International Amiga Day - May 31st 2016

How quick the years pass as once again it is time to celebrate ' International Amiga Day ' which is held every 31st May in celebration of Jay Miner who, according to Gyorgy Dragon, was the father of the Amiga and today is his birthday! Amiga owners and Emulation users across the globe will be once again playing original Amiga games, fixing the original hardware and even giving the old girl a new look with a spruced up paint job. In fact this International Amiga Day, is even more worthy of celebration as not only did we see the release of the beastly accelerator the A600 Vampire II for the Amiga 600, but also a Kickstarter success for the 'New AMIGA 1200 Cases (Made From New Molds)' by Philippe Lang.

Amiga A600 Vampire II Update - SAGA Driver, and it's FAST!

As many of you well know, the Vampire II for the A600 has been out a little while now and there isn't one person I have personally spoken to that is disappointed with it. In fact it is so fast, that some have rushed to Facebook and showed benchmarks as bragging rights against the much older accelerators that even for their time were rather fast. Well today we've got another video for you from Modern Vintage Gamer, and this one is showing the Amiga A600 Vampire II through HDMI using the SAGA driver and playing work in progress ports such as Rise of the Triad and Duke Nukem. Let me just tell you, this is probably the best footage yet showing just how fast these games are running, something unheard of in its Amiga life time.

A600 Vampire V2 - Total acceleration for the Amiga 600!

Throughout this month so far we have been writing about the ' Vampire 600 V2 ' which according to our previous articles 1 and 2 is a beastly accelerator for the Amiga 600 by Igor Majstorovic, (Majsta). and tcore (CPU) by Gunnar von Boehn, (BigGun) that basically turns your Amiga 600 into one of the fastest Amiga's available! Not only that, but without the heat, the mad power requirements and still gives solid frame rates in games such as Doom and Day of the Tentacle whereas other Amiga's would slow to a crawl. In fact a number of videos have now surfaced showing us just how good this piece of kit is. It's just a shame we don't have an Amiga 600 on hand to give you our thoughts, but we will be waiting on the Amiga 1200 Vampire when and if that arrives!

A600 Vampire II - A beast of an accelerator coming to the Amiga 600 with pre-order!

Of all the Amiga's to own right now it just has to be an Amiga 600, especially as they are about to get one of the fastest accelerators that even Amiga 1200 owners will be sat at home drooling over. Welcome to the ' Vampire 600 V2 ', a powerhouse of technical marvel by Igor Majstorovic, (Majsta). and tcore (CPU) by Gunnar von Boehn, (BigGun) that is faster than an Amiga 1200 with a 68060 accelerator running at 80MHz with very little heat or power consumption all for the low price of €150!