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Preview video: "The Deep" for Apollo Vampire V4 (15. Jan. 2024)
Sami Vehmaa's latest project will be an action adventure exclusively for the Apollo Vampire V4: as a diver you try to find the 50 loads of gold that a sunken ship once carried....

Apollo cards: File sharing tool "ApolloExplorer" v1.1.2 (15. Jan. 2024)
ApolloExplorer is a simple file exchange programme that can be used to transfer files from a PC to an Amiga running an Apollo card and vice versa over the network. A server software runs in the background on the Amiga and allows a client running on a PC w...

Tool: identify-library 44.1 (14. Jan. 2024)
A week ago Richard Körber released version 44.0 of his identify.library. This update mainly is a bug fix release: Bugfix: Emu68 MMU was not detected correctly Bugfix: OCS Denise was not detected Bugfix: Apollo 2030 was not detected 68EC030 is reco...

Apollo cards: File sharing tool "ApolloExplorer" v1.1.1 (update) (07. Jan. 2024)
ApolloExplorer is a simple file exchange programme that can be used to transfer files from a PC to an Amiga running an Apollo card and vice versa over the network. A server software runs in the background on the Amiga and allows a client running on a PC w...

Assembler: ASM-Pro 1.20 released (20. Dec. 2023)
ASM-Pro is a MC680x0 macro assembler for the Amiga with integrated editor, debugger, linker and monitor. The programme offers complete MC680x0, FPU and MMU support. ASM-Pro has now been updated to version 1.20. The changes: ADDITIONS ASM: New sym...

Games for graphics card: Sky Tower and Börd updated (15. Dec. 2023)
Sami Vehmaa has updated two of his arcade games written with AmiBlitz for owners of graphics cards (amiga-news.de reported): Sky Tower can now be played with Christmas themes and is also now optimally playable under Apollo accelerator systems. The ai...

Tetris clone: Atris for Apollo systems (10. Dec. 2023)
Sami Vehmaa has released a version of his Tetris clone Atris (YouTube-Video) which is adapted to Apollo accelerator boards....

Video: Another Robin Hood port preview by Apollo team (06. Dec. 2023)
The Apollo team is working on a port of the game "Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood" (amiga-news.de reported). A video of the current beta version has been published at the title link. Major changes in that version are: Tuning of Main Hourglass (...

Visual Novel: Mansion of Madness for Apollo V4 (29. Nov. 2023)
In mid-September, Sami Vehmaa released his first Visual Novel game, "Mansion of Madness" (YouTube video). He has now added a version for the Apollo V4 accelerator cards....

Operating system for Amiga 3000/4000: Status update of "Apollo" (04. Nov. 2023)
About a year ago, we reported on the start of Dietmar Planitzer's project to write "Apollo", an experimental operating system for the Amiga 3000/4000. We asked the developer what the current status of the work is, and he kindly summarised the following f...

Development tool: vasm 1.9e (01. Oct. 2023)
Frank Wille has published an update of the modular assembler vasm. Changes: Exit before reading the source (from stdin) when there were errors already.Make sure the relocated blocks within all sections are closed after parsing. Otherwise the firs...

AmigaGuide magazine: Issue 11 of "WhatIFF?" published (15. Sep. 2023)
"WhatIFF?" is an English language Amiga magazine in AmigaGuide format which in his eleventh issue again offers a demo version of a game: "Aeon Legends" from BitBeam Cannon. The other topics: Reviews: ImageFX 4.5 OmniPort A1200 AmigaKit RED LEDs ...

Apollo team working on a port of "Robin Hood: Legend of Sherwood" (04. Sep. 2023)
Willem Drijver from the Apollo team informs us that the team is working on porting the Realtime Strategical Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood to the Apollo hardware. The game was published in 2002 for Windows and ported to MorphOS by e.p.i.c. / Runesoft ...

Tool: identify library 43.1 (05. Aug. 2023)
A few moments ago, Richard Körber has released version 43.1 of his identify.library (amiga-news.de reported). Changes: Added more manufacturers and boards AmigaOS 3.9 wasn't detected under certain circumstances Fixed a crash on ACT Apollo A620 dete...

MP3 player: Reel Deck V1.06 (30. Jul. 2023)
At the beginning of February, Sami Vehmaa had released 1.00 of his MP3 player "Reel Deck" for Amigas with graphics card (amiga-news.de reported). Since then he has made minor improvements and bug fixes. The changes: removed case sensitivity in file n...

FPGA: Apollo-Core-Update GOLD 2.17 "Bronto" (19. Jul. 2023)
The Apollo-Core is a FPGA reimplementation of the m68k series produced by Motorola which also provides a separate graphics driver called SAGA. The core is used in the Vampire accelerator boards 600 V2, 500 V2+ and 1200 V2. Changes: Car...

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 ...