Speedball II is already on the App Store as SpeedBall II Evolution. It's not a direct port, and not as good as the original (way too easy for one) but it is officially licensed from ye olde Bitmap Brothers.
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Amiga Games Coming to iOS 7 Later This Year, Will Include Controller Support
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Ooh! Cadaver! Maybe they'll port it, and fix the controls in the process. That'd be awesome.
I still play this via emulator every few years... it's a a great game the likes of which has never been seen since!
I'm due for a new phone; this just adds to the need for a 32Gb model over my current 16Gb, which is straining at the seams; I keep having to take stuff off, can't have too much music or too many podcasts. It's annoying when it keeps telling me it can't take any more photos! I had to stop getting new free apps of the week to try, let alone larger games. Now this...
At least the classic 8-bit games had to be tight in their size due to the hardware constraints of the day. No doubt porting and recompiling on modern hardware with modern compilers will add lots of overhead over handtweaked Assembler code, but should be much smaller than many newer games. Necessity is the mother of inventuon, and they made do with what they had then, whereas modern programmers are spoilt for resources; despite ever-increasing specs, they always manage to make ever-larger apps eating ever-greater amount of RAM and CPU power. Who thought when the original iPhone came out, 2007 is not that long ago really, that we would need the processing power of an A7, or the quad-core CPUs of Android phones? Or that 16Gb wasn't enough for all your apps, music and everything else? It's crazy!
At least the classic 8-bit games had to be tight in their size due to the hardware constraints of the day. No doubt porting and recompiling on modern hardware with modern compilers will add lots of overhead over handtweaked Assembler code, but should be much smaller than many newer games. Necessity is the mother of inventuon, and they made do with what they had then, whereas modern programmers are spoilt for resources; despite ever-increasing specs, they always manage to make ever-larger apps eating ever-greater amount of RAM and CPU power. Who thought when the original iPhone came out, 2007 is not that long ago really, that we would need the processing power of an A7, or the quad-core CPUs of Android phones? Or that 16Gb wasn't enough for all your apps, music and everything else? It's crazy!
Those were the days. Best computer ever. The Mac was a B&W box at the time the Amiga was pumping out stereo sound and 4096 colors. I remember buying my Amiga 1000. Good times. I sold it or gave it away to my brother-in-law at the time, who beat the crap out of it. 
I still have my Amiga 3000, though, in a box in my basement.
Some games I remember fondly:
- Brataccas
- Archon
- Emerald Mines
- The Faery Tale Adventure
It was with my Amiga that I first got heavily involved in BBSes, the precursors to community-oriented websites like this one.
I'm not sure I'd enjoy playing any of the games mentioned above without a game controller, though.
I still have my Amiga 3000, though, in a box in my basement.Some games I remember fondly:
- Brataccas
- Archon
- Emerald Mines
- The Faery Tale Adventure
It was with my Amiga that I first got heavily involved in BBSes, the precursors to community-oriented websites like this one.
I'm not sure I'd enjoy playing any of the games mentioned above without a game controller, though.
That project looks sweet! Reminds me of Shadowrun.... but without the cyber-orcs and bleh.
Marble madness http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marble_Madness
Hacker http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_(video_game)
Kings Quest http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King's_Quest
Hacker http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_(video_game)
Kings Quest http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King's_Quest
The Amiga 500 was legendary! It was amazing what that thing could do given its specs.
Back then everyone I knew had one and Amiga was king. We all used to swap games and play together but it was equally good for word processing and databases. It was super reliable and never broke down. I think even Apple would've been proud to have produced it.
But as a company they seemed to rest on their laurels and when the company went belly up we got our first Mac, a lowly 630 LC I think it was called.
Being the first computer my parents bought the Amiga is always going to hold a special place and I look forward to some retro gaming action!
Back then everyone I knew had one and Amiga was king. We all used to swap games and play together but it was equally good for word processing and databases. It was super reliable and never broke down. I think even Apple would've been proud to have produced it.
But as a company they seemed to rest on their laurels and when the company went belly up we got our first Mac, a lowly 630 LC I think it was called.
Being the first computer my parents bought the Amiga is always going to hold a special place and I look forward to some retro gaming action!
Oddly, the new President of Amiga happens to be one of my oldest and best friends, and I can attest, he is THE most hardcore Commodores/Amiga enthusiast I have ever met. He use to go on for hours how the technology in Commodores/Amiga are years ahead of anything else (especially multithreading, Amiga DOS, the SID chip, et al), and how someday Amiga would take over the world!
And though I remember him being fairly resistant to porting his own Symbian app to iOS when Apple first opened the app store, I'm glad he now sees the light and I am pretty sure he will do everything possible to champion all Amiga titles that he can onto iOS.
Not a game, but a NewTek Video Toaster port could be pretty awesome
Incidentally that is how Pat Roberts and I first met in the early 1990s; we installed Video Toaster systems at a local music store in Los Angeles called Goodman Music (which later became West LA Music.)
Wow, and in the same thread, someone has to bring up Marble Madness, made by the guy who eventually became my Boss back when I worked at Universal Interactive Studios. What a day of nostalgia for me...
Turrican is my favorite video game of all time, and I have it on my Windows emulator WinUAE. The soundtrack is amazing and the graphics were incredible for the times. The gameplay is like nothing before or since!
Unlikely they will publish many of the very good games. Most IPs are still owned by their respective owners or those who swallowed the companies.
Lemmings/Shadow of the Beast: Psygnosis, recently trademarked by Sony who own Psygnosis. Also, they announced a Shadow of the Beast remake exclusively for PS4.
Turrican is still owned by Factor 5, AFAIK.
Well, ain't nothing better than having the real hardware in the collection
With Battle Squadron and Speedball there are two quite nice portings out there already. But as your examples from the original developers. So yes, I wouldn't expect too much content to arrive too.
Original hardware isn't necessary at all if you ask me, the results using UAE even on the Mac are pretty cool.
This is going to sound like a really lame observation and I apologise in advance for making it.
I was a Commodore Amiga owner back in the day and never in a million years would me or any of my fellow owners have called it a "PC".
OK. So PC stands for personal computer and it *was* a personal computer but in those days we associated PC with the horrible machines that were just starting to find their way into some workplaces mostly running DOS but some with early versions of Windoze. Those were PC's, not our beloved Amigas!
After owning an Amiga 500 for a while, with one of those huge hard drives that bolted on to the side, I managed to get a second hand Amiga 4000 which I loved. That was the first machine that I connected to the internet on, although it took several days to configure it to work.
Ah. Memories.
I was a Commodore Amiga owner back in the day and never in a million years would me or any of my fellow owners have called it a "PC".
OK. So PC stands for personal computer and it *was* a personal computer but in those days we associated PC with the horrible machines that were just starting to find their way into some workplaces mostly running DOS but some with early versions of Windoze. Those were PC's, not our beloved Amigas!
After owning an Amiga 500 for a while, with one of those huge hard drives that bolted on to the side, I managed to get a second hand Amiga 4000 which I loved. That was the first machine that I connected to the internet on, although it took several days to configure it to work.
Ah. Memories.
Remembering the Amiga days and looking at my Mac and my Windows Box today, I almost feel sad how little progress we seem to have made since those days. The Amiga was da bomb! If Amiga had stayed afloat in the '90s and made it till today, Steve would have had a tough nut to crack
Oh, the Amiga days
I want this so bad!!! When I start to think those games I can't stop! I almost remember all the titles! One that I want is Benefactor with that great OST! And all the others! D-Generation
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Bring them all out!!!!!
Gods! Sensible Soccer! SWIV! Advanced Destroy Simulator! Double Dragon! Lotus I, II and III!!! F-18 Interceptor! Cannon Fodder! Flashback! Another World! Alien Breed! SpeedBall! Brutal Sports! Pinball Dreams, Fantasy, etc! Oh boy!!!
Gods! Sensible Soccer! SWIV! Advanced Destroy Simulator! Double Dragon! Lotus I, II and III!!! F-18 Interceptor! Cannon Fodder! Flashback! Another World! Alien Breed! SpeedBall! Brutal Sports! Pinball Dreams, Fantasy, etc! Oh boy!!!
I would like to see Deluxe Paint and Deluxe Video ported too. Lemmings is a must. Arctic Fox and Larry Bird vs Dr. J would be good but I think most people won't even remember those existed.
Assuming you mean Dune II, you can play it for free online now, as Harkonen, Ordos, or Atreides. Minor account setup required.
I played through a few levels on my laptop. Considering this was the first ever RTS game it's amazing how little they explain in the first few levels compared to modern games which hold your hand and explain every button.
http://play-dune.com
Claims to be HTML5 / JavaScript but didnt work on my iPhone.
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Here you go then... Emerald Mine for iOS. And it's free
A rip off, of course, of Repton for the BBC Micro / Acorn Electron. Repton is now on iOS at
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/irepton-lite/id476307851?mt=8
Not free bit still a lot cheaper than the original price. Haven't played the ios version.
I never had the Amiga back in the 80s when I was clamoring for it, but I did own the C-128 with the C64 emulator built-in. I've had nothing but great memories of it. And speaking of games, there are some games that I will never, ever forget for the rest of my life:
Archon, The Bard's Tale by Michael Cranford, Microprose's Gunship, Karateka, SkyFox ( by Ray Tobey ), and Maniac Mansion. Dr. J vs Larry Bird was another classic along with Hacker.
I had many titles but these were the ones that made a lasting impression on me. And the funny thing is that I still have some of the classic packages that the games came with.
Archon, The Bard's Tale by Michael Cranford, Microprose's Gunship, Karateka, SkyFox ( by Ray Tobey ), and Maniac Mansion. Dr. J vs Larry Bird was another classic along with Hacker.
I had many titles but these were the ones that made a lasting impression on me. And the funny thing is that I still have some of the classic packages that the games came with.