We always try to keep you up to date with the best in Amiga news, but boy do we have a surprise for you. As we have recently been informed through the EAB forums, that the 1990's coverdisk game of 'Droid' for the Atari ST, is being converted over to the Commodore Amiga by junosix: A decent run-and-gun style platformer with Metroid-ish elements! To coincide with this news, we've got some information about the game, as well as a new gameplay video of the downloadable beta version.
And here's the latest via the EAB post linked (HERE). "In 1992, ST Format magazine published a coverdisk game called Droid, a decent run-and-gun style platformer with Metroid-ish elements. A nice game but I always thought it would be better if it used the extra blitter, hardware scrolling and audio features of the STE. A few years ago I did just that and from scratch wrote a version with full screen 8-way scrolling, sampled sound, and music, and came up with Droid Special Edition".
"Cut to six weeks ago and I thought I'd have a crack at porting it over to the Amiga - so I did! Presented here as a beta version, it is 100% playable but I'm stumped at making a bootable version that works on Kickstart 1.x. Runs fine off a hard disk with Kickstart 1.3 but when I make a bootable disk it seems it works with anything with 512K ChipRAM but only on Kickstart 2.0+. Can only assume I need some library files and have tried copying them from Workbench 1.3 but it makes no difference - would very much appreciate some help from anyone with the answer".
"Also a slight annoyance that the disk doesn't stop spinning, I'm using my own vertical blank interrupt and the CIA timers are taken over by ptplayer so expect that has something to do with it. Can't quite get to grips yet with ETD_MOTOR to turn it off. It doesn't stop the game from being played however".
Controls are:
- Left/right - move left/right
- Up - jump
- Down - crouch
- Down then up - power jump
- Fire - shoot weapon
- Space - enter doors
- Alt - change weapon
- P - pause/show map
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ReplyDeleteEnd soon the download is no longer possible ;)
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ReplyDeleteDownload should be working now. Thanks all :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for covering the game! New version released with a couple of minor fixes, see EAB thread: https://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=118152
ReplyDeleteLooks well animated but the GFX palette looks so samey and dull... They may have ported ST version but take the opportunity to fix the GFX I say!
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