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NEONnoir is a hybrid point-and-click adventure/visual novel game for the Amiga

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Absolutely love the aesthetic! The combination of futuristic, neon visuals with the noir genre looks amazing, I must say.

I found this link here by the way:

http://amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2022-11-00008-EN.html

Here is a video of the game:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FjqMQvhQ_8

The game was created as part of the Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam:

https://itch.io/jam/abbgjam

Anyone know of a good “getting started” guide for Amiga emulation? Trying to set one up to play this game, and having no luck so far.

WinUAE or FS-UAE (Linux). However, to run most games you’ll need kickstart ROM files (containing the Amiga’s operating system) which are still copyrighted and, hence, you have to know where to look for them. For the classic games you‘ll probably want Kickstart 1.3. For modern homebrews you‘ll want 3.X.

AROS m68k, which is open source, has a drop-in replacement for original Kickstart ROM files. AROS is 3.x compatible.

But is it really compatible enough with most games?

I faintly remember FS-UAE shipping with Aros ROM files and the first thing I did was to get original Kickstart ROM images to get a game working.

I imagine it varies. First of all, many games are only 1.x compatible, not 3.1 compatible. So for those, you'd need original ROMs anyway, and not just any, but specifically 1.3 likely.

Then, there is the question of WHDLoad. WHDLoad contains patches for most Amiga gams and makes them being able to be loaded from a file on a harddrive instead of being booted from. I believe it also makes games work on Amiga 1200 which otherwise would have only worked on Amiga 500 and so on and it makes game work on 3.x which only worked on 1.3 before.

AROS and WHDLoad has been known to work together.

http://www.aros-platform.de/download.html

Of course, the original ROMs are going to be more compatible, but I think it's wonderful that there is an open source reimplementation of both hardware and software of such an iconic and wonderful platforms such as the Amiga.

WHDLoad used to be commercial software, but now it seems to be a free download:

http://whdload.de/

It’s not free, but I think the best, and easiest, way to get started is with Amiga Forever. If you can hang on a bit, they often have big Black Friday license sales.

https://www.amigaforever.com/

FS-UAE (it already incorporates Winuae), the site should have everything you need.

That is some very nice pixel art.

Don't forget AdvJam where most games (it's a competition to make small point & click games in 2 weeks) are played and put on YouTube. To find these on YouTube, for entries in say 2018, AdvJam2018 should find a list of videos.

Cool! I favorited it right away, but I have to play Return to Monkey Island first ;)

This looks terrific! Nice game art.

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