I’ve been playing Sid Meier games for nearly 40 years. Basic recollections place my first exposure to his title as about 1990, when I first encountered Railroad Tycoon running on a friend’s Amiga 500. However, more in-depth research reveals that the first Sid Meier title I played was Solo Flight,Read More →
The Amiga 500 stars in this smashing video from the early days of the 16-bit home computer era. If you were more of a console gamer, here’s a quick recap. The Amiga 500 home computer was released by Commodore in 1987. It featured a 32-bit Motorola 68000 processor and customRead More →
UPDATE: The A500 Maxi has been confirmed, with release scheduled for 2024 If you’ve been holding out for an A500 Maxi from Retro Games Ltd, your dream might be about to come true. Retro Games Ltd has been teasing its Facebook followers as to its upcoming plans, referring to aRead More →
If you’re lucky enough to own an Analogue Pocket, you should be interested to know that new gaming options are available with the release of the Analoge Pocket Amiga core. Based on the Amiga Mist project (aka minimig) with the “APF framework for floppy, hard drive and CDrom access,” theRead More →
Set for release in 2022, THEA500® Mini is the perfect solution for Amiga 500 fans without the original hardware. Like a big sister to the C64Mini, THEA500® Mini includes 25 classic Amiga games, including Worms, The Chaos Engine, and Another World. A fully licensed reimagining of the much-loved 16-bit homeRead More →
The world of indie retro gaming continues to surprise, as this demo of the forthcoming Amiga title Super Delivery Boy demonstrates. Sporting cute 16-bit graphics, this immersive platformer is set for a full release later this year but the demo (seen here) is available now as a download from itch.io.Read More →
A new Amiga battle arena game, Turbo Tomato, is set to release soon on Amiga from Nivrig Games and Bitmap Soft. Featuring fast moving tomatoes (no, really), the game looks like some of the most frantic fun ever pumped through the Denise chip. TURBO TOMATO is a high-explosive arena battleRead More →
You’ve probably heard about Amiga emulation on Raspberry Pi. But what about physical integration of the two systems? PiStorm lets a Raspberry Pi double as an Amiga accelerator. If you’re new to the world of retro gaming and your platform of choice is the Amiga, you probably have two mainRead More →
Since the launch of the C64 Mini by Retro Games Ltd, 16-bit fans have been calling out for an Amiga revival. It doesn’t really matter how big it is (a working keyboard would be great for the more in-depth titles) – just as long as Amiga games can get aRead More →
