Category: Computers
That’s an odd choice, but very interesting nonetheless. Thomas ten Cate decided to try to transfer his old programs from his beloved BBC Micro using QR-Code plotted on screen, and he reports his progress, problems and findings in a series of 6 articles on his personal blog. As he explains, that “most QR codes are fairly small, as they contain…
Do you remember Jumper’n Run: Smurf Rescue that we reported here back in Jan 7th? Now, the developer known as ‘hipoonios’ over Abime Amiga Forums received a ‘cease and desist’ letter from the lawyers representing Studio Peyo, the owners of The Smurfs trademark for trademark infringement. We cannot contest the fact that making the game using their intellectual property without…
Kelticweb Gary has published is The Story of the ZX Spectrum Facebook group a type-in Flappy Bird for the ZX Spectrum. If you are brave enough to revive the rough time of the type-in programs from magazines, here is the listing reproduced here: My Flappybird version for ZX Basic – Enjoy * Anyone hardcore enough to type-in – R-e-s-p-e-c-t! \a…
Head Over Heels is an arcade adventure video game, released in 1987 for several 8-bit home computers, and subsequently ported to a wide range of formats. Now a remake for MSX2 is being developed by FX Software. There are no more details, just a few screenshots showing a great work behind but we are sure it will be a reality…
Latest releases over at CSDb are as follows: Baffle 101% +2HF [pal/ntsc], The Last Ninja Demo, Onslaught Intro [Hellfire V4], The Eidolon +6D, Scramble +3 V2, Booter V1.0.3, Scramble +3 V1, EasyFlash 3 USB Utilities V1.8, Scramble, Onslaught Intro, Populous Preview, Cyborg C*Base Patcher V3.0, G.o.Drex, Xain +, Xain, Composition #1. Source: CSDb
On June 27th 2015 there will be a meeting in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, to celebrate 30 years of Amiga history. There will be many Amiga computers on display but also the KryoFlux team, Dave Haynie, David Pleasance, Christian Bartsch, István Fábián, Ultimate PPC team, Franck Sauer, Dan Wood and Ravi Abbott. Website: http://fo.hn/amiga30/
WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. The following installers have been added until 15-01-2015. 2015-01-15 new: Cyber Games (Cyberpunk Developments) done by Wepl (Info,Image) Website: http://www.whdload.de
The CGSC (Compute’s Gazette Sid Collection) has had an update. The COMPUTE!’s Sidplayer was a music system, created by Craig Chamberlain and Harry Bratt, for the Commodore 64. The aim of the Compute’s Gazette Sid Collection is to preserve as many of those Sidplayer music files in one location as possible. The current collection contains 13896 MUS, 4135 STR and…
Thomas Wenzel released an update of his music player for the Amiga. AmigaAMP is a GUI based MPEG audio player, but it can also play AIFF, WAV and FLAC files. Changes in this version: Improvements for AAC streams, MP3 files with HTML code and the playlist navigation. New features: mute button, equalizer, previous / next menu entries. And many small…
Stian Søreng has developed the C64FC Flash cartridge for the Commodore 64. This cartridge will emulate an 8 kByte EPROM, but you can program the cartridge from your PC. In the last month he has developed a SID jukebox and is working on a GUI for the C64FC. You can read all the details on his blog.
