24.Apr.2024
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AmigaOS 4: Mini review of Heretic 2
The adaptation of the third-person shooter "Heretic 2", originally released in 1998 for the PC and two years later also for the Amiga, to AmigaOS 4, which was released this year, was subjected to a short review by Pavel 'pavlor' Dohnal at the title link.
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24.Apr.2024
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Demo scene: How the Backslide demo was created
At this year's Revision demo party, Backslide to Arcanum by Cosmic Orbs took 3rd place among the Amiga demos. Interest attracted that a large bitmap image rotated effortlessly at 50 Hz in full overscan and 1×1 resolution, moving across the screen and changing size arbitrarily.
At the title link, 'Jobbo' from Cosmic Orbs explains how he went about it.
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23.Apr.2024
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.38
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.99, which allows the development of games from various genres (e.g. Agonman). RedPill is compatible with AGA and ECS, the "player" for playing the finished creations requires a total of 1.5 MB RAM. Jens 'Farbfinsternis' Henschel has written a tutorial.
All changes of updated version 0.9.38:
- Trigonometry functions are now intertal and mathtrans library is no longer needed.
- Mathtrans library is no longer copied when building games, diskfont is only copied if topaz is not used.
- Added a condition trigger CPU is to check the processor of the machine where the game is running.
- When building a game targeting A500 assign ENV: to RAM: is not executed.
- Optimization of math functions.
- Fix for tileset not being saved.
- Fix in basic_platformer project that made impossible completing the second stage.
- Fix for Default screen width being overwritten by the level one.
- Fix for Tiled Move action trigger when moving in diagonal.
- Small fixes.
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23.Apr.2024
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Arcade port: Phoenix500
Jean-Francois 'jotd' Fabre has converted another arcade classic for the Amiga: Phoenix500 is a top-down space shooter (YouTube video) that has been remade for ECS Amigas.
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23.Apr.2024
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Shoot'em Up: Game.X 1.2
Franck 'hitchhikr' Charlet has released version 1.2 of his port of the shoot'em up Game.X (YouTube video, amiga-news.de reported). It uses a newer and faster engine and saves the highscore in the game directory if the NVRAM is not available.
The game requires an AGA Amiga and was originally released by Kugenuma Soft in 1990.
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