The Commodore Amiga scene has received another hot news story with the first alpha tease of a high-performance recreation of the arcade classic, Moon Cresta. Developed by Johnny Acevedo under the Amiten Games banner, this "from-scratch" build serves as a free tribute to the 1980s Nichibutsu original and a salute to François Lionet, the creator of AMOS. Furthermore unlike many modern retro efforts, this project is not a code conversion or a simple port. Developer Johnny Acevedo meticulously reconstructed the game piece by piece to mirror the original arcade mechanics.
As Amiten Games has noted "This is not a port: no original source code was converted. Instead, the game was handcrafted, built piece by piece, based on a deep understanding of the original arcade mechanics, with graphics extracted from MAME ROMs (Thanks to 125Scracht) and converted for the Amiga. The current Alpha Build (v0.2) represents two weeks of intensive development, achieving near "arcade-perfect" results on high-end hardware"
What’s included in this build Alpha Version (v0.2): 2 weeks of hard work.
- Ship control via Joystick – smooth and responsive
- Full ship assembly system – 3 docking parts
- Shooting mechanics & engine thrust animation
- 60% Complete recreation of arcade levels and graphics
- Sound system
- Vertical scrolling starfield
- Dual Playfield mode:
- Background: 4 colors (stars)
- Foreground: 8 colors (game action)
⚡ Performance and optimization:
- This is ~99% of game logic powered by AMAL for speed and smoothness ,.
- Main loop kept minimal to maintain fluid gameplay 50 Hz on Stock Amiga 1200.
- Collisions, sound triggers, and scoring handled efficiently in AMOS BASIC
- Micro-lags minimized with optimized score updating
- Continuous testing on real hardware ensures faithful arcade experience
- Running on a vanilla Amiga 1200 ? 50 FPS gameplay, game is already 99% arcade-perfect.
- *Note: At the moment, due to limited time, the game is not yet fully optimized to run at maximum speed on an Amiga 500. We plan to improve its performance over time. This build currently runs at 25 FPS on Amiga 500.
- Amiga OCS 512KB + 512KB users need Kickstart 2.00 or higher to run the game. Kickstart 1.3 is not supported.
What a great Moon Cresta ne Amigo! And thank you for your dedication and your time, but it is a game that is too old and basic for it to only work at 25 fps on Amiga 500 and, an error that cannot work on Kickstart 1.3, we hope for optimization in the future if possible.
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