Tag: News

Crystal Chip Collector – Fast Puzzle Platformer Action!

Crystal Chip Collector is a fast puzzle platformer where the goal is to “optimize” a computer full of redundant parts. Taking place within a crammed and hopelessly messy computer, the game follows a good spirit in his fight for restoring balance. Includes five polarity based worlds (ten levels each) plus a tutorial. Each room usually has an “optimal” solution but…

Spectrum Scramble Clone 'EXPLORER' Released!

Arcade and Speccy fans, we have a real treat for you today! EXPLORER is a new Scramble clone for the ZX Spectrum computer. Originally coded in basic in 1989, Luca Bordoni decided to revamp his code using an assembly routine, a new font set and some other small improvements. If you don’t remember or have never played the original version…

Commodore Amiga Running for 30 years non-stop Controlling Schools Heat and A/C Sytems

I saw this link on Google+ today and I was happily surprised about what I read. There is an Amiga 2000 running day and night for 30 years with the responsibility to control nineteen schools’ air conditioning system in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The system, written by a high school student back then, controls the start/stop of boilers, the start/stop of…

JAWS: The Text Adventure – ZX Spectrum

Inspired by Steven Spielberg’s movie “Jaws”, indie developer Matt Round created an awesome browser game in HTML5, intended to imitate the style of a classic ZX-Spectrum text adventure in Sinclair BASIC. As a “homage” to his original work, Einar Saukas decided to port it for real to the ZX-Spectrum, using only Sinclair BASIC statements to ensure a 100% authentic feeling….

Ultima IV Remastered V2.2.1 – Commodore 64

Released by: Genesis Project [web]Release Date: 29 May 2015Changelog: Fixed graphics corruption and potential crash during ending. Download: U4Remastered-2.2.1.zipMap: UltimaIVmap.jpgWebsite: CSDb

Printed magazine: Retro Planet, issue 8 (Greek)

The Greek printed magazine “Retro Planet” has 52 coloured pages and is quarterly published. The eighth issue includes an interview with Pascal Papara. News Source: http://www.amiga-news.deWebsite: http://www.retroplanet.gr

New Amiga Demos!

The scene portal pouet.net has been adding a lot of new Amiga demos during the last months: COPPERrulez.AGAin (AGA) (demo) Impassioned by Onslaught (OCS) (demo) abrels nagima by Fit (OCS) (demo) Assembly <3 Amiga by Dekadence (OCS) (invitation) Hello Boing by ALLien Senses (OCS) (4k) WinUAE Demo Toolchain 5 by Lemon (OCS/AGA) (demotool) RSM 2k15 by Pacific (OCS) (32k) HODOR…

Batman: The Ride POV at Six Flags Fiesta Texas

Are you the type of person who loves Roller Coasters? Well if you haven’t already it’s time to head over to Six Flags Fiesta Texas, where they have the ultimate adrenalin boost for all you ‘coaster fans out there! Batman: The Ride is a world class 4D Free Fly Coaster that thrusts you into a totally immersive, high-speed Gotham City…

Latest Amiga WHDLoad Updates

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. The following installers have been added until 01-06-2015. 2015-06-01 improved: Lorna (Topo Soft) supports another disk version (Info) 2015-05-21 new: The 100 Most Remembered C64 Game-Tunes (Per Håkan Sundell & Ron Birk) done by StingRay (Info,Image) News Source: http://www.whdload.de

3D Printed Parts for Commodore 64 and Amiga Computers

Tommes is printing new parts for Commodore 64 and Amiga computers. A few Examples are: Expansion Slot Cover for the Amiga 1000, Interlock Knobs for the SX-64, Commodore Monitor 1901 cover, F-Keys for C64C, etc. Website: http://www.shapeways.com/shops/Pixelwizard