Apr 01
If you have a bunch of old Amiga disks lying around, we may have an Indiegogo project for you. Called the Armiga, this is a clever emulator with a 3.5-inch disk drive and Dual Core ARM CPU that runs like an old-timey Amiga 500. Read More
Aug 26
Emulator Cabinet Works with 75 Controllers, 30+ Consoles and 2 Happy Players
Posted in: Today's ChiliThese days you can run dozens of classic games on a PC using emulators. If you’re good with modding hardware, you may be able to connect the right controller for the console you’re emulating. But if you’re Patrice Daubaire, you take it one step further. Patrice hacked 75 controllers to make them compatible with over 110 gaming systems.
Patrice calls his ingenious mod the Multi Video Game System 2 or MVGS 2. He managed to universalize 75 controllers – from an Atari 2600 joystick to aPlayStation controller – so that they’ll work with different gaming systems via a custom VGA adapter. Patrice claims his system has zero input lag and that the controllers weigh more or less the same as unmodified ones. Patrice was also able to add additional functions like a quick save button on some of the controllers.
To present his invention, Patrice built the MVGS 2 Dream Station, a PC with over 30 gaming system emulators. It has a nice cabinet with a built-in monitor and lets up to two players geek out. He also setup a rotating display stand for the controllers.
Pick your jaw up from the floor and head to the MVGS 2 website for more information.
[via Hack A Day]
Aug 21
Gameloft and Amiga Games to release 56 titles on Windows 8, WP8 before 2014
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Sure, Microsoft’s battle for next-gen supremacy starts in November, but those who lean on Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 for their gaming just got a little something to look forward to. Gameloft is readying a total of 15 games that’ll arrive within the next 12 months and launch simultaneously on both platforms. Before the year’s up, you can expect to see Asphalt 8: Airborne, Despicable Me: Minion Rush, Dungeon Hunter 4, Six Guns, Total Conquest and UNO & Friends, with the remaining games breaking cover next year. The recently-acquired Amiga Games will churn out 50 titles of its own onto Microsoft’s desktop and mobile OS before year’s end, and could bump the total up to 500 afterwards. Details on which games we’ll see first weren’t divulged, but the outfit says they’ll make use of the operating system’s features such as live tiles and Snap and Share, as well as cross-platform data sharing. For a look at what’s to come, head past the break for a fresh Asphalt 8 trailer.
Filed under: Gaming
Via: WinSuperSite
Source: Microsoft
Apr 23
Amiga Forever Essentials for Android promises to expand your emulation options
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There’s already a number of Amiga emulators for Android, but using them has so far required you to provide your own Amiga system files to actually get that emulation started. Cloanto’s set out to change that today, though, releasing its Amiga Forever Essentials app for Android that comes complete with officially licensed ROM and OS files for the reasonable cost of one dollar. As the company explains, it worked with the makers of Amiga emulators like UAE4Droid, AnUAE4All, UAE4All2 to ensure the system files are auto-detected (you’ll still need to use at least one of those other emulators in conjunction with Forever Essentials), and it’s thrown in a few bonuses like Workbench 1.3 and the First Demos disk images to get you started. It also says that this is just the first of a planned series of “Essentials” packages for other platforms, but it has few specifics to share about those at the moment, saying only that it’s hopeful it can “help make retrocomputing more accepted on other app stores.”
Filed under: Cellphones, Mobile
Source: Amiga Forever, Google Play
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