New Commercial Amiga 500 Game Released

Mike Bouma writes: Pixelglass, known for their "Giana Sisters SE" game, has released a worthy new game for the Amiga 500, called "Worthy." Here's a description of this cute action puzzler: "Assume the role of a fearless boy and collect the required number of diamonds in each stage in order to win the girl's heart! Travel from maze to maze, kill the baddies, avoid the traps, collect beers (your necessary 'fuel' to keep you going), find the diamonds, prove to her you're WORTHY!" Time to dust off that classic Amiga or alternatively download a digital copy and use an UAE emulator for your platform of choice. Have a look at the release trailer.

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Trapped in Amiga Hell

[mentil]

I knew nothing about the Amiga, and a few months ago set up an Amiga emulator to play an obscure game exclusive to that platform. Learning the basics about all the different systems and specs and addons and which were most appropriate for a latter-day game was a drag. The system has more classifications of RAM than DOS did. It was harder than it should've been to figure out why nothing happened when I turned on the emulator, even after configuring BIOS. I had to pay attention to which OS versions worked with which BIOS versions (and some require certain hardware) and try to find two that were compatible. That the OS is usually called 'workbench' and so too is the main utility disk, is confusing. Eventually I got the OS installed to a virtual hard drive, and then the game itself. Trying to patch the game from Windows was an additional hassle. Too bad the game was buggy and meh. Oh and no savestates so it's a drag every time the game crashes.

I'm spoiled by DOSBox. Wish they just emulated the AmigaOS API so you didn't have to faff with it.