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Games galore #31: Duke Nukem 3D, Wolfenstein 3D: Spear of Destiny, Yoomp!, Wonderboy, Robocop AGA
OMG, it's been a long time since the previous issue - again we have a lot of catching up ahead: Huge names in this issue! First-person-shooters, arcade, movie tie-in!
AADevLog #5 - Will it become... a game?!
Creating your first action game from scratch can be quite a challenge, and cause severe frustration. But at some point you begin to see some light at the end of the tunnel - and that's where the real fun part begins.
My experiments in creating something that might become... a game?! ...have reached a stage where (except for sound) pretty much everything is in place: timing, user input, movement, graphics, limits, ...and it seems to work! Stably!
To achieve this within a somewhat tolerable time frame (= this lifetime), some fundamental decisions had to be made:
AADevLog #4 - AROS and AmigaOS text editor
Publishing zx81paint on AmiNet led to me reviewing a lot of old C code, and creating an ASCII text editor is certainly an essential project for every C coder.
AMIGA alive software: zx81paint 0.1
Do you like to create software for the Sinclair ZX81? This little paint program might come in handy.
zx81paint creates ZX81 character set images, and can save them in file formats suitable for ZX81 development.
Games galore #30: Final Fight Enhanced, Akumajou Dracula AGA, Amidar500, Scramble500, CyberPunk Alien City
Three arcade conversions, an AGA conversion of a classic Konami platformer, and a new cyberpunk themed shoot-em-up.
Games galore #29: Caves & Cargo, Choctris, Attack of the Petscii Robots, Project Quest - Chapter 2, Castle Danger
In this issue: a game inspired by "Gravity Force", another "Tetris" game, a character-set based action adventure, an original top-down view shooter, and a virtual board game.
Caves & Cargo
This is an arcade action game similar to "Gravity Force", under development by EAB user TheoTheoderich: Fly your spaceship through caves and collect cargo.
P96 V3.3.1 is out!
Jens Schönfeld / individual Computers is showing his commitment to Amiga RTG software by releasing another update of P96 graphics card driver.
Here's a copy of the v3.3.1 list of changes:
Games galore #28: Knightmare, Turbo Santa, Santa Rocks, BvA: It's Snow Joke, Rick Dangerous remake, Guardian The Legend of Flaming Sword
A medieval shoot'em-up, a couple of Christmas games from 2021, and some exciting work-in-progress: Rick Dangerous AGA and Guardian The Legend of Flaming Sword!
Knightmare
In Jan. 2022 an old MSX game got remade for the Amiga: Konami's "Knightmare", a vertically scrolling shoot-em-up with a fantasy theme.
Games galore #27: Turbo Tomato, Ms Pac-Man 500, Shadow Warrior, Devil's Temple, Ermentrud - Held mit Pferd
Among the many arcade style game releases, in this issue we also have a slightly unusual point-and-click adventure from Germany.
Turbo Tomato
Around July 2021 arcade action game "Turbo Tomato" by Nivrig games was released, and got an update to v1.1.0 in October.