BetterWB is a workbench pack much like AIAB, Amikit, AmigaSYS and ClassicWB, but applying a totally different approach. It aims to be much like an enhancement, an updated extension to AmigaOS 3.1, without all those hardware requirement penalties typically associated with these kind of packs. It is indeed a better 3.1 than 3.1 itself! Changes: Icon.library updated to 46.4.473 Redit…
WinUAE Version 3.6.1 Beta 6 is now available to download. WinUAE is currently the best Amiga emulation available to date and if used alongside Classic Workbench and WHDLoad you can achieve a really great Amiga hard drive experience. Download: winuae_3610b6.7z Download: winuae64_3610b6.7z Changes: eab.abime.net Website: winuae.net
Dirk Hoffmann has released a new version of VirtualC64. (1.7.2) VirtualC64 is a Commodore 64 emulator for Mac OS X. New in Version 1.7.2 and 1.7.1 Fixed some bugs regarding drag and drop, loading d64 files and key recording New in Version 1.7 VIC timing is now very close to VICE (Thanks, Fabio!) Cartridge handler has been rewritten. VirtualC64 now…
Kick Assembler is the combination of an assembler for 6510 machine code and a high level script language. Read more about the many features in the manual. Latest release (v4.19) Performance tuned nodelists. Updated the numberoperators <, >, &, |, ^,<< and >> so they will work on dwords (4 byte values). Updated the print library functions toHexString, toIntString, toOctalString…
Planeta Sinclair, a great Portuguese-speaking website about the ZX Spectrum, has just announced the winners of its poll trying to find the best ZX-Dev Conversion. Two highly acclaimed conversions that we have already covered, Mighty Final Fight and Ninja Gaiden Shadow Warriors have nabbed the first and second place, respectively. There were a total of 173 votes, and Mighty Final Fight took…
LoadError has recently released a new Vic-20 game called Pyrotech. The game was originally written in basic and then compiled to pseudo-code. In the game you command of a team of Pyrotechs on a mission to collect and defuse a batch of time bombs before they explode. LoadError’s description of the game made me smile. “It’s a gobble gobble, don’t…
Winuae 3.6.1 Beta 5 is now available to download. WinUAE is currently the best Amiga emulation available to date and if used alongside Classic Workbench and WHDLoad you can achieve a really great Amiga hard drive experience, like in the image above. Download: winuae_3610b5.7z Download: winuae64_3610b5.7z Website: winuae.net
A few days ago, John Blythe announced a new AGD game coming to the ZX Spectrum called Rubicon. Over on Sarah’s Speccy Group, John recently shared a wip title screen for the game. We are loving the new graphics John! Stay tuned for more News from Rucksack Games soon. Read more about Rubicon here. Source: John Blythe
Mike Dailly has put together a quick demo for the ZX Spectrum Next, showing what can be achieved using Copper. For those of you that have maybe never heard of ‘Copper’, it’s a display list processor. Most famously known and used on the Commodore Amiga, and uses very little CPU overhead. Below you will see a short video showing a…
Missing in Action game “Astor Roulette” has been recovered by Planeta Sinclair website. João Costa was kind enough to send the tape over and after demagnetizing and cleaning, the game was good enough to salvage. As the name suggests, Astor Roulette is a roulette simulation game and is thought to have been released around 1986. The author has been authenticated as…
