Today I took a look at a recently released game for AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition on my AmigaOne X1000 called Project: Starfighter!

This is an interesting shoot-em-up game by Parallel Realities (ported by AmigaBlitter), which you can download from os4depot.net here.

After downloading an extracting there are a few more files you need to also download in order for the game to run.

You need to download libfreetype.lha from os4depot.net and from the extracted drawer (I extracted it to RAM:), use the shell to copy the Freetype2/SDK/local/newlib/lib/libfreetype.so.18 to SOBJS:

Then you need to download three more .so files from this Google Drive repository here.

Copy these three updated SDL2 lib .so files into the SOBJS: location using the shell.

Last but not least from the shell you need to assign SF: to the drawer where you extracted the Project Starfighter archive on your system. Add this assign to the s:user-startup so you don't have to do it again.

Ok, now we can launch the game from it's drawer - it can run on Sam440/460 AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition systems too although I have not tried this:

As the game starts a quick intro gets us into the story of the game - being a shoot-em up the story is pretty short!

We are then presented with the main menu of the game, and things are looking and sounding great already - nice music in this game!

Options menu lets you change the sound/music, full screen mode (recommend turning this on), auto pause and using software instead of hardware rendering.

Starting the game you can choose the difficulty level:

Background story is explained (ESC to skip) and then it is into the game proper!

Mission objective is displayed:

The game itself is a defender style shoot em up, with some tough enemies to shoot. I got into it right away:

Each mission has objectives - collecting items, cash, destroying mines, destroying enemies, etc.

Once you clear the first mission you see the main screen you work from during the game.

Within the current system it shows which planet in the system you are currently stationed at. You can also save your game from here, which I took the opportunity to do!

You can see the missions available to you to completed and which planet they are on. You may need to travel to another planet in the system to do that mission, or there may be more than one mission on the particular planet so pay attention to the locations:

If you have uncompleted missions on the planet you are currently located on, you can immediately start the next mission as below:

You can also upgrade your ship's weapons if you have sufficient cash and reached a sufficient stage in the game.

I move on to the next mission:

All done! This is a fun game to play I have to say!

Next mission awaits:

This is at another planet so I click on the planet in the solar system map, and then click on the left icon to go to the Destination Planet:

I can then complete the next mission:

I include a Youtube clip I took and uploaded of the gameplay as it is hard to capture in screen grabs alone.

As you can see it is a fast paced game and a lot of fun to play. I found it quite addictive! The sound and effects are great!