WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. The following installers have been added until 19.02.2014. 2014-02-19 improved: Enemy 2 – Missing in Action (Anachronia) access fault occuring in later levels fixed (Info,Image) 2014-02-16 improved: Oil Imperium (reLINE) supports another version, memory leak fixed, uses less memory (Info) 2014-02-16 updated: Monster Business (Eclipse) reworked, RawDIC…
For the PC it is possible to replace the old disk drive with an emulator that uses a USB memory stick. Sadly this doesn’t work for the Amiga, because the Amiga uses it’s own format for diskettes. But now you can replace the firmware of the disk drive emulator and use it on the Amiga. Website: http://cortexamigafloppydrive.wordpress.comSource: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl
[youtube 3EO6lEjP7_Y nolink] Jan Derogee has made a video where he demonstrates video on the PET / CBM computers. In his demonstration he uses a CBM 3032 and the Cassiopei. The data for the animation is loaded from the Cassiopei and transformed to PETSCII. The frame rate of the video is about 12 frames/sec. Another video demonstration on the CBM…
Jeroen Vlasveld released a new tool called Nibconvert. The tool is a graphical frontend for nibconv. Nibconv is part of the nibtools and makes it possible to convert .nib files to .g64 images. If you want to use Nibconvert you will need nibtools and the Dot Net framework 4.0 from Microsoft. Download: CSDbSource: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl
Igorski started a new project that is called WebSID. With a modern browser you can now play the SID on-line. This virtual Commodore 64 is equipped with twin double octave keyboards, but note that the upper one plays arpeggiated chords. These are the limitations of the original C64, which gave it that characteristic sound. Website: http://www.igorski.nl
The game Saboteur is developed for computers with at least 48 KByte of RAM. But Luca of the FIRE crew took on the challenge to make the game available for the Commodore 16. He had to drop a few features but you can now play the game on the C16 and a trainer is included. Download: saboteur_c16_+2j.prgWebsite: http://plus4world.powweb.com
Mini-Mag is a German diskette magazine. In this edition: Editorial, Forum, Interview with Dirk Gubrush, Rally Speedway Competition, ABBUC, Charts, Reviews of Nibbly 92 and Lucas Arts, Chameleon and a manual for Rally Speedway Editor. Download: Mini Mag #08 – Februar 2014Website: http://www.c64.at
[youtube 2i9jweIPPO8 nolink] A new version of AROS Vision is now available. AROS is based on concepts and ideas of the Amiga and the 68000 processor. AROS supports X86, ARM, PPC and 68k. New in this version: Wildfire 7, AMOS Professional and the Games Master System. Website: http://www.aros-platform.de
The Polish magazine Commodore and Amiga Fan released another games edition. In this pdf magazine the following articles: News, Downfall, The hits of the C64 in comparison with the Amiga, Night Raid, Golden Axe, Rush, Sgt. Helmet Zero, Inception multi-port joystick, Balloon Rescue, Dodo’s Deep Doo-Doo, Ścigałki C64, Battle Throne, Paths of Secrets – We made too late, Atari vs…
Double or Nothing is a new game for the Commodore 64. The program is written by Antifan and Chris Yates, graphics by Alf Yngve and the music is by PRI (Oxyron) and Richard (The New Dimension). In this game you must fight aliens and robots. But which world are you really in? Play the game to find out ;) Download: Double_or_Nothing.d64Website:…
