PuppyArcade to make multi-faceted gamers’ dreams come true. CD-based OS for playing old games.

Running a modern Crysis-like game at 1920 x 1200 is no doubt a thrill if you have the required hardware to do so. But for all the eye candy that bombards gamers today, sometimes a “simpler life” is being sought out. The good ‘ol days of gaming with graphics measured in bits instead of MHz or RAM allotment cater as some would call it, to a more “real” or enjoyable sense of gaming. Getting this classic fix in the modern age has been made possible thanks to countless emulators and ROMs. But the process of downloading the emulator and individual ROMs can be a pain at times as can actually getting everything to run correctly. That’s where “PuppyArcade” comes in.

This disc-based OS is developed specifically for running ROMs and classic games. Games from classic systems such as Amiga, Atari, Commodor, and even more modern systems like NES, PS1, and Gamecube among others all have a spot at this table. A slightly more expanded, though certainly not final list of supported systems include:

Amiga (500, 1000, 2000), Atari (ST, 800, 800XL, 130XE, 5200), Amstrad (CPC, Plus, VEB), Arcades, Colecovision, Commodore (64, 128, VIC20, PET), GameBoys (GB, GBC, GBA), GameGear, Genesis/MegaDrive, MasterSystem, MS DOS, N64, NeoGeo, NeoGeo CD, NES/Famicom, PC Engine/TurboGrafix, PSX, ScummVM, SNES and ZX Spectrum (16k, 48k, 128k, +2, +2A, +3) & more!

If a single system just won’t cut it and/or your consider yourself a video game connoisseur, it’s be in your best interest to check out this link and pick up PuppyArcade. I’m downloading as we speak to give it a fair shot. In the meantime, give it a try yourself and let us know how it goes.

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MorphOS lets Amiga loyalists party like it’s 1994 — Mac Mini support included.

The Amiga, once a platform competing neck and neck in the computing scene has since fallen by the way side. Long ago, relevance for this little known outfit was cast aside into the catacombs of society. But, the faithful few who still cling to the hopes of the AmigaOS one day taking over the world have a new tool in their arsenal. It’s easy to assume that your typical user, heck even most geeks don’t have a Power-PC based Amiga just laying around. Welcome to the wonderful world of Morph — a gateway to expanding Amiga goodness to other machines. The latest Morph 2.4 OS adds in Mac Mini support (in addition to the current crop of hardware which can be seen here, meaning a few more users can be touched by this persistent OS. I’ve dabbled with Amiga emulators here and there and while they are a lot of fun and have some pretty cool features, they just haven’t sucked me in that deep. Eh, to each his own.

• Find out more about MorphOS 2.4

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