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Games launcher: X-bEnCh 1.1 X-mas Public Beta Release (26. Dec. 2017)
Jim Neray's X-bEnCH is a graphical user-interface with up to 640 colours (AGA; 128 on OCS/ECS-computers) which can replace the Workbench for launching WHDLoad-games and other applications and requires low hardware resources. An integrated command line as ...

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 ...

Dock in Mac OS style: New version of MacLikeDock (update) (19. Oct. 2017)
In a tutorial for beatifying Workbench, Stefan Egger has pointed out that an updated version of the dock MacLikeDock is available. The program which was originally written for AmigaOS 4 imitates the look and the performance of the dock of Mac OS...

French print magazine: aMiGa=PoWeR 59 (14. Oct. 2017)
Since 1998 the French printed magazine aMiGa=PoWer has been published by the Association Française du Libre Essai (AFLE). Among others issue issue 59 offers a review of the Vampire accelerator board as well software reviews of Reshoot, Bubbelsche de luxe,...

Operating system: FreeMiNT distribution for Vampire (04. Oct. 2017)
MiNT ("Mint is now TOS") is the successor of Ataris TOS with multitasking functionality. Stefan Niestegge has arranged a distribution of the open source operating system which now is called FreeMiNT for Amiga computers equipped with a Vampire accelerator ...

Podcast: Amiga Users Ireland Podcast #7 - Mamma Miga (13. Sep. 2017)
In the seventh issue of the English-language podcast of the Amiga Users Ireland they have talked about the accelerator board Vampire 4. ...

A600: Vampire HDMI mount/ESC VGA mount (23. Aug. 2017)
Stefan Egger offers slf-made mounts for the HDMI port of a Vampire 600 and for the VGA port of an Indivision ECS. If you have removed the TV modulator from your Amiga 600, you can set up Egger's mount instead of it - the case has not to be ...

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: ...

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. ...

Aminet-Uploads until 03.06.2017 (04. Jun. 2017)
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until June 3rd, 2017: AFile_src.lha biz/misc 180K AFile source code AGraph_src.lha biz/misc 70K AGraph source code LiquidMIG.lha demo/intro 565K 68...

FPGA accelerator board: Vampire available in shops (30. May. 2017)
Since about a year the Vampire accelerator boards have been no longer manually put together which made it more expensible but also enabled mass production. Therefore meanwhile diverse shops can be delivered: Relec (Switzerland) and Amigakit (Great Britain...

3D print: Vampire mount for Amiga 600 (30. May. 2017)
An user of a Vampire has created a mount, which fixes the FPGA accelerator board within an A600. It consists of two frames: Both frames can be printed with a 3D printer. Corresponding templates are available at Thingiverse. ...

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...

Podcast: AmiCast 23 - Interview with Jarlath Reidy (08. May. 2017)
In its 23th issue, Krzysztof Radzikowski has interviewed in his podcast Amicast Jarlath Reidy, who is one of the organizers of the Amiga Ireland Meetup. They also talked about the history of the Amiga, NG computers, Odyssey and Vampire-exclusive software ...

Aminet-Uploads until 06.05.2017 (07. May. 2017)
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until May 6th, 2017: CCNCatabasisSrc.lha demo/aga 666K 68k Sources for the cocoon demo C... Cocoon_Catabasis.lha demo/aga 305K 68k Cocoon AGA Demo Catabasis (HD) CocoonCatabasisD.a...

Print magazine: Amiga Future 126 (04. May. 2017)
The English and German editions of Amiga Future 126 (May/June 2017) has been released today, it can be ordered from Amiga dealers or directly from the editorial office. This issue's topics include a preview of 'Reshoot R' and Reviews of the Vampire 6...

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...