Tag: Commodore Amiga
Regular readers to this site will know that I recently reviewed the conversion of Street Fighter II for the Commodore and found it, shall we say, somewhat lacking. Amiga owners desperate for a decent slice of beat ’em up action were going to need to look elsewhere. Fortunately, that didn’t turn out to be too far, as it happens. Team 17,…
Golden Wing by CopperSky is an Amiga Shmup, similar in many ways to Stardust and the classic Arcade game Asteroids. Blast your way through enemies and asteroids throughout each level, in addition, you can collect items that provide extra shields, power-ups and extra lives. Minimum hardware requirements are: Amiga 500 with 512 Kb chip + 512 Kb slow RAM. The…
The year was 1992 and Commodore Amiga owners were going into paroxysms of excitement – I should know for I was one of them – because the unthinkable was happening – Street Fighter II, one of the best arcade fighters ever made, was soon to be released for the system. The game received massive amounts of pre-release coverage (and hype)…
Hot off the Press! Beta 2B of Graeme Cowie’s Bomb Jack Amiga remake, “Bomb Jack Beer Edition” has been released today! Bomb Jack Beer Edition Beta 2B released, ADF in the link https://t.co/iUFIulS9kC @CommodoreBlog @Indie_RetroNEWS @pcotter72 #bombjack @RetroGamer_Mag #amiga #homebrew #bombjack — Graeme Cowie (@pushpoppwn) March 4, 2018 Download: bombjack2C.adf Download: bombjack2b.adf Previous Posts: Bomb Jack Beer Edition
Graeme Cowie contacted me through Facebook just now, to let me know that beta 1 of his Amiga Bomb Jack remake has been released! We have been following the game closely with previous News posts here and here. Quick update to say I’ve updated the Bomb Jack Beer Edition, it’s to the point now that it is good enough for…
Amicast is a podcast about the Amiga, covering everything about the platform, past and present! In this episode the team interviews “Boing Attitude”, a software house for the Amiga, MS Windows and Android. Boing Attitude are responsible for education games software such as “Ask Me Up” and the file manager “Dir Me Up”. Website: Amicast
BetterWB is a workbench pack much like AIAB, Amikit, AmigaSYS and ClassicWB, but applying a totally different approach. It aims to be much like an enhancement, an updated extension to AmigaOS 3.1, without all those hardware requirement penalties typically associated with these kind of packs. It is indeed a better 3.1 than 3.1 itself! Changes: Icon.library updated to 46.4.473 Redit…
This Morning Stefano Buonocore over on Amiga Friends Facebook group shared a nice point and click Adventure game called “The Secret of Middle City. Inspired by classics such as Monkey Island and Broken Sword, The Secret of Middle City is an adventure that takes place in a typical North American mountain town and sees the protagonist, the goofy and clumsy…
Mid January we mentioned News about a new work in progress Bomb Jack remake for the Amiga by Graeme Cowie (Mcgeezer). Today Jack Ells on Facebook gave us the heads up that a playable demo version has been publicly released. With graphics and SFX as good as the original Arcade, it’s looking to be a winner! When watching the video,…
On Sunday we shared some News about Foxman’s upcoming “Elfie the Unicorn“, a children’s game for the Amiga. Today we have some more interesting info, on maybe another work in progress game from Foxman titled “Jack the Unicorn Hunter”. The game is a reverse role of Elfie, where instead of the Unicorn as the player, you are a unicorn hunter!…
