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At last, some reaction to the increasingly hysterical accusations levelled at Alive Mediasoft. Unfortunately Steven Flowers from Alive has not replied to the accusations of pirate-copying, but just said that they will no longer sell games and will shut down the distribution business. In my opinion this definitely is a confession of guilt. As well, some photos that compare the original and the sort of software distributed by Alive Mediasoft have been distributed. If that weren't enough, Alfred Knoetig and Dietmar Eilert (GoldED) said that Alive Mediasoft distributed `unlicensed copies' (pirate copies). So the scandal built to fever pitch, Alive Mediasoft closed its business, and it seems there are no consequences. Bill Gates should be so lucky...
With the withdrawal of Alive Mediasoft, that's the end of Alive's projects. Except, however, Elite 3 - this is now to be ported by another company. So there's one Ex-Alive Mediasoft game still on the release list...
Users with high-end Amigas who had waited for months finally got
lucky: Heretic II was released at the World of Alternatives show in
Neuss, Germany.
Unfortunately I could not bring you a taste of Heretic for this
edition, because I do not own a PowerPC board. Two users said they
were keen to test this game for AMIGA-aktuell-International, but
unfortunately they missed the deadline.
About 3 weeks after the show Hyperion Software announced that
just 400 copies of Heretic II were sold and that their other Amiga
games will be cancelled if sales don't improve. We can only hope that
many more games are sold, so Hyperion can port more high quality
games for the Amiga.
The development of Shogo is continuing and on the Hyperion
Software homepage there is a new status report. They are considering
the wisdom of an AGA-version or keeping it graphics boards only.
Hyperion also announced a port of Soldier of Fortune, which is based
on a modified Quake2 engine, for Amiga and Macintosh.
Digital Dreams Entertainment announced that the action game Codename Hellsquad is complete. The game will be available in shops soon. A demo version, introduced in an earlier edition of AMIGA-aktuell-International, can be downloaded from the Digital Dreams Entertainment website.
A demo of Silencer was released this month. If the games engine can build on the impressive graphics of the demo, Silencer could be a smash hit.
Epic Marketing announced this month that the extended version of Foundation, Foundation Gold, is now available. Foundation Gold is a mix of the old Foundation and an add-on, The Undiscovered Land. The game has been completely reworked (incl. all graphics) and a new game mode added which makes the computer play way smarter.
Titan Computer released the final demo version of car racer Joyride early this month. But the Joyride pages (incl. the demo version) were taken down from the Titan server. Unclear why this happened - all the other support pages for Titan products are still online. But there is a preview on Joyride in this edition, if you missed out on the download.
The shoot'em'up game Apano Sin has been released. If you can deal to
aliens on 6 worlds, you get to fly to Apano Sin for the final
showdown.
The game can be purchased from any dealer and can also ordered online
on
Crystal Software is putting 1,000 GBP (approx. 1,639.34 Euros) advance on the table in an effort to attract game developers. Developers who send a complete game or a demo version to Crystal Software have a chance to win the 1k GBP and a contract. And if you don't get the big prize, every accepted participant gets a contract as well as 100 GBP (164 Euros) as consolation.
Dreamworlds Development have hired a new graphical designer to work on
the game. In addition the homepage has been reworked and new
screenshots have been made available. Dreamworlds Development can be
found on
Neo Software have made the AGA-version of their game The Clou available for free download. The game can be downloaded as DMS archives from http://www.neo.at. A password list will follow.