Category: Retro Gaming
Of all the titles to be released for the Commodore Amiga, ‘Shadow of the Beast‘ remains as one of the most iconic and most celebrated. Developed by Reflections Interactive and published by Psygnosis, it represented something of a generational leap in terms of technical and creative achievement, boasting graphics and sound quite unlike anything else on the market at the…
Have you ever wondered what delights are waiting for you at the end of your favourite Commodore 64 game? Is there a game that you have spent an AGE trying to complete, but you just can’t manage to reach the end? Well stress no more as the C64endings Team are here to reveal all! Vinny Mainolfi has been cataloguing Commodore…
Retro Asylum, Episode 179 has been released. Steve Erickson & Mads Kristensen talk to Juan J. Martinez about his most recent games and how it is to develop modern games for the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and the Commodore 64. Listen: Retro Asylum Podcast, Episode 179 Website: retroasylum.com
Dirk Hoffmann has released a new version of VirtualC64. VirtualC64 is a Commodore 64 emulator for Mac OS X. New in Version 1.8 The Keyboard Manager has been reworked. In the keyboard menu, you can now choose between symbolic and position-based assignment. When using symbolic key assignment, the emulator tries to map a pressed key using its ASCII representation. Up…
Amiga Users Ireland Website is the home of the fantastic Amiga Ireland Podcast. Episode 12.1, Łukasz Kucharuk interview is now available to listen and download. Download: Amiga-Ireland-S01E12.1-Luke-Kucharuk.mp3 Website: amigausers.ie
WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. The following installers have been added up to 2018-03-17. 2018-03-17 new: Megademo 4 (Kefrens & 7up Crew) done by StingRay (Info,Image) 2018-03-16 new: Megademo 5 (Kefrens) done by StingRay (Info,Image) 2018-03-12 improved: Pinball Fantasies (21st Century) added quit key and intro skip to the OCS version of…
Barbarian, The Ultimate Warrior by Palace Software was first released for the Commodore 64, back in 1987. Later on it was also ported to the Amstrad CPC, Acorn Electron, ZX Spectrum, BBC Micro, Amiga, Atari ST, Apple II and MS-DOS. The developers licensed the game to Epyx, who published it as Death Sword in the United States. In the game’s…
A few days ago, Allan Turvey kindly sent me over the “ZX81 Birthday Edition” of his awesome ZX Spectrum game Roust. Roust is a ZX Spectrum conversion of the 1982 Arcade game, Joust. You can read more about Allan’s game in our previous posts here. The new birthday edition, is pretty much the same game, except it’s been skinned over…
Beta 3 of Graeme Cowie’s Bomb Jack Amiga remake, “Bomb Jack Beer Edition” has been just been released today. For more information check through our older posts about the game here. Download: bombjack_beta_3.adf Previous Posts: Bomb Jack Beer Edition
By 1993, the Commodore Amiga was going through something of belated mid-life crisis. Though once a technical marvel of the computing world, Commodore had failed to invest or innovate in the Amiga’s hardware to any significant degree. Although the A1200 and AGA chipset had launched the previous year, the majority of the Amiga user-base was still using A500 or A600…
