Some late Indie Retro News for you all and one I think you'll agree is rather cool if you have a Commodore Amiga, as we've recently been informed via the EAB forums, that you can now download the newest version 1.4 of SkillGrid; an endless score-attack vertical shoot 'em up featuring frenetic, tactical gameplay and comprising of a variety of different sub-games, boss battles and sophisticated scoring mechanics.
This AGA based game available as a digital download, features not just original gameplay based on shooting at enemies and catching/dodging of cells. But also an impressive amount of parallax layers (2 of which generated procedurally) scrolling at variable speed, real transparency algorithm for AGA, 1 fixed layer for the HUD, real time palette changes, tiny sprites, pixel-perfect collision detection, an awesome high quality prog-rock music and much much more all available at the link below.
Just released a new version which uses the direct NVRAM access code discussed here.
v1.9 (1.2.2025)
- Replaced the Amiga CD³² NVRAM access routines with new and working ones, and enabled the hiscore loading/saving from/to NVRAM (before it was enabled on demand by the user at boot, but the reading failed, so the hiscore loading/saving self-disabled).
- Improved the startup code (among other things, now it allocates dynamically a CHIM RAM buffer that before was reserved in a BSS section, allowing the game to boot on a stock Amiga CD³² again - which did not happen anymore since one of the previous updates).
- Reduced the number of stars pre-rendered on the background.
- Fixed, improved and updated the manual.
v1.8 (12.1.2025)
- Fixed the version string.
v1.7 (31.7.2024)
- Fixed a sprite glitch introduced by yesterday's update.
v1.6 (30.7.2024)
- Made the startup code more robust and faster.
v1.5 (11.5.2024)
- Touched up a volume effect in the MUSIC MODE music.
- Removed some useless instructions from the cleanup code.
Links :1) Website
brought this games years ago... it could really do with a sound track. And i mean a varied soundtrack that changes a lot.
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