COVID-19 cancels Amiga Meeting 2020 live event, online event planned
As Germany faces it's second wave of Corona virus spread, serious restrictions apply to public gatherings, forcing the "Amiga Meeting" to cancel it's live event, and go online.
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New printmag: AMIGA ADDICT - preorder now!
Awesome news from the printed side of things: A new magazine is underway!
Continuing the tradition of great english language Amiga magazines like AMIGA FORMAT, CU Amiga, and others, AMIGA ADDICT is a new printed magazine from the UK.
Or more precisely: not "is", but "will be" if all goes well. For the first issue at least 500 preorders are needed, for the publishers to get an idea of the market, and cover production costs.
Amiga Art Contest 2020: A tiger and a mouse on a tablet
Having invested some time on getting a graphics tablet running, and equipped with a now 68040@40MHz driven Amiga, the deadline of the Amiga Art Contest 2020 by Douglas from 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast (10MARC) and Pixel Vixen popped up somewhere, and pretty much from out of nowhere I started painting...
New Apollo 1240/40 cooling system
My "Frankenstein" Apollo 1240 accelerator needed some decent cooling, so I built something.
Games galore #11: Chicken Coop, Monkey Lad, Dodgy Rocks, The Shadows of Sergoth
Chicken, monkeys, rocks, and shadows - pick your favourite, and have a good time playing an Amiga game!
Games galore #10: BlitzWays, Ftype, AstroBlox Revisited, Hansel and Gretel, Tiny Bobble, Green Thang
Indeed it's games galore, they just keep'em coming.
BlitzWays
Games galore #9: Dread (update), Super Wormy, Smarty and the Nasty Gluttons, Dragon Slayer
This time we have two classics revisited, and two previously unreleased games. It's always an especially pleasant surprise when Amiga developers get together to rebuild and release some forgotten project. Here we go!
"Dread" (update)
Games galore #8: Lala Prologue, Hydra Castle Labyrinth, Aztec Challenge CD32, Tiny Invaders & Tiny Galaga, Amigo the Fox
COVID-19 is still spreading, but that doesn't stop Amiga game development, new games keep popping up. Here's another snapshot of what's going on: 8-bit ports, arcade ports, and platformers all over the place!
Lala Prologue
Games galore #7: EON, Super Metal Hero, Bagman, Legacy, Tapper, Verge World Icarus Rising
It's been a little while since Games galore #6 - we need to catch up a little, here are more games, and game announcements, from late 2019 and early 2020.
"EON" for AGA Amigas
"EON AGA" is a new Amiga game in development by Goblins / AmigaWave and Wonderboy Bobi (Francois Perez). It's the official port of "EON" for PC computers, created by Wonderboy Bobi in 2014.
Another coin-cell modification: memory expansion expanded!
Here's another example of a memory expansion's leaked battery replaced with a new coin-cell.
A little addendum to the previous article about replacing a Amiga A501's VARTA cell, but this time due to space constraints on the small memory expansion board, the new coin-cell drilled circuit board has been put next to the "mainboard".