News from the Amiga Scene and especially from Archi-Techstore. This time we were informed about a new stunning A1200 accelerator with reasonable price. Just what we were looking for to
play our beloved WHDLOAD games. For the specs let me tell you that this accelerator is faster than an 68030 at 25mhz. Its equipped with an 68EC020 clocked at 38mhz with 8mb fast ram.
Bear in mind this is a very 1st version of the card and specs and speed might change in the future.
Bellow we have a sysinfo screen showing the perfomance of the Turbo Card EC1220
Also the developers have also uploaded a video on youtube to show the perfomance of the turbo card
and they also play some doom to test the card.
In the future we will see more cards pop like blueberries but this one will hit the market fast.
Why ? Because mostly Amiga users who fired up their rig to play some games they only want the most wanted specs to play them. You dont need a fortune to buy a turbo card.
On This Update we have to inform our readers for a new album release
Amiga Power : The Album with attitude by Matthew Smith
A double CD collection of Amiga Game music remixes, inspired by
the mightiest computer games magazine ever conceived by human beings.
Starring the tuneful talents of Andrew Barnabas, Allister Brimble, Mike Clarke, Fabian Del Priore, Olof Gustafsson, Jogeir Liljedahl, Joi, Jon Hare, Chris Huelsbeck, Barry Leitch, Patrick Nevian, Jason Page, Instant Remedy, Matthias Steinwachs, Jeroen Tel, Tim Wright and a whole host of other excellent persons, the AP album is set to come your way via two (count ‘em!) compact discs, or an equivalent digital download if you’re distrustful of physical objects.
Yes you heard right. There is a Kickstarter almost complete to reach the goal of $20.925
soon it will be completed and you have to hurry to pledge your copy.
Amiga Power is a brand new collection of 30 studio quality amiga tracks remixed by all these talented musicians
Grab your copy for one of the best retro Amiga albums of 2019
Nearly 4 months -- it’s what it took to hang over December’s parties and go back to writing this activity report. Water hadn’t time to freeze under the bridge and quite a lot of things happened during that time. Not all of them are gigantic and impressive steps on the user side but their complexity got as high as their requirement. Let’s try to get them now under the scope of a rising sun and welcomed spring.
Vampire V1200
Majsta, with the help of Claude (aka the NSFW shaolin monk), are working on bringing up the Vampire V1200. Things are coming along and Igor has already shown very positive results some weeks ago. Card is booting nicely at the moment at x6 speed (hint: base clock of A1200 is twice the A500 ;-P).
Amiga 1200 is a special beast and all its revision have very different behavior which we need to go through each of them methodically. We should not assume because we have it working on some very common and widespread revision like the 1D4 that it will be the same with others. Some other A1200 accelerators even needed fixes on motherboard to make them work correctly. Our goal is to avoid modifying A1200 boards **at all**.
We also want to think smart about mechanical part of the Vampire 1200 and we hope to bring a way for users to swap out devices from the Vampire without having to open their case. By the way, we will also make sure that Vampire 1200 is compatible with the original Commodore case and A1200.net remastered version.
If not already done, it might be time to get your A1200 ready by having it recapped by a professional (we have several in the community).
GOLD2.12
Team is gathering some various fixes and little improvements which happened during the V4 Standalone development. These changes can easily be back-ported to Vampire V2 GOLD2 core branch :
- Mouse hotspot and editable hardware sprite support (requires driver update)
- Auto-turtle mode when game is running in ChipRAM (improves game compatibility)
- 15-bit PC / 16-bit PC / 32-bit ARG and 32-bit BGR modes support (driver improvement)
- morelibspace command not required anymore for AfAOS users (saves a reboot)
It's time to officially announce the biggest, most sensible event of 2019, Sensible Days!
This year the 16th annual Sensible Soccer World Championships will take place in Fulda (Germany). Be prepared for a great tournament, lots of old and new SWOS friends and lots of fun in the heart of Europe!
There will be two main tournaments (SWOS 96/97 on PC DOS & Amiga version) and one side tournament. (Classic Sensi, played on Amiga).
All tournaments will be played on original hardware!
AmigaBill takes a look at the brand new Commodore Amiga keycaps from A1200.net. He compares them to the original keys on his Amiga 1200 then attempts to replace a regular key and a key with a stabilizer on his Amiga 4000 keyboard. These keycaps come from A1200.net's 2017 Kickstarter campaign and they will be starting a new IndieGoGo for anyone who missed the Kickstarter.
Kobo Deluxe is an enhanced version of Akira Higuchi’s game XKobo for Un*x systems with X11. Kobo Deluxe adds sound, smoother animation, high resolution support, OpenGL acceleration (optional), an intuitive menu driven user interface, joystick support and other features. Recent versions also add a number of alternative skill levels with slightly modernized gameplay. Kobo Deluxe uses SDL for graphics, sound and input, which makes it possible to build and run the game on pretty much anything.
Update: Fixed double memory free on exit.
Watch the gameplay done by Pedro Cotter on this Youtube Video
Requirements:
Minimum: Amiga with 68060 CPU, RTG card and 16MB ram
Newsflash for the retro-scene as at the most recent AmiCamp event that was hosted at the Found.ation building in Athens, a number of Alpha prototype joysticks were exhibited to our visitors at the event's second day, on Sunday 31 of March. The new joystick was tested and the participants found it a very interesting retro gadget. Apart from the Sensible Days 3 cup we had as our main event, we also made 2 more software and hardware presentations.
For the time being we can't give any further info regarding the 1st project, as a new Commodore Amiga game is under development. Nevertheless, we can talk about the new joystick.
For the past few months, our personal friend and founding member of the Vintage Computers Society Club Athens (VCS Athens) Kostas Hatzivasiliou (aka ''Dinohatzi" to the Greek retro community) started a new project and a ''personal'' goal! If someone doesn't know how difficult it is to manufacture such an arcade-level and arcade-quality device, I can assure you it's not a walk in the park at all!
Kostas set a personal goal to build a new 9-pin joystick that includes all those unique characteristics that made the classic Tomahawk joystick from Anerousis one of the best ever joysticks of the Greek market back in the 90s. Tomahawk was the King of arcade-style home joysticks, 30 years ago!
If you think that an actual, metallic arcade-style joystick is easy to be found in 2019 at a reasonable price, you are wrong. Surely someone you has the demanded knowledge can make one, but the cost would be too high to reach a Tomahawk's great standards and quality!
Using a lot of reverse engineering, making searches on the internet and finding quality parts for the joystick's construction, Kostas visited the 7th AmiCamp event with 6 complete Alpha- prototype Joysticks to test them on actual Amiga computers and see the outcome.
All joysticks were tested and the participants and the visitors were very positive towards the new joysticks.
Panos and Nick from Retroshowcase.com were present too, to test the new joystick.
During the AmiCamp event, apart from the Alpha-prototypes) there was a joystick with green colored buttons (actually this is the 1st completed joystick from Kostas).
There were also some 2-button versions available to show that the 2nd button was acting as it was meant to, in 2-button Amiga games. We know that in the next few weeks some prototypes will be sent to the Amiga community for further tests.
The 1st Beta joysticks are already sent to Vaggi6128 and Paranoicb (members of the VCS Athens) and we will soon have updated info and news from the whole development.
We also thank our social media for spreading the news
Everyone was there for the biggest Amiga Event in Greece on the Found.ation building. Teams and Groups were ready for the Sensible Days 2019 cup on Amicamp 7#
The random Lottery Begins and the names are announced for the 3 groups of the
soccer league.
The Teams were ready and after a quick snack and a coffee for extra power let the games begin. Tsak is warming up Paranoicb (DJ Nest)
Alex76gr on the keyboard for some serious amiga gaming
DJ Nest's Vampire Amiga600 was there to support the Sensible soccer cup.
It was one of the 3 machines that supported the Group C on the Cup.
For one more time vampire was full compatible and capable for gaming.
Final Games were set between Cool_Amigan & Tsak. The struggle was massive and the skills used
were extraordinary.
The winner of the Sensible Days 3 Cup on Amicap is Cool_Amigan.
Tsak gives the Worthy game present to the winner and the Soccer Trophy goes to the hands of the winner on this exciting event
It was a wonderful experience for everyone who was there those 2 days.
not much time to describe how wonderfull it was but the photos are the real storytellers this time.
More updates will follow with video and hardware news from the Amicamp
Amicamp 7 took place on the Found.ation building as we do every year with friends and many members of the VCS club. Amiga addicts set up and fire their cannons . Demoscene Music and detailed conversations took place on 1st day with lots of gaming and practice for the next day
Sensible world of soccer cup. Who will be the winner ?
John Tsakiris with his game Worthy was there with us to share his game and inform us for the latest news on the Amiga gaming scene. JimmyNesta was the Demoscener of the day showing us wonderfull OCS demos.
stay tuned for more amicamp news.
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