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Gloom Deluxe (Amiga WinUAE 60Hz no commentary)

Amiga CD32 - Fears

The Amiga platform was first released by Commodore International in 1985, and was discontinued in 1996. Despite much enthusiasm, due to technical restrictions of the standard Amiga graphic chipset, which was built to do scrolling sprite based games rather than pixel-based rendering, free moving first-person games proved difficult.

Even so, a flood of Wolfenstein and Doom clones were released including Fears, Breathless, Testament, UBEK, Monster, Nemac IV, Trapped 3, Genetic Species, Project Battlefield, its sequel Project Intercalaris, Alien Breed 3D, its sequel Alien Breed 3D II: The Killing Grounds, and Gloom, providing a warped reflection of the development of the genre on PCs.

Some, such as the color port of the Macintosh game The Colony, Infestation, and the Amiga developed Corporation, Behind the Iron Gate, Trick or Treat, and Cytadela, managed to run on stock Amiga 500 hardware, albeit at minimal levels of detail, but most titles required later models or even third-party expansion chips. The games Death Mask, Bloodfest, Operation GII, and Angst resorted to a grid-based rendering at angles of 90 degrees. Owing to its longevity of popularity in the region, a sizable amount of these releases came from Poland, a country whose shooter heritage would live on in developers such as Techland, People Can Fly and Flying Wild Hog.

Hyperion Entertainment would port several games to PowerPC expanded Amigas, such as SiN, Shogo, Quake II, and Heretic II, before spearheading the development of AmigaOS 4. Some of these ports were also released for Mac OS and Linux, although others had already made it to those platforms independently. Numerous more would come to the system by way of community-made source ports, including the ever elusive Doom and Quake. The indie game Amishion Impossible, created for 7DFPS 2014, received a Amiga version in 2018.

Fears featured a built in level designer. The Gloom engine was notably moddable with its level editor and has maintained a following to this day, with a number of mods and total conversions produced, including the commercially released Ultimate Gloom and Zombie Massacare by Alpha Software in 1997 and 1998. These were released as freeware in 2013. A reverse engineered port called XGloom was worked on in 2011. Following the source being released in May 2017, a source port to modern systems, such as Windows and Linux, was released in 2020 called ZGloom; versions were also ported to the AmigaOS 4 and PlayStation Vita.

Alien Breed 3D was re-created on the GZDoom engine for modern systems as Project Osiris, with a follow-up in the works for The Killing Grounds. A looser adaptation of Fears has also been created. An open-source version of Cytadela for modern machines was started in 2006. A fixed up version for the original Amiga was also announced in 2021, with a full release in 2022, along with the game's source code. The source for Alien Breed 3D II, also containing the original Alien Breed 3D, was earlier unveiled in 1997. The code for Breathless released in 2017, subsequently spawning a porting project.

See also

• Non-PC platforms
• Category:Amiga games