Amiga 500 Game play and development
After dusting off the good old Amiga 500 (with 512 kb memory!! you get a whopping 1024 KB internal memory) we were finally able to see and enjoy the stuff we and others made 20 years ago!!
It is still amazing how well an Amiga performs.
Keep in mind that when we played and created the games below, we were children age 12-17 .
AMS - Amiga MegaByte Shakers
Group Name; to create games, you need a little group to develop with.
Pettrie: Martijn: Jan: others... | Programming Graphics Music testing etc... |
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| Date: | Founded ca 1990 | |
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Watch the MovieAMS game development
SPD - Super Power Devotian
Complete game; Fly through 9 levels & 3 hidden levels. Try to kill all the enemies. If you don't destroy more than 60% of the enemies, you cannot progress to the next level.
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| Date: | Developed in 1991 | |
| Status: | Complete |
FruitKing
Complete game; Based on the well known fruit machines that we could find in every gamehall and cafetaria.
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Do you still recognize the coins and bills that are used? it is not monopoly money, but the genuine Dutch guilders! wicked old school |
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| Date: | Developed in 1991 | |
| Status: | Complete |
Just A Joke - musicdemo
Complete musicdemo, made bij Otis (Frans) and CultJam (Jan), used to display their music creating skills.
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| Date: | Developed in 1991 | |
| Status: | Complete |
Wildmangame
Platform game in development, great adventure game that never made it through to the end. Collect the gem, avoid getting killed bij snakes, bats, other wildmen and spears from the ground. Potion bottle gives full health. Go to the door in the end to progress to the next level.
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| Date: | Developed in 1991 | |
| Status: | Incomplete |
Hero
Platform game in development, trying to recreate a great amiga game, 'almost there'.
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| Date: | Developed in 1992 | |
| Status: | Incomplete |
Demo's
Fun little demo's useless yet funny
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| Date: | Developed in 1992 | |
| Status: | Incomplete |
Killing Zone
Galaga shoot 'm up game
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| Date: | Developed in 1992 | |
| Status: | Incomplete |
Amiga Emulator
If you do not own an Amiga and want to play oldscool games on one of the first really good gaming consoles, then you can download an Amiga Emulator.
A good emulator: http://www.winuae.net/
You will also need to find the Amiga Kickstart Roms e.g. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Amiga+Kickstart+Roms+-+Complete+-+TOSEC+v0.04&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=
The emulator uses *.adf files which are the disk files or Roms http://www.rom-world.com/dl.php?name=Amiga
To copy your Amiga disk to your PC, you need the following:
disk driver which can read Amiga Disks on your PC: http://simonowen.com/fdrawcmd/
A copy tool: adfread 1.1 - Amiga Disk Reader can be found in the download section of: http://www.winuae.net/
In the setup mentioned above, you need a windows pc with 2 working diskdrives... you know. that little slot where you can shuff a 1.44 disk in.
To be honest, setting up the pc was quite a hassle :-( but worth it! we now preserved our precious games!
