Category: Commodore Amiga

Golden Wing, 2017 Asteroids Clone Final Version Released by CopperSky

Golden Wing by CopperSky is an Amiga Shmup, similar in many ways to Stardust and the classic Arcade game Asteroids. Blast your way through enemies and asteroids throughout each level, in addition, you can collect items that provide extra shields, power-ups and extra lives. Minimum hardware requirements are: Amiga 500 with 512 Kb chip + 512 Kb slow RAM. The…

Retro Revisited: Street Fighter II (Amiga)

The year was 1992 and Commodore Amiga owners were going into paroxysms of excitement – I should know for I was one of them – because the unthinkable was happening – Street Fighter II, one of the best arcade fighters ever made, was soon to be released for the system. The game received massive amounts of pre-release coverage (and hype)…

WinUAE Version 3.6.1 Final Released! The Worlds Greatest Windows Amiga Emulator!

Toni Wilen has released WinUAE 3.6.1 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! :) [vsw id=”iNR5vxAR22A” source=”youtube” width=”525″…

Paleotronic Magazine is the magazine that we were all waiting for!

I love magazines that talk about retro computing and/or retro gaming, from Retro Gamer to Juiced.GS, from Reset 64 to CommodoreFree to mention only a few. Now, there is a new kid on the block – Paleotronic Magazine! The first issue takes a look at the history of the Consumer Electronics Show including interviews with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, and…

New Bomb Jack Amiga Remake, ‘Bomb Jack Beer Edition’, Beta 2B Released!

Hot off the Press! Beta 2B of Graeme Cowie’s Bomb Jack Amiga remake, “Bomb Jack Beer Edition” has been released today! Bomb Jack Beer Edition Beta 2B released, ADF in the link https://t.co/iUFIulS9kC @CommodoreBlog @Indie_RetroNEWS @pcotter72 #bombjack @RetroGamer_Mag #amiga #homebrew #bombjack — Graeme Cowie (@pushpoppwn) March 4, 2018 Download: bombjack2C.adf Download: bombjack2b.adf Previous Posts: Bomb Jack Beer Edition

WinUAE Version 3.6.1 Beta 7 Released

WinUAE Version 3.6.1 Beta 7 is now available to download. WinUAE is currently the best Windows Amiga emulation available to date, and if used alongside Classic Workbench and WHDLoad, you can achieve a really great Amiga hard drive experience. Download: winuae_3610b7.7z Download: winuae64_3610b7.7z Changes: eab.abime.net Website: winuae.net

New Bomb Jack Amiga Remake, ‘Bomb Jack Beer Edition’, Beta 1 Released!

Graeme Cowie contacted me through Facebook just now, to let me know that beta 1 of his Amiga Bomb Jack remake has been released! We have been following the game closely with previous News posts here and here. Quick update to say I’ve updated the Bomb Jack Beer Edition, it’s to the point now that it is good enough for…

Ziriax 100% (Ultimate Edition) Fully Trained and Enhanced for Amiga!

Ziriax is a horizontal scroller for the Amiga that was developed by The Whiz Kidz (a group of Belgium-based coders) and released by Software Business way back in 1990. Influenced by Arcade Shoot’em ups such as Nemesis, Vulcan Venture, Sky Shark and Thundercross, Ziriax is a four stage shoot’ em up, in which you fight against waves of bullet-spewing aliens…

The Guru Meditation, Amiga DIY Projects at AmiParty 21

Amiga Bill interviews AmiParty attendees about their DIY Amiga projects including an Amiga 500 FPGA board, a scan doubler for the Amiga 1200, a floppy drive emulator with LCD that allows you to load .adf files off a microSD card, a headphone amplifier specifically designed for the Amiga, and an Amiga 1000 motherboard replacement called a “GBA 1000”. Check out…

AMIcast, Text Interview 12, Boing Attitude

Amicast is a podcast about the Amiga, covering everything about the platform, past and present! In this episode the team interviews “Boing Attitude”, a software house for the Amiga, MS Windows and Android. Boing Attitude are responsible for education games software such as “Ask Me Up” and the file manager “Dir Me Up”. Website: Amicast