Category: Computers
Ziriax is a horizontal scroller for the Amiga that was developed by The Whiz Kidz (a group of Belgium-based coders) and released by Software Business way back in 1990. Influenced by Arcade Shoot’em ups such as Nemesis, Vulcan Venture, Sky Shark and Thundercross, Ziriax is a four stage shoot’ em up, in which you fight against waves of bullet-spewing aliens…
Amiga Bill interviews AmiParty attendees about their DIY Amiga projects including an Amiga 500 FPGA board, a scan doubler for the Amiga 1200, a floppy drive emulator with LCD that allows you to load .adf files off a microSD card, a headphone amplifier specifically designed for the Amiga, and an Amiga 1000 motherboard replacement called a “GBA 1000”. Check out…
I’ve repeatedly referred to I-code in previous articles. Let’s go into some more detail, and in passing correct a mistaken impression I may have given. What distinguishes I-code from other virtual machine code As you enter, edit, or load source code with basic09, it is converted to I-code. I-code is commonly likened to code for virtual machines, like the JVM…
Developed by Steve Chapman and published by The Edge in 1984, Quo Vadis is a scrolling platformer infamous for several reasons. It was considered to be one of the biggest games available at the time, approaching 1024 screens in size, although far more interesting is the fact that the the publisher ran a competition to win a jewel-encrusted sceptre (reportedly…
Amicast is a podcast about the Amiga, covering everything about the platform, past and present! In this episode the team interviews “Boing Attitude”, a software house for the Amiga, MS Windows and Android. Boing Attitude are responsible for education games software such as “Ask Me Up” and the file manager “Dir Me Up”. Website: Amicast
Club Info is a German language d64 Magazine for the Commodore C116, C16 and Commodore Plus/4. The following articles are included; Forum, Scene, Tips & Tricks, Assembloids Basic, Castle Matcher, Micromind, Craps, Computer Spass, Digitalstar, Hardware, Rug Rider, Slipstream, Deadline, Rap4 and other systems. Download: club_info_148.zip Source: plus4world.powweb.com
Over on Flashtro.com you can watch awesome cracker intros within your browser! Intros include Amiga, Atari ST, Dreamcast and Playstation. Latest Additions to the site are as follows. (Click to View) Flashtro – Professional Lottery System Alpha Flight – Yogi Bear Dytec – Ishar Rebels – Popeye 2 Agile – M.U.D.S The Firm – Scenery Animator 2.0 Nova Acies –…
BetterWB is a workbench pack much like AIAB, Amikit, AmigaSYS and ClassicWB, but applying a totally different approach. It aims to be much like an enhancement, an updated extension to AmigaOS 3.1, without all those hardware requirement penalties typically associated with these kind of packs. It is indeed a better 3.1 than 3.1 itself! Changes: Icon.library updated to 46.4.473 Redit…
WinUAE Version 3.6.1 Beta 6 is now available to download. WinUAE is currently the best Amiga emulation available to date and if used alongside Classic Workbench and WHDLoad you can achieve a really great Amiga hard drive experience. Download: winuae_3610b6.7z Download: winuae64_3610b6.7z Changes: eab.abime.net Website: winuae.net
Dirk Hoffmann has released a new version of VirtualC64. (1.7.2) VirtualC64 is a Commodore 64 emulator for Mac OS X. New in Version 1.7.2 and 1.7.1 Fixed some bugs regarding drag and drop, loading d64 files and key recording New in Version 1.7 VIC timing is now very close to VICE (Thanks, Fabio!) Cartridge handler has been rewritten. VirtualC64 now…
