Category: Commodore Amiga

Αmiga 600: 37.5 MHz

Mfilos has written an article over the overclocking of an Amiga 600. He used a ACA630 with an alternative oscillator of 75 MHz in his A600. During his test of 3 hours the Amiga was running stable. To keep the ACA630 cool he used an extra fan on the heat sink. You can read all details on his blog. Website:…

WinFellow v0.5.1

After several years of development, we are proud to announce the availability of a new, major update of WinFellow. There are a lot of changes and enhancements in version 0.5.1; for a full list, please refer to the new user guide or the ChangeLog. Below is a summary of the changes. Conversion of most of the former assembler code to…

Video to VGA converter article

A new article/hardware review has been released, the Video/S-Video to VGA converter. A Composite, S-Video and VGA to VGA converter found on eBay.

Lincs Amiga User Group aka “LAG” Meet Saturday the 4th of May 2013

LAG meeting 32 will be held on Saturday the 4th of May from 12 PM – 5 PM in the Welton Village Hall, Welton-by-Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. About: http://lincsamiga.org.uk/wordpress/index.php/about/ Location: 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 4UKP. WiFi/Tea/Coffee included. Also, please ask if you…

WinUAE 2.6.0 Beta 16

– New style filter mask config entry didn’t load. (b6 or later) – Improved mouse movement mapping in GamePorts panel remap window (It creates mouse movement mappings that makes sense..), also implements 1s delay before next mouse movement is accepted in test/remap modes to reduce accidental events. – Don’t attempt to combine left/right->horizontal and up/down->vertical if remapping single event. –…

Petro Tyschtschenko interview

Robby from the web page MOS 6502 had an interview with Petro Tyschtschenko. Petro worked for Commodore and later became president of Amiga Technologies. Petro talks about his time with Commodore, Amiga, Escom and Gateway. Website: http://www.mos6502.comSource: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl

WHDLoad

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Improved: Fallen Angel (Emerald Software Ltd). Improved: Rainbow Islands (Ocean), Tennis Cup (Loriciel/Electronic Zoo), Tennis Cup (Loriciel/Electronic Zoo), Metal Mutant (Silmarils), Maya (Silmarils), Ishar 1/2/3 (Silmarils), Manhattan Dealers / Operation Cleanstreets (Silmarils), Wind Surf Willy (Silmarils), Boston Bomb Club (Silmarils), Bunny Bricks (Silmarils), Targhan (Silmarils), Maya…

ADA (Amiga Demoscene Archive)

The web page ADA (Amiga Demoscene Archive) has added new demo’s. The new demo’s are: Straff (Spaceballs), Fracture (Focus Design & In-Sect), The machinist (Elude), Rink a dink redux (Lemon), Smoke & mirrors (Ghostown & Loonies), Thrice (Dekadence) and The electric skater (Focus Design). Website: http://ada.untergrund.netSource: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl

Excalibur

KJetil Hvalstrand released a new version of Excalibur. Excalibur is a taskbar / start button for AmigaOS4. Changes in this version: Improvements to the GUI. Save and load of font settings and RGB colour options for clock and screens. Improved the check_ext() function and disk.info is now ignored. Font shadow option and max icon size option changed to menu and…

Amiga Future #86

Edition 86 of Amiga Future is now online. In this edition: News, Interview: Petro Tyschtschenko. Hardware: ZorRAM. Show: Amiga Event Essen. Reviews: NTP Commander, FreeDink, Gianas Return, Gish, Ooze, Archmage, BosWarrs, A/NES Pro, AAMP & Gimp, Digital Univers, MorphOS 2.5, Timberwolf, FFmpeg and Screen Recorder. Workshops: Rhinghio and C-Workshop (3). Special: Amiga Retrospective (20). Website: http://www.amigafuture.deSource: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl