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Written by Demon Cleaner
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Thursday, 28 September 2006 |
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Weertzen, September 2006 - Video game pioneers know it - the COMPETITION PRO
for Commodore 64 (C64) and Amiga systems won the hearts of the gaming
community in the eighties and soon became the most successful joystick
of all times. It's extreme durability and the characteristic clicking
of the microswitches ensured its brand recognition.
It's back now! In cooperation with Individual Computers, SPEED-LINK now
re-creates the joystick in its classic form: The Competition Pro with a
plug for Commodore, Amiga, Atari, Amstrad/Schneider CPC and MSX Systems.
When the Competition Pro was re-released for normal PCs in 2004, the
main target was to be true to the original. The design was 100% adopted
and characteristics like microswitches, metal stick and the choice of
colours are identical. All these details paid off: The SPEED-LINK
Competition Pro USB was a huge success.
"As a result of the attention that the re-release of the
SPEED-LINK Competition Pro USB has attracted, we received many requests
for the original version with a plug for the systems of the eighties.
We learned that there are many people who still own the old systems
like the Commodore 64." says Michael Eisenblätter, CEO of Jöllenbeck
GmbH. "This led to the idea of reviving the old Competition Pro. The
final impulse for putting the project into practice was given by the
cooperation with Individual Computers. They have a lot of experience in
the field of retro-computing and were of great help in realizing this
project."
Jens Schönfeld of Individual Computers comments: "My personal
reason for pushing this project forward is that there's hardly any
supply of used Competition Pro joysticks for the C64. Even the best
joysticks have to be replaced after 20 years of hard use. Owners of a
working Competition Pro would not part with it. More and more people
are digging out their C64s and start the old games that - despite
block-graphics - have at least the same fun-factor as today's
photo-realistic PC games. As a direct result, prices on eBay reach
outrageous numbers. This is a very good base for a successful re-launch
of a high-quality product."
More details:
- A real classic, an icon of Retro-Gaming
- for connection to retro-systems like Amiga, C64, Amstrad/Schneider CPC, Atari, MSX
- six microswitches, two axles, four firebuttons
- upper firebuttons can be switched off
- cable length of two metres (6 ft.)
- Powered by Individual Computers, the experts for retro-hardware
The SPEED-LINK Competition Pro
powered by Individual Computers will be available starting mid-october.
The recommended retail price is 12,99 EUR (prices may differ locally
due to VAT differencies).
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 28 September 2006 )
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Amiga news
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Written by Demon Cleaner
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Wednesday, 27 September 2006 |
The Berlin publisher Frogster Interactive announced that the company
have bought the worldwide rights of the Bitmap Brother classics
Speedball 2 and The Chaos Engine. PC versions of both games will be
available in 2007. The Bitmap Brothers participate on this project too.
Speedball 2:
Title screen
Ingame screen
The Chaos Engine:
Title screen
Ingame screen
There is also a link on their site to an official Speedball 2 site:
www.speedball2.de but no mention of what is to be expected, just the
ability to register your interest at the moment.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 27 September 2006 )
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Amiga news
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Written by Demon Cleaner
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Wednesday, 27 September 2006 |
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AmiKit
1.2.1 update package has been released in conjunction with the Pianta Amiga
2006 show held in Empoli, Italy. The update is available through AmiKit Live
Update.
- UPDATED:
AISS 3.1
- UPDATED: akPNG Datatype 45.52
- UPDATED: AmigaAMP 2.17
- UPDATED: PlayOGG 4.8
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 27 September 2006 )
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Latest from the Demo Scene
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Written by PG
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Monday, 25 September 2006 |
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Scener Arrested after Riots in Hungary!
Author and Scener, Tomcat, has according to Diskmag.de been arrested. Ghandy/Scarab writes as follows about this:
"At Tuesday, the 19th September the well-known hungarian book author and
demoscene freak Tomcat has been arrested and accused of damaging the
monument commemorating fallen Soviet soldiers of the world war two
during the riots in the previous night."
For more information, please click here. |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 25 September 2006 )
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Amiga news
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Written by Demon Cleaner
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Monday, 18 September 2006 |
You can download the latest VICE distributions
for Amiga OS systems here. Some distributions may not be available at
the release date.
# Source distributions:
* Tarball: vice-1.20.tar.gz
# New binary distributions:
* Binary for M68K AmigaOS 3.x systems: VICE-AmigaOS3-1.20.tar.gz
* Binary for PPC AmigaOS 4.x systems: VICE-AmigaOS4-1.20.tar.gz
* Binary for PPC MorphOS systems: VICE-MorphOS-1.20.tar.gz
* Binary for Intel AROS systems: VICE-i686-AROS-1.20.tar.gz
* Binary for PPC AROS systems: VICE-powerpc-AROS-1.20.tar.gz
The files are taken from http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/cro...emulators/VICE/
VICE online manuals: http://www.viceteam.org/vice_toc.html |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 11 October 2006 )
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Amiga news
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Written by Demon Cleaner
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Monday, 18 September 2006 |
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Press release: The big book of amiga hardware, the probably largest amiga
hardware reference on the web, changes his owner. Ian Chapman handed the project
over to “Amiga Future” and Mario Misic, the reason for this were personal
reasons.
The site www.amiga-hardware.com will stay
online, but won’t be updated anymore. The new URL is http://hardware.amigafuture.de
The Big Book of Amiga Hardware is probably the largest online Amiga
Hardware reference in the world, thanks to the help of many of the
site's readers. If you're looking for information on that elusive piece
of hardware, wonder what amazing expansions were actually made for the
amiga, or need drivers for that second-hand kit you've just bought,
then you've come to the right place.
The Big Book of Amiga Hardware has been and still is a community
effort. In addition to my own material, a large amount of material has
been submitted by the readers which has helped this site grow to the
success it is. The BBoAH works precisely because it's a community
effort and without your support I would not be able to keep it up to
date, and informative.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 18 September 2006 )
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