Category: Commodore Amiga
Anyone self-respecting Commodore Amiga owner must surely be familiar with Graftgold, arguably one of the most prominent and talented British software houses during the 1980’s and 1990’s. Among the talented programmers and artists to work alongside Steve Turner was Andrew Braybrook, author of critically acclaimed Uridium for the Commodore 64, and many other titles; he runs and maintains a personal…
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Of all the games I owned for my Commodore Amiga, Elvira: Mistress of the Dark, remains one of the most memorable. Based on the character of Elvira – portrayed by Cassandra Peterson – the game follows in the footsteps of the 1988 comedy horror film released a couple of years earlier, although the game’s story is completely separate to that…
Toni Wilen has released WinUAE 4.0.0 Final. WinUAE is currently the best Amiga emulation available to date and if used alongside Classic Workbench and WHDLoad you can achieve a really great Amiga hard drive experience like the picture above. Download from the link below and don’t forget to check all the new features in the release notes, have fun! :) Download: WinUAE Website Release Notes: English…
In today’s retrospective, we’ll be looking back at one of the most memorable games from my childhood, The Adventures of Robin Hood. Developed by Steve Grand and Ian Saunter for MS-DOS PCs and converted to the Amiga by Alan McCarthy in 1991, this was one of the very first games I ever got to experience on my Amiga 500. As you…
Those of you following the development of WinUAE 4.0 can now download a copy of beta release 13, having been released for testing by Toni Wilen in the ongoing development thread over at the EAB forums. This is likely to be one of the final beta releases made available, with the final public release expected somewhere within the next 7…
They say that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, a mantra that Pixelglass Games has taken to heart in Worthy, it’s newest game just released for OCS Amiga computers! The objective of the game is to guide your would-be Romeo around a series of mazes, collecting as many gems as possible. Only by filling your pockets with these precious gems…
Amiga Users Ireland Website is the home of the fantastic Amiga Ireland Podcast. This episode contains the following: MilkyTracker for MorphOS A500 replacement case campaign on IndieGoGo Amiga Vampire cards K1208 cards near completion EAB Game coding competition Open X-COM for MorphOS Barbarian+ enhanced for Amiga Provisional Meetup for Scottish Amiga users 4th August in Glasgow And much more! Listen:…
Leonardo Giordani has published since late May a 3-part series with an overview of the Amiga machine language programming. Giordani objective while writing the article was, in his own words, not intended to be a complete tutorial about Amiga ML programming, but a collection of his notes while exploring the machine architecture. Don’t let this statement dissuade you, because the…
Aaron White recently sent over another Amiga music disk. Another 90’s pop classic, “What is Love” by Haddaway. The song is recognizable by its refrain “What is love? Baby don’t hurt me, don’t hurt me… no more” and was a No. 1 hit in 13 countries. If you was a teenager in the 90’s you will most certainly remember this…
