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

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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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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.

  Summary of the new features:

OS4 Native Version Added (OS4.1 Final Edition Required)

AmiSSL v4 / TLSv1.3 Support

MUI 4.0 and 5.0 Support

Alpha Channel Support (OS4)

4Gb+ File/Downloads (OS4)

Customizable Spoofing Strings

OpenSearch Support

  Summary of the re-written features:

TextEditField Text Editor

Disk Cache Clean

   Summary of the improved features:

JavaScript Engine

HTML Engine

HTTP Engine

Password Manager

Cookie Support

Various GUI Elements

Internal Image Decoders

Memory Management

Bug Fixes

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Metro Siege revealed - The Amiga Streets of Rage we always wanted

This is the moment we have been waiting for years to come and I'm glad to 

witness myself incredible games that can push your Amiga to the limits.

We are talking for the new game under development called Metro Siege.

Metro Siege is a classic 2 player Co-op Brawler game like Final Fight and streets of rage.

It is the brawler we always wanted for the Amiga and there was a gap for many years

on this genre. The last descent brawler game i played on my Amiga was Double dragon 3.

Metro Siege has everything you want to see on your screen with OCS graphics

and with only 1mb of ram it can run perfect on A500 at 25fps and the game its

coded on pure C & ASM coding. This means the game runs optimized in 16 colors. 

I can say for sure this is a game missing from the Amiga library.

A teaser trailer is also released from the team with some gameplay

from the 1st level so get ready

We have seen Amiga Bill stream on Twitch hosting

Michael Parent and he told us there will be a nice Boxed version in the future.

We have to follow this project and dont forget to follow VCS on Facebook. 

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Project Horizon - New Amiga multi-scrolling shoot em up under development

We didn't expect so soon a new Amiga game to be revealed.

I have to say 2019 is more prosperous than last year and new ideas and games are always

welcome as we follow the amiga scene. A team called Electric Black Sheep

is developing a multi-scrolling shoot em up called Project horizon.

The graphics are awesome

Some Alien Enemies are chasing the hero

The truth is we dont have enough info yet for this new game but the team

has released a gameplay of the engine showing us the developement and the graphics.

Even some blue alien enemies are killed from gun fire. It looks great.

I have searched in the past and found Electric Black Sheep team

was also developing a new game for the Android platform based on the

International Karate (IK+) Amiga game. One this is for sure, the team

has deep roots in the Amiga gaming and soon one more game will be released.

Say hello to my little blue enemies

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