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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.
You are all cows. Cows say moo. MOOOOOO! MOOOOO! Moo cows MOOOOOO! Moo say the cows. YOU BITBLITTING COWS!!
But I did have a 1000, then a 2000 and a 1200
But that was many years ago, I didn't bring the Amigas with me when I migrated (legally) to America 16 years ago.
There are still commercial games being released for the C64 every year (+ smaller free games). I don't follow the Amiga-scene as closely as the C64, but surely it's the same there?
Not complaining about the Amiga getting some attention on slashdot, I just don't see why it's news.
Nothing else really matters in comparison. This is good news, America will be great again by actually draining the swamp in the GOP.
There have been quite a few commercial titles for the Amiga in the last few years actually, shipped on floppy disks in a fancy box with user manual just like back in the day.
Not published by the giants like Psygnosis and DMA Design, but individuals and smaller publishers, but nonetheless there are still a few handfuls of newly made games published since 2010.
Of all the old dead computers, the Amiga is remarkably alive. There's even new hardware being made for it even today.
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.
Corruption is convincing someone that the selfless ideal is the same as their selfish ideal.
Ahh yes the wonderful memories. (I had in chron order: Amiga 500, Amiga 2000, Amiga 1000, and finally the Amiga 1200 ... i also ended up buying a friend an Amiga 3000 so he could do pro video work with Video Toaster, which he later repaid me -- sometime when i had the Amiga 2000. Amazing times.
If i'm not mistaken the PC was in CGA 4 color mode with beep-beep speaker sound. Mac's were in black and white. While the Amiga 500 was doing things in 4096 HAM graphics modes, full multi-tasking, and with stereo sound. Just to name of few of its brilliant architecture.
Just to show my support and respect for that machine I will go buy the game now
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You mean I need to buy a RAM upgrade just to play this game!? Damn!
At the end of the game, the brave boy discovers that sisters are doing it for themselves, aren't so shallow as to be impressed by borbles and beads, he doesn't win the girls heart but does have to give up half of his diamonds and pay alimony for life.
Its not news....
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Somehow I remember playing Amiga games at our neighbour back in the day to be more fun and also look more "interesting", no? I would have thought with modern tools and such new games would look more awesome, like the 8-bit computer guy's space thing for the C64, ...
The Atari ST was (oversseas) seen as a perfect mixture between Business&Gaming.
I had quite a few exclusive games (Bolo...), quite a few IDEs (Pascal, C...), quite a few serious programs: Signum (which I did my thesis on), huge DTPs, midi.
The shareware/floppy/cdrom/print "Scene" here did rival the Amigas.
Nice fact: The ST was purely sold with the hd mono monitor in Europe, you could just attach any good and large pal tv to it.
The extreme versatility was ignored it the states. The name Atari was just limited to cartridges.
If you want to play a game on an Atari ST/or Atari ST Emu, you have to decide whether it should be in mono/hd or color low rez. Done. RAM is just RAM, OS is just OS. :P
> fearless boy and collect the required number of diamonds in each stage in order to win the girl's heart
how offensive is the premise of this game.
where is the LGBTQ equality
"fearless" "boy" "give" "girl" "diamonds" to "win" "heart"
you cucks just lining up for teh abuse
again
how many cucks heads and cows heads need to be on teh pikes at the edge of town before anybody lerans
such funny mating rituals displayed
ahahahahahahaha
joke
A new Amiga game, and it had to be a "guy gets girl" game, basically a caveman trope. You can't do this anymore, it isn't PC.
#MeToo
Waiting for it to be cracked by Crystal, it wouldn't really be 'amiga' if it wasn't cracked =D
Did the amazing Amiva conversion of Bomb Jack make it to slashdot recently? That is seriously impressive and beats the hell out of the Elite conversion. If you have an amiga then you just tty it!
This game has been made possible by the generous contributions of the DeBeers Corporation and Anheuser Busch...
Drinking as much beer as possible while trying to collect enough diamonds to "win" the "heart" of a girl.
The game should be called "Bro Ho".
preview guide channel used to run on Amiga it crashed a lot.
Here's a new real-time strategy game developed last year by the "8-bit guy" for the Commodore 64: http://www.the8bitguy.com/plan...
I'm not sure they're getting rich on this, but if you're nostalgic and love to code... why not?
In TFS it says
Let's ignore for the moment the fact that the E probably also stands for emulator. What the fuck kind of pronunciation leads you to say 'an UAE'? Are you calling it Ooh-aye? Uh-way? I can't be the only one that looks at it and sees just an initialism (you-ay-ee)... Right?
Toni Wilen, the programmer for WinUAE has different goals in mind other than creating an excellent gaming experience. He's trying to recreate the *entire* Amiga ecosystem in a single program. His web page usually has him asking for obscure boards and roms because he wants to emulate it all. I think this is a grand goal.
Every single board I used to drool over in the old Amiga magazines and wish I could buy, he wants to emulate. So for someone like me being able to run an Amiga Blizzard board or an accurate Amiga 4000 or some such...it's a way to scratch a very old itch.
Toni also got MMU emulation working, which made Amiga Linux possible. It was a HUGE kick to see the old m68k linux stuff come up in the emulator. Not everyone's cup of tea, obviously. But a lot of fun. Reading the EAB threads as the thing was coming closer and closer to boot was pretty exciting. I'm sure I'm a minority on that, but still, I thought it was a lot of fun.
But to your point, WinUAE can also provide an excellent and simple gaming experience. The first default configuration tab has default *stock* Amiga configurations right there. Just select an OCS Amiga 500, and 99% of your games will run. You don't have to drill down into the tech stuff and twiddle chipsets to make things work.
Weaselmancer
rediculous.
The local community access television station here as recent as 2013 had an Amiga whose sole purpose was text crawls for advertisements and subtitles like the ones that pop up showing the names of the hosts or interviewers.
Use a little common sense once in a while. --Book of Mooch Ch. 5 verse 14
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