The guy who did the Outrun Arcade conversion to Amiga is now doing a Megadrive (Genesis) Sonic to Amiga Conversion

[Boing-ball]

Video here.

 

[YouKnowWho]

YES! This is what I'm talking about. The skills to program efficiently around hardware limitations is what is being lost, because these kids now-a-days just wastefully throw more CPU, GPU and RAM at the problem as a base requirements at their inefficient code. Stock Amiga 1200 was a cool goal, but he's going after the base A500 1MB? The balls!

Respect for this young grasshopper keeping these valuable efficiency programming skills sharp.

 

[StrongARM]

This *is* great! But what will sega say about that.......

 

[Boing-ball]

I doubt he will be able to do anything with this afterwards. I can only think that it’s just a project on showing how it can be done.

 

[miggymad]

This *is* great! But what will sega say about that.......

Probably the same thing they said about his conversion of Outrun ... nothing

 

[Watson]

He also does not supply any rom files etc, so I would assume there's no harm, no foul

 

[Boing-ball]

He also does not supply any rom files etc, so I would assume there's no harm, no foul

Oh yeah! Forgot about that.

 

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