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Hi everybody :)

After almost 20 years the best Amiga shooter appears again, in a real physical computer magazine! The large and well known Retro Gamer magazine has an article in this month issue 107 about "The Making of Battle Squadron". :)

Snip Retro gamer issue 107 - http://retrogamer.net/
"Denmark... the country that brought us The little Mermaid, brooding TV dramas, Carlsberg, and classic Amiga shooters Hybris and Battle Squadron. Mike Bevan talks to Martin Pedersen and Torben Larsen, the duo behind these scandinavian shootfests..."



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Hi everybody :)

After almost 20 years the best Amiga shooter appears again, in a real physical computer magazine! The large and well known Retro Gamer magazine has an article in this month issue 107 about "The Making of Battle Squadron". :)

Snip Retro gamer issue 107 - http://retrogamer.net/
"Denmark... the country that brought us The little Mermaid, brooding TV dramas, Carlsberg, and classic Amiga shooters Hybris and Battle Squadron. Mike Bevan talks to Martin Pedersen and Torben Larsen, the duo behind these scandinavian shootfests..."





Very cool :) have you developed this game?
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Very cool :) have you developed this game?

Thanks, yes :)
and together with Hybris. We pretty much set the technical blitter and sprite standard on the Amiga back in 1988. :)
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Thanks :)
and together with Hybris. We pretty much set the technical blitter and sprite standard on the Amiga back in 1988. :)


I must buy this number of Retro Gamer and read about it :) It is a very nice magazine for us retro heads
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I have the iOS version, but I would kill to use a controller with it.  If it came out on PSN or Xbox Live or PS Vita, I would buy it again.
 

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Do you know if it works with a bluetooth game controller like icontrolpad on Android?  I find the touchscreen very unintuitive and imprecise for gaming.
 

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I have the iOS version, but I would kill to use a controller with it.  If it came out on PSN or Xbox Live or PS Vita, I would buy it again.


What about iCade support??


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Not a fan of that magazine. I've got a few of the earlier ones and they are full of mistakes.

In one of them I was flicking through recently I noticed an article on Dizzy where they said it was made by the Bitmap Brothers.
 

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Years later, I can still recall the Hybris soundtrack perfectly just by reading the name. Good stuff.
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Not a fan of that magazine. I've got a few of the earlier ones and they are full of mistakes.

In one of them I was flicking through recently I noticed an article on Dizzy where they said it was made by the Bitmap Brothers.


Yes that is quite a mistake i will say :)
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Re: The best Amiga shooter appears again after 20 years, in a real computer mag!
« Reply #10 on: September 14, 2012, 10:43:55 PM »
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Yes that is quite a mistake i will say :)


There was other mistakes throughout the magazine too and while I was reading I was just thinking the people writing it don't really know what they are talking about.

The Dizzy one was the last straw though. Being a fan of the Bitmap Bros, The Oliver Twins and Dizzy.
 

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« Reply #11 on: September 14, 2012, 11:52:14 PM »
The magazine is still full of errors and bias, but it's nice to read some of the interviews and sometimes, very occasionally, see something about a game I might not have known about before, although that hasn't happened for a while now. I collect every issue even though I don't think the writers care much about the content they fill it with, and it'll be nice to read about the making of Battle Squadron, one of my all-time favourite games on any system.
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Re: The best Amiga shooter appears again after 20 years, in a real computer mag!
« Reply #12 on: September 15, 2012, 10:05:37 AM »
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The magazine is still full of errors and bias, but it's nice to read some of the interviews and sometimes, very occasionally, see something about a game I might not have known about before, although that hasn't happened for a while now. I collect every issue even though I don't think the writers care much about the content they fill it with, and it'll be nice to read about the making of Battle Squadron, one of my all-time favourite games on any system.


The current issue looks great and also on a iPad. Actually I am really impressed on the level of depth in some of the articles. Perhaps they cleared out issues in the past with claimed errors etc., but from here it looks like a mighty fine mag and one of the few left that still enters a printing press :banana:

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Re: The best Amiga shooter appears again after 20 years, in a real computer mag!
« Reply #13 on: September 15, 2012, 01:41:34 PM »
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What about iCade support??


That would be really neat, but I don't have an iPad, just an iPhone.
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Re: The best Amiga shooter appears again after 20 years, in a real computer mag!
« Reply #14 on: September 15, 2012, 03:36:27 PM »
Thanx for the info, I'll be buying that issue. When does Hybris come out on iOS?