Unreleased Amiga Game (AMOS 3D) - Operation Gigabyte

NEW: Download this game to play easily on Windows (or Wine) here:

Installer:
http://mequa.dragotech.net/Operation%20Gigabyte.exe (2.65MB)

Zip archive:
http://mequa.dragotech.net/Operation%20Gigabyte.zip (2.59MB)

This utilises the WinUAE emulator and the free AROS-68k Kickstart replacement ROM. It also includes a new patch by Toni Wilen for AMOS 3D AROS-68k compatibility.

This game, all sources and derivative videos are in the public domain. AMOS BASIC is now under a BSD-style licence.

This game has been confirmed working on Android and UAE4Droid with Kickstart 1.3 ROM.


This was my attempt at a 3D Asteroids-style shooter for the Commodore Amiga. Only instead of rocks, you're destroying Amiga 500s, nasty old-fashioned monitors and those evil floppy disks! All rendered in vintage solid polygonal 3D...

Created in 1997/1998 (way past the Amiga's prime!) at age 15 in AMOS Professional 2.0 (a dialect of BASIC!) with AMOS 3D and the AMOS Professional Compiler, on an Amiga 1200 with 250MB 'Overdrive' PCMCIA external HDD.

This game was also playable on a Pentium 166 in DOSUAE and DOSFellow during the game's development in 1998.

Emulated and recorded in WinUAE 2.1.0 beta 22 with NTSC ECS chipset and 68060 Direct JIT (fastest settings). Note that when the FPS says 25 or 50, it should read 30 or 60, however the higher frame rates are cropped on YouTube.

This game is considerably slower on stock real Amigas - just about playable on a stock A1200 (around 7fps).

I also added a little game demo which I created at the time using the same 3D models and sound effects.

UPDATE:
This is also downloadable from:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/opgig/files/

English Amiga Board discussion:
http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?p=661429#post661429

YouTube video for Operation Gigabyte:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4qcq-4h8fw

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• Unreleased
• Amiga
• Game
• Operation
• Gigabyte
• AMOS
• BASIC
• 3D

[PintoSenior]

AMOS - Amiga's Nightmare

[Mequa32]

@PintoSenior It wasn't bad for a beginner's language. Which is what BASIC is. I cut my programming teeth on Easy AMOS at the age of 10, then progressed to AMOS Professional, Blitz Basic 2, then 3D RAD, Clickteam's Jamagic, before Javascript, Java, ANSI C, C++, and other languages I use today. I do still fire up AMOS under WinUAE for fun and nostalgia now and then. ;)

[Mequa32]

System requirements to run Operation Gigabyte:

Any Amiga or emulator (UAE or the older Fellow) configured with 1MB+ RAM (including 512KB+ Chip) and Amiga Kickstart 1.2 BIOS or higher (3.x recommended).

It is playable in UAE4Droid on a powerful enough Android-based mobile. Should also work on the Sony PSP with PSPUAE.

Recommended: 68040/68060 + fast RAM. For emulation use UAE with JIT + Immediate Blitter.

[Mequa32]

This game is now available to download from the English Amiga Board - see the added link provided.

[yasswah]

Very Nice! I like it... Wish this was out earlier, I could have played it on my trusty Amiga 500 :)

[Mequa32]

@yasswah It would have needed a CPU accelerator to be really playable, I got 4-5fps on an A500, and around 7fps on an A1200. Alas, Amiga was a great machine but not really built for 3D.

[Metastate12]

Good work!

[jubiw3]

impressive!

[Boiledonionsforsale]

Room 101 likes the way you move LOL