Welcome to the News In Brief Section. This page contains all articles from September. Enjoy.
In a previous article, I mentioned that Gloom 3 would be coming out on CD and was going to be distributed by Guildhall, well Alpha Software, Gloom 3's developers have left the game engine much the way it was for Gloom Deluxe, but have included 50 new levels spanning over 7 stages and around 10 new nasties with all new GFX and sound. The game will also improve the fun for multiplayer game, as there will be 30 new 2-player combat levels included, which will also contain zombies to make things that bit harder and also modem support will be much improved.
To run the game, you'll be able to get away with using a base A1200, but it'll be slow in all but the smallest of screenmodes. To get a decent game out of it, it's recommended that you have at least an 030 with 4Mb Fast RAM. But to play the game in 1x1 screenmode an 040 or 060 is recommended.
But graphics card owners will not left out as the game supports GFX cards, which will allow them to play the game in a Workbench window.
By the way, a demo of Gloom 3 is available here and the latest information on Gloom 3 can be found at The Offical Gloom Pages.
The Amiga RC5 Team has been setup in order to break the RC5 keys in order give some exposure to the Amiga. For more information about their efforts, try The Amiga RC5 team's web site.
Pinball Brain Damage was orignally going to be published by Vulcan Software, but has now been picked up by APC&TCP, and have just released some new details on the game.
The game will include Hi-Res table graphics (640x256) with 256 colours in normal mode and Super-Hi-Res (1280x512) in multiball mode, which is probably the highest resolution yet to be used in any Amiga game.
For more information on Pinball Brain Damage, goto The Amiga Nutta.
A group called Deepcore Entertainment Software are writing the first true 3D, polyon based, texture mapped beat-em-up for the Amiga. If you've seen Virtual Fighter and Tekken, you'll know what I mean.
This game will no doubt require a pretty powerful machine to play it and from what I've heard it will require at least an AGA/CyberGFX machine with an 030 for 320x200, 2x2 resolution and an 040 for the 320x200, 1x1 resolution and also 2Mb Chip RAM and 8Mb Fast RAM.
The game is being scheduled for release in Summer 98 and will be on CD-ROM only.
Trauma Zero is a new Shoot-em-up that is being developed by a new Italian team, with a demo currently available on the Aminet comprising of 4 separate archives. But, the demo isn't playable and is a rolling one, and I've seen it and it looks a lot like R-Type. The game will contain 256+ colour graphics, will scroll at a super smooth 50Hz and will feature a simultaneous 2-player option. The game is AGA and will be hard disk installable.
Now at the Amiga Nutta Site, a new page has appeared which might be of interest of those of you, who are following the progress of Explorer 2260. The page contains all sorts of information on the development of Explorer 2260 and to have look, why not goto The Explorer Development Page.
Oliver Wagner recently announced that Voyager NG 3.0 will be expected to be shown at the Colonge Amiga show in November.
The main features of Voyager NG 3.0 include HTTP/1.1 transactions, Javascript 1.1, Integration of the Mail and News applications (similar to Netscape Communicator), FastMem Blitting of images on AGA systems, and a versatile plugin interface capable of handling streamed network data.
As Voyager NG 3.0 is likely to be more expensive than V2, upgrades from V2 to V3 will priced at only the difference from V2 to V3.
But there will be a final release of V2 before V3.0 is released.
Battle is a new game, which is in the same style as Battle Isle. At the moment, the developer is still looking for ideas, a Graphician, a Musician and prehaps some Co- Programmers (Language is C). But this hasn't stopped from going on with the development of Battle and now a web site has been set up.
For more details on Battle, why not visit The Battle web site.
Turtle Lightning Amiga Software, home of the largest legacy Amiga software inventory in the world, now have a web site! It's URL is www.ole.net/~choas/tlas.
So if you're looking for that one-of-a-kind Amiga ware, Turtle Lightning carries a gigantic stock of great legacy software, new in the box, as well as new titles, too.
The TLAS web site includes a high-contrast, 16-color version, aimed at low-color displays, and a 256-color version, geares for AGA and graphics card users.
Also included are complete online order forms, complete shipping information and complete descriptions of hundreds of Amiga software products.
Pinball Brain Damage has already mentioned here in a previous article, but now here are some screenshots from the game, and also a demo of this game is currently available at the Aminet.
The following is Safe Harbor's Top Ten Products of 1997. Click here to goto their web site.
According to Haage & Partner's web site, a version of Merapi will possibly appear at Computer97, in Cologne in November and also Netconnect v2 should be available by October. With Voyager NG v3 more than likely not coming out until November, so I think we won't see Netconnect v2 until November at the earliest.
The following is from Nova Sector Engineering's web site and dated 18th September. Read on.
To The Amiga Community,
Welcome to the newest chapter in Amiga history. As of today we are offically licensed by Amiga International to build a 100% Amiga Compatible computer. Our First objective is to establish a business base,by going to the business that has kept the Amiga alive, the CGA(Computer Graphic Artist).
Currently we are developing our first industry solution. A high end graphic workstation called the CorDel Alpha series. The CorDel will be featuring a 150,180, and 200Mhz 604e PowerPC processor, 2.2GB and up SCSI hard drive, 32, 64, 128MB ram, CyberVision 64-bi t 4MB video card, Amiga OS 3.1, 33.6K external modem. Other options will include: Ethernet cards and many others. Later this year we will have an order form on the web site, with self configuration.
Please check our site often for product updates. We will be featuring new products and configurations almost weekly.
Thanks
CO-Owner
Sadeness Software have just a signed a distribution deal with Weird Science and GTI for Worldwide distribution of Foundation and OnEscapee, two of the most impressive games to be released this year.
OnEscapee is now scheduled for release in November with Foundation following in December. I can't wait to see this two games.
For more on these games, why visit their web site at:-
Vulcan
Software
Limited (UK) & NonSoLoSoft (Italy) joined forces to offically launch the Italian
Amiga version of The Strangers (AGA) CD-ROM at the Italian World Of Amiga,
which ran from the 20th-21st September 1997 and include Italian rolling
demonstrations. More information on the Italian World Of Amiga Fair will appear
on this site as soon as get some.