Shock!! This isn't a JOTD Arcade to Amiga port! As I've found out from Walter Mamo that Modern Vintage Gamer is still working on an Arcade to Amiga port of the top down racing game called 'Zippy Race', also known as MotoRace USA in the states. A game in which the player controls a racer who must travel on a motorcycle from Los Angeles to New York City. To coincide with this news, MVG has provided a long video showing how the game came to be and the current progress.
My Amiga 500 port of Zippy Race is almost complete. It never released for the machine and it's a perfect game for the OCS machine. I love developing games for the Amiga. More to come soon! pic.twitter.com/cWv33ewZzv
— MVG (@ModernVintageG) March 30, 2026
New Video
Here's the latest about the game "Ever wanted to code a game from scratch that runs on an old retro computer hardware from 1985 ? Challenge Accepted - This is my Work in Progress port of Zippy Race that runs on a standard Commodore Amiga A500 with the Original Chip Set (OCS) and just 512k/512k. In this episode I walk through how the port came to be and how I solved various challenges with the development of the game. I hope you enjoy!"
A Few Notes:
- I Plan to finish and release this sometime in 2026. No eta yet - when its done. It will be free and open sourced but might do a limited physical print run. We will see.
- The Amiga technical information about theBblitter, Sprites, Scrolling etc is my understanding to the best of my knowledge. I'm not an expert and im still learning this stuff so if i got something wrong please let me know
- Have a fantastic week!
Watch this space for more...
Looks excellent. Can't wait to have a go on this.
ReplyDeleteLooks excellent. Kind of an enhanced NES or MSX game (Road Fighter). Cant wait to have a go on this!
ReplyDeletelooking great! nice of him to de-mystify the procedure too :)
ReplyDelete@Anonymous Except that he's also a professional games developer.
ReplyDeleteThis is great, more quality arcade ports for Amiga which give 50/60 FPS. We got just crappy arcade conversions for Amiga in the 80's, or cheap Atari ST conversions to Amiga. Bombjack, Outrun, Rolling Thunder, and Robocop, etc. were all disasters, just to name a few. Fortunately, now we have new and better versions of at least Bomb Jack and Outrun thanks to good Amiga developers.
ReplyDeleteZippy Race! I used to play it a lot on the Famicom. Commodore Amiga gets all the good stuff, poor Mega Drive, it never gets these cool arcade conversions...
ReplyDeleteMVG is a very talented programmer.
ReplyDeleteI am sure the final product will be an excellent work.
Played the Colecovision version, it's a classic arcade game very addictive, waiting for the Amiga port :)
ReplyDeleteLove this!! fan of the MSX version!
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