Category: Commodore Amiga
Ranarama is an action game developed by Graftgold in 1987 and published by Hewson Consultants. It was released for the Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum. You see Amiga on that list? No, right? Thankfully, Galahad/FLT user on English Amiga Board decided to invest his time to make that port happen, letting all the Amiga fans to enjoy…
TOSEC (The Old School Emulation Center) has been updated focusing on Commodore systems, with contributions to C64 by Duncan Twain and Amiga by Crashdisk, cataloguing new software and updating existent sets to fix naming errors. For people looking forward to updates for other platforms, the TOSEC team states that other systems are being worked on, namely MSX (by VG8020), Tangerine…
After 4 years in the making, the documentary “Viva Amiga” will be finally released to the general public in March, to coincide with the 2016 SWSX (South by Southwest Film Festival). The producers of the film also state that all Kickstarter backers will get their copies BEFORE the general release. As well as access to special content, bonus clips and…
Following the news about the Amiga source code leak, Hyperion, the company that has exclusive and worldwide rights to distribute and use Amiga OS published an official statement as follows: Press release: Brussels, January 5, 2016 – Hyperion Entertainment wishes a happy New Year 2016 everybody! The days between last Christmas and New Year were actually clouded by the sad…
The Amiga game ‘The Dream of Rowan’ Kickstarter campaign still has 3 days until it ends and although it seems won’t meet the target, the developers put out today a work in progress demo of the game. If you were on the fence about backing the project, maybe playing the demo will help you make up your mind. Independent of the outcome,…
Almost time to slice the turkey and celebrate the new year and I just had a pleasant surprise: Amigaville issue 3 is out. Amigaville issues 1 and 2 had a staggering reception from the Amiga community and that was well deserved for being a magazine made with high-quality articles and professional finish. Amigaville issues 1 and 2 had a staggering…
WHDLoad is a software package for the Amiga platform to make installation of software to a hard disk easier, for such things as demos or games. Recently it was announced that WHDLoad is now free which certainly brought more attention to it. Timely, the ByteCellar Blog has published a good introduction to WHDLoad. It is a must read and an…
Update from 01/05: Hyperion Entertainement releases official statement. Generation Amiga has reported today a tweet from Hacker Fantastic saying that the Amiga OS source has been leaked, including both Kickstart and Workbench. Looking at the @hackerfantastic’s tweet, there is another user with the handle @TheWack0lian that offers a link to download the OS in a 130MB tar file which…
The Ultimate Amiga Talk – Amiga Hardware Design And Programming was presented at 2015 Chaos Communication Congress – Gated Communities (#32C3) in Hamburg. The hour-long video shows the speaker, Bernard R. Fischer going deep in Amiga 500 hardware description as well as programming information. It is a very technical video but a must-see for everyone interested on Amiga programming. [youtube 3Ho12VYv-iw nolink] For…
Christmas has passed with tons of new games for several retro computers, but there is still time to get some joy for your Amiga. It was released the ‘2015 Amiga CD32 Christmas Community Compilation Special’ put together by Earok. On this release there’s a huge variety of unreleased commercial games, full PD games, demos of upcoming releases, demoscene productions, Atari ST…
