• The csv addon now supports UTF8 characters on reading.
• All addons now support filenames with more than one "." in their names.
• The Arexx process no longer crashes, when ignition receives many Arexx commands.
• The ARexx command Coord2Pos returns now FAIL when row or col are lower than one and no longer corrects this automatically.
• The font manager of ignition now no longer makes a failure when searching for the bold or italic style fonts. That provides a better look of the font because now the correct font is used.
• ignition's font manager now informs the user when a font is not found, so he can create/search for the needed one. This also results in a better look of the tables.

• removed case sensitivity in file names
• added two more reels and analog VU
• dbl_display.include upgraded, no jumping window to position 0,0
• changed timing to FPS instead of timer
• song info text colour fix
• VU meter bug found and squashed

• 2023-07-28 improved: Inertia Drive (Ozi Soft) supports another disk (Info)
• 2023-07-27 improved: Detroit / Rüsselsheim (Impressions) supports ECS french version, keymap system can be used in game (Info, Image)
• 2023-07-23 improved: Popeye 2 (Alternative) supports another version, chip memory requirements reduced to 0.5 MB, manual included (Info)

• Fixed the menus in MorphOS that were broken for some time now.

• Simplified the version string and added the release date in the screen title.

• Tweaks to bosses, improved collision detection and minor change to animations.
• Tweaks to enemy and obstacle collision detection.
• Tweak to egg collision, does not bump quite as far.
• Fixed ESC bonus activating after continue screen.
• Added confirmation before QUIT.
• Added extra lives at 30k, 100k, 170k & 240k
• Tweaks to frog leaping mechanic (run straight at them!)
• Fixed several minor bugs
• Improved loading speeds
• Added highscore saves

• 32 colours with "AGA features"
• 020/14 MHz
• 25 FPS
• CD32 audio-tracks
• 1300 Kb RAM used so far (672 kb Chip + 628 Fast)

• Fixed: Jumping, swinging and then trying to do a downwards plunge mid-swing would glitch out the animation big-time.
• Grabbing onto ropes while doing a downwards plunge would cause Rastan's legs to think they were crouching and not climbing.
• The flying demon's legs would transplant themselves onto a different monster if his upper body went off-screen while the legs stayed in view.
• Fixed some enemies spawning in above ground if the player was still in mid-air at the time.
• A couple of bugfixes and tweaks for the lizardman and bat AI's.
• The HD version had issues with music and sfx playback on 68040 processors. Fixed with the latest Scorpion update.

• Readable game URLs e.g. https://amiga.abime.net/games/view/hunter instead of https://hol.abime.net/764
• Game pages now have a Game->Version->Release structure instead of separate game entries. For example, Zool has three versions (ECS, AGA and CD32) and Driller/Space Station Oblivion are in one entry.
• New advanced game search and game listing.
• Responsive design that adjusts for desktop/tablet/mobile.
• New look and feel that tries to modernise but keep the old colour scheme, tabs etc.
• In-page game info/screen/file editing for editors/admin.
• DBSs are split into two screens alongside each other (horizontal for desktop, vertical for mobile).
• Default screen size is doubled to 640x512.
• Artist credits can have roles alongside.
• Features (programming language, enhanced features, graphics, sound) moved out of Quickmatch to separate section.

• 2023-07-21 improved: Aunt Arctic Adventure (Mindware/Starbyte) level skip now works properly for the last game lavel (Info)
• 2023-07-16 improved: Nexus 7 (Andromeda) a special slave included for running demo in FastRAM (Info, Image)
• 2023-07-16 improved: Project X - Special Edition (Team 17) use the latest CD32 buttons read routine (Info)

• Venus the Flytrap
• Arabian Nights - Egyptian Style Intro
• STAG 2
• Details Hoi intro remix

• Now supports characters from Western languages other than English
• Blank responses from OpenAI no longer cause a crash

• Now the Genre list is populated from the igame.data files and the genre file, if it exists, although it is not necessary. The genre filtering is working with these new values
• Added a new cycle box that lets the user filter the results based on the chipset. This requires in settings the "Prefer igame.data files" to be enabled

• Fixed a hit when the entry properties are requested without having a selected entry.

• When real-time filtering is enabled at least 3 characters are required so as to be initiated. Less than 3 characters are ignored, unless the filtering by pressing the enter button is enabled.
• Removed the filtering options from the Genre list and moved them to their own select box above the entries list
• Now, even if the list entries list is populated a new repository scan will update the Chipset and Genre information based on the data found in igame.data files.
• If the "Prefer igame.data files" is not enabled those files are not used during the scan of repositories

• Card supports now to run in one of 4 different speed mode. This allows for run old games e.g. in speed of A500 or A1200, to improve running old games that have problems running on faster CPUs.
• Support for new instruction EXTUB.L This instruction is very useful for type conversion. It is used by some GCC versions. Supporting it does improve code density and improves performance.
• Support for new instruction EXTUW.L This instruction is very useful for type conversion. It is used by some GCC versions. Supporting it does improve code density and improves performance.
• Support for enhanced instructions BRA.s+ BSR.s+ BCC.s+ This instruction is supported by some compilers and assemblers. This instruction improves code density and improves performance.
• Hardware optimized version of FPU instruction FDBcc.w
• Hardware optimized version of FPU instruction FDBcc.l
• several FPU Performance optimizations ported from V4-FPU to V2

• 2nd fire button to jump properly implemented.
• Fixed Rastan's castrato death howl.
• Fixed horizontal movement for downward plunges to make them behave the same way regular jumps do.
• Fixed AI ledge bug for level 1-B warriors.
• Added hard-drive version.

• Over 30 test reports on current games for 8 and 16 bits
• Interviews with Manfred Kleimann, Frank Brall, Martina Strack, Bendrik Muhs, Stefan Swiergiel, Klaus Segel, Stefan Bayer, Torsten Oppermann, Dirk Fuchser
• Interviews with Thomas Meiertoberens (Magic Bytes) and Steve Wilcox (Elite Systems), Roman Werner (Super Marble Boy), The Mojon Twins (Ramiro el Vampiro), Juan Manchon (Amigastore.eu), Andreas Magerl (APC&TCP), Sebastian Bach ( poly play)
• Reader survey on the ASM
• Competition resolution: Finally here - the ASM computer game
• In the spotlight: 40 years of Vectrex
• Flashback: what became of the St. Brides Girls?

• Recognises a transaction as existing if there are many spaces in a row in the reason for payment. (Duplicate entries may occur after the update if the next import overlaps in date with existing data. Then simply delete them)
• No crash when printing if no printer is set up.
• Italian catalog by Samir Hawamdeh
• Under certain circumstances charts were not saved during evaluation.
• FullHD tables for Ignition evaluation

• the background config of the AmiDock style changed:
  • if you specify a non-existant file, the background will be filled with the workbench background color
  • only if you leave both drawer and file name empty, the background will be pseudo-transparent
  • you can now enter #rrggbb as a file name to choose a specific background color as hexadecimal red/green/blue value

• 2023-07-11 improved: Killing Cloud (Vektor Grafix) fixed protection, trainer improved, added level selection (Info)
• 2023-07-10 improved: Savage (Probe Software) less chipmem requirement, trainers added, use files now, QuitKey for 68000 (Info)
• 2023-07-10 updated: Aunt Arctic Adventure (Mindware/Starbyte) patch rewritten, another version supported, manual included (Info)

• Upgraded to Scorpion Engine v2023.2
• added bounce blocks to normal and hard mode
• added more cannons
• easy mode gives 3 hearts, normal mode 2 hearts, hard mode 1 heart
• boss now flashes when hit by player projectile
• boss has a different health pool per difficulty mode
• boss overlapping player does a bit more damage on hard mode
• boss phase 3 now turns towards the player when the player is 'in sight'. But the boss only does it again after it has been off screen. Alarm lights indicate if the boss will turn around or not: red = turns around, green = keeps walking
• boss phase 3 walks faster on hard mode
• boss phase 3 shoots on hard mode
• player jumps a little higher (like 3 pixels)
• fixed enemy damage: right side did half damage of left side
• hearts image in top bar updated
• some levers now spawn a bomb on hard mode instead of nothing
• made some level ends a bit longer
• coin drop animation a bit longer
• bonus heart and all energy potions now also have a drop animation
• menu, game over and outro music volume lower before it starts playing (before it would start louder and then fade)
• menu boxx logo pixel ratio fix
• menu font fixes
• jukeboxx and credits now have the right coin button
• performance mode replaced with boss flash option
• top panel boxx logo replaced
• top panel difficulty icon added
• plain scorpion splash screen
• added workbench icon to hard disk version
• menu 'beta' text removed

• Rebased to WebKitGTK 2.40.2
• Implemented Bookmarks filtering
• Password manager now stores port numbers too, making it possible to have multiple services requiring login handled on the same domain (as a side effect, all old passwords have been promoted to port 443/https)
• Added a popup if audio initialization has failed
• Added a way to manually add passwords in the Password Settings
• Youtube MSE playback improvements
• Fixed HTTP authentication popup saving credentials for a wrong host in case of redirection
• Fixed a redraw issue when opening print panel while page is still loading
• Fixed to default mimeType to text/html if missing in response from server
• Fixed a couple of minor memory leaks
• Updated libnix and libpng16 both with additional Altivec optimizations
• Updated libxml2, libwebp

• AT32F415: Fix timer handling since clock speed increase (v3.39).
• LCD: Faster power-on initialisation. Don't wait for display to clear.

• Lubricator by The Electronic Knights (TEK) (YouTube video), introducing the availability of Lubrivator V2.0

• 1. Lethal Precision by Laxative Effects
• 2. Balltorp by Elcrew
• 3. Papagago by Platon
• 4. Alla Barnen by Saxtorp Trading

• 1. X61 by Slaze/Desire/Deflance
• 2. 015 by Esau/Traktor
• 3. Pixel Bounce by MAZE/Desire
• 4. Summer Flowers II by sLASH/TEK & Ok3anos/TEK
• 5. Derpaderpachipchip by Wolk/SoS

• Implement Background
• Fix Picture/New canvas sizing
• Added palette pick to choose color from screen
• Fix bugs with fullscreen
• Implement Stencil Lock FG
• Fix loading of VGA display IDs
• Added Stencil and Background documentation
• Add placeholders for other menu documentation

• Music playback programs like AmigaAMP, Eagleplayer and HippoPlayer. Trackers like HivelyTracker, NewTracker. Other programs like SoundFX, conversion programs etc.
• Developer programs and compilers like ACE, AmiBlitz, AMOS, JForth, FreePascal, E-vo, Moduka and Oberon, script languages like Lua and Python.
• Emulators like ScummVM, DosBox, Frodo (C64), EmuBoy, Hatari and MasterGear

• 2023-07-08 improved: Stunt Car Racer / Stunt Car Racer TNT (Microstyle) keyboard problems fixed, WHDLoad v17+ features used, source code included (Info)
• 2023-07-07 improved: PGA Tour Golf (Electronic Arts) crash on 68000 in NTSC mode fixed (Info)
• 2023-07-07 improved: Putty / Silly Putty / Super Putty (System 3) debug code removed from slave (Info)
• 2023-07-07 improved: Putty / Silly Putty / Super Putty (System 3) 68000 quitkey support for Silly Putty version fixed, hints and manual added (Info)
• 2023-07-06 updated: Exterminator (Audiogenic/Assembly Line) patch rewritten, highscore saving added, keyboard routine fixed, 68000 quitkey support, blitter waits added, trainer options added, source code included (Info)
• 2023-07-05 improved: Day of the Viper (Accolade) problem with turbo lift fixed, missing icon for manual added (Info)
• 2023-07-05 improved: Crack (Linel) supports another version, some bugs fixed, intro can be skipped (Info)
• 2023-07-05 updated: World Cup 90 (Genias) patch rewritten to use files instead of disk image (game needs to be reinstalled) (Info)
• 2023-07-05 improved: MiG-29M Super Fulcrum (Domark) another version supported, DMA waits fixed, hints added (Info)
• 2023-07-04 improved: Space Quest: The Sarien Encounter (Sierra) default quitkey changed to PrtSc as F10 is used in the game (Info)
• 2023-07-04 improved: Conflict: The Middle East Political Simulator (Virgin Mastertronic) another version supported, manual included (Info)
• 2023-07-02 improved: World Cup 90 (Genias) byte write to volume register fixed (Info)

Volume 2 chronicles the machinations and intricate shell games surrounding the Amiga's ownership from 2005 to 2010. The heated battle for the post-Commodore Amiga crown led to the ongoing development of competing next-generation PowerPC-based computers and operating systems.

As companies faded from the scene, new champions took up the challenge of keeping the Amiga dream alive. The twists and turns involving Commoodore's trademarks were more convoluted. with repeased opportunistic attempts to control the Commodore brand, something that continues to this day.

Content:

• Chapter 1: The circle of life: Happy 20th Birthday, Amiga!
• Chapter 2: Getting better? It can’t get no worse?
• Chapter 3: Powered up
• Chapter 4: Swimming against the tide
• Chapter 5: Breakthrough
• Chapter 6: A new beginning
• Chapter 7: Commodore revisited

'From Vultures to Vampires Volume 2' will be published as a hardback book of 288 pages, priced at 40.00 Euros (£35 / $45), and will be available from well-stocked bookstores, online retailers, and directly from the publisher on July 14, 2023. E-book editions for Kindle and other platforms will also be available.

Delivery to pre-order customers worldwide began on July 7, 2023.

The final volume 3 is expected in September 2023.