Vampire V4 standalone Laptop tests

A member from the Apollo team Renaud Schweingruber demostrates how easy you can attach a V4 standalone with an external keyboard monitor solution and in the future you can 

have a portable 68k Amiga. Vampire is an FPGA solution with reasonable price

and easy it can reproduce a high end 68k Amiga.

Watch the Video from his personal YT account.

Retro Planet: have no fear 'cause 23 is here!

Yes its here.

The 23rd issue of Retroplanet Magazine is out.

You were informed by Dony's Blog the issue will be ready maybe before Amicamp #7

and here it is.Ready to be delivered at your doorstep.

Fresh and still smelling ink when we see the cover art photoshoot from Antnik we can understand the content will be interesting too.

We have our new section followed by the Amiga News article covered by George Sokianos.

We continue to the 8/16 bit reviews were John Tsakiris and Bill Kostopoulos are testing 

Powerglove Reloaded  Sam's Journey  and TrapRunner

More content including the 8 magic bits section covering the Apple with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak and their story for Apple II computers.

We also dont forget the Music related pages on the magazine

For more info and content Follow :

Dony's Blog

And order your issue at : 

Retroplanet.gr

10 minute Amiga Retrocast new Episode #25

This week 10 MARC doing a tutorial on the wonderful Amigavision program from the early nineties. HE will be building a small presentation with Audio, video, static images and animations. Everything was created on an Amiga 500 and an Amiga 4000. The pictures were captured on his DCTV in 24 bit color and converted to HAM6 with AdPro. The audio was captured with an AD516 card in his A4000 and converted to 8 bit 8SVX files.

If you don't have AmigaVision, it is still available for download from various archive sites.

Follow 10 minute Amiga Retrocast for more Amiga content

New A1200 accelerator with 68060 and FPGA will hit the Market soon

There is a new hardware accelerator developement on the A1200 we all dream about

we heard the news and we inform you that this accelerator is a new 68060 brand new card with lots of capabilities to offer such as wifi usb clockport FPGA co-processor and many more.

Specs of the card are:

68060 @50 (overclocked even up to 100, depends on revision)

256MB DDR3-800 RAM

RTG graphics up to 1920x1080 resolution and full 24bit color

fast hardware blitter

port for optional flicker-fixer for AGA video

16bit stereo audio codec (no AHI driver yet)

onboard fast-ATA CF port ~6MB/s transfer rate

additional cache (64kB) to comensate DDR latency.

400MHz ARM MCU -> SD card with DMA, JPEG decoding, MP3 decoding, etc. but theese features will be implementet later. Currently ARM is not used yet at all.

Main CPU:68060, FPGA act as a bridge, DDR memory ctrl, cache, RTG, etc. There is also 16bit audio codec, WiFi module and 400MHz ARM MCU for later planned additional features

Is there audio from hdmi - yes, for video optional flicker-fixer will be offered. There is special port on Warp1260 for it.

The Card is almost entering "beta" stage, so a bit of patience, but it will be availabe later this year.. Later updates will add more great features

No price announced but be paitent.

Only Amiga makes it possible :)

L’Abbaye des morts - New Commodore 64 game

A new Commodore 64 game released on 18th of January this year. Its called L'Abbaye des morts.

A fantastic game for the C64 collection. It offers Hi-res graphics and 20 challenging rooms.

The Music is made by Gryzor and Saul Cross and have some wonderful music.

Game is released as a digital download but also as a boxed game in 2 versions, Disk and Cartridge.

This is the story of the Game:

In the 13th century, the Cathars, clerics who preached about the poverty of Christ and defended life without material aspirations, were treated as heretics by the Catholic Church and expelled out of the Languedoc region in France. One of them, called Jean Raymond, found an old church in which to hide from crusaders, not knowing that beneath its ruins lay buried an ancient evil.

Featuring:

• Hi-resolution Graphics
• An amazing soundtrack by Gryzor and Saul Cross
• 20 challenging rooms
• 14 Different types of enemies
• A dragon!
• Secrets passages and a hidden room
• PAL / NTSC compatible!

Game package contains: 

• Cardboard Box
• Cartridge or Floppy
• 11″x13″ Poster
• Instruction Manual
• Extra with the cartridge version: Jean Raymond's Ring!

The game is Available on the link shown:

DoubleSidedGames

VCS 4th Amstrad CPC intro premiere.

Tomorrow  VCS will release their 4th Intro made on Amstrad CPC on our youtube channel.
Demo was made from Dony, member of the VCS club and owner of the Dony's old computers blog.
More releases of Demos will come in the near future.
You may wander what other demos are available ? what no.4 ? where are the other 3 parts?
Dont worry, follow our youtube channel for more demoscene stuff from various retro platforms.

Demo Premiere : 23 March 2019 6:30PM EET.

Bridge Strike Available on April 2019

The is a new Amiga game by Project R3D, awarded second place in the Game Competition at RetroKomp event in Gdańsk. Get behind the controls of your plane and fight for peace. You are the last hope!

The game has stunning old school pixel graphics a dedicated chiptune soundtrack and SFX and features several types of terrain across diverse and demanding missions

Edition: CD box + floppy

Requirements: OCS, 14 MHz CPU, 1 MB Chip, 1 MB Fast RAM

Availability: April 2019

Price: 17,00 EUR

Preorder your game from amiganet.pl