Amos and demo/game makers

[Toxitalk]

I may have a bit of spare time on my hands soon, and was thinking about playing with an amiga (emulated form)

Beyond booting up defender of the crown, I remember from my Amiga days Amos and RSI Demomaker.

Did anyone else ever make a 'demomaker' and if not what was the latest version available and where can I get it?

Second I fancy making a game (not again I hear everyone say)

I used Amos in the big box when it was first released and loved it.

What are my options for writing a classic amiga game and where can I get the files from?

Many thanks

[SamuraiCrow]

You can get AmosPro and advice from http://amos.pspuae.com/ .

There's currently no demomakers uploaded there but I've written a text-scroller demo:  check out the Ribbons and Curls demo on the above website.

[Toxitalk]

Thanks,

that look like just the ticket.

Now I just need the time.

[jmbattle]

I too remember RSI Demo Maker - great tool.

There was another very good demo maker released also - the name of which escapes me, however CU Amiga ran a series of great tutorials.

Good luck,
James
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[Cammy]

I think Amos Pro (BASIC) is the most popular game programming language on the Amiga but it isn't as powerful as Blitz Basic 2, which seems to be able to create more professional looking, faster games. Some commercial games even used it.

And if you don't want to code, you could try Backbone from the Aminet, it's a game maker program with lots of features.

And if you are really interested in making Amiga games, maybe you could join our team, Underground Arcade!

[rja4096]

Erveryone should be using AMOS - its brill !!!!!

Cheers, Rick.

[Toxitalk]

Thanks for the offer.

Im not sure what skills I could offer, but I love to give anything a go.

As far as programming is concerned Im a little light on the game side as databases and PHP is more my bag.

Anyway you can find my contact details on here or pop along to

www.web-coder.co.uk which has more dtails of the stuff I get paid for.

Many thanks

[Einstein]

rja4096 wrote:
Erveryone should be using AMOS - its brill !!!!!

Cheers, Rick.

Say what ?

[SamuraiCrow]

Cammy wrote:
I think Amos Pro (BASIC) is the most popular game programming language on the Amiga but it isn't as powerful as Blitz Basic 2, which seems to be able to create more professional looking, faster games. Some commercial games even used it.

If you want to use Blitz Basic, make sure it is the latest open-source version:  AmiBlitz.  It has most of the bugs fixed from the older Blitz Basic 2.

[hooligan]

How about Hollywood?

[krize]

Check out Mankind`s : Karate http://www.k-fighter.net/

[pVC]

One of the newer 'demomakers' is Karate: http://www.k-fighter.net/

It works even "next gen" machines (you can usually exit startup script to bigger resolution too on them

There's been quite many demos done with it lately.. usually pretty crap, but some better examples:

http://amiga.bbs.fi/mkd-alc7.lha
http://amiga.bbs.fi/S-KPill2.lha
http://amiga.bbs.fi/MKD-OO.LHA
http://amiga.bbs.fi/salami.lha (errmm.. little less better)

[hooligan]

As a long time demoscener I really, really wouldnt recommend Karate. Either you have some talent and you join to an existing group, or you dont, and waste everyones time doing scripts for a demomaker. Making demos has always been something else than releasing quickmade crap, at least so I would like to believe.

[Toxitalk]

hooligan wrote:
As a long time demoscener I really, really wouldnt recommend Karate. Either you have some talent and you join to an existing group, or you dont, and waste everyones time doing scripts for a demomaker. Making demos has always been something else than releasing quickmade crap, at least so I would like to believe.

I hear what you saying and its true as saying a gamemaker cant make as good a job as a code+ compiler.

But there is an argument that says, how about a lil play and sees where it goes.

[hooligan]

Toxitalk wrote:

I hear what you saying and its true as saying a gamemaker cant make as good a job as a code+ compiler.

But there is an argument that says, how about a lil play and sees where it goes.

Hear hear !

Nothing wrong with having some fun of course.. just being an old cynical git :-D