Category: Commodore Amiga
This morning I learned about a new Amiga 500 emulator that runs on Google Chrome. It is a native port using Portable Native Client, a way to run existing C/C++ in the browser in a safe way across operating systems and across machine architectures. I was curious to see how it performs, so I spent some time playing with it. As…
Dungeon Master was originally developed for the Atari ST by FTL Games, and later ported for the Amiga, Apple IIGS, PC, SNES, TurboGrafx-CD, Sharp X68000 and PC-9801. The game established several new standards for RPG and video games in general. Jimmy Maher, The Digital Antiquarian, has published to articles about the game. The first one talks about the development of the game and the…
Rowan wakes in the dungeons stunned and disorientated….. but he begins to remember… Along of this game, you will see how the main character Rowan: a small elf child has to go through hundreds of obstacles and destroy powerful magicians and terrible creatures to rescue his family and friends, and save our world from the darkness. In addition to this,…
Cloanto has released an update for its Amiga Forever (2016.0.22.0). This new update has an improved the AmigaOS 4.1 FE installation experience by detecting the presence of bootable CD and floppy disk images, and adding instructions as needed. Besides that there are many other small fixes, including on that could lead to the Guru Meditation when booting from the harddisk image…
Infocom was the text adventure main publisher in the 80s, being Zork the best-known among the company’s many successful games. A collection of digitized scans from a large cache of documents related to the game publisher Infocom, assembled by Steven Meretzky of Infocom was recently released and made available through Internet Archive. During his time at Infocom, Steve Meretzky meticulously…
Blake Patterson has published on ByteCellar Vintage Weblog showing off his take on the best Christmas demos for several different platforms, including MSX, Atari ST, Commodore 64 and more. “I got my first computer, a TI-99/4A, on Christmas morning, 1982. I was 10 years old, and from that Christmas on, it was games and hardware I wanted Santa to leave…
Released last October, the Amiga special GoodGame show tells the story of the Amiga in a very nice production. Good Game is an Australian television gaming programme produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). The feature goes over the main games that help make the Amiga the greatest game computer of that time (maybe even today!). If you haven’t watched…
This is a lovely cute Xmas game (2D platformer) designed for Xmas 2015. The author, Nitta Mituaki, is a “Jet Set Willy” clone game collector, so this Christmas he send us this special gift which was created by map editor of “Jet Set Billy” coded Niilo Paasivirta. All graphics and music were made by Mituaki. To complete the game, you (Santa…
After reading the issue 1, I was really wishing that Brian Hedley would continue to publish the magazine. Since we are in the holiday season, my wishes were granted! He just made available the second issue! With the usual sections for News and Reviews, the magazine also brings two featured articles: “What is in your Christmas List?” and “Where has…
To make things more interesting, English Amiga Board and Lemon Amiga have teamed up to hold a competition involving five games where high scores are chased over several weeks until an ultimate winner emerges. To make the competitors life easier, Erik Hogan put together a compilation containing the games for the compo.It’s a Knockout! 2015-2016 Amiga CD32 Compilation has been released including the…
