Tag: Amiga Demoscene

Amiga Programmer Dabbles Into Atari 8-bit With “Dragon Wood”

Dragon Wood, which Steril707 himself describes as a fantasy version of Exolon (Hewson, 1987), the legendary Amstrad CPC title. Borrmann – who is better known under the name of Tigerskunk – started programming Dragon Wood as a way to distract himself from his current project: Hyperblaster, a sequel to the notable shoot’em up Inviyya (2021) for Amiga computers and the…

Demomaker – The Amiga years – The making of the best demos for the Amiga from 1984 to 1993

In recent years, I became more conservative posting about crowdfunding campaigns, not because they are not worth but because I felt the retro scene was somehow overflooded by many different projects. The increase is natural and many of the recent projects I’ve seen seem to be very good. This time around I’ve decided to make an exception to my own…

Haujobb Framework – Amiga Demo Development Tool being released as open source

The group Haujobb has already enriched the Amiga Demoscene with dozens and dozens of amazing demos released throughout its existence. If that wasn’t enough the group has decided to make their tools available for everybody, including examples, and extensive documentation. Back in last August, Hellfire and Noname from Haujobb held a seminar at the 2018 Evoke Demoparty in Cologne where they share…

WHDLoad: The Amiga’s Secret Weapon

WHDLoad is a software package for the Amiga platform to make installation of software to a hard disk easier, for such things as demos or games. Recently it was announced that WHDLoad is now free which certainly brought more attention to it. Timely, the ByteCellar Blog has published a good introduction to WHDLoad. It is a must read and an…