If you happen to keep in mind the 1980’s hit sport of Tetris then you definitely’ll be happy to know that as of this morning, we’ve got been knowledgeable that JOTD has launched an replace to the 1988 Arcade model of Tetris for the Commodore Amiga 1200. As within the phrases of the creator “A transcode of Atari Tetris arcade model for 68020/AGA amiga, music is form of emulated, lacking some drums & sfx however it’s nonetheless actually good!”. To coincide with this information, not solely are you able to play this moderately first rate wanting port through itch io, however Saberman has additionally supplied some new gameplay footage too.
Here is what JOTD mentioned about why he created this model for the Amiga, again when it was first introduced (Skip this half for those who’ve already learn it earlier than). “I contemplate Tetris Arcade model by Atari the perfect Tetris model round. It is coloured and the music is nice. The sport used a 6502 CPU and never a Z80. I wrote a changing supply device for 6502 to 68000 as nicely. Because of MAME I may workaround the nasty safety (fixed financial institution switching brought on by “slapstic” chip) and in contrast to my different ports, the undertaking is extra a quick emulator than a re-coding. It requires AGA as a result of the unique sport has 16 banks of 16 colours and a 256 colour palette which is – added – dynamic. So ECS port can be fairly difficult with out rewriting the entire sport”.
UPDATE : Whereas the sport was launched over a yr in the past, the most recent 1.02 model nevertheless is listed with the next adjustments.
- sounds are much less noisy
- Additionally ought to be barely sooner attributable to optimizations
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