Category: Commodore Amiga
Amicast is a podcast about the Amiga, covering everything about the platform, past and present! In this episode the team interviews HunoPPC and also talks about game ports for the Amiga. Website: Amicast
A lot of people out there that celebrates Christmas like to have their own traditions that are repeated religiously every year. Blake Patterson from Byte Cellar has also jumped on the tradition rituals bandwagon and once more published a post showing off retro Christmas demos. The 2017 demo collection consists of 16 demos across 13 platforms, including the CoCo, ZX…
Aaron White has sent over his latest Amiga Chiptunes music disk, titled “Snowchips”. Aaron’s new Christmas disk contains 9 Awesome tunes to listen to, including music from the new C64 game, Galencia! The file is adf format and has been tested on WinUAE A1200, A4000 specs and real hardware (Amiga 1200/030). Download from the link below and crank up the…
Amitopia has published a nice article revealing that the Amiga sound chip was already capable of play high-quality 14bit sound back in 1985. At the time, the limit was the 68000 that couldn’t get the machine to play raw 14bit wave files. Not sure if that is common knowledge but it is a surprise to me, just proving how advanced…
Toni is back again with another Beta version of WinUAE. 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 :) Changes – Direct3D11 fullscreen + DXGI 1.5 works again (b11) – D3D11…
Dracula’s Castle is a new platform game for the Commodore 64. Released by MP Software, the game is based/ported on an old BASIC game, released in 1985. Although the graphics are mostly the same, the MP Software’s version is coded in assembler. The premise is simple: the hero has to collect the crucifixes and the key in order to open…
We were contacted by Robert Hurst about a project he’s behind aiming the revival of a BBS Door game. Here is what he has to say about it: “One of the first BBSes we had in our state of Rhode Island was The Roundtable, which was more of an online game for social networking rather than the files & posts that…
Our friend and contributor, Madija Al-Husyni, has published a new video on her YouTube channel “MsMadLemon” where she plays Gauntlet 2 and 3 on the Amiga. This week’s ‘Nostalgia Time’ is from footage taken in the summer, forgotten and now found. My cousin and I played Gauntlet II and III two player, on the commodore Amiga 1200 using WHDLoad. This gameplay…
If you happen to be in Europe or more precisely in Italy by the end of November, you should try to add Florence to your travel plans. There is a retro reason for that! This year the “Firenze Vintage Bit Onlus Club” decided to celebrate the 30 years of the Amiga 500 with a special event that will happen on…
Amiga-News website has published more news about the Amiga trademark dispute that is happening in the US and Europe. It looks like many parties are trying to be the new “Amiga” trademark owner since its registration had expired a while ago. Known names like Cloanto and Hyperion are trying to get their hands on it, as well as some other parties….
