescom in Cologne (Germany). The developers of the FPGA core of the Vampire accelerator boards will be present from 21. to 24. August in Hall 10. ...

AmigaRemix: New songs added (05. May. 2019)
AmigaRemix has made available new mixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games as MP3-files. Since our last news item, the following songs have been added: Turrican II - Traps (Aegean's Renewal 2001) Turrican II - Concerto for Lasers & Enemies (Ae...

Video interview: Mike Battilana (Cloanto) (03. May. 2019)
In February the managing director of Cloanto, Mike Battilana, succeeded in transferring all Amiga rights from Amiga Inc. to "C-A Acquisition Corp." which was founded by him. After that Stephen 'ClusterUK' Jones (e.g. Checkmate A1500 Plus) started a crowd ...

Shoot'em Up: Port of "Kobo Deluxe" (04. Apr. 2019)
Artur Jarosik has ported the shooter Kobo Deluxe (screenshot) to AmigaOS 3. At least an Amiga with 68060 processor and graphic board are required, a Vampire is recommended. ...

Video podcast: Amiga Retro Cast on plans of the new Amiga entity (11. Mar. 2019)
Episode 24 of the Amiga Retro Cast is about the latest events concerning the licence to use Picasso96 in Amiga Forever (amiga-news.de reported). For this Douglas Compton exchanged e-mails with Mike Battilana of Cloanto, who recently acquired further ...

Aminet-Uploads until 26.01.2018 (27. Jan. 2019)
The following archives have been added to Aminet until January 26th, 2019: twittAmiga.lha comm/misc 6.9M MOS Twitter client AFnews-68k.lha comm/news 889K 68k Amiga Future Everywhere 68k AFnews-OS4.lha comm/news 1....

Event: Further exhibitors of Amiga34 in Neuss announced (15. Jan. 2019)
For the Amiga34 in Neuss which will take place on 12./13. Oktober 2019 further exhibitors were announced: Vampire-Team Amedia Computer France Amitopia/Distrita.com A1200.net-Team John Hertell & Belgian Amiga Club ...

Aminet-Uploads until 08.12.2018 (09. Dec. 2018)
The following archives have been added to Aminet until December 8th, 2018: PLATOTermAmiga.adf comm/term 880K 68k Terminal program to access PL... LTX-ASA2.lha demo/40k 29K 68k 40KB intro from Compusphere 2018 ffp_rb_demo.adf...

Vampire V4 (standalone) boots AmigaOS 3.1 (29. Oct. 2018)
For the first time a video shows how the standalone version of the Vampire is booting AmigaOS 3.1. First it is booted without any volume and you can see that a modified Kickstart-ROM is used: "68080 Apollo Team, Test Exec Build, Not for public Use!". The ...

FPGA: Apollo core update Gold 2.10 / SAGA driver 1.4 (25. Jul. 2018)
Apollo core is an FPGA reimplementation of Motorola's m68k series that includes its own graphics called SAGA. The latter is available in version 1.4 now. The core is currently being used by Vampire turboboards 600 V2 and 500 V2(+). Among othe...

Apollo-Team: Delay of Vampire V4, Vampire 600 V2.1 being produced (26. May. 2018)
Under the title link the Apollo team has announced that the release of the FPGA accelerator board Apollo V4 continues to be delayed. A single bug makes it necessary to rewrite an important part of the core. The team wrote: "Hundreds of hours have bee...

Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 132 (04. May. 2018)
The English and German editions of Amiga Future 132 (May/June 2018) have been released today, they can be ordered from Amiga dealers or directly from the editorial office. This issue's topics include reviews of 'Spencer' and the DKB Wildfire and a special...

Aminet-Uploads until 14.04.2018 (15. Apr. 2018)
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until April 14th, 2018: NetFS-revised.lha comm/net 70K MOS Revised Network File System f... VampireDemo2D.lha demo/misc 5.0M 68k VampireDemo2D less-mos.lha dev/gg ...

Crowdfunding: New Amiga-500 cases (31. Mar. 2018)
After the Amiga-1200 cases and keyboard caps, Philippe Lang has started another crowdfunding project for financing the production of new cases for the Amiga 500 and 500+. The new cases are not only supposed to replace the yellowed and recalcitrant...

Podcast: AmiCast 26 - Interview with Steve Jones (18. Mar. 2018)
In Issue 26, Krzysztof Radzikowski has interviewed Steve 'ClusterUK' Jones (YouTube channel) in his podcast. Topics are the A1500, the Siamese system, Gateway, the Vampire accelerator boards and AROS. ...

Vampire accelerator boards: SAGA driver 1.1 (12. Mar. 2018)
SAGA is "a softcore reimplementation of the Commodore AGA chipset" which provides "some improvements over the original chipset". The corresponding driver now was updated to version 1.1 featuring the following changes: Updated VampireGFX.card to 1.12:...