Category: Commodore News
A new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: 22 Years APC&TCP, Magic Pack for printing, Tales of Gorluth – pre-order and start help, Viva Amiga preview, 15th Amiga Meeting October 2014, Classic Computing October 2014, AmigaOS4 Extended Memory Objects and Usertreffen_@botfixer Home. Website: http://boingsworld.de
Onslaught released FRODIGI (Free Running Oscillator Digi) for the Commodore 64. FRODIGI is a new method of playing back digitized samples. It uses the free running SID oscillators of the SID chip with 3 channels and a master volume to recreate the audio. It can store 4 minutes of audio into less than 41 KByte. Download: frodigi.prg, frodigi.d64Website: CSDb
The complete documentation for the multimedia-oriented programming language Hollywood is now available online. With Hollywood you can create graphical applications very easily. Hollywood is available for AmigaOS 3/4, Android, AROS, Linux, Mac OS X, MorphOS, WarpOS and Windows. Website: http://www.hollywood-mal.com
In this Polish pdf magazine the following articles: Fresh, BlockFrenzy, Scorpius, Dark Force, He-Man and the masters of the Univers, Stone, Ghostbusters, Test Drive, Knight’n’Grail, Mikael Tillander, Guns’n’Ghosts, Miszcz i Małgorzata, 1985 – The Day After, Lode Runner, Harrier Strike, Top 10, Slavia nadeszła and Johnny Prezdstawia. Website: CSDb
Worm Wars is an advanced Tron/Snake-style arcade game for up to 4 simultaneous players. There are 36 types of creature and 32 types of Power-Up objects. There is also a level editor for making your own levels. New in this version: New bonus level: “follow the path”. And miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes. Website: http://amigan.1emu.net
Beta 6: (RC3 and hopefully nearly final) – b2 HAM update was incomplete and broken, nr_color_changes check was not fully working. (b2) – Display panel missing translations added (autoresolution and brightness/contrast/gamma) – Some file operations (zipped files, possibly something else too) didn’t support recently introduced relative “..” path part update. – Copper emulation state was not fully reset when restoring…
Petro Tyschtschenko, former Commodore/Amiga president, will attend Saku 2014 and introduce his new memoirs to the Finnish audience! The Finnish Amiga Users Group will host its legendary Amiga and retro computing event Saku on Saturday September 20th, 2014, 10:00-16:00 at the main library Metso in Tampere, Finland. Info: http://saku.amigafin.org
Beta 5: (RC2) – Relative path improvement broke CDFS CD mounting in some configurations. – Ungrab (b4) event didn’t disable mouse capture when it was activated in fullscreen modes. – VPOS LOF bit toggles (if interlace) exactly 2 cycles before first refresh slot. Logic analyzer tested. – Copper vblank strobe also stopped the copper if DMA was disabled and second…
Latest releases over at CSDb are as follows: CubeSim64 Preview, Excess Intro “Hawk”, Battle in Space +4, Strange, 50 Years Basic, $FF, Komoda #09 [polish], Fast logo4shine, Party Report, HF Fast Intro [pal/ntsc/drean], Maze of the Mummy Preview +6, Faster than Light Preview, Faster Than Light Preview +2. Source: CSDb
Latest updates from Vinny over at c64endings.co.uk are as follows: The Search for Sharla by Thalamus Dark Lord by Datasoft Zim Sala Bim by Melbourne House Wild Streets by Titus Software Who Framed Roger Rabbit by Buena Vista Software Topper the Copper by English Software Website: http://www.c64endings.co.uk
