Category: Commodore Amiga

BetterWB 3.2 released

This is a new version of BetterWB workbench pack, that aims to be an enhancement, an updated extension to AmigaOS 3.1, without all those hardware requirement typically associated with these kind of packs. It is indeed a better 3.1 than 3.1 itself! BetterWB works on any Amiga. It installs on top of a clean AmigaOS 3.1 installation. It is distributed…

Upcoming SLAYRadio Shows

Wednesday, December 18, 2013 at 20:00 CET       Boz – BBB Monday, December 23, 2013 at 20:00 CET       Gurt – Radio Awesome Festivus Special Website: http://www.slayradio.org

Jon Hare interview (Cannon Fodder)

The web page Eurogamer.net had an interview with Jon Hare (Sensible Software). In this interview Jon tells about the development of Cannon Fodder. The original concept of Cannon Fodder was a Rambo style game with a troop element. But at Sensible software they did not make a complete plan before the game development was started. Many of the elements were…

TurboFlyer 530

Elbox Computer will release the TurboFlyer 530 in the next year. The TurboFlyer 530 is a new 68030-based accelerator with integrated FastATA CF/SATA controller for Amiga 500/500+ and A2000 computers. Features: 68030 processor (with MMU) @ 40MHz, 16MB fast 32-bit DRAM. Visit the Elbox web page for more details. Website: http://elbox.com

ACA500

The ACA500 turbo card from Individual Computers will be available at the end of this year. The ACA is connected to the expansion port of the Amiga 500. The features of the new product are: 68EC000-10 CPU @ 14 MHz, 2 MB RAM, two CF-card connectors, compatible with internal memory expansions, expansion port, clock port, Kickstart 1.3 and 3.1 ROMs…

Oricutron v1.1

Oricutron (formerly known as Oriculator) is an emulator for the Oric series of computers. This emulator is available for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, MacOS and Windows. Changes in this version: Improvements for scan lines, full screen options and the Pravetz 8D ROM. Disk and tape image auto detection, auto run for Jasmin and Pravetz diskettes, various AY emulation improvements and simplified…

Bloboats – AROS

Bloboats is a new game for AROS. The original game is made by Markus Kettunen and is a boat racing game. In the game you must reach the MS Enterprise as fast as possible to save it from the tentacles of a terrible monster. You start somewhere in the United States, and your destination is Helsinki. Download: bloboats.i386-aros.zipWebsite: http://archives.aros-exec.org

AmigaOS 4: SketchBlock 2.5

The latest version of Andy Broad’s graphic program SketchBlock (video) introduces support for palettes. Due to the two-year developing history, the author published some figures: Currently the source code has 2,5 MB with over 83.000 lines in more than 280 files. The program is written in three computer languages (C, Python and ARexx), the documentation was additionally created with Perl-scripts….

Google and Cloanto release Amiga emulator for Chrome browser

Together with Cloanto, Google released a port of the Amiga emulator UAE for Chrome, utilizing the Portable Native Client (PNaCl) for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Chrome OS. This way the PNa-Client requests the corresponding C programs from Google’s servers and translates the commands into the native code of the platform the browser is currently running on. The demo…

ACA500: Acrylic glass cases can be preordered

For the accelerator board ACA500 developed by Individual Computers (amiga-news.de reported), AmiStore.de offers an acrylic glass case which can be preordered from now. The delivery will start before Christmas. According to Patrick Launhardt of AmiStore.de, the case will be also available at Vesalia.