Amiga Forum is a Swedish (printed) magazine for the Amiga user. In this edition: Rivalry between Amiga OS 4 and MorphOS. Review: UFO - Enemy Unknown. Interview: Henry Erngren Ohlén. News: SAPPHIRE, MorphOS Nordic and SEUCK. Novell, TRSAC, The Making of The Insider, the short story and SEUCK games.
2013-12-20 - 17:06:00 - Week: 51 - Item number: 3204 - Category: Amiga, Magazine
Sidplay64 is a program that can playback .SID files from the HVSC collection on a real Commodore 64/128. Changes in this version: F7 key for pause / continue. Improved random function. 1541U2 software IEC mode support. Configure and clear registers for 2nd SID chip. And select your skin colour with keys 1-9.
2013-12-20 - 17:04:00 - Week: 51 - Item number: 3203 - Category: C64, Program
A new version of the Commodore VIC-20 Gamebase is now available. In this package you will find: Gamebase front-end, Games, Screen-shots, Extras and the VICE emulator. This version has 1485 games, 1993 screen-shot, 166 cartridges, 1136 scans, 127 manuals and 727 .tap files.
2013-12-20 - 17:02:00 - Week: 51 - Item number: 3202 - Category: VIC-20, Game
Return magazine is a German print magazine about the 8-bit computers from A (Atari) to Z (ZX Spectrum). In this edition: Ghost Town, Inversion (NES), Bomberland (C64), HeliCops (Atari), Pixelkunst, Multijoy, The Golden Age of Video Gaming, Atari, Activision, C64 Music, 8 Bit?, Raspberry Pi, Classic Computing Berlin, Flipper- and Arcade museum Seligenstadt, Galaga, News from the retro-scene.
2013-12-20 - 17:00:00 - Week: 51 - Item number: 3201 - Category: Commodore, Magazine
A new version of WinUAE is now available. Changes in this version: SCSI tape drive emulation, A2065 emulation, improved 68020 emulation, new field based interlace options, cycle-exact CIA TOD counter, solved problems with the XBox 360 pad, RTG mode video recording, lzx decompressor, CD CUE file parsing and much more.
2013-12-13 - 17:26:00 - Week: 50 - Item number: 3200 - Category: Amiga, Emulator
Retro Invaderss made a calendar for 2014. This year the calendar theme is Commodore C64 SEUCK games. The games on the calendar are: Strike Team Delta, Cobra Mission, Laser Hawk, AquaVile, Renovator, Sheer Earth Attack, Verde, Synetic, Twin Tigers, House Case, Stormbird and Alien TaskForce. You can download the pdf and print it out. There are English and Spanish versions available.
2013-12-13 - 17:24:00 - Week: 50 - Item number: 3199 - Category: Commodore, Web page
WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Paradise Lost (Silicon Twins), WHDLoad V17.2, Wild (Anadune & Nah-Kolor), Optical Dreams (Addict), Aloha (Rebels), Our Definition of a Boombastic Demo Style (Rebels), Spaced Out Vol. 2 (Magnetic Fields), Spaced Out Vol. 1 (Magnetic Fields), Sound Atax Vol. 3 (Magnetic Fields), Chip Music Festival (Magnetic Fields) and Sound Atax Vol. 2 (Magnetic Fields). Improved: Hybris (Discovery Software), Elf (Ocean), Demo Disk (Quest), Wicked (Electric Dreams/Binary Vision) and Kick Off (ANCO).
2013-12-13 - 17:22:00 - Week: 50 - Item number: 3198 - Category: Amiga, Game
View64 can be used to view native C64 image files without using an emulator or a real C64. The features of this program are: Open source, Supports of many image formats (70+), PAL/NTSC S-Video and RGB rendering, Scanline, shadow mask, chroma leakage simulation, Multicolor interlace de-interlacing and image saving to BMP.
2013-12-13 - 17:20:00 - Week: 50 - Item number: 3197 - Category: C64, Program
The web page Eurogamer.net had an interview with Jon Hare (Sensible Software). In this interview Jon tells about the development of Cannon Fodder. The original concept of Cannon Fodder was a Rambo style game with a troop element. But at Sensible software they did not make a complete plan before the game development was started. Many of the elements were added when they were making the game. You can read all the details about Cannon Fodder in the interview.
2013-12-13 - 17:18:00 - Week: 50 - Item number: 3196 - Category: Amiga, Interview
Elbox Computer will release the TurboFlyer 530 in the next year. The TurboFlyer 530 is a new 68030-based accelerator with integrated FastATA CF/SATA controller for Amiga 500/500+ and A2000 computers. Features: 68030 processor (with MMU) @ 40MHz, 16MB fast 32-bit DRAM. Visit the Elbox web page for more details.
2013-12-13 - 17:16:00 - Week: 50 - Item number: 3195 - Category: Amiga, Hardware
A new version of the Windows based D64 editor is now available. The features of this program are: Reading of D64 files, display the directory, move files around the directory and rename files. Export from D64 to PRG. View/Edit the BAM and the data blocks. New in this version: Export the directory listing to a TXT file. Added save and discard buttons to the file properties screen.
2013-12-13 - 17:14:00 - Week: 50 - Item number: 3194 - Category: Commodore, Program
The ACA500 turbo card from Individual Computers will be available at the end of this year. The ACA is connected to the expansion port of the Amiga 500. The features of the new product are: 68EC000-10 CPU @ 14 MHz, 2 MB RAM, two CF-card connectors, compatible with internal memory expansions, expansion port, clock port, Kickstart 1.3 and 3.1 ROMs and the ACA500 is WHDload compatible.
2013-12-13 - 17:12:00 - Week: 50 - Item number: 3193 - Category: Amiga, Hardware
Keith Green made an online viewer for D64 files. Keith got his idea for this viewer when he visited the Kryoflux web page. You can now drag and drop your D64 files into the viewer and it will generate a visualization of the disk. For the next year he has planned to make an G64 viewer.
2013-12-13 - 17:10:00 - Week: 50 - Item number: 3192 - Category: Commodore, Program
Oricutron (formerly known as Oriculator) is an emulator for the Oric series of computers. This emulator is available for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, MacOS and Windows. Changes in this version: Improvements for scan lines, full screen options and the Pravetz 8D ROM. Disk and tape image auto detection, auto run for Jasmin and Pravetz diskettes, various AY emulation improvements and simplified the system timing.
2013-12-13 - 17:08:00 - Week: 50 - Item number: 3191 - Category: Amiga, Emulator
RetroWiki is an Spanish pdf Retro Computer Magazine. In this edition the following articles: ELAN Enterprise, 25 years Sega Megadrive, Interviews: Amigamers and Jim Bagley, Jurassic Park, TECMO, Arcade experience in a C64, SID sound, Power Supplies, BASIC: the DATA statement and SEGA conversions.
2013-12-13 - 17:06:00 - Week: 50 - Item number: 3190 - Category: Commodore, Magazine
Bloboats is a new game for AROS. The original game is made by Markus Kettunen and is a boat racing game. In the game you must reach the MS Enterprise as fast as possible to save it from the tentacles of a terrible monster. You start somewhere in the United States, and your destination is Helsinki.
2013-12-13 - 17:04:00 - Week: 50 - Item number: 3189 - Category: Amiga, Game
In this (English language) pod-cast the following items: Chris Huelsbeck: Giana Sisters, Build your own Pocket SID Audio Player, Wireless Motion-Sensing Gaming Glove for the Commodore 64, How use a Raspberry PI as an Amiga Floppy Drive Emulator and much more.
2013-12-13 - 17:02:00 - Week: 50 - Item number: 3188 - Category: Commodore, Magazine
SketchBlock is a drawing program for AmigaOS made by Andy Broad. The aim of this project is to create a sophisticated application for digital painting. Changes in this version: It is now possible to make a lists of colours (palettes). Poster transformation. A script for making circles. Improvements to the menus and removed some small errors.
2013-12-13 - 17:00:00 - Week: 50 - Item number: 3187 - Category: Amiga, Program
Richard Janicek made it possible to use the VICE emulator online. This emulator makes use of JavaScript and needs a modern browser such as Firefox 28 or Chrome 33. For the future Richard has planned: joystick and gamepad support, adding another computer (VIC-20) and making this emulator work with IE.
2013-12-06 - 17:28:00 - Week: 49 - Item number: 3186 - Category: Commodore, Emulator
Amedia Computer has now a new keyboard for sale. This keyboard has all the keys that are on the Amiga computers. The logos on the keys not sticker but printed on the keys. The keyboard is connected with USB and is available in black or white and as QWERTY or AZERTY.
2013-12-06 - 17:26:00 - Week: 49 - Item number: 3185 - Category: Amiga, Hardware
C64 Studio is a assembly development environment which is dependent on VICE. You can write assembly code and test this with the VICE emulator. Recent changes: Added: Tile map editor, Ignore warnings and modifiable constants. Improvements for PDS and DASM support, overlapping segments, breakpoints and the find/replace function.
2013-12-06 - 17:24:00 - Week: 49 - Item number: 3184 - Category: C64, Program
A new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: Petro Tyschtschenko, Virtual Dimension Retroplay, RoadShow 1.11, Battle Squadron AmigaOS4, Bounty OWB, Viva Amiga, Minimig Case, No Amiga versie of Putty Squad?, Alchimie X, Game DVD1 AmigaOS 4, Z3SDRAM, Classic Computer, Hardware-Retrocomputing (5), Peter Sieg, Atari Jaguar and the Amiga CD32.
2013-12-06 - 17:22:00 - Week: 49 - Item number: 3183 - Category: Amiga, Magazine
Bolder Dan is a new game for the Commodore VIC-20 made by Misfit. The game is based on the classic game of Boulderdash. For the game you need an unexpanded VIC-20 (PAL), a disk drive and a joystick. The game is developed with the help of cc65 and CBM prg Studio.
2013-12-06 - 17:20:00 - Week: 49 - Item number: 3182 - Category: VIC-20, Game
Plipbox is an device that allows to connect Amiga's via Ethernet to your local network. The device uses a an Arduino and connects to the parallel port. Changes in this version: Automatic MAC address. Automatic connection to Ethernet module. Improved parallel line protocol. Added: Full duplex Ethernet, flow control and an error log system.
2013-12-06 - 17:18:00 - Week: 49 - Item number: 3181 - Category: Amiga, Hardware
Fastboy is a new game for the Commodore VIC-20, made by Misfit. The game was made for the LudumDare 48h competition. In this competition you have only 48 hours to make a complete game. For the game you need an unexpanded VIC-20 (PAL), a disk drive and a joystick.
2013-12-06 - 17:16:00 - Week: 49 - Item number: 3180 - Category: VIC-20, Game
Hayesduino is device with an Arduino micro-controller that is a bridge between the Internet and small devices, such as the Commodore 64, Apple II and the Atari 800. The Hayesduino emulates a Hayes compatible modem. One of the applications of this device could be BBS (Bulletin Board System).
2013-12-06 - 17:14:00 - Week: 49 - Item number: 3179 - Category: Commodore, Hardware
The NST's Monitor Extension is an extension for the internal Plus/4 software. Features: More functions for TEDMON. The use of "illegal codes". Scroll screen in both directions. Disk drive memory editing. Disk block editing. Clear memory function and much more. On the web page for The NST's Monitor Extension you can read more about this system.
2013-12-06 - 17:12:00 - Week: 49 - Item number: 3178 - Category: C16, C116, Plus/4, Program
Assist is a collection of information: All the content from the "Get the most out of your AMIGA" PDF guide, shortcuts and links. Assist helps with downloading and unpacking of software, plays YouTube videos and it has AmiUpdate support. Changes in this version: Added a web search button, Assistants for Workbench and new articles. More options for gadgets and more ARexx commands.
2013-12-06 - 17:10:00 - Week: 49 - Item number: 3177 - Category: Amiga, Program
The games that are competing in the RGCD 16KB Cartridge Competition 2013 are: Bellringer III (Geir Straume & Sean Connolly), Candle Burner 1.1 (Dirk Schmitt), Cosmic Ark (Max Hall), Devil Ronin (Georg Rottensteiner), Invert (Richard Bayliss), Kobo64 (Kajtár Zsolt), Linus Vs Simon (Simon Quernhorst), Magic Duel (Jörn Ruchmann), Micro Hexagon (Paul Koller & Mikkel Hastrup), Monster Buster (p1x3l.net)
Powerglove (Matthias Bock), Revenge Of The Tomato (Richard Bayliss), Rocket Smash (John Christian Lønningdal & Saul Cross), S-Blox (Payton Byrd) and Vallation (Jason Kelk & Sean Connolly).
2013-12-06 - 17:08:00 - Week: 49 - Item number: 3176 - Category: C64, Competition
Phvic is developing a flash memory expansion for the Commodore VIC-20. The following features are planned: The VIC will see the flash memory as a ROM. Auto booting from the flash memory. A micro-controller will control the memory and the expansion port. At the moment the device is still in development. You can follow the progress on the Denial forum.
2013-12-06 - 17:06:00 - Week: 49 - Item number: 3175 - Category: VIC-20, Hardware
In this English pdf and html magazine about the retro gaming computers the following articles: The Gift Of Giving, Ladybugs & Joysticks, Holiday Catalog, Des Gamer, Apple II Incider - Computer Gaming World, Starting A Podcast - Lessons From A Clueless Hopeful, Turn To Channel 3 - Saturday Night Slam Masters, Saturday At The Arcades - WWF Superstars, Know Your Role - 7th Saga, MAME Reviews - Freeze, Gaming Studies With The Tomy Tutor - Cave Crawlers and The Pixelated Mage - NES Review.
2013-12-06 - 17:04:00 - Week: 49 - Item number: 3174 - Category: Commodore, Magazine
The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: Adidas Champ. Football (Ocean), Baal (Psyclapse), Bangers and Mash (Alternative Software), Call Me Psycho (Pirate Software), Dark Castle (CP Mirrorsoft), Felix (Elite), Game Over 2 (Dinamic), Motocross (Codemasters), Mean Streak (Mirrorsoft), Ninja Master (Firebird), On The Farm 3 (Achin Volkers), Parsec (CP Verlag), Para Academy (Zeppelin Games), Raging Beast - Ole! (Firebird / Jawx), Storm (Mastertronic), Space Harrier II (Grandslam), Scumball (Mastertronic), Scramble Spirits (Grandslam), Saboteur 2 (Durell Software) and Task III (Databyte).
2013-12-06 - 17:02:00 - Week: 49 - Item number: 3173 - Category: C64, Game
Steve Gray is working on a project to build various Editor ROMs for the Commodore PET/CBM computer models. The Editor ROM is responsible for all video initialization, screen output, keyboard input, full-screen editor and IRQ handling. You can read more about this project on Steve's web page.
2013-12-06 - 17:00:00 - Week: 49 - Item number: 3172 - Category: KIM-1, PET, CBM, Hardware
The Amiga Drive is a replacement for the disk drive in the Amiga. This device is developed by Maurizo Ramondo and uses an Raspberry Pi mini computer and a small interface. Maurizo has written a program for the Raspberry Pi that will emulate the disk drive. The Amiga diskette images are placed on the SD card. You can read all the details on the web page of Maurizo.
2013-11-29 - 17:18:00 - Week: 48 - Item number: 3171 - Category: Amiga, Hardware
On the web page cbm8bit.com you can now edit an diskette image. After you have uploaded an .d64 .d71 .d80 .d81 or .d82 diskette image you can do the following: Reading the directory. Upload files to your diskette image. Delete files from your diskette image. Download files from within your diskette image. Save your diskette image.
2013-11-29 - 17:16:00 - Week: 48 - Item number: 3170 - Category: Commodore, Program
X-bEnCh can be used to replace the Workbench when you only want to load games with WHDLoad. You can use X-BENCH with all Amiga's, OCS or AGA and with 68000 to 68060 CPU's. Changes in this version: Improvements for Xinit and Xsetup. This version will end the Beta status of X-bEnCh, and is the first stable version.
2013-11-29 - 17:14:00 - Week: 48 - Item number: 3169 - Category: Amiga, Hardware
The web page c64Intros has updated there database and have added 25 new intros. A few examples of groups with new or updated intros are: Alpha Flight 1970, Avatar, The Force, Genesis Project, Hokuto Force, Laxity, Nostalgia, Onslaught, Raw Deal Incorporated and Trance.
2013-11-29 - 17:12:00 - Week: 48 - Item number: 3168 - Category: C64, Demo
Sqrxz 2 is now also available for Amiga OS4. Changes in this version: All enhancements from Sqrxz 3 are included. Improvements for frame skipping, sound effects and saving of the configuration. Sqrxz is also available for Playstation Portable, NetBSD, RaspberryPi, MorphOS, Linux and Windows.
2013-11-29 - 17:10:00 - Week: 48 - Item number: 3167 - Category: Amiga, Game
Tunnel is a new game for the Commodore VIC20, made by Andrea Gasparrini. The game is written in Basic. You will need an 8 kByte RAM memory expansion to play the game. You can download the game from Andrea's web page.
2013-11-29 - 17:08:00 - Week: 48 - Item number: 3166 - Category: VIC-20, Game
SnapIT is a powerful and simple to use screen grabber for AmigaOS4. Changes in this version: Updated JPEG/PNG save routines. New icon set from Thomas Blatt. Italian translation by Samir Hawamdeh and added support for a key file. SnapIT is also available for AROS and MorphOS.
2013-11-29 - 17:06:00 - Week: 48 - Item number: 3165 - Category: Amiga, Program
Bil Herd tells a story about the introduction of the Commodore C128 on the Consumer Electronics Show. The CES is one of the most important expositions for new computer hardware. The team from Commodore had many problems with the C128, but with a few tricks and hard work they managed to demonstrate the C128 to the public.
2013-11-29 - 17:04:00 - Week: 48 - Item number: 3164 - Category: C128(D), Hardware
The results of the 1991 party are published. Amiga demo: Subi's 1991 Mix, Magic happens in 1991, Ricktro/Mellow. C64 demo: 1991, Panda power! PC/Wild: WOOP WOOP!, 1991 donut, BBS intro. Graphics: Plan B, Dakmannen, Stilleven. Music: Dirty new foot, African Smile, Fannypack. ASCII/PETSCII: 1991, Desire neon-frame. You can read all the details on the 1991 party web page.
2013-11-29 - 17:02:00 - Week: 48 - Item number: 3163 - Category: Commodore, Event
AmiMag is a French pdf magazine for the Amiga user. In this edition: News, The Time Machine, Pub Micronik, CD-32, Amiga emulation, WB install, Pin-Up, Videopac, Icons, HDD, Pitfall, GBS-8200, What are they now, Record T07, Viscorp, Labo Amos, DemoMania, Napalm, SOFB II and ExtraAmiMag.
2013-11-29 - 17:00:00 - Week: 48 - Item number: 3162 - Category: Amiga, Magazine
A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, E-Cover Tape, Retro Planet, Arc64, C&A Games, David Whittaker, Retr0sbiancante, Cassiopei, C64 Studio, Submarine Rescue, Windows 105, Mssiah / sd2uiec, Commodore / Lego, Jim Drew, SuperCard Pro, C64 80 Column, Hoxs64, Pitfall, C16 Newsstand, Tree Some, C+4Hires, Bed Games, Tim Jenison, AmigaOS SDK, syaSokoban, WHDLoad and Scott Hunter.
2013-11-22 - 17:18:00 - Week: 47 - Item number: 3161 - Category: Commodore, Magazine
Scriba is a simple word processor for MorphOS, developed by Carsten Siegner. Changes in this version: The text in a table can now include hyperlinks. Table can be saved as: HTML, CSV, ODS or XMLSS. And now you can generate webpages including lists, tables, background, pictures links and text.
2013-11-22 - 17:16:00 - Week: 47 - Item number: 3160 - Category: Amiga, Program
An new core is available for the Chameleon. Changes in this core: Improvements for the Funplay, C64GS and Easyflash cartridge, POT X/Y, VIC-II emulation and SDRAM. Removed errors in Rename, hex and text viewers, loading crt files of type 5, insert & clr/home and the SD-card file system. You can download the new core from the Chameleon Wiki page.
2013-11-22 - 17:14:00 - Week: 47 - Item number: 3159 - Category: C64, Hardware
Amiga mixer is a program for the Amiga that can control you audio. It supports many soundcards: SBLive/SBAudigy, FM801, Envy24HT, Solo-1 and many others. Changes in this version: Re-enabled AHI open/close. Removed the serial debug output. Improvements for the fader, save options and docky.
2013-11-22 - 17:12:00 - Week: 47 - Item number: 3158 - Category: Amiga, Program
Hi65 is a high-level Commodore 65, BASIC 10 emulator. The Commodore 65 is an proto type 8-bit computer with an 4510 CPU (3.54 MHz), 256 colour graphics and 8 MB of RAM. This emulator does not emulate the whole C65, but it will run programs that are written in BASIC. Changes in this version: Improved the configuration system. Rewritten the PRINT function. Better precision for non-integers. You can now write and modify your BASIC 10 programs directly in the emulator.
2013-11-22 - 17:10:00 - Week: 47 - Item number: 3157 - Category: Commodore, Emulator
Amiga Power is a printed magazine in the French language for the Amiga user. In this edition the following articles: News, Qt AmigaOS v4.1., Console emulators, MorphOS v3.3 & iBook, PCMCIA2CF, Soft Keyboard Essential B, Strife, Interviews: ACube Systems and Slobman, MorphOS v3.2 Mobile and Basilisk II AmigaOS v4.1.
2013-11-22 - 17:08:00 - Week: 47 - Item number: 3156 - Category: Amiga, Magazine
A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, E-Cover Tape, MIDI 1.0, Cassette, MicroMusic.net, KickAss Cruncher, Dr. Evil Labs, CODEBASE 64, UNP64, Prg2Sid, Realms of Quest IV, Assembly Vic-20, Boogieman, Exploria and Korque, Theater Of War, AROS Vision, AmigaKit, AEROS, Obligement, OnyxSoft, SketchBlock, AmiSystemRestore, Vampire 600, Desert Dream, Glenn Corpes, Moon Mission, Ghislain de Bloisand and History of The VIC.
2013-11-22 - 17:06:00 - Week: 47 - Item number: 3155 - Category: Commodore, Magazine
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