Indie Retro News: Tetris 1200 (AGA)

In case you bear in mind the 1980’s hit recreation of Tetris then you definately’ll be happy to know that as of this morning, we’ve been knowledgeable that JOTD has launched an replace to the 1988 Arcade model of Tetris for the Commodore Amiga 1200. As within the phrases of the creator “A transcode of Atari Tetris arcade model for 68020/AGA amiga, music is type of emulated, lacking some drums & sfx but it surely’s nonetheless actually good!”. To coincide with this information, not solely are you able to play this moderately first rate trying port by way of itch io, however Saberman has additionally supplied some new gameplay footage too.

Here is what JOTD stated about why he created this model for the Amiga, again when it was first introduced (Skip this half in case you’ve already learn it earlier than). “I contemplate Tetris Arcade model by Atari the most effective Tetris model round. It is coloured and the music is nice. The sport used a 6502 CPU and never a Z80. I wrote a changing supply instrument for 6502 to 68000 as effectively. Due to MAME I might workaround the nasty safety (fixed financial institution switching attributable to “slapstic” chip) and in contrast to my different ports, the mission is extra a quick emulator than a re-coding. It requires AGA as a result of the unique recreation has 16 banks of 16 colours and a 256 coloration palette which is – added – dynamic. So ECS port can be fairly tough with out rewriting the entire recreation”.

UPDATE : Whereas the sport was launched over a 12 months in the past, the latest 1.02 model nevertheless is listed with the next adjustments.