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Scene World Podcast Episode #128 - Gunnar von Böhn (Apollo team) (05. Dec. 2021)
In episode 128 of the Scene World Podcast, Jörg Dröge and Arthur Heller talk to Gunnar von Böhn of the Apollo team, programmers of the FPGA implementation of an 68k-like CPU used for the "Vampire" accelerator boards. Interview starts at 37:38 minutes...

Accelerator board: Last Buffee status update for 2021 (20. Nov. 2021)
In our last new item we reported that the Buffee accelerator boards had to be sent back for revision. Now the developers have published a last bog entry for this year (pictures available under the title link): "I have many words for the last year, no...

Anniversary: 20 years AmigaSource (11. Nov. 2021)
For 20 years now Scott Pistorino collects on his site AmigaSource all information around the Amiga. On October 19, 2001 he introduced his project on amiga-news.de. Beside several interviews with Ben Hermans or Fleecy Moss from 2002 there are numerous cate...

Text adventure: "Darkest Hour" released (29. Oct. 2021)
Darkest Hour is an old-fashioned text adventure game, available for several platforms and also for AmigaOS 3. Die Story: "Halloween is almost here, but something is happening that's much scarier than the annual haunted house at the fire hall. T...

Single-Screen-platformer: 'Inca Man' V1.1 released (10. Sep. 2021)
Only a few days ago, Amiten (e.g. Cocoa Banana, Parallel Worlds 2) released the single-screen-platformer 'Inca Man' (video) and now provided an update to version 1.1. Changes: Fixed lives counter. Fixed colour to bat, vampire and wrong pixel to pl...

Game announcement: 'Menace' remake for Vampire (10. Aug. 2021)
Kevin Saunders, graphic designer, artist and game designer for Amiga projects (among others Boss Machine and RESHOOT PROXIMA 3), has announced a remake of the game Menace for Vampire Amigas by presenting an animated end level boss. He also encourages Amig...

Jump'n Run for Vampire V4: SonicVamped 1 and 2 (04. Aug. 2021)
'SonicVamped' is a port of the 2013 Android version of SEGA's Sonic The Hedgehog 1 & 2 to AmigaOS optimised for Vampire V4 computer. The games ported by Artur "Arti" Jarosik and "Quetzal" also run under Vampire V2 accelerator boards but not at full speed....

From Vultures to Vampires: Shipping of book by Pleasance and Dickinson (vol. 1) (02. Aug. 2021)
The first volume of "From Vultures to Vampires", a book by the former Commodore UK manager David Pleasance and the A-EON Technology co-founder Trevor Dickinson, is currently shipping to those crowdfunders who pledged for the e-book version. Printing ...

Print-/PDF Magazine: Amiga Addict, Issue 7 (31. Jul. 2021)
Seventh issue of British magazine "Amiga Addict" is available for pre-ordering. The lead article is about Psygnosis, but there are also articles about the Vampire, a review of Turbo Tomato and a look at how comic books helped sell the Amiga back in the da...

Apollo team: change in staff, new accelerator boards annouced (05. Jul. 2021)
As announced by Apollo team at the title link, Igor Majstorovic, developer of the Vampire accelerator boards, has left the group. On the other hand, Thomas Hirsch returned, the original developer of the former Natami project. The press release mentio...

New French print magazine: "Boing" can be pre-ordered (03. Jul. 2021)
'Boing' is a new French print magazine whose first issue is to be published in mid-July. For five Euros, 52 color printed glossy pages are offered. The main topics of the first issue are the Vampire V4+ with ApolloOS as well as AmigaOS 3.2. ...

New articles on the Obligement website (02. Jul. 2021)
In the last two months the website of the French AmigaOS and MorphOS magazine Obligement has been extended by the contributions below. Translations into other languages are always welcome, interested parties please contact David 'Daff' Brunet. May/...

Trevor's Amiga Blog: First volume finished, beta version of DvPlayer in test (19. Jun. 2021)
After more than 10 months Trevor Dickinson from A-EON Technology has written an entry in his Trevor's Amiga Blog again. A large part of it is his report about the work on the two volume book 'From Vultures to Vampires' about the Amiga history, which ...

Aminet: New Version of AmigaOS 3.2 FAQ (03. Jun. 2021)
Today the new version 47.2 of the AmigaOS 3.2 FAQ was published on Aminet. Among other things the following points were added: 1.5: The Vampire V4 is able to boot AmigaOS 3.2, but this requires a special procedure from the user. More information on...

PiStorm: Video shows current development status (20. May. 2021)
Claude Schwarz' 'PiStorm' connects a Raspberry Pi to the CPU socket in an A500, A1000 or A2000 via an adapter and uses the single-board computer to emulate a fast m68k processor. Unlike the Buffee project where the 68k emulator runs directly on the hardwa...

Shoot 'em up for the vampire: preview video for 'Jake and Peppy (26. Apr. 2021)
In a Youtube video, the graphic designer of the development team presents a shoot'em up that is being developed specifically for vampire accelerator. The release of 'Jake and Peppy' is planned for late 2021, early 2022....

FPGA accelerator card: Raptor 1200 (26. Apr. 2021)
In a video interview, Gunnar von Böhn of Apollo team announces a feature-reduced variant of the FPGA accelerator card Vampire. If everything would proceed well, he expects the first cards already next month. The new card, too, would be produced by Igor Ma...

Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.88 (19. Apr. 2021)
RedPill developed by Carlos Peris is a Game Construction Kit written in AmiBlitz 3.8, which can help developing games of diverse genres - see our little review of two games. Recently a preview video of the forthcoming game "Putter" has been released being...

CDXL play: AGABlaster 0.9.82 (23. Jan. 2021)
AGABlaster plays Commodore's CDXL videos. In version 0.9.82 support for standard 12-bit AGA6-8 and HAM8 videos (used in several games in the late 90s) was added. Additionally optimized versions for all 68k processors inclusive Vampire are available. ...

Book announcement:'From Vultures to Vampires' splitted into two parts (21. Jan. 2021)
Last summer the second book of the former Commodore-UK manager David Pleasance, written together with Trevor Dickinson (A-EON), was successfully financed by a Kickstarter campaign. According to Pleasance in two updates (1, 2), they "seriously underestimat...