Category: Commodore News
A preview and some excerpts of the upcoming issue 110 (September/August 2014) of Amiga Future magazine have been released. Highlights of this issue are an interview with Pascal Pappara, a review of Tales of Gorluth and the eighth part about the AmigaOS 4 programming course. Website: http://www.amigafuture.de
Silverdr is “reloading” Project 64. Project 64 is an attempt to archive all important documentation for the Commodore 64. Silverdr moved the project to Github. Github makes it possible to add documents and improve documents by multiple contributors. Silverdr asks people to join him with Project 64. Website: https://github.com/Project-64/reloaded
TORCS is a racing car simulation for the Amiga. There are many different cars, tracks, and opponents to race against. You can adjust the tires, dampers, aerodynamics, spoilers etc. The game is available for AmigaOS 4, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenSolaris, MacOSX and Windows. Website: http://www.os4depot.net
On the Dustlayer Blog you can now see pictures of the Commodore production line in Hong Kong from December 1992. The photos were taken by Robert Baker who worked in production engineering at Commodore in West Chester, USA and who had been in Hong Kong for a pilot production run of the Amiga 600. Website: http://dustlayer.com
Stefan started a new Youtube channel. On this channel you can view videos about Amiga computers. At this moment you can watch the following videos: Amiga 600, Amiga 1200/60, Amiga 2000/60, Amiga 3000/60 D and the Amiga 4000/60 D. Website: YouTube
[youtube DgVJ_Z9rKyA nolink] The Princess C64SD v3.0 is a new product from Manosoft. This device is a combination of the ITS TAP Player module and the C64SD. The features are: .TAP support (load /save), Disk drive replacement, Atmega1284p micro-controller, Metal cover, Pass-through connectors for the Datassette and IEC devices, SD card slot, Buttons for Play/Stop, reset and disk change and…
[youtube 8Vo12E0m-14 nolink] RetroGameModz made a video about the repair of a Blizzard PPC accelerator card for Amiga 1200. In the video you can see many tips and working methods for repairing retro hardware such as: Visual inspection, testing, schematics, measurements, disassembling, new components and final testing. RetroGameModz
WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. The following installers have been added until 08-26-2014. 2014-08-26 new: Grapevine 7 (LSD) done by StingRay (Info,Image) 2014-08-26 new: Grapevine 6 (LSD) done by StingRay (Info,Image) 2014-08-26 new: Grapevine 5 (LSD) done by StingRay (Info,Image) 2014-08-25 new: Vectordemo (Vector all Times) (Tristan Lorach) done by StingRay (Info,Image)…
Wednesday 27th August 2014, 19:00 USRT:Boz – BBB – It’s the Taint of the Week™ again, so it’s time for Boz to talk utter bollocks in between your requests. All aboard the Train-Wreck, WOO WOOH! Listen: SLAYRadioWebsite: BozRetro.com
Friday 29th August 2014, 19:00 USRT: GurtyGurt – Radio Awesome – Commodore is Awesome presents a brand new ‘RADIO AWESOME‘ Show!Yes that’s right folks GurtyGurt your favourite DJ from down under is back to wreck the airwaves with his insane babbling and Awesome Commodore Tunage, so hold on tight its gonna be a hard ride! STRAP IT ON!Listen: SLAYRadioWebsite:…
