Category: News

AMIGArama Podcast Episode 70: Strider

Lorfarius and Hiryu swing through the air in this latest Amiga teamup, but can they defeat the evil Grandmaster in this weeks AMIGArama?

ZX Spectrum Next Keyboard mass production is a go and we have photos to prove!

It is another freezing Canadian morning and there is nothing better to warm us up than good news (and a hot cup of coffee, of course!) As I was drinking that coffee and reading my emails, there was another update from Henrique Olifiers regarding the most-wanted (and waited) retro-computer project in the past few years! The ZX Spectrum Next keyboard…

New Atari LiteDOS 2.02 for the 400/800 XL/XE Machines

Mr. Atari has released the version 2.02 of Atari LiteDOS targeting the Atari 8-bit family of computers. Formerly known as TinyDOS, the new version offers a fully-feature DOS for Atari machines using only 2k of RAM, feeing at least 4k for the user. LiteDOS can read Atari DOS 2.0 2.5 MyDOS and other compatible disks. Also, the file-format of a…

Amiga Power: The Album with Attitude coming to Kickstarter!

We chat with Matthew Smith about his exciting Amiga Power magazine-inspired remix album!

Jesse – A modern homage to Eliza (and beyond!)

David Taylor has been busy working on Jesse, an interesting project that reminds in Eliza, an early natural language processing computer program created from 1964 to 1966 at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory by Joseph Weizenbaum (Wikipedia). David had contact me send me the following letter about his project, which I reproduce here to help him spread the awareness about…

‘Dungeon Crawl’ – New game for the TRS-80 Color Computer

Paul Shoemaker‎ has released a new game for the TRS-80 Color Computer. ‘Dungeon Crawl’ is an homage to the classic Telengard, a role-playing dungeon crawler created by Daniel Lawrence and published in 1982 by Havalon Hill. The game run in all Color Computer models with equipped with 64Kb or RAM and Extended Color BASIC. It can be purchased as DSK…

AMIGArama Podcast Episode 69: Barbarian The Ultimate Warrior

AMIGArama joins the fight against the evil Drax to save the helpless Princess Mariana but who can win in this epic bout of fighting fantasy? https://amigarama.com/episodes/amigarama-podcast-episode-69-barbarian-the-ultimate-warrior/

Bruce Lee: Return of Fury on its way to the C64

Bruce Lee for the Commodore 64 has long been considered as a classic must have game for the system, receiving critical acclaim upon its initial release in 1984 for its addictive and thoroughly enjoyable platform fighting action while many enthusiasts since have often cited the game as being one of their personal favourite games for the C64. Vidar Bang, who…

NESmaker Game Design Competition

NESmaker is a recently launched tool allowing you to create NES games without programming experience. The games created with NESmaker can be flashed in cartridges and played in an original NES console. To celebrate the new home brewers using the tool, the The New 8-bit Heroes have launched Byte-off!, a game designed competition. To enter the compo, the contestant has…

AMIGArama Podcast Episode 68: Midnight Resistance

Can Lorfarius resist those midnight shenanigans in this weeks look at Oceans Midnight Resistance? http:// https://amigarama.com/episodes/amigarama-podcast-episode-68-midnight-resistance/