Tag: Amiga

Piracy, Police Raids and BBS’s – Beast from Quartex/RID Podcast

“Don’t copy that floppy”.  Those who followed this advice issued by the Software Publishers Association were certainly in the minority, and the supporting music video didn’t exactly help the cause.  Here in the UK it was the full page adverts from FAST (Federation Against Software Theft) who tried to scare us into binning any pirated software and grass up our…

Latest Amiga WHDLoad Updates

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. The following installers have been added up to 2018-04-26. 2018-04-26 improved: Amazing SpiderMan (Paragon/Oxford Digital/Empire) another version supported (Info,Image) 2018-04-25 improved: Crystal Hammer (reLINE) unlimited lives and reset hiscores added, dma wait patched, quitkey works on 68000 (Info) 2018-04-23 improved: Coala (Empire) copy protection screen completely skipped,…

Kickstarter success for Brian Bagnall’s new book, Commodore: The Final Years!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1462758959/commodore-the-final-years-book Brian Bagnall recently launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to secure funding for his new book, Commodore: The Final Years. This will be the third and final book in Bagnall’s Commodore trilogy (previous titles include Commodore: A Company on the Edge and Commodore: The Amiga Years), charting the computer giant’s golden years from 1987, starting with the launch of the Amiga…

Amiga Mania, Amiga Event Hosted by Retromania! (19th May, Gaia, Portugal)

We were contacted a couple of days ago by Ricardo from retromania.pt about an upcoming Amiga event called Amiga Mania. Today Ricardo has shared all the important details you will need if you decide to make an appearance there. Hi you guys, Retromania is preparing to hold an Amiga Party in Portugal in May. We are going to officially announce…

Bomb Jack Beer Edition For Amiga, Beta 5A Released!

Beta 5a of Graeme Cowie’s Bomb Jack Amiga remake, “Bomb Jack Beer Edition” has been released. For more information about the game, check through our older posts and the EAB thread link below. It’s been close to a couple of weeks since I last posted so I thought it best I provide a progress update and to let you know…

Latest Amiga WHDLoad Updates

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. The following installers have been added up to 2018-04-10. 2018-04-10 fixed: Dynamo (Code Masters) access fault fixed, ext. mem size increased to 512k, interrupts fixed, 68000 quitkey support, 3 blitter waits added (v2), built-in cheat can be enabled by pressing C (Info) 2018-04-09 improved: Elvira – Mistress…

RGDS Podcast In Association With CiA Presents DJ Yoda, A Fantastic New Amiga Music Disk!

Aaron White has sent over his latest chip-tunes music disk, titled “DJ Yoda”. The Amiga .adf file contains seven well known songs remixed by GETAFIX/CMAP. Another five track Amiga music disk will be out next month. Enjoy! ;-) 1. She Drives me Crazy 2. Barbie Girl 3. Get Into the Groove 4. Perfect 5. Human 6. Macarena 7. Another Day…

Inviyya Amiga Shoot’em Up Demo Released!

Early February I shared some News about an upcoming Amiga Shoot’em Up called Inviyya by Tigerskunk. A demo of the game was released for Revision 2018, which came 4th place. You can now download the demo for yourself and have a play. The game should run happily on an Amiga 500 OCS/ECS with at least 1 mb of RAM, Kickstart…

Saberman Teases Update Video of OPenFire For Amiga!

We often feature Saberman’s gameplay videos in our News posts. He’s very quick at finding new upcoming games and sharing the News with the community. Whilst doing my daily browse of his video collection, I came across a video of OpenFire, which is a work in progress game for the Amiga. OpenFire is by KaiN (Code), Selur and Softiron (GFX),…

Revision 2018 Amiga and Oldskool Demo Results

The results are in for Revision 2018 Amiga & Oldskool Demos. In first place for Amiga; The Fall by The Deadliners, Second place is Hexel by Ephidrena, and third place is Pt 2 Horizons by Unique. For Oldskool, first place goes to Fairlight & Censor Design with We come in Peace, (C64) second place PhX by Condense (Amstrad) and third…