Category: Computers
Christmas has passed with tons of new games for several retro computers, but there is still time to get some joy for your Amiga. It was released the ‘2015 Amiga CD32 Christmas Community Compilation Special’ put together by Earok. On this release there’s a huge variety of unreleased commercial games, full PD games, demos of upcoming releases, demoscene productions, Atari ST…
A new version of the Z88dk development environment for Z80 based computer like the Amstrad CPC, Cambridge Z88, MSX, Sinclair ZX 81, Sinclair ZX Spectrum was just released. The release is a transition release on the way to v2.0 which aims on using the SDCC compiler instead of the Small-C compiler, which was used before. This leads to much faster…
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
I’ve been enjoying reading the Digital Antiquarian blog articles for a while. They are aways very well written and informative about the history of video game. Jimmy Maher Jimmy Maher announced that he is releasing for free a set of eBooks from a compilation of his old articles. There are currently 8 ebooks available in epub or mobi (Kindle) formats. All…
It has been published today the Commodore 64 the Disk Magazine Attitude issue 16, reminds us how things were before the Internet and fancy websites (like ours!). The magazine mostly covers the C64 Demo Scene, with news from the groups and what happened in 2015. The nicest thing about the magazine is how well it is produced and the quality…
Hokuto Force has released a preview of its upcoming arcade port, Frogger. If you were living on the moon for the past three decades, on the game you control a frog trying to get across the road and the river. You have to time your jumps to avoid the cars and drowning on the river. The game presented here is…
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…
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…
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…
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…
