Tales of Gorluth I – The Tear Stone Saga is an Amiga game released by AmiWorx in 2014, that is being for sale for some time as physical CD. Now the game is also available as free download. Features of the game: Linear action adventure game Over 5 hours of gameplay 64 colour graphics More than…
The year of 2015 was a great year for the vintage computing magazine with several new magazines being published and one of my favourites has just released a new issue. The 3rd issue of Komoda & Amiga Plus Magazine is now available in PDF, both in English and Polish covering most of Commodore’s computers, including modern Amiga OS. Besides the…
WinUAE needs no introduction, it is the best option to emulate Amiga computers in your Windows machine. The team behind its development has just released the final version 3.2.2, with the following changes: Bug fixes: JIT FPU 32-bit and 64-bit compatibility fixes. Interlace mode blank screen in some configurations. Slirp network mode high CPU usage. Some programs that use AGA…
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Earl Evans, and Michael Mulhern Host’s Topic: 2016, Here We Come What are your big retro plans for 2016? Writing something, building something, fixing something, selling something? Retro Computing News: MIST FPGA Pictures from World of Commodore 2015 Pictures from World of Commodore 2015 EDSAC Update – Two new videos BBC News article on the EDSAC…
This morning I learned about a new Amiga 500 emulator that runs on Google Chrome. It is a native port using Portable Native Client, a way to run existing C/C++ in the browser in a safe way across operating systems and across machine architectures. I was curious to see how it performs, so I spent some time playing with it. As…
This is the second in a multi-part series on the TI-99/4A computer. For this history segment, Randy Kindig was lucky enough to find a couple of people who have an incredible history with the TI-99, Jim Fetzner and Mark Wills. Jim has an extensive, multilingual library of all things TI and possesses some very interesting hardware items related to the…
Altirra, the Atari 8-bit emulator for Windows, gets a new update. The open source project aiming emulation quality, sometimes over speed and polish. It’s designed as a system emulator and debugger instead of a games machine, so there is some setup involved. Altirra features: Emulates the Atari 400/800, 1200XL, 600/800XL, 130XE, XEGS, and 5200 systems. Full, cycle-exact emulation of all…
Mr.NOP has released Ladybug for the Commodore 64. The game is a direct port from the author’s PET version, which was released a couple years ago. All using PETSCII characters, in the game you have to navigate your ladybug throughout the maze while collecting food. Swing the doors to block the predators from reaching you. The C64 version has the…
The 2015 Sideways Scrolling SEUCK Compo voting form is online. There were only 3 entries for this competition, but due to the high quality your vote is needed! These are the three contestants: You will have until December 31st to vote for your favourite. Link: SEUCK Voting Page
ANTIC, the Atari 8-bit podcast is having a campaign this weekend, trying to reach USD10,000 in donations for the Internet Archive. The campaign runs from noon PST 12/12 through noon 12/20). Here is what you can do, and what you can get: If you donate >= US$50 and forward the podcast crew a receipt for your donation, they’ll send you…
