Category: Commodore News

HollyPaint v1.1

HollyPaint is a bitmap graphics editor written in the Hollywood-MAL programming language. The program can be used with AmigaOS, MorphOS and AROS. Recent changes: Colour wheel and alpha sliders in separate window. Individual setting of colour for gradient, shadow and edge. Loading and saving of transparent brushes. More filters and an Arc tool. Invert for: brush, mask and alpha. And…

Tiny'R'Sid

Jürgen Wothke released an update of the Tiny’R’Sid music player. With this player you can listen online to your favourite SID music. The SID emulation logic is based on the TinySid code by T. Hinrichs and R. Sinsch. The most recent version now has a playlist function. Website: http://tinyurl.com/oo4oyrwSource: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl

UAE4ALL – Dreamcast

UAE4ALL is an Open Source Amiga 500 emulator for the Dreamcast console. The current version is a release candidate, but lots of games are running at the moment. Recent changes: SuperThrottle, ADZ support, Save diskette changes to VMU, 2 Floppy drives emulation, Throttle and Autoframeskip. Website: http://chui.dcemu.co.ukSource: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl

C64Studio v3.0

C64 Studio is an assembly development environment which is dependent on VICE. You can write assembly code and test this with the VICE emulator. Changes: The BASIC parser is completely rewritten. Added a new Find and Replace function. Improvements for saving projects and the BASIC tokenizer system. Added support for store/load/exec breakpoint types and a button to force hires/multicolor on…

C64 Screenshots in 3D

Benjamin Wimmer made screenshots of C64 games in 3D. He was using the 3D photo feature of his Nintendo 3DS, and wondered how C64 games would look like in 3D. On his web page you can see the results of his 3D screenshots. You can also download the pictures in full colour and 3D. The screens on the site are…

Retro Asylum Podcast (45): Who's mister SID

A new edition of the Retro Asylum Podcast (English language) is now available. In this edition the following articles: News, Shows: Play Expo, Revival and Retromania, Essex Car-boot sale, RetroAsylum auditions winners, Music from the Past, Name that Chip Tune, Introducing Mr Sid, Top 5 c64 Games and the Name The Game. Website: http://retroasylum.comSource: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl

C64 emulator – Ouya

[youtube Yhbhx1rBIyo nolink] Stiggy made a video review of the C64 emulator on the Ouya Console. Ouya is an open source game console with a Nvidia Tegra 3 Soc running Android OS. He talks about the options for video, audio and inputs. He explains the loading of the games, the turbo function, the on-screen keyboard and how to use a…

Jack v4.0.7

Jack is a multi-purpose program for AmigaOS, AROS and MorphOS. Features: Preferences, Screen snapshot, Knowledge Base, Image editor, Music player, Slideshow, File-management, Auto-updates, etc. Changes in this version: MACE added to Entwickler-X Games tab. Improved search for the AppStore. More QT software in the AppStore. Improved VAT Calculator, and a few layout improvements for the dashboard. Download: jack.lhaSource: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl

Wonderland XII

[youtube jX0UgvgBuQc nolink] Wonderland XII is a new demo made by the group Censor Design. The demo won the first price at the BFP 2013. The BFP 2013 (Baroque Floppy People 2013) is a 3-day C64 scene event in Helsingborg, Sweden. The following people worked on the Wonderland XII demo: Axis, Bob, CRT, Lavazza, Mirage, Swallow, Magnar Harestad, cg, Creeper,…

Hexgem – AmigaOS 4

Hugues Nouvel released Hexgem for the Amiga. Hexgem is a puzzle game using hexagonal gems. In the game you must swap two gems and align three or more gems to make them disappear. The game is written by Pepone, the music is from FoxSynergy and spicypixel made the font. Website: http://www.clubevolution4.com/HunoPortSDLSource: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl