Here on Indie Retro News we've certainly had our fair share of Castlevania fan games! We've had the more recent release of Maria Renard's Revenge and the in-dev Akumajou Dracula AGA for the Amiga. Well here we are with yet ANOTHER Amiga news story, as Saberman was kind enough to let us know earlier today, that he has done a new video of the rather lovely looking Castlevania inspired Demo of 'GothicVania'; A tech demo which has been created using Earok's excellent Scorpion Engine.
Even though I was rather late with this news update as a bad headache got in the way, but if you have a Commodore Amiga 1200 and want to try something out, that looks very impressive, especially as it is running on a stock original A1200 with just 4Mb FastRam, then make sure to check out this 3D engine for an Amiga A1200 as a Spyro The Dragon tech demo by Rst7/CBSIE. As in the words of one our Commodore Facebook members "prepare to be wowed" and "incredible".
For those of you who have followed Indie Retro News throughout the years, you have probably noticed that we mainly feature retro games and PC(Windows) based news. But today I was contacted about a brand new emulator update for Windows, MacOs and Linux, that had some rather interesting features which could make it one of the best emulators to be used at home your PC. The emulator I'm going to mention is ' Retro Virtual Machine ' which is currently at version 2.1.0.
Although many of us stick to real hardware, unofficial gaming packages from the likes of GamesNostalgia or TheCompany.PL, or a quick load up through software such as FS-UAE and WinUAE. There's still a rather large fan base who prefer using the commercial Cloanto Emulation packages such as Amiga Forever and C64 Forever. These packages as noted by Cloanto for the Amiga version "blend high-quality software and original content with the ultimate set of videos to chronicle and let you experience first hand the history, culture, challenges and passion behind the Amiga."
Checking our Facebook feeds today we recently had a heads up from our good friend Ethan Knight of a new update that everyone in the BBC Micro community is sure to be excited over. Yes indeed if you had a BBC Micro back in the 1980's, then make sure to check out the 3D BBC Micro Simulator of VirtualBeeb! As in the words of our good friend Ethan "I wish to God Mr Carless or Mr Gilchrist could have seen this. Everything about it just smacked me right back to computer class 🥰 A fully emulated BBC Micro, in your browser, capable of doing everything a Model B could do! You can even write code on it or connect to Telnet \o/"
Here on Indie Retro News we've been flooded with new Amiga game updates, as we've had Creeping Me Out Hex Night, Spy Hunter, Monkey Lad, Contra, Hunting Frogs and even Farmiga, Well here we are with yet ANOTHER Amiga news story, as Saberman was kind enough to let us know earlier today, that he has done a new video of the rather lovely looking Castlevania inspired Tech Demo of 'GothicVania'; A tech demo which has been created using Earok's excellent Scorpion Engine.
As most of you are aware, there are different ways to create Amiga games, either through Amos, Blitz Basic, RedPill or through the rather lackluster Backbone. But one such game engine has become the highlight of nearly every new upcoming Amiga game, and that's Earok's amazing Scorpion Engine; a constantly updated piece of software that gives developers the tools to create graphically impressive games, running at decent frame rates even on the lowest spec'd Amigas.
As most of you are aware, there are different ways to create Amiga games, either through Amos, Blitz Basic, RedPill or through the rather lackluster Backbone. But one such game engine is becoming the highlight of nearly every new Amiga game or tech demo announcement, and that's Earok's Scorpion Engine; a constantly updated piece of software that gives developers the tools to create graphically impressive games, running at decent frame rates even on the lowest spec'd Amigas.
Putting aside all the great games for the moment, we've just been told through our Facebook and Twitter page, that the very latest version of AmigaOS 3.2 has been released into the wild for all classic Amiga's. For those of you who don't know what AmigaOS is. It is a fully updated and polished operating system for 68k machines, packed with well over 100 new features, dozens of updates that cover nearly all AmigaOS components and a battery of bugfixes that will undoubtedly solidify the user experience.
Although many of us stick to real hardware, unofficial gaming packages from the likes of GamesNostalgia or TheCompany.PL, or a quick load up through software such as FS-UAE and WinUAE. There's still a rather large fan base who prefer using the commercial Cloanto Emulation packages such as Amiga Forever and C64 Forever. These packages as noted by Cloanto for the Amiga version "blend high-quality software and original content with the ultimate set of videos to chronicle and let you experience first hand the history, culture, challenges and passion behind the Amiga."
As most of you are aware, there are different ways to create Amiga games, either through Amos, Blitz Basic, RedPill or through the rather lackluster Backbone. But one such engine is making its presence known, and that's Earok's Scorpion engine; a constantly updated piece of software that gives developers the tools to create graphically impressive games, running at decent frame rates even on the lowest spec'd Amigas.
A late evening announcement for Amiga users as WHDLoad; the AmigaOS friendly Harddisk-Install package by Bert Jahn has been updated to a brand new WHDLoad 18.6 final version. With well over a year in development, WHDLoad is probably the best software available for your Amiga, as it makes it possible to install quite a lot demos and games, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, to your harddisk.
