Category: Commodore News

PETdisk

The PETdisk is a simple storage device for the Commodore PET series of computers. PETdisk uses a microSD card for mass storage and uses the PET’s IEEE-488 port. With this solution you can also transfer your PET audio tapes to the SD card, providing, for now, that you invert the waveform in an external audio program. The IEEE-488 interface has…

Input settings for WinUAE

It’s time for the next part of the WinUAE guide. In this part I explain how to customise your controller settings to your needs (and maybe even beyond ;-) ). Part 3 of the guide on our forum

Display and filter settings for WinUAE

I’ve just posted part 2 of my WinUAE guide which covers the display and filter settings along with a way to save them so that they can be used together with the quickstart modes (a winning combo ;-) ). Please have a look and post a comment or question there :-) Part 2 of the guide on our forum

Bio Terror! – New 2011 PET game

A new PET game in 2011? Yes I am really amazed too. This just shows that the retro community is buzzing with talent in just about any Commodore platform. BioTerror! is a turn-based strategy simulation in which you manage resource units to quarantine cities, research a cure, and eradicate infections. The game was written in 2011 for a 1977 Commodore…

Installing WinUAE

If you ever wanted to start with emulating Amiga games on your PC, but even the first step put you off, we might have something for you ;-) I’ve written a short guide about how to install WinUAE and get the necessary files in place to run your first disk image based game. Guide on our forum

New Amiga demos on pouet.net

The scene portal pouet.net has published some new Amiga demos: 8-Bit Jungle by Unstable Label (Music disk) Authentic World of Commodore colors by Loonies (256 Byte Intro) Updater 2011 by Moods Plateau (Intro) Oldskool by Resistance (Intro) circus by depth (256 Byte Intro) Source: http://pouet.net

GameBase 64 V8.0

“It took a while, but GB64 reached its 8th incarnation and what’s more, it’s now online and ready to be peeked, poked and sys’ed by you, O True Believers.” “But ‘what’s new?’, I hear you cry in excitement … Well, besides its whole new mean attitude and unforgiving disposition that elevates it into a new level of coolness, it now…

Games That Werent – Update

19 new entries added “A big clear out of our backlog! (And there will be more to come!) As a start we have added entries for those which do not have scans or downloads to attach. Next update will feature more content rich entries when there is more time! Enjoy these for now!…” Civilization Dive Bomber Dinnamic Donkey Duo Erik…

HxCFloppyEmulator 1.6.11.6 released

HxC floppy emulator is hardware floppy emulator for many different types of machines. You can either connect it with a SD/SDHC memory card or with a USB cable connected to the PC. The updated software includes: -New files Support : Roland W30 file image support.-BUG : HFE writer buffer overflow corrected.-SAP Thomson file support Enhanced.-STT Atari ST file support :…

AmIRC v3.6 for AmigaOS 3.x

AmIRC020 requires a 68020 or higher CPU and OS3.0 or newer. Thisversion is optimized for such machines. If you plan to run a TCP/IP stack and AmIRC among other Internetapplications you should have at least 2 megabytes of RAM.You will need some sort of TCP/IP protocol stack running, such asGenesis, Miami, AmiTCP/IP or MorphOS’ NetStack. In this release: – DCC:…