The spirit of a famed Amiga classic game lives on with a brand new 2-player feature!

[TorbenLarsen]

Hi Folks,

Wanted to let you know that the famed Amiga classic game Battle Squadron, is now featured with a new and special 2-player split-screen mode on iPad

Have a look

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v22jB0l1osY

[TorbenLarsen]

Thats great.. i guess.. what about for the real amiga?

mech

Dear mechy

I have for some time been puzzled by that question. "What does it do for the real Amiga". If you do not mind I will take the time to answer that in the best possible way I can and elaborate many thoughts on the issue

Back then when I and Martin Pedersen did games for the Amiga, we did not know where it all would lead to and who would have guessed Battle Squadron as a 2-player split-screen game in 2011 on a tablet

Many times people have asked us, what you are asking.." what does it do for the real Amiga".
Time is of the essence (just like essence procedural textures.. ). I have read many posts here on this great Amiga site about the history of the Amiga, maybe far more than people actually think. It almost seems like everybody has a stake in the Amiga history to some degree and that is some what a bit frustrating to read.
Nevertheless we decided if we can't help the Amiga directly we can try to do it indirectly by doing what we are doing now converting our Amiga classic games to other popular formats AND keeping that special Amiga spirit while doing so. In that way even the Amiga community gets exposure to some degree.

Mechy, please take a look at this iAmiga youtube which has among others Battle Squadron of Amiga games included. Almost 50.000 youtube hits, that should give a good indication of massive indirectly Amiga exposure

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajt2SChA2Tw

If you take a look at our website you can see where it all came from and in fact it is a great tribute to our games but also the Amiga.

Hope that clarifies the issue

[TorbenLarsen]

Bought it... Great game.  Thanks, brings back lots of memories...   Will you be porting Hybris to iOS?

Thanks Beast96 for your support and you can be sure that we have planned to release Hybris for iOS sometime in 2012

[TorbenLarsen]

Am i the only one who is missing the obvious here? Wouldn't it be hard to play this with 2 players on a small ipad screen?  :confused:

Hi Kesa,
Valid question It works quite well dividing up the screen like this. The screensize is 9,7 inches and crispy clear backlit screenview which makes it very suitable for dividing the screen if it is done well

[TorbenLarsen]

A computer platform is nothing without software. It was the software that made the Amiga great. The Amiga allowed programmers/developers/artists to explore a new digital frontier. That frontier has now been explored and there are exciting new places to go, with new platforms... But there are some of us who still enjoy stomping around in the old world, the Amiga's world, and it is games like this running on modern platforms that let us keep our old world alive. Without these, our old way of life would be all but forgotten.

There are many angles to this subject and very well said :rolleyes:
Who doesn't remember great pioneer programs like Deluxe Paint, 3D Imagine, Lightwave and videotoaster on the Amiga?

[TorbenLarsen]

I would say what made Amiga a pleasure to own was

1. Cutting edge custom chipset/hardware (for mid-late 80s)
2. A revolutionary Multitasking OS which didn't sap your creativity
3. The software.

ST also had some great software but the OS and hardware made it less memorable

I for one is proud that back then, I and others saw bigger potencial in the Amiga over the Atari. Although back then Atari had a strong console name but the Amiga was more attractive with marketing focus on sound and art. Made a huge difference imo and history showed us which system came out most spectacular