Tag: Amiga

The 68000 Wars

You have to read this! It is a two-part article telling the story about the Amiga, but also touching its main competitors: Atari and Apple Macintosh. At the beginning the article doesn’t start as I was expecting: The Amiga, especially in its original 1985 incarnation, was a terrible computer. The operating system that shipped with it was painfully buggy. If…

K&A Plus Issue #01

Neurocide contacted us to give us the heads up about a new English & Polish Commodore scene magazine called ‘K&A Plus’. This will be a quarterly magazine and currently contains 72 pages of fresh news, game reviews, an interview with Iranian C64 Community Contributor, and much more! Download the first issue below .. Download: K&A_Plus_01_EN.pdf, K&A_Plus_01_PL.pdfSource: Neurocide, CSDb

WinUAE 3.1.0 beta 15

WinUAE 3100b15 has been released. WinUAE is without a doubt the best Amiga emulation available to date and if used alongside Classic Workbench and WHDLoad you can get a really great Amiga hard drive experience like in the picture above. Download: winuae_3100b15.zipRelease Notes: http://eab.abime.netSource: http://www.winuae.net

WHDLoad Updates

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. The following installers have been added until 31-03-2015. 2015-03-31 improved: A.C.SYS (Joerg Belger) another access fault removed (Info,Image) 2015-03-30 new: Techtech (Sodan & Magician 42) done by StingRay (Info,Image) 2015-03-29 new: Gigademo 3 (Triangle & The Gang) done by StingRay (Info,Image) 2015-03-25 new: Megademo 2 – Illemmings…

FS-UAE 2.5.30dev

A new development version has been released. Changes in FS-UAE 2.5.30dev: Fixed ROM initialization of Cyberstorm PPC. Lowered default volume of floppy drive sounds. Updated emulation core from WinUAE 3100b14. Changes in FS-UAE Launcher 2.5.30dev: Fixed loading with variant UUID on command line. Added a basic WHDLoad settings page (tweak splash delay, show directory for WHDLoad.key file). Fixed loading of .fs-uae…

Amiga 500 – LEGO

Fbsarts made a LEGO version of the Commodore Amiga 500 computer. This mini Amiga 500 is in scale, with all the stuff in the right place: keys, disk drive and ports. The 3.5″ diskettes are available and you can open the top to check the motherboard. C64 Lego: https://ideas.lego.com/projects/82511Website: https://ideas.lego.com/projects/82519Source: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl

AMIcast #002

AMIcast is an English podcast about the world of Amiga. In this episode: An interview with Epsilon. Amiga NG, software and emulation. Music: Tidal and Illumination. The Mifilos web pages en 30 year Amiga in Amsterdam. Website: http://amicast.ppa.pl

Boingsworld #62

A new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: AmigaOS 4.1 FE / WinUAE, Hollywood 6 Epiphany + SDK, AmigaOS 4 Multicore, External Amiga-Floppy, From Bedroom to billions, USA: 30 Years Amiga, Wings Battlefield, Swamp Defense 2, Quartet, Petro, BMR, Boxx2, Jethunt Demo, Love Dungeon, Maxwell Mouse, Smurf Rescue and Parallel Worlds….

Amiga Games Inc. no longer distributing classic Amiga Games

According to Amiga-News website, since September 2012 Amiga Inc. and later on Amiga Games Inc. have been distributing classic Amiga games in Blackberry’s App Store. At the start of the project, “more then 300 titles” were promised, plans to support various mobile platforms were announced. By now, nearly all Amiga titles have been removed from the App Store: just a…

Potrace – AmigaOS 4

Potrace is a utility for tracing a bitmap, which means, transforming a bitmap into a smooth, scalable image. The input is a bitmap and the output is an PostScript file. Changes in this version are: Improved the processing of very large bitmaps. Made a few general improvements and removed small errors. The program is available for Amiga OS4, Linux and…