OpenBOR - 2D side scrolling engine gets an Amiga port!

A nice bit of Amiga news to the end the week as the 2d side scrolling engine of ' OpenBOR ' has been fully ported over to the Amiga thanks to lantus360, although you will need at least an Amiga with a fast 68040 AGA or RTG to play it. If you're wondering what OpenBOR is all about, it's an open source continuation of Beats of Rage and Streets of Rage and is regarded as the single most powerful two dimensional sprite based engine in the world, which has been used for countless freshly designed beat em ups from fan based developers.

WinUAE 3.5.0 - The best Amiga Emulator gets another feature packed final!

After many months of beta updates with a ton of fixes and improvements, today is the day that Toni Wilen has released a brand new WinUAE version 3.5.0. This is probably the best version of the Amiga emulator so far, as it features a huge changelog that really brings home just much work Toni Wilen has put into his Amiga emulator. Improvements such as new custom chipset features, american Laser Games second player and Actionware dual light gun adapter emulation, 68020+ T0 trace mode emulation and much much more. You'd be crazy not to download this now!

Let's celebrate International Amiga Day - Today May 31st 2017

How quick the years pass as once again it is time to celebrate ' International Amiga Day ' which is held every 31st May in celebration of Jay Miner who, according to Gyorgy Dragon(RIP), was the father of the Amiga and today is his birthday! Celebrating 30 years of fun, it's time to celebrate all that is Amiga, from Amiga games to the Amiga hardware. The retro community want to keep the Commodore Amiga name alive and what better way to do that than an anniversary to the day dedicated to the great system. What an incredible line of retro computer systems from the A500 to the A4000, if you lived during that era of gaming then it was one of the greatest moments in our retro history.

AMIKIT X - High grade integrated Amiga emulator releases today!

Unlike last time when we thought Amiga Forever 7 was out and turned out to be a leaked beta changelog from an official EAB moderator, we are pleased to factually announce the high grade integrated Amiga emulator of 'AMIKIT X' is being released today Friday 19th May 2017. Originally developed as a main operating system for A.L.I.C.E. (A Laptop Incorporating Classic Experience), AmiKit has turned into a compilation of more than 350 pre-installed Amiga programs. An integrated emulator experience as a high-end AmigaOS configuration on Windows, Mac OS, Linux or Android systems

Amiga Forever 7 (2017) - Cloanto has released a big update for its Amiga emulation package [UPDATE]

It's another late one and a good one at that, as Cloanto have released a new update version of Amiga Forever as Amiga Forever 7 (2017). Regarded as one of the top Amiga emulation software packages for the home computer and also from the same team behind C64 Forever, this latest version brings it bang up to scratch with a large list of fixes and improvements that you really should be updating to if you want the very best in Amiga preservation, emulation and support packages!

RetroN HD - Hyperkin's latest Retro Games Console will support stunning NES 720p output

It's not often we feature hardware apart from reviews as we are mainly a games site, but we've just received word through our email of a new retro games console that is coming from HyperKin and will support original NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) cartridges (PAL and NTSC) in beautiful, crisp up-scaled 720p resolution through pure hardware ( no emulation ). Known as the 'RetroN HD ', this high definition update of the original RetroN, is an upcoming retro games console through pre-order, that will also come complete with one premium and retro-style controller, a 3 ft. HD cable, and a 6 ft. USB charge cable.

WinUAE 3.4.1 Beta 8 - The best Amiga emulator gets a new update!

The latest Amiga news to end the week, as Toni Wilen has once again announced a new Amiga emulator beta as ' WinUAE 3.4.1 Beta 8', which has even more fixes over from the previous version. This new release which as always is sure to be updated throughout the year, has a number of changes such as Comspec SA-1000 RTC emulation, PC bridgeboard NE2000 boot crash fix, A2386SX 1.00.03 ROM and more. But as ever please see the changelog for further details.

Uropa 2 : The Ulterior Colony and Genetic Species - Even more DamienD Amiga CD to HD conversions!

The Amiga is getting a lot of attention lately, as after previously releasing Final Odyssey, The Strangers and Foundation as fully playable Amiga games without the need for the original Amiga CD. DamienD has moved on to Uropa 2 : The Ulterior Colony and Genetic Species, which as of today completes the "Vulcan Software MegaSeries Vol. 1-4" collection first released in the late 90's. Both of these are sci-fi based, whereas Uropa is an isometric adventure, Genetic Species is a first person shooter which has similarities to GLOOM.

WinUAE 3.4.1 Beta 6 - Comspec SA-1000 SCSI HD controller via Amiga emulation featured

There's no stopping Toni Wilen as once again he's released another Amiga emulator beta update, and this time we are at version WinUAE 3.4.1 Beta 6, which contains even more fixes and improvements including Comspec SA-1000 SCSI HD controller emulation and rare 68040/060 FPU emulation. WinUAE is regarded as the best Amiga emulator for not just games, but it can also be used for emulated or original hardware workbench OS system installs. So if you want the latest updates, check out the changelog below and download!

WHDLoad 18.3 - New Amiga Harddisk-install package release!

A very early morning announcement for Amiga users as WHDLoad; the AmigaOS friendly Harddisk-Install package by Bert Jahn has been updated to a brand new WHDLoad 18.3 final version. With well over a year in development, WHDLoad is probably the best software available for your Amiga, as it makes it possible to install quite a lot demos and games, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, to your harddisk.

Pixel Vision 8 Game Creator - This retro game development software looks totally spiffy!

As you many of you know Indie Retro News prides itself on writing as much awesome retro gaming news as possible. But to be honest we rarely feature the tools behind any of the games that have been made or are currently in development. So to change all that we have decided to give a heads up to a really cool bit of software called ' Game Creator Pro ' by Pixel Vision 8 (PV8), that not only teaches retro game development, but enables the designing of games around limited resolutions, colours, sprites, sound and memory. In their words "It is ideal for game jams, prototyping ideas or having fun"

WinUAE 3.4.1 Beta 5 - Actionware dual light gun adaptor emulation added to Amiga emulator

There's no stopping Toni Wilen as once again he's released another Amiga emulator beta update, and this time we are at version WinUAE 3.4.1 Beta 5, which includes new emulation features such as Actionware dual light gun adaptors, as well as more accurate lightpen emulation. This software is regarded as the best Amiga emulator for not just games, but also for emulated or original hardware workbench OS system installs and now even more support for light guns in regards to American Laser Games. For further details see the changelog below.

WinUAE 3.4.1 Beta 4 - American Laser Games second player light gun support added!

The latest Amiga news to begin the week, as Toni Wilen has once again announced a new Amiga emulator beta as ' WinUAE 3.4.1 Beta 4' that has a number of fixes and improvements over from the previous beta. One of those additions to this updated release includes the support for American Laser Game second player light guns, which if you've seen the news lately (Time Gal), looks to be more beneficial to any upcoming American Laser Games on the Amiga. But as ever please see the changelog for further details.

WinUAE 3.4.1 Beta 3 - The best Amiga emulator gets a new week beta!

There's no stopping Toni Wilen as once again he's released another Amiga emulator beta update, and this time we are at version WinUAE 3.4.1 Beta 3, which contains even more fixes and improvements. This software is regarded as the best Amiga emulator for not just games, but also for emulated or original hardware workbench OS system installs. So if you want the latest updates, check out the changelog below and download!

WinUAE 3.4.1 Beta 1 - The best Amiga emulator gets a big changelog update!

The latest Amiga news to begin the week, as Toni Wilen has once again announced a new Amiga emulator beta as ' WinUAE 3.4.1 Beta 1', which has a ton of fixes and improvements over from WinUAE 3.4.0 released at the end of last year as a Christmas special. This new version which is sure to be updated throughout the year, has a big list of changes such as fixed crash when sound card audio play, implemented accurate 68020+ T0 trace mode emulation and even quickstart Blizzard modes. But as ever please see the changelog for further details.

FS-UAE 2.8.3 - An Amiga Emulator with a great GUI gets a new update for 2017

Karsten Majok from the Commodore Amiga Facebook group has just informed us of the release of 'FS-UAE 2.8.3', which is an update to one of the best Amiga Emulators with a full GUI that you can use for Amiga based gaming. As we said before FS-UAE at its core it uses WinUAE, but with a fantastic GUI and the brilliant Open Amiga Game Database and FS-UAE Arcade! What that means is, if you have the Amiga emulator frontend FS-UAE installed and all the Amiga game files : floppy images, CD images and WHDLoad games (.adf, .ipf, .zip, .rar, .iso, etc), you'll be able to use the latest configuration settings listed in a lovely arcade info display!

X-bEnCh 1.00 - One of the best Amiga launchers gets a pre-Christmas release

If you have an Amiga with an internal CF drive or any other way of playing whdload games such as through Emulation like WinUAE, then this may be the software that your Amiga thanks you for. Although there are other OS utilities to play Amiga games such as AG-launch and Igame, they don't have the sparkle and flare that X-Bench does, which is not just an Amiga game launcher but it has many other cool features as well that make this an incredible pre-Christmas release.

VICE Version 3.0 - The Versatile Commodore Emulator with a big release!

The shockingly brilliant Amiga emulator WinUAE wasn't the only software that had a big final build today, as the versatile Commodore emulator ' VICE ' is now at version 3.0. Now many of you have seen all of our C64 game updates, well this is the software we used for both play testing and usable screenshots. In actual fact VICE runs on many different operating systems including Unix and emulates the C64DTV, the C128, the VIC20, practically all PET models, the PLUS4 and the CBM-II (aka C610/C510). No wonder it is called the versatile Commodore emulator.So read below and check out the changelog, this is a highly recommended download for all 8-bit gamers!

WinUAE 3.4.0 Final - The best Amiga Emulator with a BIG pre-Christmas special

After many months of beta updates with a ton of fixes and improvements, today is the day that Toni Wilen has released a brand new WinUAE version 3.4.0 with a brand new website. This is by far the best version of the Amiga emulator so far, as it features new graphics adaptors such as the ColorBurst. Accelerator boards such as the Blizzard 1230 MK II and III, new HD Controllers and Network adaptors, American Laser Games arcade game hardware support and even a large list of new updates including reduced input latency. In all this is probably one of the biggest feature packed releases we've seen for a good few years, so if you have love the Amiga way of life and want to play Amiga games on your computer or install an Amiga OS, you can do no wrong with WinUAE

WinUAE 3.4.0 beta 18 RC1 - The latest Amiga emulator nears final

Great news emulator users, as after Toni Wilen recently introduced American Laser Game Laserdisc support, albeit still a work in progress. Today Toni has announced the first Amiga emulator release candidate as WinUAE 3.4.0 beta 18 RC1. Which means during this month, possibly midway you'll be seeing a fresh final edition of WinUAE 3.4.0. It's been a long month of updates filled with improvements and additions and now you too can look forward to an end of year 2016 with even more Amiga love!