Indie Retro News: The Blues Brothers : Jukebox Adventure

Again in 1994, because the Commodore Amiga market confronted a steep decline, many extremely anticipated titles had been quietly deserted. Among the many greatest mysteries was The Blues Brothers: Jukebox Journey, a promising sequel that utterly vanished from the Amiga radar, leaving solely SNES, PC, and Sport Boy customers to benefit from the musical duo. For many years, the sport was misplaced to time till late 2025, when a collector named Denis unearthed a particularly uncommon preview copy from a bundle of floppy disks purchased on eBay and shared it with the preservation web site Video games That Weren’t (link). This unimaginable archival discovery has sparked a brand-new chapter for the misplaced title, as dlfrsilver has stepped as much as hopefully port the PC model over to the Amiga 1200.

(The unreleased Amiga demo)

PC footage

The bold conversion undertaking is already 80% full and has been efficiently examined on actual A1200 {hardware}. Tossing out the poorly optimized software program scrolling from the PC unique, the developer has constructed a customized meeting engine—boasting a 420kb supply code—re-engineered particularly for the Amiga’s {hardware}. Operating easily at 50 frames per second in 256 colors, the sport absolutely utilises the machine’s 2MB chip RAM, 68020 processor, and copperlist capabilities. Better of all, the port is nearly playable, that includes all 34 ranges, working menus, intro and outro sequences, and absolutely reside music and sound results. The developer credit trendy AI help for making the fast translation of code throughout architectures attainable, and has already introduced plans to make use of this newly constructed engine to port Prehistorik 2, with calls to even port Eye of the Beholder 3!

You possibly can knock AI all you need, but when we find yourself with a superbly playable The Blues Brothers 2 AGA on the Amiga, I am all for it!