Developer apolkosnik, with AI assistance, has created an unofficial Amiga port of Cho Ren Sha 68k, the 1995 Sharp X68000 vertical shoot 'em up by Famibe No Yosshin. The release runs the original game's code directly on Amiga systems fitted with a 68020 CPU or better. via indieretronews.com
Developer Peppe74, known for earlier Amiga 500 releases such as X-Vaders and Tomb Lady, has released Kid Graticulous, a free arcade game for the Amiga 500 with 512k memory. The game pays tribute to the classic arcade title Kid Grid and was made with AI-assisted code, graphics and sound. via itch.io
Developer natthrafn has released Qualot, an action game originally written in assembly language for the Commodore 64 in 1985. Players must collect all the Flippo items while surviving a single life across seven alien worlds, avoiding aliens and traps. The game is available as a name-your-own-price download. via itch.io
Publisher Ratalaika Games has announced it will release a cancelled SNES racing game from Software Creations, the studio behind Plok! and Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball. The unreleased title, an Excitebike-style motorcycle racer, is decades old and follows news earlier this year that the studio's cancelled Barbie game is also being released commercially. via timeextension.com
A planned 30th anniversary re-release of Wing Commander III is reported to include restored cinematic footage from rediscovered source tapes, smoother gameplay and added controller support, as part of a broader preservation effort. via console-classics.com
Developer TJLaZer has released a name-your-own-price Amiga port of SNK's 1981 arcade shooter Vanguard, built with AI-assisted code. The game runs at the arcade's 60 Hz on both PAL and NTSC machines and works on any OCS/ECS Amiga with 512K of chip RAM, including the A500, A1000 and A2000. via itch.io
Developer TjLaZer has released a new 68000-based Amiga port of Namco's 1982 arcade classic Dig Dug. The port uses graphics, round layouts and sound taken from the original arcade ROMs, covering rounds 1-15 plus the arcade's repeating round, and is available as a name-your-own-price download built with AI-assisted code. via itch.io
Developer BlitterForge has released Shachar, a free shoot 'em up for the unexpanded Amiga 1200, requiring Kickstart 3.0. Players explore the ruins of a sunken civilisation across three levels, fighting enemies before facing a final boss. The game is a personal educational project that used AI to assist with code, graphics and sound, and is available as a free ADF download from itch.io. via amiga-news.de
ADAM (Amiga Dev and Art Machine) is a new no-code development tool for Windows and macOS that lets users create Amiga games by describing gameplay in simple text and adding assets. It generates bootable ADF discs for the Amiga 500, 600 and 1200, with a backdrop editor, hardware sprites, up to ten levels, nine enemy behaviour patterns and chip sound synthesis, joining past tools like S.E.U.C.K., AMOS, REDPILL and Scorpion Engine. via amiga-news.de
CopperByte Games has released ArcGuard 1.0, a free Amiga archive manager modelled on tools like WinZip and 7-Zip. It scans files, including decrunched ones, for viruses before writing them to disk, supports formats like LhA, LZX, Zip, DMS, Tar and GZip, and adds features such as drag-and-drop packing, ARexx support and DMS-to-ADF conversion. It runs on Workbench 2.04 with a 68000 CPU, though 7-Zip support needs a 68040/68060 with FPU. via amiga-news.de
Developer Ozak has released Alien Fury, a name-your-own-price arcade space shooter for the Commodore 64. Players fight a hopeless battle against an invading alien race, with the game growing progressively harder the longer it is played. via itch.io
Developer Absent42 has released Adventures in Videoland for the ZX Spectrum Next, a free text-based interactive fiction conversion based on the first ever laserdisc video game. The release is a text adventure playable with a keyboard, with an average session lasting about half an hour. via itch.io
