Category: Commodore Amiga

New Amiga songs added to AmigaRemix

AmigaRemix has been updated with the following remixes of iconic soundtracks: Shadow Of The Beast II – Title (Chillout Edit) Blue Berry (Cover) Darkman007 Turrican II – The Desert Rocks (Trance/Dance Remix) SLL1 Remix v2 Lizardking’s Theme (Epic Transition) A Final Hyperbase Leander – World One Once in a life (Turrican3 End Theme) (Psyria Reconstruction Edit) You can listen or…

RetroChallenge 2017/04 results are in

John W. Linville has announced the final judging results for RetroChallenge 2017/04. Judging was originally supposed to be done by both Linville and Michael Mulhern, but Mulhern had to drop out due to personal issues. So, without further ado, here is the results list: Richard Loxley won the “Bounty Box” (donated by Mike Spooner) for his “RetroMatic” universal retrocomputer video…

Ars Technica Review: The A-EON Amiga X5000: An alternate universe where the Amiga platform never died

This is not retro since it is a brand new computer with modern hardware. However, it runs AmigaOS so we are all over it :) Ars Technica has an extensive review of the A-EON X5000, a new desktop that features a dual-core Freescale CPU up to 2.5GHz, up to 64GB of RAM and runs AmigaOS 4.1. Most of the review…

Amiga Audio Separation Solution

I’m one of these people who loves Amiga game music or Soundtracker/Protracker music modules, to the point of recording them onto cassette or Minidisc and listening to them while walking, traveling etc. However there was one thing that always put me off, that incredibly uncomfortable stereo separation which took the feeling away from the music itself. The Amiga’s sound chip…

Zelda Return of the Hylian Enhanced Version for Vampire by ArtiGames

ArtiGames have just released a new version of “Zelda Return of the Hylian”. Changes: Enhanced for Vampire, New intro, Roland mt32 music, Link can now scream when in attack mode and we can even hear him walking around. Story: After Link’s victory over Ganon (in “A Link to thePast”),no one knows what Link’s wish to the Triforce was. But this…

Greedium, A Small Amiga MUI Game About Numbers

This is a game running in a mui window, where you have to collect as many numbers as possible, without walking over your own path and you have to stay within the playfield. Sounds easy? Just try it! Download: Greedium.lha Source: aminet.net

Blazing Guns, Amiga Platformer, Version 0.16 Update

Build v0.16 – fixed hero speed. – fixed platform detection. – fixed collision boxes for bats and hero for more friendly – fixed graphics artefacts between levels – changed loading behaviour – no more reload for game and level end. Download: guns.v0.16.adf (In the Zone Download Section on EAB) EAB Thread: Blazing Guns Website (Temporarily Offline) gryretro.com/blazing-guns/

Unofficial CD32 Release, 4 Decades Of Amiga Demos!

“4 Decades of Amiga Demos” has been in the works the last 3 months, if you have followed its progress over on EAB you will know about it, this is the first public release, containing over 300 Demos! from 4 decades (80s, 90s, 00s, 10s) all playable from a joypad from the easy to use menu. Yes there have been…

Alien Enemy: Dangerous, Early Alpha Amiga Game Demo Preview

s2325 from EAB Forums has shared an early Alpha Demo Preview called Alien Enemy: Dangerous, a fast 3D engine with some graphics from Quake. Check out the video below. There’s also a well known ‘Head Shot’ sample you might remember? Answers on a postcard if you know which game it’s from! :) Download: Alien Enemy Dangerous Source: EAB Forums

Amiga “Doom” clone “Gloom” source code available on Github

Gloom, a very good Doom clone, was commercially released in 1996 by Black Magic. Being a clone doesn’t take away the quality of the game, and to prove that, Gloom was acclaimed as the 18th best Amiga game of all time by Amiga Power magazine. Now, 20 years later, the game source code was released on Github, for the delight…