List of Amiga games now on iOS

[s2325]

Originally Posted by Pyromania

Please note "Ports of Call" on iOS is a complete waste of money. I remembered the Amiga version fondly so wasted $5 on this horrid iOS version a few years ago. It did not translate well to iPhone. Other games are awesome like Pinball Dreams or Battle Squadron for example.

You can see Android version here: [ Show youtube player ]

[galu]

http://itunes.apple.com/app/the-blue...518020767?mt=8
http://itunes.apple.com/app/the-blue...518019509?mt=8

Gameplay video: [ Show youtube player ]

Disclaimer: I haven't played it (yet), Charles Callet soundtrack is not there.

[duga]

Originally Posted by dreamkatcha

Congratulations! If it's half as good as Nitro it would get my vote. I remember borrowing it from a friend back in 1990 and loved it so much I never gave it back. I have no idea which game I swapped it for, but clearly didn't miss it.

Just bought it, it's great.

[galu]

I suspect that this is not an official remake, but the reviews were very positive so far: Wings of Valor / Wings of Fury Retro

http://itunes.apple.com/app/wings-of...517282949?mt=8

[s2325]

Wings of Valor? How about Legends of Fury then?

[lesta_smsc]

Some of these remakes look amazing! Loving the Secret of Monkey Island - already bought the entire collection (new editions) and suprising how much effort they've put into remastering the original! North and South also looks good - I'm sure this will grabbed by someone in particular (AmigaOnline :P)

[Dreedo]

There a list for Android anywhere? I know theres a few unofficial and official remakes of Amiga games on Google Play.

EDIT: Wanting to know as I ordered my first Android device last night.

[galu]

Not straight ports, but very interesting:

GENESIA for iPad - The 7 gems of NEORT
("This new version of GENESIA is inspired from the game of the same name I created twenty years ago on Amiga 500.")
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/genes...455692368?mt=8

Pocket Tanks by Michael Welch of Scorched Tanks fame
("My name is Michael P. Welch, and I have been writing artillery games since 1993. ")
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pocke...311544087?mt=8

[s2325]

I had Pocket Tanks for Windows and I think it was excellent game but not addictive like Worms.

[MrX_Cuci]

Apparently only available in the us. Spy vs Spy in original and enhanced form. [ Show youtube player ]

[HansKisaragi]

I love my iPad but I refuse to buy retro ports on it. the controls are shit unless the game is made from scratch

[ant512]

Originally Posted by HansKisaragi

I love my iPad but I refuse to buy retro ports on it. the controls are shit unless the game is made from scratch

Usually, but not necessarily. I've worked hard to get my upcoming iPad port of Super Foul Egg working nicely with the touch screen. It uses gestures rather than an on-screen joystick. I'm not as fast with the touch screen as I am with the keyboard on the Mac version, but it feels satisfyingly immediate to be able to drag the eggs around with a finger and downwards-swipe to drop them.

If the developers of the remakes were any good they'd have added iCade support, too.

[jbenam]

Alien Breed: https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/alie...530474983?mt=8

Good port, I'm playing it now

[ant512]

Finally released Super Foul Egg for the iPad:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/supe...661690558?mt=8

It's free so there's no excuse for not trying it out.

[Pyromania]

Many Amiga games for iOS have been disappearing from the App Store. Battle Squadron is a good example of this. Maybe it's because the developer did not update it to 64 bit? It's pretty empty as far as Amiga ports to iOS in todays App Store unfortunately.

[malko]

Originally Posted by kamelito

One thing he said was that Interplay wanted to changed the musics and he didn't wanted to. So he wrote in a paper something like "keep the music" made a cylinder and fax that all night long. The next day Interplay had a lot of faxes. But in the end it was Paul Cuisset from Delphine Software who convinced Interplay to keep the muzaks.
Nintendo wanted him to remove the naked womens, so he though about the fax trick but didn't do it, he just removed 3 polygons with its editor.
The game IIRC only contains 8 bitmaps everything else is what he call "pixigone". Small squared polygons, in the end it took too much time and that's why the first screens are more detailed that the others one. He did a lot of copy and past which in the end was a nightmare to maintain.
I asked him to open source it's tools and code and he reply that nobody will be interested cause you need an emulator. Don't think that he know much about actual Amiga community.
He also wanted to do the package artwork which took him 3 weeks to do and the game was late for the same amount of time.

Kamel

Thanks for this interesting info .

[ubermick]

Originally Posted by Pyromania

Many Amiga games for iOS have been disappearing from the App Store. Battle Squadron is a good example of this. Maybe it's because the developer did not update it to 64 bit? It's pretty empty as far as Amiga ports to iOS in todays App Store unfortunately.

Yep, having a wee quiet fume about it as well. All the games I paid money for pulled from the shop, and no longer work on my phone.

[gimbal]

Originally Posted by ubermick

Yep, having a wee quiet fume about it as well

It is like poetry to me. It's such a polite way to say you're pissed.

[JohnnyWalker]

Sad that a lot of these iOS ports have disappeared from the App Store. I owned Pinball Dreams and Pinball Fantasies -- they were AMAZING ports. They redid them both in full 3D, but kept the gameplay identical. They were so much fun... but now they're no the app store anymore, and the old versions I owned didn't even run anymore