Next-generation 3D rendering performance with "Maggie"

Apollo Team, creators of the Vampire line of FPGA-based Amiga accelerators and compatibles, just published an impressive 3D graphics demo.

"Maggie" is a 3D unit and truecolor hardware texturing engine with zbuffer and shading, that is implemented in the CYCLONE 5 FPGA based models of the Vampire family. After presenting a couple of nice 2D demos of scaling and blending, Apollo Team has now uploaded a 3D demo showing Maggie's 3D features in action, running smoothly in what appears to be a 1280x720px screenmode created by Vampire's SuperAGA video system.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rxggxxPzYg
Apollo-Team YouTube channel  

Find out more about Vampire and Maggie on Apollo's website:
http://apollo-core.com

The Amiga Art Contest 2021 is on

The "Amiga Art Contest 2021" has begun! There has never been a shortage of creativity on the Amiga, and once again this year Amiga artists can submit their work to 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast's art contest.

Pixel graphics, 3d rendered graphics, photo retouche, sound modules, animation - pretty much everything "creative" is accepted as long as at least the final result has been created on an Amiga computer.

You can take a look at the 2019 and 2020 submissions to the contest for inspiration, if you like. 

This year, a couple of nice little prizes for the winners in each category have been added, for extra creative motivation.

Head over to their website for more information:

https://www.amigaartwork.com

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