Category: News
The most important electronics expo in the USA is the CES or the Consumer Electronics Show. Bil Herd is remembering when Commodore introduced new computers on CES. These were very hectic days for Commodore staff, you can read all about these days on Bil’s blog. Website: http://hackaday.comBlog: http://c128.com
Uka released a new program for ProjectOne. This converter can be used for converting ProjectOne files to: ArtStudio, FunkPaint and separated files (8k bitmap + 1k colour without load address). It is also possible to convert FunkPaint files (HiRes mode) to ProjectOne. Download: P1P2.7zWebsite: CSDb
Assist is a collection of information: All the content from the “Get the most out of your AMIGA” PDF guide, short-cuts and links. Assist helps with downloading and unpacking of software, plays YouTube videos and it has AmiUpdate support. Changes in this version: New registration system. New layout, images and buttons. The browser is a bit faster, many general improvements…
A new episode of the Personal Computing podcast is available. In this episode: Retrochallenge!, Altair 8800b, Wade Ripkowski, Commodore brochures, The Commodore bankruptcy, The Commodore PET 2001, Commodore PET 4032 and the Commodore PET Disk Drive 4040. Website: http://www.historyofpersonalcomputing.com
On the web page Flashtro.com you can see many cracker intro’s with your browser. The original intros from the Amiga, Atari-ST, Dreamcast, PC, Playstation etc. are converted to Flash. The most recent flashtro’s are: Scoopex – Eliminator, Bamiga Sector One – Arkanoid, Skid Row – Xmas, Lightforce – Operation Wolf, Megaforce – Street Fighter, The Accumulators & The Softkiller Crew…
The web page c64Intros have updated their intro database and they have added 50 new intros! New groups are: Assault (US), Dragon-Cracking Service [DCS], Foreshadow Cracking Team [FCT], Noway and Omega Cracking Team [OCT]. Website: http://intros.c64.org
Artur Jarosik has released a new version of the 68k Web-Browsers NetSurf. Changes in this version: libpng 1.6.16, libcurl 7.38.0 and libssl 1.0.1j. A new theme (Ken Lester) and a new cursor. Added the mp4.ee API and many other small improvements. Website: http://ami-soft.blogspot.de
VDC Mode Mania V1.1 is a slide-show for the C128 with a 64K VDC. This demo demonstrates many different video, for example 640×480 interlace 8×2 colour resolution, 720×700 interlace monochrome and text modes with larger screen areas. The demo has ten .d64-files full of converted pictures. Download: vdcmodemania-v11.zipWebsite: CSDb
A new replacement for an external floppy drive for all Amiga computers is being developed by Roman Breński, Jarosław Bieliński and Radosław Kujawa. The features are: Fully compatible with 880kB DD Amiga diskettes. Reads and writes NDOS diskettes. And a new disk drive mechanism. Website: http://sakura-it.pl/floppy.php
– HAM-E images updated only every other line in doubled modes. – Graffiti didn’t sync correctly if config was not AGA. – Restart button crashed if hardware RTG was enabled. – PCMCIA IDE didn’t work anymore (b2) – .pkd file extension inside archive wasn’t autodetected. – Disk/CD insert status message file name was shown as “null” if file was inside…
