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Mikey_C
10-25-2002, 10:46 AM
Typical, you wait ages and then you get new games to buy all at once.

With only one week to go to, we have the pleasure to announce that there will be THREE new Amiga games releases for you to buy at the World of Amiga Southeast Show 2002.



(In alphabetical order)

Quake II. - Hyperion-Entertainment/ID Software.
A game that needs no introduction. Yes! Not only will you be able to play QUAKE II at WOASE on the Amiga Area, but thanks to some nifty work by the guys at Hyperion, you will be able to buy it as well! Copies are being sent by special courier from Germany to the UK, in time for the show! Be amongst the first to own Quake II on the Amiga.

Software Tycoon - Epic Interactive.
It's 1982. Small computer games companies are springing up in the bedrooms around the world. A new business beckons, where everything is in your hands. You have total control, from creating the original concept, through hiring staff and packaging design, to the development of massive marketing campaigns. Do you have the skills to create and use new technologies and become a Software Tycoon?

Tales of Tamar - Eternity Software.
An internet based roundgame for various computing platforms. You live in a world far away from our civilization, comparable to the Middle Ages. In this world there exists man, dwarves, dragons, and a lot of other races. There is magic, thereare druids and dungeons. You can fight, trade, investigate, build cities, raise taxes and make peace contracts. Yoour aim is to reign your empire and to survive against other opponents.

Just one week to go! - Get your credit cards ready!

More details on presentation times coming very soon.
R2D2
10-25-2002, 11:05 AM
Whoa! Wish I was there! :-)
ikir
10-25-2002, 11:37 AM
Nice Show :-D Nice games ;-)
System
10-25-2002, 11:52 AM
Mike,

any chance if I get there early, I can have a go before anyone else? I'll help you set up as well ;-)
whabang
10-25-2002, 11:54 AM
You are not going to believe this!
No , I can't belive it took FIVE years to port Q2...
whabang
10-25-2002, 11:55 AM
Five years before it was ported, that is.
hnl_dk
10-25-2002, 11:55 AM
Now we only need AmigaOneG3-SE/AmigaOS 4.0 ;-)
Paul_Gadd
10-25-2002, 01:49 PM
No , I can't belive it took FIVE years to port Q2...

Yeah, New game on the amiga QUAKE 2, lol that is really going to get all the mad gamers to come over to the amiga :-D :-D :-D

Be amongst the first to own Quake II on the Amiga.

LOL thats impressive. why not port something under a year old instead of 90s stuff.
strobe
10-25-2002, 01:56 PM
I doubt you'll see that in this show.

Would be a nice surprise however,
Roj
10-25-2002, 02:08 PM
why not port something under a year old instead of 90s
stuff.

May I suggest one of the Hoyle line of card games? At least Mr.
Gadd would be able to play with a full deck.

...just a joke, don't hit me.

don't hit me!
:whack: Ack!
System
10-25-2002, 02:48 PM
@Paul_gadd

Credit where credits due, they have managed to get a game that used to run on a 100's of MHz's machine with 10's of Mb of memory, onto our beloved(?) platform.

It may not be the latest game, but I know I don't have the £10,000+ to pay a company to get the rights to port, say Hitman2, over to the Amiga, and I doubt any Amiga company can spare that sort of cash!
Paul_Gadd
10-25-2002, 03:24 PM
Hyperion`s done a damn good job which i respect them for it but i dont see how such old games are even good for the amiga`s, if they want to attract the die hards then fair enough but try to get non amiga users to the amiga by offering them something NEW.
redrumloa
10-25-2002, 04:04 PM
Yeah, New game on the amiga QUAKE 2, lol that is really going to get all the mad gamers to come over to the amiga

Do you ever have anything positive to say? Did you ever think some of us who actually OWN Amigas or who are going to buy an AmigaOne wouldn't mind being able to play deathmatches on their favorite machines?

Not all of us on play pirated warez on UAE you know.
redrumloa
10-25-2002, 04:08 PM
Hyperion`s done a damn good job which i respect them for it but i dont see how such old games are even good for the amiga`s, if they want to attract the die hards then fair enough but try to get non amiga users to the amiga by offering them something NEW.

Ok, that's a little better.

1 game, no matter what game it is will NOT attract new users. OS4 on fairly modern hardware has a better chance and this is where their efforts are going to right now. Quake II was just a relatively easy port that many of us would like to have running native on our boxes.
ne_one
10-25-2002, 04:34 PM
This is so typical of Amiga users.

Look people, one minute it's no software, the next it's that it's not a current release. The fact that Hyperion has managed to pull this off while dedicating most of its resources to OS4 is worth considerable kudos. I'd certainly rather see Quake 2 running on a demo machine than lines and boxes.
Rodney
10-25-2002, 05:41 PM
No , I can't belive it took FIVE years to port Q2...


Well the source was only released this year. I supposed that Hyperion and no one else wanted to pay for thesource knowing it would eventualy be released?
System
10-26-2002, 02:37 AM
This is so typical of Amiga users.

Look people, one minute it's no software, the next it's that it's not a current release. The fact that Hyperion has managed to pull this off while dedicating most of its resources to OS4 is worth considerable kudos. I'd certainly rather see Quake 2 running on a demo machine than lines and boxes.



Hear-Hear!
Tomas
10-26-2002, 05:41 PM
Hyperion`s done a damn good job which i respect them for it but i dont see how such old games are even good for the amiga`s, if they want to attract the die hards then fair enough but try to get non amiga users to the amiga by offering them something NEW.

Try porting new games like UT2003, gta3, mafia..... Its totally impossible, the hardware just isnt up2date anymore, even q2 is pushing the limits...
CodeSmith
10-27-2002, 01:19 AM
...which is probably one of the reasons why Hyperion are so keen on the OS4 project. There's not a lot you can do with a PPC604@200MHz and lots of horrendous context switches. On the other hand, a 600MHz box plus a PPC-native OS opens up a lot of doors. Throw in a nice 3D accelerator and the Amiga goes from a hacked 15-year old technology to clean 3-year old tech. Not up to snuff yet, but a lot of things went from "to get 18fps I must sacrifice a chicken" to "this will take a few weeks to do" :-D
System
10-27-2002, 07:49 PM
Quake II

Whoopedidodah! Not far away from one of my favourite PC-games-of-all-times-deluxe then, Anachronox! :-) Based on the Quake II engine, it would be a blast on a miggy!
(hopefully the source will be released in a near future. Perhaps even before 2020? :-))