Category: Commodore Amiga
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…
WHDLoad is a popular AmigaOS Harddisk-Install package that’s been around for many many years as a commercial product. It has been made the life of Amiga users way easier to install and play their favorite games. Starting now on version 18.2, WHLoad is completely free, making the WinUAE and FS-UAW Christmas day even better. Source: WHDLoad
Tales of Gorluth I – The Tear Stone Saga is an Amiga game released by AmiWorx in 2014, that is being for sale for some time as physical CD. Now the game is also available as free download. Features of the game: Linear action adventure game Over 5 hours of gameplay 64 colour graphics More than…
The year of 2015 was a great year for the vintage computing magazine with several new magazines being published and one of my favourites has just released a new issue. The 3rd issue of Komoda & Amiga Plus Magazine is now available in PDF, both in English and Polish covering most of Commodore’s computers, including modern Amiga OS. Besides the…
WinUAE needs no introduction, it is the best option to emulate Amiga computers in your Windows machine. The team behind its development has just released the final version 3.2.2, with the following changes: Bug fixes: JIT FPU 32-bit and 64-bit compatibility fixes. Interlace mode blank screen in some configurations. Slirp network mode high CPU usage. Some programs that use AGA…
