Tag: Aminet
El Capitán Trueno (also known as Captain Thunder) is the hero of a series of Spanish comic books, created in 1956 by the writer Víctor Mora and illustrated mainly by Miguel Ambrosio Zaragoza (Ambrós). The comics were published continuously between 1956 and 1968, with Trueno eventually becoming the most popular Spanish hero comic of all time: at its height it…
Amitopia has published a nice article revealing that the Amiga sound chip was already capable of play high-quality 14bit sound back in 1985. At the time, the limit was the 68000 that couldn’t get the machine to play raw 14bit wave files. Not sure if that is common knowledge but it is a surprise to me, just proving how advanced…
ADF-Blitzer 3 is a complete overhaul of the excellent ADF-Blitzer. New features and fixes include: Progress bar and cancel button, Multi-disk writing, Reworked GUI to fix some minor issues, Low memory mode (no need to load entire ADF into memory), so works on 1MB Amigas now, Proper error checking for opening files, drives etc. Fast RAM is no longer required Changes in this Version…
Obligement Amiga website has published an extensive interview with Christoph Gutjahr, one of the guys behind Aminet and Amiga-News.de, two of the most important websites about the Amiga. The interview is fascinating, showing the site’s importance, the work needed to keep them running and other interesting information. I found the interview even more interesting due to the fact I face a lot of the…
The Obligement Amiga website published the results of its pool which let you chose the best Amiga games of 2015. The list below shows the 3 first places of each category and the link will take you to a gameplay video (or info page), in case you haven’t seen them before! AmigaOS (68k): Zerosphere – Code Red / Alexander Grupe SQRXZ 3 –…
After reading the issue 1, I was really wishing that Brian Hedley would continue to publish the magazine. Since we are in the holiday season, my wishes were granted! He just made available the second issue! With the usual sections for News and Reviews, the magazine also brings two featured articles: “What is in your Christmas List?” and “Where has…
Xenopew is a new horizontal shoot-em-up by Lemming880 made in Backbone. Backbone is a game creation kit for AmigaOS 3.x which is fully GUI-based, there’s no programming or scripting required to make your very own games, similar to, but much more powerful than SEUCK. With Backbone you can create platformers and run & guns like Ruff & Tumble or Superfrog,…