FRGCB (Finnish Retro Game Comparison Blog) is a new web page that writes about retro games. But the difference is that this blog compares the games between the different computers like the C64, Amiga, MSX, NES, CPC, DOS, etc. The most recent comparisons are: Neptune’s Daughters, Henry’s House, Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker, City Connection, Unique Games! (4) and Leaderboard. Website: http://frgcb.blogspot.com
[youtube qk5wSM6sR4g nolink] GadgetUK164 made a video about the repair of an Amiga A500. The Amiga had multiple faults: Corrosion from coffee, damaged Fat Agnus socket, dirty disk drive, and faulty RAM. He also talks about the upgraded 8372A, and a switch for switching between 512KByte and 1MByte of Chip RAM. Website: https://www.youtube.com
Dopus5 is a Workbench clone for AmigaOS-based computer systems. The main feature of Dopus5 is the file manager functionality. The team behind Dopus5 has released a new version for AmigaOS4, MorphOS, AROS and the original AmigaOS3 platform. Website: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dopus5allamigas/
Paul Gardner-Stephen is working on an FPGA version of the Commodore C65. His goal is to make an 8-bit computer for the 21st century. The features of the C65 – FPGA will be: 1920×1200 @ 60Hz resolution, 256 colour palette from 4096 colours, 8 normal or enhanced sprites, faster CPU, 16MB RAM, multiple SID’s and more. Website: http://c65gs.blogspot.com.au
The MorphOS development team released version 3.5 of the MorphOS Software Development Kit (SDK). The changes are: LogTool only runs one multiple ramdebug sessions. Improved SDK indexing for Scribble and updated for OpenSSL and dependencies. Website: http://www.morphos-team.net
Leif Bloomquist released his game Vortex 2 for the testing phase. This game can use the internet to play against another person. In the game you can fly with your ship and shoot at the enemy, but nothing will happen at this stage in the development of the game. The game is auto-updating. You need an RR-Net or compatible cartridge…
The CGSC (Compute’s Gazette Sid Collection) has had an update. The COMPUTE!’s Sidplayer was a music system, created by Craig Chamberlain and Harry Bratt, for the Commodore 64. The aim of the Compute’s Gazette Sid Collection is to preserve as many of those Sidplayer music files in one location as possible. The current collection contains 13552 MUS, 4038 STR and…
Assist is a collection of information: All the content from the “Get the most out of your AMIGA” PDF guide, shortcuts and links. Assist helps with downloading and unpacking of software, plays YouTube videos and it has AmiUpdate support. Changes in this version: Many improvements to the download system including the Tuomas Hokka’s download tool. Improvements for Remove. Added the…
David Horrocks released a new version of his Hoxs64 emulator. The latest changes are: Resizable main window for windowed mode. Improvement for the Ultimax VIC fetch. Fixed an EasyFlash cartridge fault when loading a 4KB banked CRT file or state file. Website: http://www.hoxs64.net
Latest releases over at CSDb are as follows: Commando, Cooking Witch, Commando Arcade, Mayday! Intro, The Darkness Original Soundtrack, Darkipede +2, Darkipede +, Darkness +6DS, Darkness +6, Amazon 100% +5EF [pal/ntsc], Censor Design Logo “Zooscape”, 30 Years of Mom, Offence Intro, Gnom [norwegian], Scuba Dive HS &D, Bellringer III V1.5 +4HFD [pal/ntsc], Fantasy 1, The Item Is The Totem, Relaunch64…
