Category: Commodore Amiga

Vampire 600

Mfilos tested the new Vampire 600 FPGA accelerator for the Amiga 600. The Vampire 600 is developed by Majsta and has recently become available. On mfilos blog you can read about installing and configuring the new accelerator. Website: http://www.mfilos.com

WHDLoad Updates

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. The following installers have been added until 07.01.2014. 2014-01-07 new: Enemy 2 – Missing in Action (Anachronia) done by Wepl (Info,Image) 2014-01-06 new: Pharaohs Match (Arcadia Systems) done by Don Adan (Info) 2014-01-06 new: Delta Command (Arcadia Systems) done by Don Adan (Info) 2014-01-06 new: Blastaball (Mastertronic)…

LAG 37 Meeting

LAG meeting 37 will be held on Saturday the 1st of March 2014 from 11:AM – 4:PM in the Welton Village Hall, Welton-by-Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. About Lincs Amiga User Group aka “LAG”. See http://lincsamiga.org.uk/wordpress/index.php/about/ For location see http://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/popiOrgVenue.asp?vid=64 GoogleMaps Post Code LN2 3LU,GB There is a bus stop outside which the buses from -to Lincoln use. Cost will be approx…

WinUAE 2.7.1 beta 1

2.7.1 (or possibly higher) beta series. Lots of A500 cycle-exact improvements and chipset corner cases fixed. (Thanks to amilo3438 for collecting huge amounts of demo test cases) Huge changelog, mostly technical stuff. – Setting blitter channel mode to D only from D + any other channel(s) combination when blitter was active caused blitter emulation to repeat D write until BLTSIZE…

Jack v4.3 – Amiga

Jack is a multi-purpose program for AmigaOS, AROS and MorphOS. Features: Preferences, Screen snapshot, Knowledge Base, Image editor, Music player, Slideshow, File-management, Auto-updates, etc. Changes in this version: APPDIR: is now accessible from the shell. Dashboard: Improved the function of the “Go” button. New Tab for Tech RSS NewsFeeds. Knowledge Base: Improved the function of the “Go to website” button….

Boingsworld #47

A new episode of BoingsWorld (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: Amigakit Joystick, Elbox Turboflyer 530, Rasberry Pi as Floppy, Odyssey 1.22 – MorphOS, A-Eon & ACube, MorphOS 3.4, Joypad Boomerang, Tetris, ACA 500, ACA 1232, Flight of the Amazon Queen, Hybris, Legend of Kyrandia, Solid Gold, BoingsWorld radio, torrent and RSS-Feed. Website: http://boingsworld.de

Galahad interview – Putty Squad

Codetapper’s Amiga Retro Site has interviewed Galahad from Fairlight. In the year 1990 System 3 developed the game Putty Squad. But the game was not released for the Amiga. In 2013 System 3 announced that the game would be released for the modern consoles, but again not for the Amiga. Galahad contacted System 3 to offer his help to make…

Walker, Amiga Review by Rob Joy

“Now hear this.. Now hear this!” Walker, a game by DMA for the commodore Amiga. There, that’s the business end sorted, Lets get to it!! Unlike any mainstream shooter back in the day, Walker offered an original dynamic, a dynamic changing the way adrenaline packed mayhem offered itself to players wishing to engage in the sheer savagery and brutality of…

Speedball 2, Amiga Review by Rob Joy

“It is the future. Wars no longer serve a purpose and all international disputes are solved within the arena.” In a corporate world with corporations fighting for global domination the need for conflict has vanished leaving privately owned teams to battle each other in the most violent sport the human race has ever devised. ‘Speedball 2’, released originally on the…

Aminet Latest Releases

Latest releases over at Aminet are as follows: Daysleeper.lha, Calendaro.lha, SMARTDoctor-source.lha, SMARTDoctor-morphos.lha, DevInfos.lha, powersdl_src.lha, powersdl.lha, Spreedy_0.1.lha, madplay.lha, ZXLive.lha, AmiArcadiaMOS.lha, AmiArcadia_OS4.lha, AmiArcadia.lha, mngplay_1.0.lha, Queens.lha, MyTiles.lha, AmiDOOM_RTG.lha, AmiDOOM_AGA.lha, DustDigger.adf, PciTool_3.0.lha, ulsata2-source.lha, ulsata2-morphos.lha, PAS.lha, powersdl_sdk.lha, smartdev.lha, ACE_Tutorial.lha, YAM29-MorphOS.lha, YAM29-AROS-x86_64.lha, YAM29-AROS-ppc.lha, YAM29-AROS-i386.lha, YAM29-AmigaOS4.lha, YAM29-AmigaOS3.lha, DoubleGummi.lha and MomosIRC_v2.2.lha. Download and more details can be found over at http://aminet.net