Atari ST games worth porting

[kremiso]

Supa Zazai Da!

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fresh but old school at same time, perfect for high score challenges
STE+blitter is the minimum request, on Atari side

[dirk_the_daring]

OMG!!! ALIENS!!!! (even being a PD, but it is ALIENS)



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http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari...ens_22586.html

[rabidgerry]

Originally Posted by dirk_the_daring

OMG!!! ALIENS!!!! (even being a PD, but it is ALIENS)



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This looks great! Kinda board game style! Like Space Crusade or something.

[Weasel Fierce]

Originally Posted by rabidgerry

This looks great! Kinda board game style! Like Space Crusade or something.

I wonder if this is based off the Leading Edge Games boardgame actually.

[dirk_the_daring]

Originally Posted by Weasel Fierce

I wonder if this is based off the Leading Edge Games boardgame actually.

Yes, seems so, at least it has 3 scenarios too, being he first the reactor room with 9 marines vs the aliens, then the surviving marines start the next level... Looks quite the same with less squares

[TCD]

To Be On Top
Just found this today. One of the games that I still play on the C64 because it's just that good Now an Amiga version with proper music would be amazing!

[Megalomaniac]

Originally Posted by Nobby_UK

Substation (STE+Falcon) 1994
Grey DooM wanna-be.

An A1200 version of Substation with more detailed graphics was in development, but presumably any code is long-lost nowadays. UDS (who also did Obsession, first for STe then Amiga) went on to do the great arcade racer Ignition on the PC.

Staying on the STe theme, Zero 5 might be worth doing? And do we know what happened to Team, as reviewed by AP and supposedly successfully tested on an Escom Amiga by AF?

[NorthWay]

So, not an ST game, but has anyone looked into a hack and hostile port of the 4th table "The Vikings" for Pinball Illusions? I believe the DOS version is a port of the original made for the Amiga (but deemed 'not good enough').

[TCD]

Originally Posted by NorthWay

So, not an ST game, but has anyone looked into a hack and hostile port of the 4th table "The Vikings" for Pinball Illusions? I believe the DOS version is a port of the original made for the Amiga (but deemed 'not good enough').

There's a whole thread about it: https://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=43483

[NorthWay]

While already transgressing; reading Retro Gamer #248 had an article on Puzznic. It looked to me like the Apple IIGS graphics were nicer - would a hostile "graphics port" be doable?

[arkiruthis]

There was a curious 3D submarine game on ST with sampled sound that was quite impressive (at the time) called "Nautilus". Destroyed ships sink into the ocean and you can watch them underwater going to their watery grave. There was never an Amiga port afaik.

Wonder if there's any gains to be made moving some of the poly routines into blitter. Probably not tremendous.

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[TCD]

Originally Posted by arkiruthis

There was never an Amiga port afaik.

There was: https://amiga.abime.net/games/view/nautilus

[grafpatrick]

Mata Hari was a fun ST-game (for me it was!)

Patrick

[arkiruthis]

Originally Posted by TCD

There was: https://amiga.abime.net/games/view/nautilus

How strange! I was looking for this recently and I swear I searched on HOL. Ah well, I'm very pleased to see it does in fact exist.

(hopefully a little more FPS on my TF1230 as well...)

(EDIT - though maybe not as available as I thought... don't think it's in the TOSEC )

[TCD]

Originally Posted by arkiruthis

(hopefully a little more FPS on my TF1230 as well...)

If not I'm sure some of the coders here are up for the task to make it so

[CCCP alert]

lol if you start talking about putting Amiga quality graphics into Amiga games, rather than all the ST port job 16 color pixel art, then you have about 4000 games to update

[NorthWay]

Originally Posted by CCCP alert

lol if you start talking about putting Amiga quality graphics into Amiga games, rather than all the ST port job 16 color pixel art, then you have about 4000 games to update

Sure, but AFAIK the IIGS is also 16 colours. Hence my comment - it looked much nicer I thought.

[Adropac2]

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Ammotrack by John M Philips was always rather impressive to me and I do believe never came to Amiga. Could be wrong but I recall this was also never officially released either and was offered on an ST coverdisk

[Galahad/FLT]

Originally Posted by Adropac2

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Ammotrack by John M Philips was always rather impressive to me and I do believe never came to Amiga. Could be wrong but I recall this was also never officially released either and was offered on an ST coverdisk

Ammotrack became Eliminator

[Adropac2]

Originally Posted by Galahad/FLT

Ammotrack became Eliminator

yeah I mean it must have right