Creating a Commodore 64 emulator in GameMaker – Part 1

GameMaker is a tool that allows the creation of video games using drag and drop action sequences or a sandboxed scripting language known as Game Maker Language. YoYo Games has published in its blog, the first part of an article showing the work to create a Commodore 64 emulator using its game creation tool. If you are interested on learning…

#msxdev Compo brings two new great games

The #msxdev Compo is an MSX software competition in which all sorts of MSX software are allowed. This year, it yielded two new games: Pointless Fighting by Baka-Yo! Softcorp – a technically impressive fighting game – and Mr. Balloon by Mapax – a fun little dexterity game in which you guide a balloon through mazes. Both games can be downloaded…

Brutal Deluxe releases Assembler Merlin 32 for the Apple II

Brutal Deluxe Software releases Merlin 32, a multi-pass 6502 65c02 and 65c816 cross assembler for Windows. Merlin 32 is a multi-pass Cross Assembler running under Windows targeting 8-bit processors in the 6502 series (such as 6502 and 65c02) and the 16 bit 65c816 processor. It has been successfully used to re-assemble classic Apple IIgs games and utilities such as Rastan,…

Printed magazine: Retro Planet, issue 6 (Greek)

The Greek printed magazine “Retro Planet” has 52 coloured pages and is published every three months. Issue 6 (Front page) includes a Neo-Geo-special, an article about the both Memotech-computers MTX500 and MTX512, the MorphOS-ports of Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy as well as the Amiga CD³². Website: http://www.retroplanet.gr

AmigaOS 4: Arcade emulator FinalBurn Alpha 0.2.97.34 WIP

[youtube bhuQ7SE3a30 nolink] FinalBurn Alpha emulates diverse arcade machines and game consoles. The latest version requires version 2 of the BoostyGFX-library (OS4Depot). This one requires a new key-file. This way you have to remove a previous RegBoostyGFX.key from the directory SYS:s. Website: http://hunoppc.amiga-projects.net

Jump'n Run: Smurf Rescue

[youtube iuluRQv2iQU nolink] Smurf Rescue developed by Mikael Persson (know as Hipoonios) is a Jump’n Run game created with Backbone. The game requires a 68030-processor and 4 MB Fast-RAM. Download ADF Version: Smurf_Rescue_by_Hipoonios.adfDownload LHA Archive (for HD installs) Smurf_Rescue_by_Hipoonios.lhaWebsite: http://www.hipooniosamigasite.org

880 Gamer #5

880 Gamer is an English pdf magazine for the Amiga user. In this magazine the following articles: News, Cover Disk, Game On: Desert Strike, Cadver, The Settlers, Populus, Super Skidmarks Plus and Iso Mia. Bleeding Eyes: Flower Power, The Engine and Dose. Cheat and Talk Back. Website: http://www.users.on.net/~stanners/

C64FC

[youtube 8XyegGksjxg nolink] Stian Søreng has a working version of his C64FC Flash cartridge for the Commodore 64. The cartridge will emulate an 8 kByte EPROM, but you can program the cartridge from your PC. The C64FC has a ATmega16 micro controller for the USB communication and a IDT7005 RAM chip for the emulation of the 8 kByte EPROM. Website:…

SoundBankster 1.3 – MorphOS

Antoine Dubourgs released a new version of SoundBankster. SoundBankster is a program that DJ’s can use to play there music. The changes are: Support for French and English language. Improved equalizers (shelf filters) and improvements for the loop handling (added x2 and /2 buttons). Minor GUI changes and many small errors are removed. Website: http://tcheko.binaryriot.org

SimpleMail 0.41 – Amiga

SimpleMail is a mail program for the Amiga platform (Classic and OS4) and compatible systems (MorphOS). Changes in this version: Added server certificate checks. AmigaOS 4.x uses OpenSSL until AmiSSL has been updated. Website: http://simplemail.sourceforge.net