Category: Computers

World of Commodore 2014 happening in Toronto on Dec 6th

This is a reminder that the World of Commodore 2014 is happening this Saturday in Toronto at the Admiral Inn (2161 North Sheridan Way, Mississauga). The event is organized by the Toronto PET Users Group. There you will have: Information about and displays of a variety of Commodore computers Demonstrations of new hardware and software projects using Commodore equipment Screenings…

A Spectrum symphony will perform live on Dec 6th

Matt Westcott, demoscener and Spectrum obsessive, and Dylan Smith, creator of the Spectranet interface, will be performing Mahler’s first symphony using ZX Spectrums this Saturday, at the Geek Out! event on Saturday 6 December, 10am-5pm at the Museum of the History of Science in Oxford. According to the blog post linked below, they will use Spectranet interfaces, which plugs into…

WHDLoad Updates

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. The following installers have been added until 27-11-2014. 2014-11-27 new: Never Mind (Vision Factory) done by StingRay (Info) 2014-11-26 new: 5th Gear (Vision Factory) done by StingRay (Info) 2014-11-25 new: The Seven Gates of Jambala (Vision Factory) done by StingRay (Info) Website: http://www.whdload.de

pouet.net – New Amiga demos

The scene portal pouet.net has released some new Amiga demos in the last months: spiked & spiced byFocus Design (AGA) (demo) Dubzilla bySpaceballs (OCS) (64k) Octorubber byLoonies :: Pacific (OCS) (4k) 1k is no limit byCode Red (OCS) (1k) The Player Playroutine P6111 byScoopex :: Sahara Surfers (AGA) (demotool) Sunglasses at Night byGhostown :: Whelpz (OCS) (demo) 32 Shades of…

Linux: Kernel 3.18 RC6 for AmigaOne X1000

Christian ‘xeno74’ Zigotzky has compiled “release candidate 6” (RC6) of the Linux kernel 3.18 for the X1000 (changelog). Download: vmlinux-3.18.0-rc6-KVM-PR-OVERLAYFS-AMIGA_one_X1000.tar.bz2 (8 MB)

AmigaOS 4: Fractal generator Fractals For SketchBlock 1.5

Andy Broad has released version 1.5 of his commercial fractal generator plugin for Sketchblock. Changes in this update: Theming: if SketchBlock Lite has been purchased from AmiStore, Fractals For SketchBlock will adopt the current theme Smoothing: Iteration based colouring modes can now be smoothed, given even transition between colours Repeating Palette Mode: This new colouring mode uses one colour from…

MorphOS: Text processor Calimero 0.2

Carsten Siegner is about to develop a new text processor for MorphOS. Now another alpha version of “Calimero” has been released (screenshot). New in version 0.2: TextEdit-MUI-Class 100 % finished Memory-management system 100% finished Pagehandler + window 100% finished Support of Hyperlinks 100% finished Meta-Data Handler + window 100% finished AmigaGuide Exportmodul 100% finished MUI-GUI 99% finished Clipboard handler 100%…

Super Ted – The Search for Spot!

What is this?A fan made side scroller shooter made by Mikael Persson (know as Hipoonios) using Backbone in just three weeks! This is actually Mikael’s first game he released. Mikael made some small games in AMOS when he was younger, but has never released anything in the past. Mikael is really happy to finally release a game for 2014. He also mentions…

The Story of the ZX Spectrum in Pixels Volume 2

After a successful campaign to produce the Volume 1 of ‘The Story of the ZX Spectrum in Pixels’, Chris Wilkins is back asking for your help to create the The Story of the ZX Spectrum in Pixels Volume 2. The book will be littered with adverts and imagery from a by-gone age and with the close relationship the author have…

Amiga Game Creator, Coming Soon!

[youtube JyvvP8Ch-0c nolink] Coming to an Amiga near you soon!Source: YouTube