Category: Computers

Last Action Hero – Commodore Amiga Retro Rewind Review

Everyone’s a critic. When Arnie’s Last Action Hero opened, it was unanimously panned by the movie press but still earned nearly $140 million at the box office. As such, its popularity meant that video game tie-ins were a foregone conclusion and hot on the heels of Sony’s takeover of Psygnosis, the game based on the satirical stab at the action…

Mancave to get released this weekend with bonus game, Chris Stanley speaks to VITNO

Psytronik Software has confirmed that the Commodore 64 single screen platform arcade game, Mancave, is set for release on 22nd of June with the game being available on digital, cassette and disk formats. VITNO readers were provided with a preview of the game back in early February whereby we revealed that the premise behind the game was that you play…

Bridge Strike for Commodore Amiga Reviewed

If the words ‘looks like River Raid for the Amiga’ grab your attention wanting to find out more then the Project R3D have just what your are looking for with their official commercial release of Bridge Strike. Bridge Strike sees you take control of an aircraft fighter as you fly into combat against insurmountable odds with the sole objective of…

AMIGArama Podcast Episode 86: Pit-Fighter

Can Lorfarius climb to the top of this Pit-Figher challenge in this weeks street fighting AMIGArama.

Mr.Do! ZX Spectrum Remake Released! (Mark R. Jones & Adrian Singh)

Way back in February 2018, we announced some interesting News about an upcoming Arcade remake of Mr.Do! for the ZX Spectrum which you can read about here. Mr.Do! is an Arcade game created by Universal in 1982, similar to Namco’s Dig Dug. Mr. Do! was also released on other systems, such as the Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit, MSX and Apple…

Everyone’s a Wally

This game originally piqued my interest thanks to the cover of CRASH magazine #14 (March 1985). I mean, look at these guys… they kind of look like the grotesque marionettes Jeff Dunham uses for his ventriloquist act: Upon further investigation, ads for this game boast “1st ever multi-role arcade adventure” and there’s a song called “Everyone’s A Wally” included on…

The Official C64 SEUCK Compo 2019 – It is your time to play and vote!

The New Dimension has announced that its Official C64 SEUCK Compo (Shoot ‘Em Up Construction Kit) 2019 entered the voting phase, where the public are invited to pick their favourite games of 2019. This contest edition has 13 participants which make voting a big but fun task! The winner of the contest will get a new front end with possibly…

Jump! – an impressive Yoomp! conversion headed to Amiga

Released back in 2007, Yoomp! wowed 8-bit Atari fans with its psychedelic gameplay, flashy pseudo-3D visuals and catchy music. Taking inspiration from Shaun Southern’s Trailblazer and stuffing it inside a tube, the combination of funky beats and addictive gameplay made it a genuine showcase for the XL/XE range, and its lasting popularity would even earn itself a conversion – reviewed…

RS232 File Receiver, Commodore Plus/4

M., Gábor recently released RS232 File Receiver for the Commodore Plus/4 computer. This application is intended to select and send files to Commodore Plus/4 via the serial port. It is a multi threaded, pure Java application, which requires JRE 1.8 to run. The embedded jSSC Java serial port library can run on Windows, Linux (x86 and ARM), and Mac OSX…

New Amiga WHDLoad Updates

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. The following installers have been added up to 2019-06-03. 2019-06-03 improved: Magic Pockets (Renegade/Bitmap Brothers) 2nd button support added, alternate custom level 1 support (Info) 2019-05-31 fixed: Super Stardust (Bloodhouse) soundFx in game were trashed if intro was not skipped immediately, more options for trainers added (Info)…