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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...

Podcast: Amiga Users Ireland - Commodore Power (10. Jun. 2018)
The latest podcast of the Amiga Users Ireland is about the MorphOS programs RNOWidgets, OpenXCom and MilkyTracker, the closure of the Apollo registrations this month and about the news that sufficient money was collected for producing new Amiga-500 cases....

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...

FPGA: Apollo-Core-Update Gold 2.9 (08. Apr. 2018)
The Apollo core is a FPGA-reimplementation of Motorolas m68k-series, which also provides a separate graphic mode called SAGA. Currently the core is used in the accelerator boards 600 V2 and 500 V2(+). All changes are listed under the title link: Bett...

FPGA: Apollo-Core-Update Gold 2.8 / SAGA driver 1.2 (22. Mar. 2018)
The Apollo core is a FPGA-reimplementation of Motorolas m68k-series, which also provides a separate graphic mode called SAGA. Currently the core is used in the accelerator boards 600 V2 and 500 V2(+). Changes in the latest core "Gold 2.8": Improved H...

FPGA: Apollo-Core-Update Gold 2.7 / SAGA driver 1.0 (01. Mar. 2018)
The Apollo core is a FPGA-reimplementation of Motorolas m68k-series, which also provides a separate graphic output called SAGA. Currently the core is used in the accelerator boards 600 V2 and 500 V2(+). Changes in the latest core "Gold 2.7": Fast Har...

Vampire accelerator board: SAGA driver 0.14 (28. Jan. 2018)
Under the title link for Vampire accelerator boards version 0.14 of the SAGA driver has been released. The latest Apollo core "Gold 2.5" is required. ...

Developer tools: vasm 1.8b and vlink 0.16b (02. Jan. 2018)
Frank Wille has released updates for the modular assembler vasm and the corresponding linker vlink. Changes: vasm 1.8b: Option -noialign disables the automatic instruction alignment.m68k: New Apollo Core instructions (core >=4035.jic), provi...

FPGA processor: 68080 is to licenced to hardware producers for free (06. Nov. 2017)
Gunnar von Boehn offers to provide his reimplementation of a 68k processor calles 68080 to further hardware producers. Currently the Vampire accelerator boards ("Apollo Cores") are equipped with a 68080 which are available for A500/A600 and announced for ...

Developer tools: vasm 1.8a and vlink 0.16a (16. Aug. 2017)
Frank Wille has released updates of the portable and retargetable assembler vasm and of its corresponding linker vlink. Changes in vasm 1.8a: Increased number of fast-optimization passes from 50 to 200, as very large sources (> 60000 lines), w...

Amiga Impact: Further pictures of FPGA accelerator board Vampire V4 (09. Aug. 2017)
For the fourth quarter of 2017 version 4 of the FPGA accelerator board Vampire was announced (amiga-news.de reported). Under the title link today Amiga Impact has published further pictures which show the standalone version and a bare board in a alum...

Hardware: Vampire V4 announced inclusive A1200 and standalone version (03. Aug. 2017)
In a press release and in the forum of the project the Apollo team has announced the next generation of the FPGA-based accelerator board, which for the first time will be also offered as "standalone" version. Three different versions are offered: ...

AROS: Weekly progresses (since 30.05.2017) (14. Jul. 2017)
Last week's progress in development of the open-source AmigaOS clone AROS includes start of development of a FastATA class as well as reworks of several language files and of network drivers. since 30.05.2017: M68k ATA fixing/debugging continues (...

Vampire: Videos about integration of AGA chipset into Apollo core (21. Jun. 2017)
Under the title link during the last days some videos have been published which demonstrate the progresses "on the integration of the AGA chipset into the Apollo core" of the FPGA accelerator board Vampire. The video signal is carried on HDMI. ...

Emulator: Preview to WinUAE 3.5.0 (01. Jun. 2017)
As usual the developers of the well-known Amiga emulator WinUAE present a short preview to the changes of the next version. WinUAE 3.5.0 is supposed to be released in the middle of June and will provide the following improvements: New features: So...

AROS: Weekly progress (since 23.05.2017) (30. May. 2017)
Last week's progress in development of the open-source AmigaOS clone AROS includes improvements of the processor type detection and of the lowlevel.library under AROS/68k. .dbg files are now ignored by AROS (Kalamatee) Lowlevel.library m68k work con...

Zelda ROTH Enhanced Vampire Edition 0.99 (13. May. 2017)
Artur 'Arti' Jarosik has updated his Amiga port of "The Legend of Zelda - Return of the Hylian" which is a fan continued sequel of Nintendo's adventure series. Additional to some new sounds, the game now is available as m68k-version as well as version for...

AmiCast: Text interview with Norbert Kett (11. Apr. 2017)
Issue eight of the English language podcast AmiCast had an interview with Norbert Kett, who is the author of AmigaCloudHandlers available for all Amiga systems for accessing DropBox and Google Drive. Currently he is working on an implemantation of Op...

WHDLoad: Version 18.3 and new installers until 08.04.2017 (09. Apr. 2017)
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. Three days ago version 18.3 was released now supporting the Apollo core of the Vampire accelerator b...

FPGA accelerator board: Vampire 600 pre-order list fulfilled (26. Mar. 2017)
According to Gunnar von Boehn from the Apollo team, the pre-order list for the FPGA accelerator board Vampire 600 was fulfilled: "Customers all over the world have either received their card or have been informed via email that they are part of the n...