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Dave Needle and the Story of the Amiga Computer

[youtube nesWip4Nft0 nolink] The Amiga computer was ahead of its time yet never fully embraced by consumers because of the lack of available apps. Dave Needle the original hardware architect is interviewed in this piece by Rick Spence that pays a small tribute to the Amiga and how it helped pave the way for later innovations in computing. Source: http://www.youtube.com

Cinnamon Writer v0.90

Claus Deslers has improved his Cinnamon Writer for AmigaOS 4. Cinnamon Writer is a compact and efficient word processor. Changes in this version: New user interface, based on MUI. Improvement of the memory management. The better memory management makes it possible to use bigger documents and integrate more pictures and tables. Website: http://desler.beSource: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl

StormC5ED

Alinea Computer released the first component of the StormC5 IDE, StormC5ED. The features are: Amiga look-and-feel. Syntax highlighting. File classes. Definition bar. Bookmarks. Folding. MDI- or TDI- User interface. Automatic indentation. Tabulators, spaces and linefeeds. The GUI supports the following languages: German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Danish and Russian. Website: http://software.alinea-computer.deSource: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl

GTW64 update

New updates from the Games That Weren’t website. See below for latest additions. Hydrogenese Bamboo Arsenal FC Winter Camp Lost Level War Of The Worlds Academy Bubbles Gunz Reach For The Moon Lords Of The Rising Sun Source: http://www.gamesthatwerent.com

Nick Jones interview

Nick Jones is a video games developer. His first computer was an Oric-1, but later he switched to a C64. He worked on the following games: Frostbyte, Equinox, Exolon, Beyond the Ice Palace, Vixen, Cybernoid, Cybernoid 2, Stormlord, Deliverance, Smash T.V., Supremacy, Dan Dare 3 and Time Machine. You can read the whole interview on the C64.com web page. Website:…

C64 SEUCK 2013 Compo Results

The voting phase has now closed. Results have been accurately recorded on the spread sheet and TND have finally got the finished results and ranks for all of the SEUCK games. Here are the top 5 ranks. 1.  Sheer Earth Attack by Gaetano Chiummo2.  Dodo’s Deep Doo-Doo (80%) by Carl Mason3.  Realms of Midgard by Anthony Burns4.  Zombie Brain Eaters…

AmiKit v1.6.5

[youtube Gkr9loEYbSs nolink] AmiKit v1.6.5 has been released. AmiKit is a freeware compilation of more than 300 pre-installed Amiga programs. Integrated emulator enables user to experience this high-end AmigaOS configuration on Windows, Mac OS or Linux system. External source of Amiga ROMs and operating system is required, though. With AmiKit you can surf the web, read emails and documents, listen…

What makes you an Amiga user?

This comes under the heading of Good, Simple Questions I think :) Here’s my answer, just because I couldn’t write a short, witty reply there. IT used to be that programming was a large part of the activity of using a computer. Today, it’s not that way for most computer users. Partly because there’s more software available for the simplest…

WinUAE 2.6.0 Beta 20 (RC1)

Beta 20 (RC1) Final in few days: – AROS ROM updated. – DirectSound mode crashed if DS sound play cursor got stuck (which normally shouldn’t happen) Download: winuae_2600b20.zipSource: http://www.winuae.net

Commodore Free #70

Free to download magazine dedicated to Commodore computers.Available as PDF, ePUB, MOBI, HTML,TXT, SEQ and D64 disk image. Download: issue70.pdf Website:: http://www.commodorefree.com/issues.html