Category: Commodore Amiga

Allister Brimble's 'Amiga Works' – Only 150 Copies Remaining

Musician Allister Brimble is the man behind some of the Amiga’s most iconic game tunes. Working on titles such as Alien Breed, Project X, Full Contact, Troddlers, and many more, if you did or still do play games on your Amiga, then you’ll have certainly heard some of his output. Following a successful Kickstarter campaign last year, Allister released his…

Amiga PD's Top 100 Amiga Games Book – Update

The brainchild of Amiga PD’s Christian Clarke – The Top 100 Amiga PD Games (the title is likely to change before release) is a work-in-progress eBook project, with an end goal of showcasing the very best the Amiga Public Domain games scene has to offer. The release is an ambitious one, and although assisted by fellow Amiga gamers Graham Humphrey,…

New Amiga Game in Development – Chaos Guns

Us Amiga users aren’t treated to many new games these days. Unlike the ZX Spectrum scene which seems to see a new game released on an almost weekly basis, the 16-bit Commodore platform plays host to a mere trickle of new titles during the course of an average year. The majority of these games are single player titles, with the…

New Amiga Game – Magic Ball

Released on the 19th of September, as an entry in to the Retrokomp/LoadError Party Retro Competition is a new Amiga game entitled “Magic Ball”. Put together using Backbone, the game requires Amiga WB 2.0 and above, plus 1.5 megabytes of RAM. The gameplay is very similar to another fairly new Amiga release, Downfall, which sees the player continuously falling, and…

A Brief Update From Remainder Software

As far as I can tell, the last time I reported on Remainder Software (authors of the Amiga versions of Downfall – download and install at once if you’ve not tried it!) and their next release was way back in December of last year. In that update we were told that control, jumping and basic collision detection had been implemented,…

Amiga 3000 ATX PSU Power Adapter Cable & Switch

Amiga 3000 PSU to ATX Converter Cable Use a readily available ATX power supply in your Amiga A3000 desktop with this high quality converter cable. Adapter simply plugs onto a standard ATX Power Supply and into A3000 motherboard as shown in picture below. Adapter cable is fitted with a power on/off switch on a 50cm (19-inch) cable. Cable wire thickness…

WinUAE 2.7.0 beta 10

– B8 Blerkenwiegel workaround caused buffer overflows in some situations. Fix improved. – MoreNewStuffy fix (231b11) was not complete, non-modulo bitplane DMA fetches work differently than modulo adding DMA fetches. (Alpha and Omega / PMC) – Also above behavior seems to only happen with first plane fetch. (New and Better Routines / Cult) This needs more testing, someday.. – ‘?’…

We Are Back

‘We Are Back’ is a website that brings Classic Amiga demos to your web browser. The demos are made in HTML5 and can be viewed on a modern web browser like FireFox, Chrome and Safari. Currently you can watch more than 75 demos. Website: http://wab.com

XRoar v0.30.3 – AmigaOS 4

XRoar is an emulator for the Dragon and Tandy computers with the 6809 CPU. XRoar can use virtual diskettes, cassettes or cartridges. There are 3 video modes, joystick support and an audio output available. Changes in this version: CoCo BASIC printing support. Pause switch. Improvements for the HD6309, 6847T1, joystick handling and a mouse interface is added. Support for the…

Mediator PCI 3000Di MK-II

The company Elbox has made a pre-order available for the Mediator PCI 3000Di MK-II. The Mediator PCI 3000Di MK-II is a daughter board with three PCI and three ZIII slots for Amiga 3000D in the standard desktop case. Features: 66/33MHz PCI clock, 32-bit, 4GB, DMA, Interrupt controller, Compatibility with all A3000 processor card models. Support for: Radeon, Voodoo, TV tuners,…