Hires Color 8

Erich/Unlimited has released a new picture diskette called Hires Color 8. You will find 32 images on the two disk-sides, and all images use the hi-res graphics mode. The picture show is made with the Magica program. Download: hires_color_8.zipWebsite: http://plus4world.powweb.com

Vampire 600

Mfilos tested the new Vampire 600 FPGA accelerator for the Amiga 600. The Vampire 600 is developed by Majsta and has recently become available. On mfilos blog you can read about installing and configuring the new accelerator. Website: http://www.mfilos.com

TND News Updates

Latest news updates over at The New Dimension are as follows: Roberto Ricioppo brings TND some more of his games. Not one, two, three, but 12 of them! Alphabet Crazy, Battle in the 4th System, Cubotter, FORM3000, Highway II, Knife Crazy, Last Super Ship of Xerox, Nagasyan, Superball 2, Tractors, The Wind and Zik the Ant 4. Candle Burner Updated Didi/Laxity…

Rambo, First Blood Part II, Commodore 64 Review By Rob Joy

“The average age of the combat soldier in Vietnam was 19.” Not the case here! John Rambo, a green beret special forces combat veteran, you!! After landing several menial jobs and drifting from one place to another, the gratitude and memory of your services to your country are long forgotten, or at least you thought they were until contact is established…

Raid over Moscow, Commodore 64 Review By Rob Joy

“Welcome to Mother Russia comrade!” At a time when tensions between super powers were at an all time high, at a time when the chill of ‘cold war’ penetrated the hearts of nations, there can be only one ending and no victories. The threat of global nuclear warfare was rife in the mid 80’s as the west and east entered…

Paradroid, Commodore 64 Review By Rob Joy

Anyone remember “Hewson Consultants”? Allow me to elaborate. During the 80’s many companies producing games rose and fell amidst the great competition at the time. We know certain software houses were responsible for some epic titles, however few were as slick as the productions of ‘Hewson’. The game under the looking glass here is ‘Paradroid’ for the Commodore 64. As…

WHDLoad Updates

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. The following installers have been added until 07.01.2014. 2014-01-07 new: Enemy 2 – Missing in Action (Anachronia) done by Wepl (Info,Image) 2014-01-06 new: Pharaohs Match (Arcadia Systems) done by Don Adan (Info) 2014-01-06 new: Delta Command (Arcadia Systems) done by Don Adan (Info) 2014-01-06 new: Blastaball (Mastertronic)…

LAG 37 Meeting

LAG meeting 37 will be held on Saturday the 1st of March 2014 from 11:AM – 4:PM in the Welton Village Hall, Welton-by-Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. About Lincs Amiga User Group aka “LAG”. See http://lincsamiga.org.uk/wordpress/index.php/about/ For location see http://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/popiOrgVenue.asp?vid=64 GoogleMaps Post Code LN2 3LU,GB There is a bus stop outside which the buses from -to Lincoln use. Cost will be approx…

WinUAE 2.7.1 beta 1

2.7.1 (or possibly higher) beta series. Lots of A500 cycle-exact improvements and chipset corner cases fixed. (Thanks to amilo3438 for collecting huge amounts of demo test cases) Huge changelog, mostly technical stuff. – Setting blitter channel mode to D only from D + any other channel(s) combination when blitter was active caused blitter emulation to repeat D write until BLTSIZE…

CSDb Latest Releases

Latest releases over at CSDb are as follows: Wer ist Paula?, Countess of Boob, Tetris (DaCapo) +1H, HT Gold, Happy BeerMass, Tetris (Atari arcade conversion), Audience Intro, Radio6581, Rent-a-Cop Reloaded Preview, 7dshoot preview +1, The Search for Santa Clues, Time is ticking!, Engine-sound, Knights & Demons, Crockett’s Theme (New Year’s Eve Edition), A Mayday’s Night, Aase’s Death, Helikopter Jagd 101%…