Category: Commodore Amiga

– Removing directory harddrives on the fly crashed in some situations. – Interlace with black lines (“fields+”) didn’t always work correctly. – Only allow GUI mininize button if emulation has not yet been started, minimizing GUI when emulation window is open only causes problems.. – Copper debugger (od) shows when blit waiting WAIT ends and also stores copper instruction words…

The Swedish web page Safir has had an interview with Jérôme Senay. Jérôme, also known as Glames, is the man behind the company Boing Attitude. Jérôme is the developer of Word Me Up, Ask Me Up and Dir Me Up. The game Word Me Up is a combination of an arcade game and a memory game. Ask Me Up is…

Twin Distress is a game for AROS made by Keith Frampton. In the game you must remove all of the blocks from the screen before your time runs out. You can only remove two blocks and they must have the same colour. The following levels become more difficult because the available time will be shorter. Download: twind.i386-aros.zipWebsite: http://archives.aros-exec.org

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. The following installers have been added until 26.11.2013. 2013-11-26 new: Our Definition of a Boombastic Demo Style (Rebels) done by StingRay (Info,Image) 2013-11-25 new: Spaced Out Vol. 2 (Magnetic Fields) done by StingRay (Info,Image) 2013-11-24 new: Spaced Out Vol. 1 (Magnetic Fields) done by StingRay (Info,Image) 2013-11-23…

– GUI didn’t work in fullscreen modes. – Input panel lost all keyboard events (not even Test button accepted any key presses) in some situations, already non-working config files can’t be fixed. Older bug. – New frames interlace mode (without blacklines) now only redraws changed lines. – 68040 without FPU: unimplemented FPU exception used wrong exception vector. – 68020+ DIVL…

A new edition of the English and German Amiga (paper) magazine Amiga Future has been released. In this edition: Editorial, News, Reviews: VM switch, Asgard met Vikings, Archon, Battle Squadron, Metro-Cross, Magic Ball, FS-UAE Net Play, DigiBooster 3 Beta 26, Scriba, aTunes, Sketchblock, qOrganizer, Quickly Translate, SMTube, QsimpleSheet and AmigaMonkey (1). Special: Amiga Scene, Klassische Besinnungen (12) and Great Valley…

The web blog Amigatronics had an interview with Simon Phipps. Simon is a game developer and worked on games for the Amiga like Rick Dangerous (Firebird), Rick Dangerous II (MicroStyle) and Switchblade (Gremlin Graphics). You can download the (English) interview from the Amigatronics web page. Website: http://amigatronics.wordpress.com

GnGeo is a fast and powerful command line NeoGeo emulator for the Amiga. Recent changes: Long names for romrc.d files. DOS line ending in the rom.rc and gngeorc files. Improvements for the emulation engine and the audio buffer. A video mode for a LCD monitor on HDMI and a pause key is added. Download: gngeo.lhaWebsite: http://www.os4depot.net

Thomas Wenzel released an update of his music player for the Amiga. AmigaAMP is a GUI based MPEG audio. It can also play AIFF, WAV and FLAC files. Changes in this version: Improvements for the skinned mode. Added cover display and “FilePath” config option. And many changes to the internal code of AmigaAMP. Website: http://www.amigaamp.de

– Standard partition hardfile OFS filesystem check was broken (2.6.1) – Adjusted sprite xpos == hpos check. (Shed Tears / Ozone scroller) – 64-bit build didn’t load portaudio dll. – GUI window minimize button worked strangely when emulation window was open. – Added new interlace emulation modes, first new is same as old one but display is updated every field…