Christian A. Weber's Non-Blog

Type: Ballergame

Credits

Files

• insanityfight-language.png
• insanityfight-logo.png
• insanityfight-story.png

Description

Insanity Fight was one of the first shoot-em-ups for the Amiga. My humble contribution? The animated parallax starfield used in the intro sequence. The starfield used sprites but no bitplanes, so it could be easily combined with other graphics. It was also used in many SCA intros such as Karate Kid, Goldrunner etc.

Type: Game (Vaporware)

Credits

Links

• Playable online-version

Files

• Exitor.adf
• exitor.wmv
• exitor1.png
• exitor2.png
• exitor3.png
• exitor4.png

Description

We started working on Exitor right after we get our first Amigas. It was supposed to be a vertically scrolling shoot 'em up heavily inspired by Nichibutsu's 1985 arcade classic Terra Cresta (テラクレスタ). Hovever, it is still in the works.

Type: Multimedia

Credits

Links

• Source code (git)

Files

• 199001-AmigaWorld-Implementing the iff.library.pdf
• CHANGES.DOC
• IFFLIB23.LHA
• ifflib.doc

Description

iff.library is short Amiga library (3.5kBytes) to read and write IFF files, mainly ILBM images and ANIM animations. ShowIFF is a versatile IFF viewer and MoviePro a movie player. iff.library has been written in 68000 assembler and was quite wide-spread due to its ease of use.

Type: Multimedia

Credits

Files

• 19890618 Hawk CP 14 Scanner About.png
• 19890618 Hawk CP 14 Scanner Start Scan.png
• 19890618 Hawk CP 14 Scanner Workbench.png
• Hawk CP 14 Bedienungselemente.png

Description

The Swiss company Marvin AG was known for their hardware developments for the Atari ST. They converted a Silver Reed thermal copier to a scanner/printer that could be connected to the Atari's parallel port and later also to the Amiga. The scanner was called HAWK CP-14, it had a resolution of 200 dpi (monochrome). I wrote the Amiga software for the CP-14. There was an OCR software called Augur for the ST, but this was not ported to the Amiga.

Type: Copy Protection

Credits

Files

• 19880200 Linel Kopierschutz Werbetext.png

Description

A-lock was a copy protection system for Commodore Amiga floppy disks. The first version used one long track that could not be copied without modifying the floppy drive's rotation speed (a mod that eventually became quite common, see the photo below in section 'USB-Floppy'). It contained some quite sophisticated code obfuscation methods that changed with every release. Additionally, it provided protection against the SCA virus (of course ;-)). It was used on Linel titles including Star Wars, Dugger and Eliminator. Later it was incorporated in the GameExec operating systems, where the entire disk could use long tracks.

Type: Multimedia

Credits

Files

• 198804-AmigaSpecial GoAmiga! Titel Review.pdf
• GoAmiga! Titel About.png
• GoAmiga! Titel Floppy.jpg
• GoAmiga! Titel Package Open.jpg
• GoAmiga! Titel Package.jpg
• balance of power intro made with sca titlemaker.png

Description

SCA Titlemaker could be used by LooserZ and LamerZ to create intros and titles. It featured soft-scrolling texts, multiple fonts, background images, fade effects and sounds. It was later sold as a commercial product called "GoAmiga! Titel" by Softwareland.

Type: Game

Credits

Files

• 19880914 PCW London Markus Grimmer playing Dugger.jpg
• Dugger Gameplay.png
• Dugger Hall of Fame.png
• Dugger-Intro.mp4

Description

Dugger was a simple clone of Namco's classic "Dig Dug" from 1982. Originally it was planned to port the game from Atari ST to Amiga, but the code was such a mess that I completely re-wrote the game without looking at the original source-code. I also re-created the music on the Amiga using Christian Haller's excellent SoundFX sound editor by listening to the Atari tune. The game was pretty lame and received lukewarm reviews. The highlight of the game was its intro featuring Herbie Stone, Linel's mascot.
Dugger was the first game to use some components of my upcoming "Game Exec" mini OS which was used in many games such as Crack, Eliminator, Leonardo, Ringside, Star Wars, Traps'n'Treasures and more.

Cheats

Type scamagic during game play to enable cheat mode. The screen will flash to confirm correct code entry. Then, press F1 to skip a level, F2 to restart a level or F3 to get an extra life.

Type: Game (Strategy)

Credits

Links

• ROM at Lemon Amiga
• ROM at Abandonware

Files

• Rings of Medusa Box.jpg

Description

Rings of Medusa (also known as ROM) is a strategy game revolving around medieval / fantasy. The game centers around the quest of Prince Cirion of Morenor attempting to save the kingdom from an evil spell of the demonworld queen Medusa who has split his country and forced him into exile. Cirion must find five magic rings, scattered around the country, to summon the witch for a final showdown.

Cheats

Type desoxyribonukleinsaeure to activate cheat mode.
If you're lazy it is sufficient to type desoxy and three dots. That secret was very well kept during the old days :)

Type: Game (Strategy)

Credits

Files

• TransWorld-BackCover.jpg
• TransWorld-Cover.jpg

Description

The player takes control of a new trucking company and competes against up to either three other human or computer players to make the most money. The game has two modes to choose from, a continuous play mode that plays indefinitely or a timed mode that runs a select number of turns. Players control all aspects of the company from purchasing new trucks to hiring mechanics to building new offices. Each round of the game controls one day of game time with each player taking a turn. Periodically, a random event will happen which can either help or hinder the player's company. Some events are offers to have goods delivered while others are sick days that skip the player's turn. The game ends when a player chooses to end it or when the selected number of rounds have been completed. The winner is the player with the most money at the game's end. (Source: Wikipedia ;)

Type: Datenbank

Credits

Files

• GoAmiga! Datei About.png
• GoAmiga! Datei Book.jpg

Description

GoAmiga! Datei was the German version of MiAmiga File by Softwood. I did some modifications for Softwareland (don't recall what it was ...)

Type: Multimedia

Credits

Files

• 199104-Kickstart-Testbericht Scan-Master.pdf
• 19911100 bsc Produkt-Information 18-19 TopScan.png

Description

Scan-Master, later renamed to TopScan, is a professional scanner software for the Amiga. It can save images in 24-bit IFF format and was hell expensive.

Type: Demo

Credits

Files

• CD
• sb-cdtv-01.png
• sb-cdtv-02.png
• sb-cdtv-03.png
• sb-cdtv-04.png
• sb-cdtv-05.png
• sb-cdtv-06.png
• sb-cdtv-07.png
• sb-cdtv-08.png
• sb-cdtv-09.png
• sb-cdtv-10.png

Description

This is a combined Data/Audio CD which Chris Haller and I created for Starbyte Software to show off the "upcoming" mega game Dragonslayer at CeBit 1991. It was a nice exercise for learning how to program the CDTV. Of course, the CDTV never caught on.

Type: Game (Racing)

Credits

Files

• HB Fahrfestival 91 01 Title.png
• HB Fahrfestival 91 02 Start Red.png
• HB Fahrfestival 91 03 Start Green.png
• HB Fahrfestival 91 04 Drive.png
• HB Fahrfestival 91 05 Obstacle.png
• HB Fahrfestival 91 06 Haystack.png
• HB Fahrfestival 91 07 Castle.png
• HB Fahrfestival 91 08 Traffic.png
• HB Fahrfestival 91 09 HB ad.png
• HB Fahrfestival 91 10 Curve.png
• HB Fahrfestival 91 11 End.png

Description

This was used in a BMW racing simulator with real steering wheel, gas pedal and brake. It featured an Amiga 2000 with 68020 board. Several versions existed for different sponsors (HB, BMW, ...)

Type: Game

Credits

Files

• Das Schwarze Auge - Die Schicksalsklinge Screenshot.png

Description

Das Schwarze Auge - Die Schicksalsklinge is an adaption of the popular board game by Schmidt Spiel + Freizeit GmbH. I did the Amiga version which is based on the PC version by Attic Software. The German version was released by Attic, the English version was called Realms of Arkania - Blade of Destiny and was released by US Gold and Sir-Tech (two versions). The challenge was that it had to run on 1MB Amigas but without disabling the OS. It was installable on hard disk. The intro tells the story about Aventuria and the events before the game. I programmed it from scratch since that was easier than converting the existing code.

Type: Data transfer, Telephony (CTI)

Credits

Files

• ISDN-Master Set.jpg

Description

WilhelmTEL for the bsc ISDN-Master board is an integrated CTI solution including contacts directory, answering machine, personalized ringtones etc.

Type: Utility

Credits

Files

• Bobi0-About.png
• Bobi1-Project.png
• Bobi2-Picture.png
• Bobi3-Bob.png
• Bobi4-Anim.png
• Bobi5-Global.png
• Bobi6-EditPalette.png
• Bobi7-TNT-Example.png
• Bobi8-GenerateCode.png

Description

Bobi is a tool to manage, convert, crop and animate BOBs (Blitter oBjectS) and to generate source code (Assembler and C). It was used in many games such as Traps'n'Treasures. The Bob Animation Language BOBOL, part of Game Exec, was used to control these bobs and their actions within the game.

Type: Graphics Utility

Credits

Files

• PicZoo-About.png
• PicZoo.png

Description

PicZoo is an image cataloger software. It uses AREXX scripts that control The Art Department Pro to import and scale image files. It can read IFF, GIF and JPG images and supports AGA screen modes such as HIRES HAM

Type: Hardware Mod

Credits

Links

• More information about KryoFlux (including online store)
• The Software Preservation Society

Files

• Amiga Floppy 1.jpg
• Amiga Floppy 2 KryoFlux.jpg
• Amiga Floppy 3 Finished.jpg

Description

KryoFlux is a USB-based floppy controller designed specifically for reliability, precision, and getting low-level reads suitable for software preservation. It was developed by The Software Preservation Society, the authority in authentic disk imaging and floppy disk preservation. My mod puts the KryoFlux board into my old external Amiga drive. It is the very drive that was used to master Dugger and many other disks using the GameExec long-track copy protection system. The drive features a potentiometer to adjust rotation speed.