Category: Computers
Soci released version 5 of the IDE64 MP3@64 player. This program plays MP3s through the MP3@64 card attached to the clock port at address $de00. Features: The volume per channel, bass, treble and stereo depth are adjustable. Keys for previous, next, play, pause, stop, load / save playlist and shuffle playlist. Download: mp3playerv5.zipWebsite: CSDb
Amiga-news has shared today this link, from the “Computer Collection Vienna”, where it show an Amiga prototype, called VELVET REV03, ICs mostly from early 1985, thus six month before official presentation! The machine has only 128k RAM and can be expanded by another 128k on front expansion port to a maximum of 256k. The final version ended up with a…
The New Dimension website is organising a new SEUCK Competition for 2015. The rules are: C64 PAL or NTSC. Music for the intro is allowed, but for the game you can only use sound effects and send in your games before the 31st March 2015. The first three entries are Gigablast by Alf Yngve, Special Forces Soldier by Shaun Pearson…
[youtube -RgjyezdsqU nolink] On this video, Carl Attrill teaches how to make ZX Spectrum graphics on a PC, displayed/animated on his ZX Spectrum emulator. The 10-minute long video shows where to get and how to use all necessary tools. The results are quite impressive! If you happen to try it yourself, don’t forget to show us the results on Twitter!…
Atari++ emulates Atari’s 8-Bit home computer as well as the games console Atari 5200. The port for AmigaOS-4 was written by Ventzislav ‘drHirudo’ Tzvetkov, supports AmigaInput and can be controlled using joysticks or analog controllers. Changes: Added emulation support for the tape drive, and .CAS files loaded into the tape. Raw audio files in the .WAV format are not supported…
Some coloured extracts and previews have been published of issue 113 (March/April 2015) of the Amiga Future. Highlights of the issue are an interview with Cherry Darling, a workshop on Final Edition of AmigaOS 4.1 as well as a review of WinUAE. The magazine will be available on March 5th. Link: Amiga Future Source: Amiga-News.de
CCH curator, Jason Fitzpatrick, had the opportunity of spending the afternoon of 19 February with Rick Dickinson, industrial designer of the original ZX Spectrum, and Steve Wilcox, director of Elite Systems and the man behind the Spectrum BT keyboard. Based on the post linked below, he was very pleased with what he saw: “It’s a really nice and generally faithful…
The comp.sys.sinclair Crap Games Competition 2015 – CSSCGC for short (!?!) is now on. If you want to participate, the entries can be submitted until the last minute of the last day of this year – Thursday 31st December 2015, at 23:59:59. According to the organizer’s website, the CSSCGC is an annual competition designed to showcase two things – the…
I’ve downloaded the free ebook ‘It’s behind you – The making of a computer game’ by Bob Pape a while ago, but I never got around to actually read it. If you haven’t heard of it, the book was released in 2013 and it tells the story of the making of the ZX Spectrum port of R-Type. This weekend I…
Rob Hubbard has created a new Facebook page called ‘Project Hubbard’.Not much other info is on the page currently, however the domain http://www.projecthubbard.com has also been created and is waiting for content to appear soon?Is it possible we are going to be lucky enough to experience a new Rob Hubbard album release? Also posted on the Facebook page on the…
