Publisher New Old Pixels has confirmed it holds a license to produce faithful conversions of the 1980s Toki arcade platformer for the Commodore Amiga AGA, Sega Mega Drive and SNK Neo Geo. All three ports are currently in active development. via indieretronews.com
TjLaZer has released a fan-made Amiga AGA port of Konami's 1986 arcade shooter Lifeforce, version 1.0. It requires an AGA Amiga such as the A1200 or A4000 with a 68020 or better processor, 2MB chip RAM and fast RAM, with an accelerator recommended, and is offered as a free, name-your-own-price download with disk, hard drive and WHDLoad options. via itch.io
Further details have emerged about Astra Last Light, the free OCS Amiga shoot'em'up, including its origins as an ACE engine sprite demo, its four-sector campaign with unique bosses, a tap-or-hold firing system, and persistent upgrades earned by clearing enemy waves. via amiga-news.de
Amiberry, the WinUAE-based Amiga emulator for ARM and x86 platforms, has reached version 8.4. The release greatly expands ZZ9000 hardware emulation, adds a MiniGL renderer plugin interface, supports relative media paths for portable installs, and improves native chipset frame delivery on Raspberry Pi 4. via amiga-news.de
AmiSC, a native AmigaOS 3.x port of StarCraft that runs on AGA machines or graphics card setups without emulation or an FPU, has reached version 0.8.0. The update adds full campaign support for both the original StarCraft and the Brood War expansion, including briefings, mission objectives, named saves, a restart function and separate game modes, along with fixes for three bugs found on real A1200 hardware. via amiga-news.de
Developer Amigos Retro Gaming has released a name-your-own-price Amiga conversion of the arcade game Do! Run Run. The native port targets a stock Amiga A1200 with AGA, requiring 2MB Chip RAM and 8MB Fast RAM, and has players dodging monsters while enclosing areas with a trail. via itch.io
Time Traveler 79 has released Pac Amiga, a free action game for the Amiga 500+ with Kickstart 2.04, offered as a name-your-own-price download. The game is a tribute to the arcade classic Pac-Man, aiming to recreate its look and feel, and was built with AI-assisted code. via itch.io
Developer luduriusgibs has released an early prototype of Ash, a colourful platformer for the Commodore Amiga 500 inspired by Norwegian folk tales. The name-your-own-price build is built with a custom engine and features a test playground level rather than finished content. via itch.io
Developer MAZ has released Tower Block 2, a name-your-own-price tower-stacking puzzle game for the Amiga. Players stack moving blocks to build as high as possible, with misaligned pieces narrowing the tower and raising the difficulty. via itch.io
A free horizontal shooter titled Astra Last Light has been released for the Commodore Amiga A500, supporting the OCS chipset. The game is set in a space-opera style sci-fi setting. via itch.io
Andiweli has released Gloom Reforged, a reworked version of the Amiga first-person shooter Gloom, supporting AGA, ECS and Picasso96 setups. The release, priced at 5 euros, includes optimized controls, graphics improvements and bug fixes, distributed as a 2.4 MB download. via itch.io
The Amiga port of Nybble & Nibble, an official conversion of the Commodore 64 platformer, takes advantage of improved Amiga hardware and runs on a minimum of an Amiga 500 with an extra 512 KB of Fast-RAM. A free demo featuring five rooms is also available for the full 60-level game. via amiga-news.de
