Author: CommodoreBlog
Plus4emu is an open source, portable Commodore Plus/4 emulator written in C++, and supporting Windows and POSIX platforms (32 bit Windows, 32 and 64 bit Linux, and MacOS X have been tested). It implements accurate, high quality hardware emulation, however, the system requirements are higher than that of most other emulators. The latest version is now v1.2.10.1. Download: https://github.com/istvan-v/plus4emu/
Kilobyte Magazine is a hobbyist magazine dedicated to 8-bit computing today. This edition contains the following articles: Floppy disks, Tapecart, CD games, MOS chips, Athanor, Moonspire and 8-bit Civilizations. Website: https://issuu.com/kilobytemagazine/
AmigaMAD is an English/Norwegian pdf magazine. The latest edition contains the following: MacOSX/MorphOS, AROS, AmigaOS 4.1 FE, Jay Miner, Jack Tramiel and the AmigaOneX5000. Download: amigamad-60-2016-01.pdf Source: amiga.zone
AmiKit, the high-end distribution of the best classic Amiga software, has been optimized for real Amigas AGA computers too! This conversion is unofficial and beta, maintained by Retrofan. Download: real.amiga.sk/downloads.htm Website: real.amiga.sk AmiKit Real Support Thread: eab.abime.net
Steve Erickson & Mads Kristensen play the Amiga version Taito’s classic 2 play romp and discuss the games various sequels and spin offs! Below is the video that accompanies the episode. [youtube RGOhvV1zmRQ nolink] Podcast: RA_Live_Play_Bubble_Bobble.mp3 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/retroasylum/ YouTube: Retro Asylum Twitter: @retroasylum1 Website: retroasylum.com
WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. The following installers have been added up to 2017-03-06. 2017-03-06 improved: B.C.Kid (Factor 5) trainer added (Info) 2017-02-28 improved: Goblins 3 (Coktel Vision) adapted for WHDLoad v17, workaround for issues added (Info) 2017-02-26 improved: The Immortal (Electronic Arts) fixed DMA wait for better music replay (Info,Image) 2017-02-26…
A new episode of BoingsWorld (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: Markus Tillmann (Amiga32.de), Hyperion, A1222, AmigaOS 4.1 FE, HC508 – A500, KA37, Laser Amiga mouse, The Amiga Story, Acryl case ACA500 and the Amiga Game Award 2016. Listen: BoingsWorldEpisode084.mp3 Website: http://boingsworld.de
This video from iz8dwf shows part of the electronic troubleshooting and repair of a 1979 Commodore PET 3032, serial n. 1320067. Various defects found after all these years: defective ROMs, defective PIA 6520 and a defective MC3446 IEEE488 driver (found because it was running too hot). Two DRAM chips failed after about 2 hours of use. Some marginal IC sockets replaced…
Victor Lancing made a video about repairing a Commodore 64. The fault was a bad RAM chip. You can watch how he finds the bad chip, removes it, and puts in a new chip. Check out the video below. [youtube 1evDWDmH7yw nolink] Youtube: Victor Lancing
New release (v4.8) Performance tuning – the assembler now runs a little faster Error message for setting negative memory positions (*=-$1000) ByteDump: printing 32 bytes pr row for directives that output many bytes Labelscoping for the if directive. (sta if.myLable+1; if: .if (condition) {myLabel: lda #0}) Bugfix: Corrected error appearing when a list is added to itself. Thanks to Alex…
