Category: Computers

Creating a Commodore 64 emulator using GameMaker

GameMaker is a tool that allows the creation of video games using drag and drop action sequences or a sandboxed scripting language known as Game Maker Language. YoYo Games has published in its blog, the first two parts of a series showing how to create a Commodore 64 emulator using its game creation tool. If you are interested on learning…

Printed magazine: Amiga Future, issue 112

The English and German issue 112 (Januar/Februar 2015) of the print magazine Amiga Future has been distributed today, and can also be ordered directly from the editorial office of Amiga Future, and the other Amiga dealers that stock the magazine. This issue content: Test VoxelNoid Test Icaros Desktop Test AmigaOs 4.1 Final Website: http://www.amigafuture.de

New MSX-BASIC contest and magazine

MSX Calamar announced a new MSX-BASIC programming contest and a new MSX magazine. Everyone around the world can participate and have until the 30th of September of 2015 to finish the program (games, utilities, etc), which can be written from the MSX(1) to TurboR. There will be prizes for the winners. Programs submitted for the contest will be published in…

#msxdev Compo brings two new great games

The #msxdev Compo is an MSX software competition in which all sorts of MSX software are allowed. This year, it yielded two new games: Pointless Fighting by Baka-Yo! Softcorp – a technically impressive fighting game – and Mr. Balloon by Mapax – a fun little dexterity game in which you guide a balloon through mazes. Both games can be downloaded…

AmigaOS 4: Arcade emulator FinalBurn Alpha 0.2.97.34 WIP

[youtube bhuQ7SE3a30 nolink] FinalBurn Alpha emulates diverse arcade machines and game consoles. The latest version requires version 2 of the BoostyGFX-library (OS4Depot). This one requires a new key-file. This way you have to remove a previous RegBoostyGFX.key from the directory SYS:s. Website: http://hunoppc.amiga-projects.net

Jump'n Run: Smurf Rescue

[youtube iuluRQv2iQU nolink] Smurf Rescue developed by Mikael Persson (know as Hipoonios) is a Jump’n Run game created with Backbone. The game requires a 68030-processor and 4 MB Fast-RAM. Download ADF Version: Smurf_Rescue_by_Hipoonios.adfDownload LHA Archive (for HD installs) Smurf_Rescue_by_Hipoonios.lhaWebsite: http://www.hipooniosamigasite.org

880 Gamer #5

880 Gamer is an English pdf magazine for the Amiga user. In this magazine the following articles: News, Cover Disk, Game On: Desert Strike, Cadver, The Settlers, Populus, Super Skidmarks Plus and Iso Mia. Bleeding Eyes: Flower Power, The Engine and Dose. Cheat and Talk Back. Website: http://www.users.on.net/~stanners/

C64FC

[youtube 8XyegGksjxg nolink] Stian Søreng has a working version of his C64FC Flash cartridge for the Commodore 64. The cartridge will emulate an 8 kByte EPROM, but you can program the cartridge from your PC. The C64FC has a ATmega16 micro controller for the USB communication and a IDT7005 RAM chip for the emulation of the 8 kByte EPROM. Website:…

SoundBankster 1.3 – MorphOS

Antoine Dubourgs released a new version of SoundBankster. SoundBankster is a program that DJ’s can use to play there music. The changes are: Support for French and English language. Improved equalizers (shelf filters) and improvements for the loop handling (added x2 and /2 buttons). Minor GUI changes and many small errors are removed. Website: http://tcheko.binaryriot.org

SimpleMail 0.41 – Amiga

SimpleMail is a mail program for the Amiga platform (Classic and OS4) and compatible systems (MorphOS). Changes in this version: Added server certificate checks. AmigaOS 4.x uses OpenSSL until AmiSSL has been updated. Website: http://simplemail.sourceforge.net