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Programming the Amiga with AMOS BASIC: A Playable “Shoot ’em up” Game

In the final (for now, at least) entry in this series, we are going to pull everything together into a playable “Shoot the Invaders from Space” game that has keyboard and joystick control, …

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Programming the Amiga with AMOS BASIC: Animation & Scrolling with AMAL

There is one last popular option for scrolling the screen and covering it gives us an opportunity to introduce the special AMOS animation language, AMAL … Previous AMOS Basic Tutorials in this …

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Programming the Amiga with AMOS BASIC: Better Tile Scrolling

In the previous article, we created a tile map and did a simple scrolling screen using Screen Copy. While it worked, and demonstrated some cool aspects of AMOS, it wouldn’t really be efficient …

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Programming the Amiga with AMOS BASIC: Maps & Scrolling

Up until now, our AMOS BASIC programming has relied on loading quite large full-screen images as our backgrounds. That is not memory efficient, plus creating maps and levels this way would be quite …

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Programming the Amiga with AMOS BASIC: Bobs and Sprites

Previously we looked at how AMOS can load images and configure screens, and layered scrolling via a feature called “Dual Playfield”. If we are going to create playable games then we will also need …

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Programming the Amiga with AMOS BASIC: Colours, Palettes, Variables, Arrays and Scrolling

Previously we looked at how AMOS can load images and configure screens, setting up screen resolution and number of colours. I also left you with a tease about this lesson, where I mentioned that AMOS …

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Programming the Amiga with AMOS BASIC: Screens and Loading Images

AMOS BASIC programming tutorial series starts with Screens and loading images

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Installing AMOS BASIC

Programming the Amiga Series Part 1: Installing AMOS Basic the Easy Way!

AMOS BASIC is a fun, powerful, and user-friendly game programming language and environment for the Amiga. In this video we look at installing AMOS in a couple of easy ways …

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MiSTer Amiga/MiniMig-AGA FPGA

MiSTer FPGA Amiga Guide: How to Easily Setup MiniMig-AGA with WHDload to play 1000s of Amiga games

MiSTer MiniMig Amiga FPGA implementation sets up your Amiga as a 500/600/1000/1200/2000/4000/CD32/CDTV, and every OCS, ECS and AGA Amiga in-between!

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MiSTer FPGA Tutorial: Getting Started with MiSTer

For many, MiSTer, and FPGA projects like it, are the future of retro computing and gaming. Why? What about it has people so excited that they will pay 4x the price or more than alternatives?

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Raspberry Pi Amiga Emulation Part 2 – How to Setup Your Raspberry Pi 3/4 (and Pi 400!) with PiMiga Amiga Emulator + Games Bundle

Previously we looked at the options available for Amiga emulation on the Raspberry Pi. In this video we look at how to set up your Raspberry Pi 3 or Pi 4 with the 32gb "PiMiga" disk image ...

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