WinUAE - the Unusable Amiga Emulator - isn't as unusable as it was in the past. The latest Windows versions have made huge strides. The latest release - WinUAE 1.4.6 - features a nice drop down menu that makes it possible to quickly select the appropriate machines.

On Lemonade - thanks Oldschool!
Lemonade Initial Configuration

For those of you who would like to try out CD32/CDTV games and don't have access to a machine you might want to check out Akiko - it is a shareware emulator of German origins created by Airsoft.

Freeware utilities making it possible to run Windows on top of other operating systems are available in various flavours like Bochs, Qemu, Virtual Box, Virtual PC. The pay ware versions like VMware and Parallels also do a good job.

Two great games are coming to Apple Macintosh and will run on OSX natively. The games are Gears of War and UT3.

This retro-style fast paced 'must buy an Xbox 360'-game has become available for the PC platform as Geometry Wars has finally left the realm of the Xbox 360 - read more below.

The Philips Entertaible Digital Board Gaming Surface: Photo from PC Magazine onlinePC Magazine, reporting on news from the Internationale Funkausstellung, a consumer electronics show in Berlin, revealed that Philips will show off the Entertaible, a digital board-gaming surface, on Friday.

We've of course recently seen over the past several years the rise of virtual physical games, if you want to call them that, mostly in "arcades" (if even those can be called that anymore). Essentially these games take real world concepts like shuffleboard or bowling, and use partial physical items, like paddles or pucks, that are utilized on a flat, virtual surface, and interact with an impact sensor at the end of the table to make something happen on the video screen, preferably accurately reflecting what would happen if it were an all physical setup. There's also been quite a bit of controversy in the pinball world, where these virtual machines take the form factor of traditional pinball machines, but do the majority of their work via a video screen. This allows for infinitely configurable tables, but is it still really pinball, or more akin to what we play on our computers and videogame systems? In any case, the revolution, if you want to call it that, has been well under way.