Category: Commodore Amiga

Flashtro

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,…

Creating games with Backbone – Step by Step for beginners!

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…

WinUAE 2.5.0 Beta 25

– 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…

Have you got SCAVENGE?

[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…

Balance Blox

Entwickler-X is developing a new game for the Amiga. In the game Balance Blox you must drop blocks onto a balance. If you have 3 equal blocks vertically or horizontally the blocks will disappear. But you must keep the balance in balance, if the balance hits the ground, the game is over. To make it more difficult, every block has…

HivelyTracker v1.7

HivelyTracker is a tracker program based upon the AHX format created in the mid ’90s by Dexter and Pink of Abyss. AHX was designed to create a very SID-like sound on the Amiga. HivelyTracker features: Multi-channel (4 to 16 channels), Channel stereo panning, Two commands per note, Ring modulation. Version 1.7 is now also available for Windows and MacOS X….

Amiga Sysinfo has been updated to version 4

Everyone’s favourite classic Amiga benchmark program has finally had an upgrade after 19 years. New features include (from the site): 19 years later, a new maintainer, a new release. (tnx Nic Wilson) Crash due to assumed accessable memory at $2000 changed to $4000. (tnx Piru) Updated memory size calculation in Memory Info to handle 64MB+ sizes correctly. Updated board size…

The Amiga Works by Allister Brimble – Kickstarter Project

Allister Brimble has just launched a Kickstarter project for his new double album “The Amiga Works”. He will create up to date CD quality versions and remixes of his best musical works from the Commodore. The album artwork and an A2 poster will be designed by Rico Holmes who was the inspiration and artist behind the original Alien Breed series…

WinUAE 2.5.0 Beta 24

– CDFS: ACTION_DISK_INFO no disk status really works now.– Fixed “Windows mouse” sometimes hitting invisible barriers in windowed mode if window size changed and mouse was captured. (Quite old bug)– blitter_cycle_exact=true and cpu_cycle_exact=false confused blitter emulation if BLTSIZE was written twice while DMA was disabled.– CAS and CAS2 instruction fixes from Aranym (I guess these are practically never used on…

New Amiga game: Agent Lux

[youtube VQ8bIlgbAnY#! nolink] Viddi from the website AMIworx has made a new Amiga game called Agent Lux.A full review of the game can be found in Amiga Future magazine.The game is free and can be downloaded along with other games by Viddi over at http://www.amiworx.de