Category: Commodore Amiga

Midwan has announced the release of his iGames program for Windows based systems. At present the program is still in beta but already shows promise. The software is inspired by iGames for classic Amiga systems. Features currently include: Recursive folder scanning for your games. Storage of all game titles found in a local database. Use screenshots, music and extras from GameBase…

– RTG aspect ratio setting was loaded to wrong variable from config file, (filter panel aspect ratio, not RTG)– CD32 CD audio play delay timing fixed. (Was originally timed using bad Liberation CD image)– RTG on screen leds was rendered twice in D3D mode (D3D sprite and software method).– Audio 14bit to 16bit scaling introduced extra low level noise.– Only…

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Space Ace Demo (ReadySoft), The Scene 1 (Mystix), Beam (Magic Bytes) and Sixiang (Kingsoft). Improved: Sound Engine (Absence), Insanity Fight (Microdeal), Citadel (Arrakis/Virtual Design), Franko (World Software), Doman (World Software) and RVF Honda (Micro Style) Website: http://www.whdload.deSource: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl

Sysmon is a system monitor for AmigaOS 4 made by Guillaume Boesel. Recent changes: Benchmark Tab added. New Tool Types: INTERFACE, ABOUTBOX, VOLUMES, ASSIGNS, STARTHOSTNAME, DEBUG, PRIORITY, WANIP, DEBUGSLEEP, STARTWINDOW, STARTTASK, STARTNETSTAT, STARTVOLUME, STARTASSIGN and STARTSYSTEM. Max In/Out network bandwidth. Website: http://www.os4depot.netSource: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl

[youtube 0_kZoYqcpB4 nolink] Dan Wood made a review of the Amiga 1200. In the 30 minute video you can see the connections and interfaces, the inside, keyboard, disk drive and the mouse. He also shows programs and games for the Amiga 1200. Source: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl

You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. In the last weeks they added the following Amiga music: Odyssus Returns, Shadow of The Geek, Black Lamp, Jupiter’s Masterdrive, Signia, Weird Dreams, M1 Tank Platoon, Turrican, Darkmere, Dylan Dog and many versions of Spiral Hands On III. Website: http://www.amigaremix.comSource: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl

On the web page Flashtro.com you can see many cracker intro’s with your browser. The original intros from the Amiga, Atari-ST, Dreamcast, PC, Playstation etc. are converted to Flash. The most recent flashtro’s are: Dragons – WallStreet and Seven Gates of Jambala, Crack Band Crew – Speedball, Thrill Kill Kult – Bunny Bricks, Slipstream – Amnios, Skid Row – Cracktro,…

Amiga community members Cammy and Rebel have started a new set of tutorials on Backbone and they are releasing them to the communities.  “This is an on-going tutorial Rebel and I are making which will explain how to use Backbone to create your own video games. Backbone is a game creation kit for AmigaOS 3.x which is fully GUI-based, there’s…

– Switching to interlaced mode and autoscale enabled: don’t calculate new size until 2 frames have been drawn to prevent multiple display size changes.– More accurate GUI resizing algorithm.– Show also first few bytes of disk in harddrive selection GUI.– Add real harddrive as IDE: calculate physical CHS values using H=16,S=63,C=total blocks/(H*S) formula to better match with real hardware. (ROM…

[youtube _GLiCK8uj-k nolink] No this is not some dodgy foreign disease, this is Scavenge an Amiga shareware game written by James A. Wright in 1996. Peter Hull over at Scavenge Amiga Blog has been on the hunt for the full registered version of this game since the invention of the wheel! If you would like to try out this game, you can download…