Category: News
The web blog Amigatronics had an interview with Simon Phipps. Simon is a game developer and worked on games for the Amiga like Rick Dangerous (Firebird), Rick Dangerous II (MicroStyle) and Switchblade (Gremlin Graphics). You can download the (English) interview from the Amigatronics web page. Website: http://amigatronics.wordpress.com
MiniHollyEdit is an ARexx-based editor for the programming language Hollywood. Features: Drag and drop for opening files. Execute the calculator + paint software + music software directly. Compile your script into all available formats. View paths and commands and much more. Website: http://artblink.hollywood.free.fr/Outils/
The RetroKomp / LOAD ERROR party was held on 26 & 27 October 2013 in the Polish town of Gdansk. You can now view all entries: Wild demo: Limon REU WAVE Player v3.0d by Data, Forever Young by Tropyx, 50 Shades of Grey by Elyta. Mixed Graphics: Back Home by JSL, Cashback by Sebaloz, Kind of Magic by Data. Mixed…
GnGeo is a fast and powerful command line NeoGeo emulator for the Amiga. Recent changes: Long names for romrc.d files. DOS line ending in the rom.rc and gngeorc files. Improvements for the emulation engine and the audio buffer. A video mode for a LCD monitor on HDMI and a pause key is added. Download: gngeo.lhaWebsite: http://www.os4depot.net
Thomas Wenzel released an update of his music player for the Amiga. AmigaAMP is a GUI based MPEG audio. It can also play AIFF, WAV and FLAC files. Changes in this version: Improvements for the skinned mode. Added cover display and “FilePath” config option. And many changes to the internal code of AmigaAMP. Website: http://www.amigaamp.de
Arto made an S-Video connector for his Commodore 64. He removed the standard video connector and replaced it with a S-Video connector. The modification also includes a resistor to adjust the chroma signal. He also disconnected the RF sub-circuit to improve the picture quality. Website: http://amazingdiy.wordpress.com
The web page c64.com had an interview with The Papillons Inc. The Papillons Inc. was a cracking group from Denmark and was active between 1986 and 1988. In this interview Alpha and The Catman talk about cracking and swapping games. In the time the group was active they released more than 150 cracks. Website: http://www.c64.com
– Standard partition hardfile OFS filesystem check was broken (2.6.1) – Adjusted sprite xpos == hpos check. (Shed Tears / Ozone scroller) – 64-bit build didn’t load portaudio dll. – GUI window minimize button worked strangely when emulation window was open. – Added new interlace emulation modes, first new is same as old one but display is updated every field…
Making Friends with SID Author: Paul Higginbottom The synthesizer chip in your Commodore-64 computer is affectionately known as SID. SID is in fact an acronym for Sound Interface Device. I doubt that many people realize just how powerful this chip is, but I intend to unleash some of its power for you. If you read some of the documentation…
ACube Systems have announced a game-DVD which is from now on available in the ACube-shop. It includes about 70 ports, which either are available for the first time or which were updated compared to existing versions (bug fixes, Joystick-support etc.). If a game or engine should require external level data then they are not included in the DVD due to…
