It is the best of times, it is the worst of times; seem to be the sentiments amongst the polarised individuals that in some way, big or small, still maintain a connection to the Amiga, be it classic or NG. Whom do you believe? There are many who saturate the various online forums with spades of evidence that this is the best of times. Never has there been so much choice available to the non-conformist... 

I’ve been surfing the boards to kinda get a feel for what’s on people’s minds in the Amiga Community. Some of what I have been seeing just seems like bull shit to me. People jumping on people for what to me seem like trivial matters. Someone jumped on someone else for a media release because it contained the words “For Immediate Release”, not realizing this is a standard... 

There is some really good coverage done by the guys over at Touch Arcade of the upcoming Amiga emulator for the iPhone OS platform. I think the iPad makes an excellent retro gaming platform and am looking forward to getting one and playing some of my Amiga favourites. I’ll post my review here once I get a chance to play with it, stay tuned. http://toucharcade.com/2010/04/19/manomio-demonstrates-amiga-and-atari-2600-emulators-for-iphone/  Read More →

A short interview, and lots of good music! Ugress is an electronica oriented group, mainly comprised of Gisle Martens Meyer aka GMM, along with various guest artists. Now a famous Norwegian artist, like all good artists, he cut his teeth on the Commodore 64 and Amiga. Before becoming Ugress, GMM was known as Gnosis on the scene, a good collection of the tracks made by him on his Amiga´s can be found...