Category: Computers

Elfie the Unicorn, A Family Friendly Amiga Game!

Elfie the Unicorn is a classic run and jump platformer aimed at younger children by Foxman (Twin Games Software). The game was created using a real Amiga and it’s looking very nice indeed. Check out the trailer video below. This game has been work in progress for some time, the last version was RC1, but we have some good News…

Commodore 64 CSDb Scene Release Updates!

Latest releases over at CSDb are as follows: Excess Crack Intro 1986 SCG Style, Killed Until Dead +D [easyflash], Happuh naar ‘t BBSje, Steel Ranger +3C Trainer, Retaliate Preview 3 +3, Blockchain, Retaliate V0.3 Final Beta, Pains ‘n’ Aches +8D, Goodbye, Nightly Guide, Tink Tonk Castle Clobber +, Excess Intro #32, IK Ring World, Crazy Cars III +6D [easyflash], Adlib…

Aleisha Cuff Releases AstrosmashZX for the ZX Spectrum!

“Spin, Blast, And drop into hyperspace to avoid a killer asteroid shower! Aleisha Cuff (AMCgames) has released a new AGD game for the ZX Spectrum called “AstrosmashZX” which is a port of Astrosmash, which was originally released in 1981 on the Intellivision games console. Astrosmash was a very popular game back in the day, more than one million copies were sold…

WinUAE 3.6.1 Beta 1 Released, The Worlds Greatest Amiga Emulator!

Toni is back again with a new Beta version of WinUAE. 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 like in the picture above. Download from the link below :) Download: winuae_3610b1.7z Download: winuae64_3610b1.7z Changes: eab.abime.net Website: winuae.net

Complete List (With Downloads) of All Game Entries for the ZX’Dev Conversions 2017!

Here is the Complete List of all the games entered into the ZX’Dev Conversions 2017. Click each one to download the game. (DK3 and Quack Hunt are currently unfinished) – Baby Monkey Alba, Javier Quero – Bobby Carrot, Couvej – DK3, Highrise – Dr. Who – Surrender Time, Igor Errazking – Extruder, Rui Martins – Gandalf, Cristian Gonzalez, Alvin Albrecht, Hikaru…

Amiga Ireland Podcast Episode 12, Once More with Feeling

Amiga Users Ireland Website is the home of the fantastic Amiga Ireland Podcast. Episode 12, ‘Once More with Feeling’ is now available to listen and download. Download: Amiga-Ireland-podcast-S01E12-Once-More-with-Feeling.mp3 Website: amigausers.ie

Sunday’s Sizzling Speccy Homebrew Releases!

I thought I may as well post some more ZX Spectrum releases, we’ve had some fantastic games flooding in this past week, Dr Who Surrender Time, Gimmick! Yumetaro Odyssey, Jane Jelly The Egg Diamond, Mike the Guitar and Mighty Final Fight to name a few. I have compiled a small list of new homebrew games for your download pleasure. Not going…

Info Guide #12 – Russian e-zine for the ZX Spectrum translated to English

Info Guide is a Russian e-zine dedicated to the ZX Spectrum. For all of us that don’t speak Russian, the issue #12 is not fully translated to English. It includes: a large collection of new beeper engines city history collected by many people, with the photos of old papers, books, and catalogs several articles about 3D effects the internals of some games…

BASIC09 Control Structures

What programmers debated in the old days Nowadays people argue about object-oriented versus functional programming or dynamic versus static typing. But back in the day, it was all about structured programming. The brouhaha started with a letter E.W. Dijkstra wrote and which was published in Communications of the ACM in March of 1968 under the title “Go To Statement Considered Harmful“….

Yellowstone FPGA-based Apple II disk controller clones the LIRON card

Hot on the heals of the CFFA3000 resuming production, Big Mess O’ Wires has posted an article unveiling the “Yellowstone” disk controller. The Yellowstone is an FPGA-based disk controller for the Apple II, capable of emulating vintage controllers that have become difficult and/or expensive to obtain. In particular, Yellowstone was designed to clone the “LIRON” controller, also known as the…