Vulcan Software Limited and Amiga, Inc. announce new relationship

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Vulcan Software Limited and Amiga, Inc. announce new relationship bringing Classic Amiga games to PC’s and other devices.. Amiga new Classic Game Player to be launched on May 23, 2007  Vulcan Software Limited Titles will be first to ship.  Titles will be available for a limited time for $ 4.99 per title with the special 50% discount.




Issaquah, Wash USA – Gloucestershire, UK  May 23, 2007 – Vulcan Software Limited and Amiga, Inc. are pleased to announce the launch and availability of Vulcan Software titles for Windows PC’s via the new Amiga Classic Game Player.

“The new Amiga offering makes playing these very fun titles simple.  Just click and you are playing.  It is great to be working with Amiga again, and our relationship will be growing into other areas as well”, said Paul Carrington President of Vulcan Software Limited

With the new Amiga Classic Game Player a customer need only to select the game they want to play, download it to their computer, install, click and play.  It is seamless fun, and reminds everyone of why we started using computers for gaming to begin with.

Amiga will continue to offer new titles and other Amiga Classic offerings, from the 80’s through the 90’s, and will offer these great titles initially for the PC and then will begin to expand other devices.

“It has been great working with Paul at Vulcan and this is the first product that is available from our new relationship.”  Said Bill McEwen, Amiga, Inc.  “There are several other areas that Amiga and Vulcan are in discussions about, and we look forward on delivering new products and experiences for our customers very soon.”



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About Amiga
Amiga, Inc. builds on their legacy leading the way in multimedia development by providing developers with hardware-independent technologies for writing and porting applications to new platforms and interactive devices.  For almost two decades its award-winning software has been a mainstay for motion picture studios, multimedia creators, and digital entertainment enthusiasts around the world. For more information visit www.amiga.com.

About Vulcan Software Limited

Vulcan Software Limited founded in 1994 is an independent software development company, based in the United Kingdom. After creating 15 award winning games ‘over five years’ for the Amiga computer, Vulcan has been busy creating advanced 3D game development tools ‘Mother3D’ along with two flagship 3D titles ‘Hybrid’ and ‘Valhalla & The Curse Of Infinity’. For more information visit www.vulcan.co.uk

[AndreasM]

Nice, Vulcan Life

the last 20 mails i dont become any answere from Vulcan

[Piru]

the new Amiga Classic Game Player

Or WinUAE with a new name? :-)

(Assuming it's WinUAE based) I hope they're contributing their changes back, as required by GPL.

[McVenco]

I remember Valhalla, played it once from a CU cover disk iirc. It was a pretty nice game...

Anyway, OT: what's this 'Classic Game Player' anyway? Are the games ported to x86 or is it some sort of 68k emulator, or some java engine or amiga anywhere thingie?

[jj]

I dont know but I would imagine it will be just a hidden winuae type affair.

Didnt Vulcan release all of these on the PC  as well in a pack or something

[odin]

Will that mean that OS4 will start talking now? :nervous:

[redrumloa]

(Assuming it's WinUAE based) I hope they're contributing their changes back, as required by GPL.

Maybe they bought Fellow? Just thinking out loud.. What ever happened to Fellow :-?

[TheMud]

Vulcan's homepage last update was in 2004 ?! ... I think Amiga.Inc is only so "active" at the moment to win at the court. After that they will be soooo dead again..

As with the new Amiga's ! If they really only have 1.6 mill $, and ACK aint rich to, they can't make the new computers... Just won't happen ... :S

[Van_M]

the only naive-user friendly way I can think of is the following:
you download Amiga Classic Game Player for free, from vulcan's server. This software is nothing more than a polished front-end + configuration engine for winUAE that it contains (+ roms of course).
you download the amiga-game-file (*.agf) from their server. This file contains the whole array of .adf files plus information about the configuration of winUAE. the Amiga Classic Game Player configures winUAE according to the info of the .agf file e.g. 68020 + AGA + 2 megabytes ram  + second floppy drive + mount each of the two .adf's on the drives. Amiga Classic Game Player starts the emulation and you play the game. Nothing magnificent or groundbraking but a pretty nice way of enabling PPL to play Amiga games even if they've never owned an Amiga.

[Louis Dias]

Well, atleast the price is sensible...

[c64_d0c]

is this a joke?.... is people that dumb that they cant get winuae to work or cant buy amigaforver pack??... jesus christ what will be next???... auto on/off power button on pc, becouse people dont know how to press an powerbutton off and on....
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[Floid]

@Van_M:

With today's storage capacities, it would make more sense just to bundle the ROMs, OS components and disk images (or heck, just a memory snapshot of the loaded game) per game in one blob.  With appropriate modification's to UAE's loader if that's what they'll use.

This way they'd avoid giving out the ROM images 'free,' something they seem so concerned about, and maintain licensing and associated payments (source of revenue) as a requirement for any other developers who care to jump onboard.

Of course, this would also make some sense from a business perspective, so who knows if they'd actually do it that way.

[hooligan]

At least the old fuc*ing ridiculous "About Amiga" has been changed to something from this world.

[bobamu]

I'm sorry, but HAHAHAHA

yeah...

 :crazy:

[amigadave]

I am no "Fan-Boy" of Amiga Inc. or Bill McEwen, but I also don't think all this negative feedback here on Amiga.org is good for any of us.

Don't get me wrong, you all are entitled to your opinions and they are all valid, but I prefer to just sit back and think that any new developments from Amiga Inc. are better than what they have done over the past several years (which is basically nothing).

I just think that trying to pick apart every news item that comes out about Amiga Inc. and look at it in a negative way is counter productive to what we all (or most of us) would like to see happen, and that is to have new computers running AmigaOS 4.x or the mystery OS 5.x.

I guess if I don't have anything good to say, I prefer not to say anything at all.