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Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Demoscene: Nerve Axis on TV in 1998 / "Relic" live

Now this has to be a unique, and one of the rarest pieces of Amiga history ever: demo group "Nerve Axis" gets visited by TV channel ".tv" ("dot TV")!

This took place in 1998, after they had released they had won the Assembly 1997 demo competition with "Pulse" demo, and were working on the successor called "Relic".

This is probably the only time in history a TV team visits an Amiga demo group at home, at work.

(Are you aware of any other such occasion? Please leave a comment below!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Uq2Lm2l_JQ


Today of course we all know that "Relic" went on to win the Assembly 1998, and became a legend in it's own right. It's a demo of biblical proportions, and it's destruction sequence is unparalleled to this day.


Thanks to YouTube we can relive the moment this got presented to the public:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J9VzO0rsMY

For perfect quality it's of course best watched live on your AGA Amiga. :-)

But if you don't have one handy right now, and you don't mind Amiga-emulation (WinUAE), here's another hi-quality version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMgejYHjQeM


Huuuuge respect and thanks to Nerve Axis for their amaaaazing work!



Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.tv_%28TV_channel%29

Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Gaming news: Elfie the Unicorn, Heroes of Gorluth, Tales of Gorluth II

New games! Amiworx and Amiga68K-Productions have some new stuff waiting for you classic Amiga gaming aficionados.

"Tales of Gorluth" by Amiworx got some sort of sequel by the name of "Heroes of Gorluth". It's an action adventure platformer, and claims to have some interesting NPC interaction, boss battles, lots of action, and high quality graphics and sound. It's available as digital download, and CD-ROM edition, which is limited to 300 copies, and requires a 68020 CPU, ECS/AGA, and 2MB RAM. You can get a glimpse of it's epicness over at:

http://hog.amiworx.de



https://s3.amazonaws.com/images.ecwid.com/images/11744367/632253502.jpg

"Tales of Gorluth II", it's predecessor, which you can still purchase on CD-ROM, now is also available as a super-affordable digital download version:

http://shop.phenix-noir.de/#!/Tales-of-Gorluth-II-DIGITAL-DOWNLOAD/p/96528705/category=0


Finally, "Elfie the Unicorn" is a cute new game for kids by Amiga68K-Productions. It's a Gianna-sisters style jump-and-run game made especially for the developer's daughters, and requires a 14Mhz CPU, ECS/AGA, 2MB and Kickstart 3.0 or higher. "Elfie the Unicorn" is still in production - more testing/balancing, new difficulty levels, and maybe new levels will be done - but you can already download a beta version, and it's free:

http://amiga68k.de/2017/11/24/elfie-the-unicorn-beta-fuer-classic-amigas-beta-erschienen/

https://i2.wp.com/amiga68k.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Elfie-Ingame.jpg?resize=500%2c280



Sources:
http://amiga68k.de/2017/11/24/elfie-the-unicorn-beta-fuer-classic-amigas-beta-erschienen/
http://amiga-news.de/de/news/AN-2017-11-00042-DE.html
http://amiga-news.de/de/news/AN-2017-11-00033-DE.html
http://hog.amiworx.de/