It wasn't too long ago that many of us had the pleasure of playing Allan Turvey's Terrapins RX; a Rally X Remix demo which was based on the 1980 game by Namco and official conversion Maze Death Race which was released later in 1983 by PSS for the ZX Spectrum 16K! Well it's time for the Amiga to get in on the Rally fun, as thanks to Tom contacting us today, he has told us that JOTD is working on a brand new Arcade conversion of Rally-X for the Amiga!
A project originally shelved in summer 2025 due to a notoriously buggy Z80 converter has been revived after a complete software rewrite, triggering a wave of classic arcade ports that have been mentioned on Indie Retro News. The fresh code worked almost flawlessly right out of the gate, delivering on the promise to make it "rain Z80 games" with titles like Commando and Vulgus already leading the way. This breakthrough also marks a milestone for Bosconian, which shares the same underlying hardware and graphics layout. While the current build relies on AGA hardware to handle the necessary dual-playfield side screens, the developer says that ECS machines could eventually run it using a few clever colour-reduction tricks. Best of all, because the game completely bypasses the blitter and relies solely on hardware sprites, it is expected to hit 50 frames per second even on stock, vanilla setups.
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another bonus is JOTD has said this is one step closer to getting Bosconian for the Amiga since it used mostly the same hardware.
ReplyDeleteIt says that in the write up :D :D :D - Can't wait! Bosconian is an awesome game
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