Category: News

CSDb Latest Releases

Todays releases over at CSDb are as follows: Paku Paku Preview +3 [pal/ntsc], Starball Effect, Starfield, Telengard V5.1, David Copperfield never did this, BITCH, Dunzhin +D [pal/ntsc] and Late A – An Early A Cover Source: http://csdb.dk

Have you got SCAVENGE?

[youtube _GLiCK8uj-k nolink] No this is not some dodgy foreign disease, this is Scavenge an Amiga shareware game written by James A. Wright in 1996. Peter Hull over at Scavenge Amiga Blog has been on the hunt for the full registered version of this game since the invention of the wheel! If you would like to try out this game, you can download…

CSDb Latest Releases

Todays releases over at CSDb are as follows: XMMS-SID 0.8.96, Snowfall, 20 Jahre Metalvotze, Naked Grinder 2, Staring at the Ceiling, Highscore Ballad and Pantheon. Source: http://csdb.dk

Balance Blox

Entwickler-X is developing a new game for the Amiga. In the game Balance Blox you must drop blocks onto a balance. If you have 3 equal blocks vertically or horizontally the blocks will disappear. But you must keep the balance in balance, if the balance hits the ground, the game is over. To make it more difficult, every block has…

SIDSynth, Pocket Mini Computer

[youtube XQNfLsm7iEY#! nolink] Jeff Ledger made a Midi SIDSynth with a pocket mini computer. The pocket mini computer is an open source mini computer with a Parallax Propeller microcontroller as it’s brain. Jeff made a manual on how to build your own Midi SIDSynth. He also explains which software you need. Website: http://tinyurl.com/ae5x7vaSource: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl

C64 Copy Protection

Steve started a new web page that is dedicated to the copy protection of Commodore C64 software. On this page you can find all kinds of information about copy protection, interviews, technical articles and more. A few examples of the articles are: Jim Drew Interview, Adjusting the Commodore 1541 disk drive alignment, Diskbusters, Disk Surgeon by Ultrabyte and Disk Maker…

HivelyTracker v1.7

HivelyTracker is a tracker program based upon the AHX format created in the mid ’90s by Dexter and Pink of Abyss. AHX was designed to create a very SID-like sound on the Amiga. HivelyTracker features: Multi-channel (4 to 16 channels), Channel stereo panning, Two commands per note, Ring modulation. Version 1.7 is now also available for Windows and MacOS X….

New firmware is now available for the 1541 Ultimate. New in this version: File viewer. Selectable colours in user interface. Improved memory allocation. UltimateAudio module with 7 voices. Website: http://www.1541ultimate.net 

Turbo Chameleon – A2601

Frank Buss is working on an Atari 2600 core for the Turbo Chameleon cartridge. He uses the Docking Station to connect a joystick to the Turbo Chameleon. At the moment the core is in a test phase, but you can download it to try it yourself. The video output is compatible with a VGA monitor and the audio also works….

Amiga Sysinfo has been updated to version 4

Everyone’s favourite classic Amiga benchmark program has finally had an upgrade after 19 years. New features include (from the site): 19 years later, a new maintainer, a new release. (tnx Nic Wilson) Crash due to assumed accessable memory at $2000 changed to $4000. (tnx Piru) Updated memory size calculation in Memory Info to handle 64MB+ sizes correctly. Updated board size…