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Saga 1.84 – Amiga

Saga is a conversion of the 1981 TSR board-game “Saga: Age of Heroes”, for up to 6 players. Players can be controlled by human or the Amiga. In Saga you must defeat evil monsters, win fabulous treasures and rule great kingdoms. Changes in this version: New option: Watch Amiga movements and miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes. Website: http://amigan.1emu.netSource: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl

Doom – VIC20

Kweepa released the game Doom for the Commodore VIC20. For the game you will need a Commodore VIC-20, a 35 KB memory expansion and a disk drive. The game has 8 levels, 4 enemies, 5 weapons, 11 music tracks, 20 sound effects, cheat codes, a map screen, corpses, secrets, pick-ups, exploding barrels, intermission and victory screens, and more! Website: Vic…

Håvar Bruvold Hojem (HBH) interview

The C64.com web page had an interview with Håvar Bruvold Hojem (HBH). Håvar is from Norway and was active in the Commodore scene between 1984 and 1993. His activities were organising, coding, graphics and swapping in the groups Foxx, Frontline The Hidden Forces (THF), Abnormal and Panoramic Designs. Website: http://www.c64.com

Flashtro Amiga

On the web page Flashtro.com you can see many cracker intro’s with your browser. The original intros from the Amiga, Atari-ST, Dreamcast, PC, Playstation etc. are converted to Flash. The most recent flashtro’s are: Taipan – New Stuff, Taipan – Dragon Breed, Scoopex – Snow Bros, Megaforce – 944 Turbo Cup, The Power Connection – It Came from the Desert…

Gary Dunne interview

Gary Dunne started programming on the Commodore VIC-20, followed by the Atari 800XL, the Commodore 64 and later the Amiga. Gary made the games Toobz, Infection and Confuzion for the Amiga. Website: http://www.amigapd.com

The Frog – Commodore 16

The Frog is a game for the Commodore 16 made by Jens Engel. The game is written in machine code and can be used on a C16 or a Plus/4. You can also use a level editor to make your own levels in the game. Download: the_frog.zip16k version: the_frog_16k.prgWebsite: http://plus4world.powweb.com

X-bEnCh 0.92

With 272 colors on screen with AGA (128 with OCS/ECS), this Frontendcan autoscan your hard-drive to find all your whdload games or your.exe and organize them in launching listings. X-bEnCh can also managemanuals listings and has an internal script system, the X-bEnChScripts (For non whdload games for example). It requires very fewresources and is compatible with all Amiga setups. X-bEnCh…

BetterWB v3.2

BetterWB is a new workbench pack, like AIAB, Amikit, AmigaSYS, ClassicWB etc. It aims to be an enhancement and an update to AmigaOS 3.1 but without the need of extra hardware. Changes in this edition: DosPrefs, Trashcan, Improvements for MagicMenu, Boards.library, requestchoice command, Tooltypes and Format GUI. Website: http://lilliput.amiga-projects.net/BetterWB.htm

Retrochallenge Competition 2014 Winter Warmup

The winter edition of the Retrochallenge competition will be held from 1-1-2014 until 31-1-2014. Everybody with a retro computer project can compete. Examples of the entries are: TCP/IP stack Macintosh 128K. New game for the hand-held toy from Mattel. New programming language for the C64. Apple II Prince of Persia. ViewData BBS system. 6502 based computer. Memotech MTX512 rebuild. Apple…

Christmas Day BBB Live on SlayRadio with BozRetro!

Wednesday, December 25, 2013 at 20:00 CET       Boz – BBB Christmas Presence   – Ho ho ho! ‘Tis Christmas day! Come along and sit on Uncle Boz’s lap and tell him what Santa brought you this year! At the same time, Boz will play your requests in between Christmas-related inane banter. The perfect antidote to eating and…