The Vintage Computers Society

13 Jun 2020

Pintz & Amiga gaming charity stream for the NHS

Pintz and Amiga game night Stream on Youtube is making a
charity stream for the NHS for US and UK. Together we will collect
money to help as much as we can on 20th of June 2020.

Here is the Link for the Charity and a message from Taylor and Jack:
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/pintz-amiga-charity

''Come Join us for a charity Live stream to help support our fans and over in the U.K and give to NHS (National Healthcare Services) charities together. We will be doing Amiga live segments, live guests, demos, and of course plenty of Amiga gaming. We hope you join and please spread the message and donate!''

If you haven't heard before about Pintz & Amiga channel on Youtube

then maybe you're leaving under a rock.

Father and Son from Austin Texas host an Amiga gaming Live show

once a week and also they are big fans of the Sega Dreamcast .

The show started back in October 2018 with game requests and

quickly have found his fans and friends.

The best part of the stream is always a cold Beer we enjoy together live

and have a nice and chill conversation with Taylor & Jack.

Pintz And Amiga also hosts on Wednesdays AmigaLive sessions
and together with other friends around the world and The Vintage computers Society
team we play some of the most iconic amiga games live on stream.

Latest episode from the AmigaLive sessions

So now Lets see the schedule for the 20th of June:

8am -9am Coffee N' Amiga (2pm - 3pm BST),

9am -11am Baz Menskie Challenge (3pm-5pm BST),

11pm - 3pm video guests and gaming (5pm-9pm BST),

3pm -8pm AmigaLive Charity Tourney (9pm -2am BST).

(times subject to change as needed)

Our Video Guests are as follows in order of appearance:

Ralph from the YouTube channel "Retro Tech Ralph"

Amiga Bill from the

YouTube Channel "The Guru Meditation" and

Twitch channel "Amiga Bill"

Doug from the YouTube channel "10 Minute Amiga Retro-cast"

Neil from the YouTube channel "Retro Man Cave"

This will be a massive 12 hour stream so stop by to say a hi, grab your Pintz and join the fun.

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Pintz and Amiga DONATE link

1 Jun 2020

Verge World : A new voxel game for Amiga and many other platforms got a new tech demo

Verge World : Icarus Rising

A new sci-fi space shooter, racer game with exploration elements is just

around the corner to hit the Amiga gaming scene from the RetroBones Team.

A new gaming experience exploring a voxel generated landscape world.

Demo V.1.0.1 is out now on the official retro bones page.

Also Feedback from users is very crucial for the team.

VergeWorld: Icarus Rising is a game, in which you prove your worth by completing the infamous Death Run challenge. Only this way you can convince the Revolt to accept you as one of them. Don't hesitate. Now you can Download the demo and show them who is the best pilot in the region called Caelum Sector!

What is VergeWorld?

In the distant future, on the distant, inhospitable planet, mankind engages in one thing it knows well - war. The tyrannical, corporate regime wants to enslave all inhabitants of the Kingdom - humanity’s new home. As a young smuggler, Nix, aboard the aircraft Icarus you want to help the oppressed by joining the Revolt.

The Game will be released also for Atari ST , Macintosh,
Sega Genesis/Megadrive and Neo-Geo.

The new indicators on V1.01 are more helpful

when you pilot the spacecraft.

Download Tech demo V1.01
Retrobones official page

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Retrobones Youtube Channel

9 Nov 2019

Retro Gaming Challenge #01

Retro Gaming Challenge took place last weekend on 2nd & 3rd of November 2019

The Event was hosted by the Teams of I-sheep.gr , www.retroshowcase.com and Retrounboxers.

Vintage computers society was there to cover the event.

This was the 1st time ever in Greece a retro gaming challenge was hosted with prizes

and yes there will be more events like that soon again.

The participants had to beat on Amiga the high-score of the game Project-X.

The 3 highest scores wins the prizes of the event with the contestants

claiming a PSX mini an Atari portable console an I-sheep handmade hat

and games for PS4 and XboxOne

The Prizes of Retro Gaming Challenge #01

I-sheep.gr with cooperation with Bits & Bites Internet cafe at Melissia have

gathered the Load Error Teams together for the event.

But what is this retro gaming challenge ?

Its an event that gives the opportunity for younger kinds to learn and challenge in oldschool

games from various platforms like Amiga , PSX , Xbox Classic , and many more.

Testing the Monster Joystick on Amiga games

Its good for younger kids to learn the roots of gaming and this event was created

for this purpose. Games you play today on PS4 and Switch have history

on older gaming from home computers and micros and 1st gen consoles.

Young lad playing project X on Amiga

The 1st event was made with commodore Amiga computers. Players have the support

from team members of Retrounboxers and Retroshowcase.com to give them all the info

and hints to play the game Project-X and beat the highest score to win the prizes.

T.G.S joystick 1 button version

The weapons of choice for the gamers were the classics Tomahawk and CMS joysticks

but there were also some new ones like The Greek Stick joystick from Dinohatzi

and the Deluxe mini monster from Monsterjoysticks.com

All joysticks performed well and accurate for the challenge.

Greek gamers prefer a right handed Deluxe mini Monster

Stay tuned for the next Retro gaming challenge soon.

Enjoy the photo gallery from the event and follow our teams for more

retro gaming on facebook :

I-sheep.gr

Retrounboxers

Retroshowcase.com

Vintage Computers Society

http://loaderror.eu

2 Sept 2019

Preview of the AmigaOS 3.2 has been announced

Our beloved Amiga has witnessed the release of the new AmigaOS 3.1.4.

It was pretty sure some updates will follow and we were informed

from amiganews.de that after the latest 3.1.41 update in july a new

AmigaOS 3.2 version will be released

screenshot from version 3.1.4

This is the news article from amiganews.de

In July AmigaOS 3.1.4.1 was released. Under the title link now Thomas 'ThoR' Richter is giving a preview to the forthcoming AmigaOS 3.2.

First he has published a picture (only visible for registered users) of the Workbench which shows features that have been already implemented and which the readers should find. If a new feature was found by a reader it is either confirmed, or not.

GadTools now are font sensitive which is used by the new preferences editor and other system tools.

Regarding the print setting now the name of the output device

can be specified instead of choosing the parallel or serial interface.

The name of the title line can be changed.

Windows can be iconified.

The Shell remebers commands which have been already entered.

You can also search through these commands.

The Shell offers an input assistance.

There is a new, minimal AUX-Handler which enables tab expansion to also work over the serial line.

Screenshot from 3.1.4 AmigaOS

As you understand the screenshot was provided to the registered users

and we were informed from a member of the beta testing team the

update will be released soon.

news source : https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2019-09-00004-EN.html

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31 Aug 2019

IBrowse 2.5 for Amiga released

We have already heard about a new IBrowse update and on 30th of Aug

Version 2.5 has been officialy released on the IBrowse webpage

IBrowse is a fast, stable, classic web browser helping you surf the net with your AMIGA. Features include HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.0 browsing, TLSv1.3 secure connections, FTP downloads, comprehensive JavaScript 1.6 engine, tabbed browsers (pioneered by IBrowse), a customisable GUI layout, many other customisable features and support for proprietary extensions from other browsers. IBrowse is compatible with AmigaOS® 3.x, 3.1.4, 4.1FE and MorphOS.