Don't worry Amiga owners, we haven't left you out of the news! As I've been informed that as of this week you can try out Gloom Reforged by Andiweli! A new AI-assisted, assembly-coded overhaul for Amiga AGA systems, bringing modernized visuals and controls to the classic shooter series, including support for mouse and keyboard input. The project, compatible with the 90's Gloom, Gloom Deluxe, Gloom 3, and Zombie Massacre, features a reworked renderer with Bayer dithering, enhanced fog, and persistent configuration settings, and is currently available for testing.
Furthermore Gloom Reforged aims to build an enhanced Amiga version of the classic shooter, utilizing the original, unmodified earok/GloomAmiga source code as a clean foundation. This project focuses on reorganizing and extending the game for modern Amiga hardware while strictly preserving the original, high-speed gameplay and atmosphere. You can find more information in the official developer update!
Requirements :
- AGA only, so if you try on other than A1200/A4000 it won't work. I heard some people wondered it doesn't work on A500 🙂
- If you expect AAA PC shadows and reflections you might be disappointed, we are still talking about Gloom, the Engine is the same as in the 90s. It has optional blob-shadows and "reflection-ish" colored dots on the floor (see screenshot 4 and 5).
- And of course it needs more power than the old one because of the changes. So don't expect it works better than original Gloom.
- And this is only compatible and tested with PiStorm32 - it might/might not work on other hardware constellations.
- Bug fixes for the original source code in gloom2.s
- Integrating the health/weapon-bar and gun/muzzleflash graphics
- Improved keyboard and mouse controls for a smoother FPS-style experience
- Integrating new options in the ingame-menu
- Improved render depth for far areas (to possibly avoid banding)
- Optional visual enhancements such as muzzle flashes, atmospheric effects and subtle dynamic lighting
- Keeping compatibility with real Amiga systems as a priority, not only emulators
- Maintaining the original Gloom gameplay structure, assets and atmosphere as the foundation
- Compatibility to Gloom Deluxe, Gloom 3 and Zombie Massacre (Gloom has other assets, no gun, other statusbar, etc)
- Graphicscard/P96 compatibility
I never understood all the rave reviews for GLOOM back in the day. Even then, I thought it was rubbish.. chopping scrolling.. very basic.. even worse than Wolfenstein 3d.
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