Category: News

Amiga-Emulator Uae4all2 removed from Google Play Store

Amiga News reported today that the maintainer of the Android-port of the Amiga emulator Uae4all2 has been informed by the team of the Android-app-store “Google Play Store” that his application has been removed. The message sent by Google explains that the application was removed due to violation of the intellectual property and impersonation or deceptive behavior provisions of the Content…

Quartet – by Photon Storm

The goal of the game is to complete faces in the surrounding windows. Points are awarded based on how complete the face is assembled. The more complete the face is, the more points you score. Try and clear the whole board for an extra life and 500 points. Download: quartet.lhaiPhone: https://itunes.apple.comWebsite: http://www.amiboing.de

FS-UAE 2.5.29dev

A new development version has been released. Changes in FS-UAE 2.5.29dev: Updated emulation core from WinUAE 3100b11. Website: http://fs-uae.net

WHDLoad Updates

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. The following installers have been added until 02-03-2015. 2015-03-02 updated: MERCS (U.S.Gold) patch redone, RawDIC imager, disk accesses removed, uses WHDLoad v17+ features, blitter waits skipped on 68000 machines, trainers added (Info) 2015-03-02 updated: Microprose Soccer (Microprose) patch redone, supports another version, timing fixed, blitter waits only…

Binary Zone Retrostore is back!

You may have noticed the Binary Zone Retrostore (which is the official Psytronik online shop) has been offline for a couple of weeks. The guys have been busy beavering away in the Zone building a brand new store which they are very pleased to announce is now online! Website http://binaryzone.org/retrostore/

A Gremlin in the Works

Sheffield in 1983 was a city swamped in the gloom of recession with her trade and manufacturing industries withering in economic decline. Against this bleak outlook, the dawn of affordable home computers would lead two entrepreneurial retailers, Ian Stewart and Kevin Norburn to open a small shop on Carver Street. Just Micro would become a mecca for a generation of…

From Bedrooms to Billions: The Amiga Years!

While “Viva Amiga” has not been released yet, a Kickstarter has started for yet another Amiga movie. ‘From Bedroom to Billions‘ was a massive success which is a documentation about the British history of video games from 1979 till now. “The Amiga Years!” will be dedicated to the days of glory of this computer lasting 90 minutes. The movie is…

BetterWB release 4.0

BetterWB is a new workbench pack, much like AIAB, Amikit, AmigaSYS, ClassicWB, etc. but applying a totally different approach. It aims to be much like an enhancement, an updated extension to AmigaOS 3.1, without all those hardware requirement penalties typically associated with these kind of packs. It is indeed a better 3.1 than 3.1 itself! Changes in version 4.0: Rebooter…

Sakura External Floppy Drive

Over at RetroAmi an external floppy drive developed by Sakura (producer of PCMCIA-SRAM-card for the Amiga 600/1200) can be ordered. The pictures of the drive show the non-painted prototype. The final, black Gehäuse case additionally will have included some minor changes. The floppy drive is compatible to the external ports of all Amiga models but does not support “looping through”….

Dragons Lair Laserdisc Port Experiment – Commodore 64

First the ZX81 and now a C64 port to be released in the future? InuYaksa shows us on YouTube some early work of Dragons Lair running on the Commodore 64. Sound is most possible although not implemented yet. Here are the current specs: Need 16MB REU extension: Vice, Chameleon or 1541U. Powered by NUVIE player by Crossbow/Deekay. Watch on YouTube