Category: News
mr.nop over at commodore128.org has released a new CBM /Pet game.The game is called Oil’s Well and is written in assembly language, and there are versions for the PET 2001, the CBM 3032 and CBM 4032nd. Download: prg_oils_well.zipWebsite: http://www.commodore128.org
Codetapper’s web page had an interview with Dave Semmens. Dave worked on many Amiga games, a few examples are: Rainbow Warriors (1989), SAS Combat Simulator (1990), Spellfire The Sorceror (1990), Kid Gloves 2: The Journey Back (1992), The Incredible Crash Dummies (1994) and The Lion King (1995). Website: http://www.codetapper.comSource: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl
A new edition of the English and German Amiga (paper) magazine Amiga Future has been released. In this edition: Editorial, News and Up2Date. Reviews: A Frog Game, Tap Jewels, Timebomb, Highway Patrol II, Nether Earth, Triplane, Tux Football, KETM, gOCR, AmiCygnix 1.2, Data Display, AmigaOS 4 Update 6. Workshop: Data processing with AmigaDOS (4), C-Workshop (17). Special: Modding: LED, Turbokarten…
Micro64 Disktool is a c64 diskette image converter tool, which is based on the micro64 emulator. This program is made by Benjamin Rosseaux and is available for Windows computers. The program can work with: g64, d64, p64, fdi, nib and kryoflux images. Website: http://code.google.com/p/micro64disktool/Source: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl
Michal Wozniak made a MorphOS version of the Smilla Enlarger program. Smilla Enlarger is a small graphical tool to resize bitmaps in high quality. The program, developed by Mischa Lusteck, makes it possible to use small pictures and enlarge them to very big pictures with a special algorithm. Website: http://kiero.binaryriot.org, http://sourceforge.net/projects/imageenlarger/Source: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl
WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. Latest updates are as follows: Megademo (Excellence), Speedball Cracktro (Ackerlight), McDonald Land (Virgin), Project X – Special Edition (Team 17), Subtle Shades (Nuance) and Extension (Pygmy Projects) Source: http://www.whdload.de
TOSEC has been updated. TOSEC, or The Old School Emulation Center, is a group of people dedicated to the preservation of games and other programs for home computer and console systems. In this update: 6 new, 88 updated and 1 removed. Website: http://www.tosecdev.orgSource: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl
eGame is a program that makes it possible to easily search through a list of games you want to play. The program is made by Christopher Handley and is written in the PortablE programming language. The program can be used with AmigaOS4, AROS and MorphOS. The free version is limited to displaying 10 game, if you want the full version…
Latest updates over at Games that weren’t 64 are as follows: Heng, Kill all humans, Octron, Recon, Sphere, Victory!, Ice Age, Kid Niki, Penguin Tower V2, Phantomas, Player Manager, Shockwave, Stellar 7, Streethawk, Xenon 2 and Zynon. Source: http://www.gamesthatwerent.com
Balagesz from Plus/4 world has converted his C1541-II drive into a C1541/1551 drive. The C1551 drive is specific to the Plus/4 computer as it transfers data faster than that of the C64<->C1541. By the flick of a switch it can be either a C1551 or a C1541. Source: http://hup.hu/node/120659
