2023 was a very active Amiga gaming year indeed - here are seven more titles that were started, or released, in mid-2023: adventures, arcade, puzzles, ...!
Skimming over recent Amiga games: In May 2023 alone, around ten new games popped up. Here are six of them, covering arcade action, fantasy adventure, and hacking in cyberspace.
Yesterday, Hyperion Entertainment once again proved its commitment, releasing another update for AmigaOS 3.2.
It's update no. 3 for this version of AmigaOS, and it includes new Kickstart ROM version 3.2.3. The release contains a multitude of bugfixes and little enhancements, among which are updates to ReAction classes, TextEditor, DiskDoctor, HDToolbox, and some memory optimization that frees 12KB of ChipRAM.
Head over to Hyperion's website for more details, and download (for registered users):
A lot of people have been waiting for this - the time has come: play "Tomb Raider" on your Amiga!
This popped up just hours ago. Ok, it's "OpenLara", and so far only a proof of concept / tech demo - some features are missing - but it's the actual Tomb Raider-ess, it runs very smooth on a PiStorm, and from what we're hearing so far, it's even playable on a 68030. That's quite a lot!
Astronauts of the International Space Station can plug in an Amiga 600, 1200, or CD32 and play games on a beamer!
Another nice example of how the Amiga was used as a low-cost video production workhorse.
According to an article in a 1993 issue of "Amiga Kickstart" magazine (see links below), the music video for House Of Usher's techno track "Shades" was created on an Amiga 500+, using DeluxePaint IV.
Yet another preview of "Grind" - the grown up brother of Amiga 500 Doom-clone "Dread" - just popped up on YouTube.
"Dread" was a super impressive project that spawned full-game-release project "Grind", and it's looking better than ever.
Here's the latest video, that was uploaded just minutes ago to famous retro-gaming channel Saberman RetroNews:
A surprisingly simple repair to a microscopic, but essential problem with an Amiga 1200's floppy drive.
This drive didn't work reliably, and at some point failed completely, not detecting disk media anymore. Only with a little bit of extra pushing on the disk, it would click and start reading, but immediately stop when released. A more thorough inspection was required.
"Quick clips" are a number of quickly recorded and little edited videos of what you might call "everyday Amiga issues" - installing a software package, fixing some C code, transcoding a file from one format to another, and the likes.
So far, these "quick clips" can be found on the YouTube channel:
Some "live" examples of how to translate AMOS code to C code.
Sometimes one might get confused when to use TAG_DONE in AmigaOS C-code, and when to use TAG_END. The answer is very simple: They're one and the same. But it turns out there might be a little bit of an unknown story to these two widely used tokens.
TAG_DONE showed up before TAG_END, in NDK1.3, along with struct
TagItem, but not as part of the system includes, and the TagItem system
wasn't used in system functions.
Or was it? This is a section of code from the file Read-Me1.3/A2024Docs/OpenA2024.c, which is part of NDK1.3.