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.
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.
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.
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 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.
The new FAQs and Tutorials section has been launched today. This new area contains Tutorials and FAQs on anything and everything Amiga related to help everyone out.
To get things started I have create two initial FAQs.
What is Amiga?
How to emulate the Amiga.
And many more Tutorials and FAQs will be added to the site in the coming weeks so please check back regularly for updates and new content.
Catweasel is a universal floppy disk controller that uses unmodified PC diskdrives. The Catweasel can handle nearly any disk format, you just have to find a drive for them.
Normally, drives are just 3.5 inch and 5.25 inch drives. PC floppy drives used to be known as being able to work with PC formatted disks only, but now you can access any of the disk formats listed below. The software is been regularly updated since 1996.
Here's the list of the supported formats. This list applies to all versions of the Catweasel!
all PC-formats (180K up to 1440K)
Amiga DD and HD (also 5,25" formats)
Atari 9, 10 and 11 sektor disks
Macintosh 720K, 800K, 1440K (DD, GCR, HD)
Commodore 1541, 1571, 1581 (C64, C128 and 3,5" C-64 disks)
XTRA High density with 2380KByte per disk
Nintendo backup station 1600KB format
Atari 800XL (all MFM formats, FM under developement)
Apple IIe disks (Apple DOS 3.3 and up)
further 8-bit formats planned
Sophisticated error correction algorithms enable you to read otherwise unreadable disks. In other words, you have an excellent chance to read your formally unreadable floppy disks.
You can connect up to two drives to the Catweasel, and the two drives can be any combination of 3.5" and 5.25".
"Windows 2000/Windows XP drivers for the Catweasel have gone through drastic changes since they have been taken over by a new programmer. More than 350 fixes in all four driver segments have brought the drivers to a stage where our internal betatesters did not report a problem within the last 30 days. The public beta version can now be downloaded from our support site.
The most obvious update is that the Kylwalda-part of the Catweasel MK4 is now utilized. It allows sharing the floppy drive between the Catweasel and the onboard floppy controller: The A: drive can be used as long as the imagetool is not running. The other updates and changes in the drivers are so extensive that they can't even be listed in the changelog file. Please make sure not to mix the different driver and tool versions!"
You can purchase the Catweasel controller from {mosbookmarks:bm=3}
TiredOfLife has been voted as Poster of the month for his topic Lucky.
"I must be the luckiest man on the planet.
Opened an email to find I had one 1.5 million euros in a lottery I hadn't even entered.
Apparently I was chosen at random.
But I'm not finished yet.
Opened another email to find I had won a further 2 million euros in yet another lottery I hadn't even entered.
Again chosen at random through my email address.
How lucky am I? "
Login and visit the Classicamiga Awards page to see the previous
winners of the award, and to read the posts that won them the prize.
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