Category: Programming

Amiga OS Kickstart and Workbench source coded leaked

  Update from 01/05: Hyperion Entertainement releases official statement. Generation Amiga has reported today a tweet from Hacker Fantastic saying that the Amiga OS source has been leaked, including both Kickstart and Workbench. Looking at the @hackerfantastic’s tweet, there is another user with the handle @TheWack0lian that offers a link to download the OS in a 130MB tar file which…

The Bear Essentials: Developing a Commodore 64 game – Part 3

The third part of The Bear Essentials: Developing a Commodore 64 game has been published on RetroGamesCollector website. This time, the author talks about Sprite Multiplexing, a technique that allows having more than 8 sprites on screen at a time. There is also a trailer showing the first two areas of the game. [youtube u20xV4Y38X4 nolink] Link: RetroGamesCollector

Raptor BASIC+ for Atari Jaguar – One year retrospective

Post published on Atariage by the user ggn and reproduced here with permission (with few modifications) Raptor Basic+ is 1 year old! And to celebrate its birthday, we thought we’d make a small retrospective with past, present and future products made using it. But first… Premise It was a no brainer. After releasing Raptor, our bare metal library that handles jaguar…

Video explains everything about Amiga 500 Hardware Design And Programming

The Ultimate Amiga Talk – Amiga Hardware Design And Programming was presented at 2015 Chaos Communication Congress – Gated Communities (#32C3) in Hamburg. The hour-long video shows the speaker, Bernard R. Fischer going deep in Amiga 500 hardware description as well as programming information. It is a very technical video but a must-see for everyone interested on Amiga programming. [youtube 3Ho12VYv-iw nolink] For…

DurexForth V1.4.5 – Forth Language for the Commodore 64

Our favorite Forth implementation, DurexForth, has released a new version 1.4.5. These are the changes: forth: / now uses floored signed division forth: bugfix for negative number parsing (2- was interpreted as -20) forth: made 2/ sign-extend negative numbers forth: added spaces source >in 2over 2swap m+ m* sm/rem fm/mod dabs dnegate s>d forth: changed word order of double-cell integers…

Important people who shaped the TI 99/4A World – Scott Adams

“Important people who shaped the TI 99/4A World” blog on Atariage is talking about Scott Adams, the genius behind many Text adventure games  was brought up in Miami Florida. In 1975 he wrote a computer game on a computer that his brother Richard built a year before, making him the first person on earth to write a computer game on a home…

Yape 1.0.8 – New version of the Commodore Plus/4 Emulator

YAPE is Plus/4 emulator. It’s being developed for 10+ years by now and it is available in Windows as well as multiplatform editions. It was just released a new version of the emulator running on Windows. It is a minor incremental update to 1.0.7 with the following changes: GUI fix SID fixes drive RPM fix autostart randomization fix For other…

‘Adios a La Casta’ – A new game for the Amstrad CPC reaches beta

I’ve never seen an Amstrad CPC face-to-face, but after reading about it and playing with emulators, I wish a had personal experience with this machine for its capabilities. Nonetheless, it is always good to see new games coming out for the platform. This time, we welcome ‘Adios a la Casta Episode 1’ by 4Mhz group. The game is still in…

New version of Z88dk v1.99A – Cross-platform development environment for Z80 based computers

A new version of the Z88dk development environment for Z80 based computer like the Amstrad CPC, Cambridge Z88, MSX, Sinclair ZX 81, Sinclair ZX Spectrum was just released. The release is a transition release on the way to v2.0 which aims on using the SDCC compiler instead of the Small-C compiler, which was used before. This leads to much faster…

WHDLoad is now free for all Amiga gamers!

WHDLoad is a popular AmigaOS Harddisk-Install package that’s been around for many many years as a commercial product. It has been made the life of Amiga users way easier to install and play their favorite games. Starting now on version 18.2, WHLoad is completely free, making the WinUAE and FS-UAW Christmas day even better. Source: WHDLoad