Tag: cloanto

TheC64 – Full-size model with a working keyboard can be in your hands in December 2019!

Retro Games Ltd has just announced that the full-size TheC64 will be available next December 2019 and can be already pre-ordered from selected retailers for £109.99. This time around, TheC64 is a fully featured home computer featuring our beloved bread bin form factor, but prepared for the 21st century, including HDMI output compatible with PAL and NTSC. TheC64 features three…

Amiga trademark legal battle escalates

Amiga-news.de website has published a short note about the development of the Amiga trademark battle that has been happening for some time now. This time, Hyperion is suing Amiga Inc., Itec, and Cloanto. Since the documents are not publicly available yet, it is not possible to know what Hyperion is claiming. The only information is about the defendants: Amiga, Inc….

Are You Keeping Up With TheC64? 12 Days Until Release! The8BitGuy Announces Upcoming Video!

Yes that’s right folks! TheC64 Mini is very close to release, with only 12 days to go! YouTuber The8BitGuy, managed to snag one of these before release date. He announced on Facebook yesterday, that he will be uploading a video with details about everything you need to know about TheC64. So all your questions you have been asking like, ‘Does…

Everybody is after the “Amiga” trademark

Amiga-News website has published more news about the Amiga trademark dispute that is happening in the US and Europe. It looks like many parties are trying to be the new “Amiga” trademark owner since its registration had expired a while ago. Known names like Cloanto and Hyperion are trying to get their hands on it, as well as some other parties….

Cloanto releases Amiga Forever 7 and C64 Forever 7

Cloanto has announced the immediate availability of its two emulation solutions for Amiga and C64: Amiga and C64 Forever 7. After 18 months of development since its previous release (Amiga, C64 Forever 2016), the change list is extensive with highlights in the input devices area, which includes new controllers support, left-handed support, configurable autofire (also with separate fire) and merging of multiple…

New episode of AMIcast brings interview with Cloanto's Mike Battilana

Amicast has a 2-hour long interview with Mike Battilana, who is well known by the Amiga community from his Amiga and C64 Forever projects, but he is actually a seasoned Amiga developer since Commodore machines weren’t retro! From the podcast announcement post: “We talk with Mike, his company, and the years before and after the Commodore bankruptcy. We then chat…

Amiga emulator WinUAE 3.3.0 Preview

To English Amiga Board forum users have been busy discussing and testing the upcoming release of WinUAE, the version 3.3.0. This new version will focus on AmigaOS 4-specific features. New features: New optional “indirect” UAE expansion trap system, fully compatible with OS4.x, virtual memory and some debugging programs. PC Bridgeboard disk drive raw image support. (ipf, ext adf,…) Monochrome video out…

Amiga Games Award 2015 – And the winner is…

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 –…

880 Gamer Issue #8 – Amiga PDF Magazine

880 Gamer is a English pdf magazine for the Amiga user focused on games. This issue brings several interesting articles and reviews including Game On!: Cartoon Classics Pack, Tearaway Thomas, Belial, Fears, Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge and Star Wars. If having great articles wasn’t enough, the magazine download file also includes an ADF file containing Lotus III and tearaway Thomas. Link:…

ADTWin 1.3 – Transfer Amiga ADF file to real disks

ADTWin is a free tool for writing Amiga disks from a PC. It requires a Windows PC with a parallel port and a floppy disk drive that is connected to the PC’s parallel port by a self-made cable. The disk content has to be provided in form of an Amiga Disk File. Only the original double-density Amiga disk format (for 880kB disks) is…