Category: Computers

Amigaville Issue 4 now available

If you, Amiga friend, is out of good literature about your favourite computer, I have good news. Amigaville Magazine issue 4 is out! This month, the magazine brings interesting articles like “Should Hyperion port to x86?” and “Whatever happened to Amiga Anywhere?” which for sure will heat up the discussion about the future of the Amiga OS, copyrights and other subjects…

New Amiga game 'Tanks Furry' physical copies ready for pre-order

Tanks Furry was developed by Pawel Nowak, Krzysztof Matys and Marcin Swiech for the Polish “RetroKomp GameDev Compo” where it got the second place. It is a tank shooter game where you have to hit the opponent’s tanks before they destroy your base. Main features: Hand made, old school pixel graphics Dedicated chip tune soundtrack and SFX Over 40 missions to play alone…

Amiga 600 accelerator board Vampire II reviews on the wild!

We have recently posted about the availability of the Vampire II accelerator board for the Amiga 600 and how it would make your old friend fly. Since then, a lot of buzz about the board happened on the Amiga Facebook groups Commodore Amiga and Amiga Friends. Two happy users have just received their boards and kindly wrote their Review/First Impressions. There…

WinApe v2.0b – Amstrad Emulator for Windows gets new version

A new version of WinApe, the Amstrad CPC emulator for Windows containing bug fixes and improvements. Here is the complete changelist for the new version: Correct Z80 Flags emulation for IN and OUT and all derivatives. Added support for CRTC Type 1 register 6 border blanking when set to zero. Changed breakpoint conditions to use 32 bit values rather than 16 bit values….

Sprite Castle 024: Karate Champ

Sprite Castle, the podcast about the Commodore 64 has a new episode. This week, Rob O’hara covers the 1985 Data East game KARATE CHAMP. If you would like to play along, you can find download links to emulators along with all the games played so far on Sprite Castle by accessing the podcast website, following the link below. Link: Sprite Castle

Ritualist – Game Preview for C64 with Source Code

Juha-Pekka Jokela has created this game for the Global Game Jam that happened last weekend (Jan 29-31). It is a simple action game for Commodore 64 where you take a role of a priest, trying to survive in a haunted house by performing rituals to stop haunting. To play, move priest around with the joystick. Whenever there’s ghost around you, find…

New accelerator board Vampire II makes the Amiga 600 fly!

The Vampire II is the newest and the fastest accelerator available for your Amiga 600. It will sit on top of your original CPU and take full control of your Amiga. According to the developers of the board, the board is faster than an Amiga 1200 with a 68060 accelerator running at 80MHz. If you are concerned about the heat,…

Live C64 Multiplayer Matches today at Scene World Twitch Stream!

This Saturday January 30th 2016 at 8 PM CET, Scene World staff will play against each other online using real Commodore 64s! This will be the first online broadcast EVER of C64s playing online together! Leif Bloomquist (Schema) – creator of the famous C64 Wifi Adapter and the C64 Internet games NetRacer and Vortex will face off against Oliver (Six),…

After 5 years, 'Amiga Point of View' Magazine to release issue #5

Amiga Point of View (APoV) is a magazine published by the English Amiga Board forum. The last issue #4 was released in 2010. Almost 6 years have passed and it was announced that material for the issue 5 is required and an invitation was sent to all Amiga enthusiasts. “Now that blackcornflake has returned to the EAB, following his spiritual kung…

'Archon' for C64 gets browser-based version with online multiplayer support

Archon – The Light and the Dark was ported to your browser, where you can play the game alone or using the new online multiplayer feature. The game looks exactly like the Commodore version, and it also plays the same. If you don’t lnow or remember the game, C64-Wiki has a good description: Archon – The Light and the Dark looks like…