Category: Commodore Amiga

Assembler programming guide for Amiga demos

If you ever thought about trying your hands on coding Amiga demos, now you have a chance to get a jump start into it. ‘Dissident’ has released a guide about programming demos in assembler for Amiga. The guide is the result of his 25 years of experience coding for the Amiga with tips and tricks based on his own findings,…

New massive TOSEC release – All about Commodore

After six months, theThe Old School Emulation Center (TOSEC) team has released a new package, including lots of Commodore contents. Here is the release message: “This release is all about Commodore C64, with many contributions by Duncan Twain and SG-1 Charpy. In addition, we also have some ISO updates thanks to tomse. All folders and contents should be self-explanatory. All…

July is BASIC Month on Reddit's Retrobattlestations

Subreddit RetroBattlestations is promoting another BASIC Month. This time around, the idea is to run the BASIC program Terraspin, a Turtle graphics type program created for the contest. The contestants will have to type in the program on any retro computer that runs BASIC and post take a picture of it running. The rules state very clearly that screen only or emulators are…

Mist Review, Everything You Need to Know About the FPGA-Based Amiga

Mist is an FPGA Amiga hardware emulator made by Lotharek. It is probably the middle ground between software emulation and the actual Amiga. Many of us, retro computer enthusiasts will probably frawn and say “it is not like the real machine” but it certainly offers great advantages, like the possibility to emulate the Atari ST as well. To help you understand how…

A1200.NET Upcoming Campaign Promises New Keycaps for Almost all Amiga Models

A1200.NET is already the sweetheart of all Amiga 1200 owners, with its recently successful kickstart campaign for the new A1200 casing. If you are one of the happy backers you might be thinking “my A1200 will have a brand new shiny case, but these old keycaps are awful…” Well, accordingly to Phillipe Lang, you will be able to get brand…

Video review of the Vampire 2 accelerator for the Amiga 600

Dan Wood from kookytech.net has published a video reviewing the Vampire 2 for the Amiga 600. The Vampire 2 is an incredibly fast FPGA accelerator for the Commodore Amiga 600, pushing it to speeds and power far beyond what was previously possible. But how good is it, and what can it do? You will find out watching the vldeo below: [youtube…

'Commodore Free' Issue 93 is available now!

Commodore Free 93 is out. The free digital magazine for Commodore line of computers brings news, articles and reviews for the Amiga, C64, Plus/4 and VIC-20. This issue contents: Mastering tapes Part 1: General considerations By Pixel JAM IT Commodore 64 Game review Growing Pains Part Tres – The Envelope Addressor” (TEA) v1 and v4.2” by Lenard R. Roach Commodore…

'Commodore Amiga in pixels' Kickstarter campaign has started, and they already don't need you anymore!

Yes, you read it right! ‘The history of Commodore Amiga in Pixels’ is a staggering success, reaching and passing its goal on the first day. Now, it’s you that need it! :) Of course, the headline is a joke. You can still (and should) back the project and help it to get to the stretch goals and get the book for…

Amiga 500 Mist FPGA Computer Review and Tutorial

Mist is a hardware platform based on FPGA that can run many different platforms, including Commodore 64, Atari ST, Super NES, Colecovision, Amiga 500 and much more. The video published on PhilsComputerLab YouTube channel is an extensive tutorial/review about the Amiga 500 implementation running on the Mist platform. Phil shows how to setup and boot the device, as well as the…

WinUAE 3.3.0 has been released

The version 3.3.0 of the Amiga emulator WinUAE which mainly provides AmigaOS-4 adoption has been released.  New features: New optional “indirect” UAE expansion trap system, fully compatible with OS4.x, virtual memory and some debugging programs PC Bridgeboard disk drive raw image support. (ipf, ext adf, …) Monochrome video out emulation, including A1000 color/mono video out software control (BPLCON0 COLOR bit)…