Category: Commodore Amiga

WHDLoad is now free for all Amiga gamers!

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

Amiga game 'Tales of Gorluth'

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…

Commodore Users Magazine 'K&A Plus' Issue 3 now available in PDF

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…

Amiga Emulator WinUAE 3.2.2 final version has been released

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…

Browser-based Amiga 500 Emulator for Chrome – Review

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' – The Making of

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…

The Dream of Rowan – A new game for the Amiga gets Kickstarter Campaign

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 releases new update for Amiga Forever 2016

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…

The Infocom Cabinet: Binders and Folders of Infocom

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…

ByteCellar – Have a Helping of 8-bit Holiday Cheer! (2015 Edition)

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…