Category: News

SysMon

Sysmon is a system monitor for AmigaOS 4 made by Guillaume Boesel. Recent changes: Benchmark Tab added. New Tool Types: INTERFACE, ABOUTBOX, VOLUMES, ASSIGNS, STARTHOSTNAME, DEBUG, PRIORITY, WANIP, DEBUGSLEEP, STARTWINDOW, STARTTASK, STARTNETSTAT, STARTVOLUME, STARTASSIGN and STARTSYSTEM. Max In/Out network bandwidth. Website: http://www.os4depot.netSource: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl

C64 Tape Interface

[youtube 9OArz_PgLa8 nolink] Bart Venneker is experimenting with “tap” files. A tap file contains the digital data from a compact cassette that is used in a Datassette. With a PC you can transfer the tap file to a real compact cassette. And with a special interface you can connect a standard cassette player to the Commodore C64. In the video…

Amiga 1200 Review

[youtube 0_kZoYqcpB4 nolink] Dan Wood made a review of the Amiga 1200. In the 30 minute video you can see the connections and interfaces, the inside, keyboard, disk drive and the mouse. He also shows programs and games for the Amiga 1200. Source: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl

SID-Wizard v1.2

SID-Wizard is a Commodore 64 music tracker made by Hermit (Mihaly Horvath). Changes in this version: NTSC support. More configuration options in the menu. Colour-themes, Raster-bars on/off. Instrument autotyping. GT/DMC piano-keyboard layout. Raster-time measuring. Fast-forward playback. Improved help function. Start-up menu with selectable players: normal/light/medium/extra. Website: http://noname.c64.orgSource: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl

AmigaRemix

You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. In the last weeks they added the following Amiga music: Odyssus Returns, Shadow of The Geek, Black Lamp, Jupiter’s Masterdrive, Signia, Weird Dreams, M1 Tank Platoon, Turrican, Darkmere, Dylan Dog and many versions of Spiral Hands On III. Website: http://www.amigaremix.comSource: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl

ZoomFloppy

[youtube zbfHfI0_L5c nolink] Steve from the C64 Copy Protection web page made a video about the ZoomFloppy. The ZoomFloppy can be used to transfer files from your PC to a Commodore disk drive or vice versa. The ZoomFloppy is connected to the PC via a USB port. In the video above you can see how the system works and which…

Flashtro

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: Dragons – WallStreet and Seven Gates of Jambala, Crack Band Crew – Speedball, Thrill Kill Kult – Bunny Bricks, Slipstream – Amnios, Skid Row – Cracktro,…

Retrogaming Roundup 53

In this (English language) podcast the following items: Play Expo Day 1 Wrap Up, James On James, Auction Talk, Guinness Gaming Records, C64 Wizball (Martin Galway), Keith Robinson Interview, The Great And Powerful Oz, Top Ten Spectrum Games, Gaming Trivia, Hardware Review: Tempest 2000 Jaguar Rotary Controller, Live News And Listener Views, Optimistic (8bit Radiohead) and URLs / Emails. Website:…

Creating games with Backbone – Step by Step for beginners!

Amiga community members Cammy and Rebel have started a new set of tutorials on Backbone and they are releasing them to the communities.  “This is an on-going tutorial Rebel and I are making which will explain how to use Backbone to create your own video games. Backbone is a game creation kit for AmigaOS 3.x which is fully GUI-based, there’s…

WinUAE 2.5.0 Beta 25

– Switching to interlaced mode and autoscale enabled: don’t calculate new size until 2 frames have been drawn to prevent multiple display size changes.– More accurate GUI resizing algorithm.– Show also first few bytes of disk in harddrive selection GUI.– Add real harddrive as IDE: calculate physical CHS values using H=16,S=63,C=total blocks/(H*S) formula to better match with real hardware. (ROM…