Category: Scene News

Boingsworld #61

A new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: A-EON takes over OctaMED, Marcus Computer, Hyperion bankrupt?, Gerda Does past away, Cloanto Classic Support, Cloanto holds the Amiga copyrights, ADTWin 1.2, Robotron, A1000 Frankfurt, World premier Amiga, Commodore Office, Commodore product history and the C65. Website: http://boingsworld.de

Dutch Commodore User Group

The Dutch Commodore User Group had a meeting on January 21th. This Commodore user group is a very active group with six meetings every year with around a hundred or more visitors at each meeting. You can look at the photos and see how the meeting was. Website: http://commodore.hcc.nlSource: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl

Hires Color 9

Erich/Unlimited has released a new picture diskette called Hires Color 9. You will find 32 images on the two disk-sides, and all images use the hi-res graphics mode. The picture shown above is made with the Magica program. Download: hires_color_9.zipWebsite: http://plus4world.powweb.com

Beagle Bros Legacy – Our Programs Are Fun To Use

Jeff Atwood, co-founder of Stack Exchange posted an article telling about his early experience with Beagle Bros software and how that influenced how he thinks about software today. “Playing with the Beagle Bros quirky Apple II floppies in middle school and high school, and the smorgasboard of oddball hobbyist ephemera collected on them, was a rite of passage for me…”…

New Book '101 Amiga Games That Influenced The Gaming Industry'

This pixel-art book showcases 101 reasons why the Amiga was a great games machine, and had a massive influence around the world with both developers and gamers alike. The Book Features: 101 Amiga Classic Games (Either Amiga Exclusive or Released First On Amiga). Game Details For Each With Brief Description. 212 Full Colour Pages. (Great Pixel Art With Many Games…

Amiga Future Issue 113 Now Available

The English and German issue 113 (March/April 2015) of the print magazine Amiga Future is now available, and can also be ordered directly from the magazine’s editorial office or Amiga dealers that stock the magazine. Among other articles, the current issue contains an interview with Cherry Darling, a workshop on the Final Edition of AmigaOS 4.1 as well as a…

Commodore Free Magazine Issue 86

A new issue of Commodore Free has been released. Issue #86 has great content, from games and books reviews to articles and news. Some of the content of this issue are: General News World of Commodore Blog and Pictures BX720D Project ET Atari Game “Was” Buried in the Desert C64 News CC65 Optimizations C64 Endings Website Updated Honey Bee –…

What's New in CPUs Since the 80s and How Does It Affect Programmers?

Dan Luu was asked on his blog an interesting question: My mental model of CPUs is stuck in the 1980s (…) What cool developments have I been missing? What can today’s CPU do that last year’s CPU couldn’t? How about a CPU from two years ago, five years ago, or ten years ago? Trying to answer it, Dan wrote a…

Scene World – Video interview with Chris Huelsbeck

Over on Scene World Website you can watch a full video interview with Chris Huelsbeck. Chris Huelsbeck is an award winning composer and sound designer working mainly in the video games industry for well over 25 years. Having provided high quality music and sound for over 80 projects, Chris made himself a name not only with the fans, but also…

From Bedrooms to Billions: The Amiga Years nearly funded!

The “The Amiga Years!” Kickstarter goal is insight after only 7 days!‘From Bedroom to Billions‘ was a massive success which is a documentation about the British history of video games from 1979 till now. “The Amiga Years!” will be dedicated to the days of glory of this computer lasting 90 minutes. The movie is supposed to be released in January 2016….