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Re: SkillGrid (formerly SPEEDGRID) - new AGA game in the works Posted on 26-Apr-2019 14:34:34
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| The wait is over! You can snatch a copy of SkillGrid right away, choosing between the gorgeous physical editions by RGCD and the digital download.
BASIC EDITION: jewel-cased glass-mastered CD with 16 pages booklet, 2 floppy labels, RETREAM postcard, RGCD postcard, RGCD vinyl sticker.

DELUXE EDITION: clamshell box containing the BASIC EDITION plus 2 floppies, 4 badges pack, A3 poster (optionally rolled in a separate container).



Information and digital download: https://www.retream.com/SkillGrid Physical editions: https://rgcd.bigcartel.com/product/skillgrid-amiga Last edited by saimo on 26-Apr-2019 at 07:28 PM.
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Re: SkillGrid (formerly SPEEDGRID) - new AGA game in the works Posted on 27-Apr-2019 18:07:28
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Looks cool - just ordered the deluxe edition. _________________ Sam |
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Re: SkillGrid (formerly SPEEDGRID) - new AGA game in the works Posted on 27-Apr-2019 22:20:45
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Re: SkillGrid (formerly SPEEDGRID) - new AGA game in the works Posted on 2-May-2019 7:52:11
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| Check out this unboxing video to see what a great job RGCD did with the deluxe edition!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYWeZfIDPwg
(And sorry for the poor video quality: I don't have adequate equipment and I also messed things up ) _________________ RETREAM - retro dreams for Amiga, Commodore 64 and PC |
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Re: SkillGrid (formerly SPEEDGRID) - new AGA game in the works Posted on 2-May-2019 8:08:09
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Good job. V tempted  _________________ "Art challenges technology. Technology inspires the art." John Lasseter, Co-Founder of Pixar Animation Studios |
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Re: SkillGrid (formerly SPEEDGRID) - new AGA game in the works Posted on 2-May-2019 14:29:53
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Re: SkillGrid (formerly SPEEDGRID) - new AGA game in the works Posted on 2-May-2019 16:55:04
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Re: SkillGrid (formerly SPEEDGRID) - new AGA game in the works Posted on 22-Jun-2019 9:56:36
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| In a thread on a public forum, I've read that no developer does the effort to allow his hardware-hitting game to quit and return to the OS: well, I'd like to let you know that I did include such function in SkillGrid - all that's needed is pressing [ESC] from the title screen. I did my best to take over the machine at startup and release the resources when quitting in the cleanest and most compatible way.
Also, in the same thread, it's said that hardware-hitting games shouldn't really be expected to run flawlessly on all the Amiga setups, given the huge variety of configurations. While it's true that it's impossible to have the game tested on all the configurations out there, I did a big effort to have the game running perfectly and in exactly the same way on a wide range of very different machines. These are the systems (running a variety of AmigaOS versions from 3.1 to 3.9) that SkillGrid has been tested on: * A1200 * A1200 + M-Tec Viper T1230 * A1200 + Blizzard 1230 MK IV * A1200 + Blizzard 603e 68060 * A4000/040 + Cybervision + Prisma Megamix * A4000 + Cyberstorm MK III 68060 + VA2000 + VA2000CX + Buddha IDE + SCSI2SD + network card * Amiga CD³² * several A4000 68040/68060 UAE configurations
(Many thanks to James Monkman, John Scolieri, Tony Aksnes, and Trevor Dickinson for testing the games on their machines.)
It's worth noting that the release was delayed by a couple of months due to the game crashing randomly and shortly after launch on the second A4000 listed above. I simply refused to release a product that seemed to suffer from such an issue. After a difficult investigation and countless tests (the machine and I were 6 time zones apart), it became clear that the problem was AmigaOS being unstable: in fact, a complete reinstallation of AmigaOS solved the problem.
Of course, I can't guarantee that SkillGrid will work on each and every exotic Amiga system out there, but I did strive to make the game as much compatible as possible, so it's safe to say that SkillGrid will run fine on any stable AGA Amiga system. _________________ RETREAM - retro dreams for Amiga, Commodore 64 and PC |
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Re: SkillGrid (formerly SPEEDGRID) - new AGA game in the works Posted on 22-Jun-2019 11:13:17
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Thank you for that. I really appreciate well-tested and quittable games, because we use them a lot at gaming events. Casual gamers don't even know how to reboot an Amiga, so a quit option in a game (or WHDLoad install for it) makes things much easier.
SkillGrid worked very well as a competition game at the Vectorama event earlier this month. It never crashed on our setups during the whole three days of continuous gaming, and I made a modification to the startup script to delete the hiscore file between players. So it was constantly quitted and restarted without rebooting Amigas.
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Re: SkillGrid (formerly SPEEDGRID) - new AGA game in the works Posted on 22-Jun-2019 13:02:58
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Cool! Thanks for sharing that story  Last edited by saimo on 22-Jun-2019 at 01:03 PM.
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Re: SkillGrid (formerly SPEEDGRID) - new AGA game in the works Posted on 27-Jun-2019 7:52:21
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| One day I woke up with the song The Man with the Gun by Press Play On Tape playing in my mind. Somehow, a mental connection was born: how cool would it have been to have a piece of that song as the music for SkillGrid's Music Mode? So, I spent a little time to cut/mix excerpts from the song and to add them to the game. And then I didn't stop there: also all the other music pieces were replaced with parts I extracted and adapted from the same song. This video shows the result - and how good the audio engine of the game is ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD0BkmJvpeY
Important: * this version of the game is not publicly available; * the game has its own original soundtrack. Last edited by saimo on 27-Jun-2019 at 08:26 AM. Last edited by saimo on 27-Jun-2019 at 08:25 AM.
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Re: SkillGrid (formerly SPEEDGRID) - new AGA game in the works Posted on 6-Sep-2019 22:43:53
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Re: SkillGrid (formerly SPEEDGRID) - new AGA game in the works Posted on 6-Sep-2019 22:52:08
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klx300r wrote: just read the great article about SkillGrid in the latest Amiga Future and I fully agree with what the auther (Graham Humphrey) pleads all Amiga users with AGA systems to do & that is buy it and support the developer (Simone Bevilaqua/ RETREAM) for creating such an "extremely impressive piece of design and coding by an accomplished developer, and is exactly the sort of effort that deserves support and enthusiasm.."
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I didn't know about this. Thanks klx300r for reporting it and, of course, to thanks Graham Humphrey for such nice words!Last edited by saimo on 06-Sep-2019 at 10:57 PM.
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Re: SkillGrid (formerly SPEEDGRID) - new AGA game in the works Posted on 6-Dec-2019 14:07:31
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Just a quick heads-up to let you know that, after some months, the deluxe edition is back in stock on the RGCD store!
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Re: SkillGrid (formerly SPEEDGRID) - new AGA game in the works Posted on 28-Jan-2021 14:49:51
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| Hi all,
I'm looking for somebody to test an update that I've been working on for a while now. It seems that the custom NVRAM code doesn't work fine on all the Amiga CD32 machines, and I don't have that machine to make tests myself.
Requirements: * Amiga CD32 machine with a 2.5 V or less version of the EEPROM chip (it's marked "AT24C08" and, among various other codes, it has also the voltage printed on it - for example, the chip at the middle bottom of this picture, just under the Alice chip, has a "25" meaning that it's a 2.5 V chip); * easy storage support (HD/CF/floppy/etc.) - CD-ROM alone won't do; * knowledge of AmigaOS, some basic technical skills, ability to provide clear reports and patience.
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Re: SkillGrid (formerly SPEEDGRID) - new AGA game in the works Posted on 28-Jan-2021 21:07:02
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I have a question regarding the game itself.
Does the sound sound really like some 8-bit-like or this is just a sound problem on my Vampire Standalone?? _________________ Amiga 1200 + WARP 1260 + AmigaOS 3.2 |
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Re: SkillGrid (formerly SPEEDGRID) - new AGA game in the works Posted on 28-Jan-2021 23:39:02
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I have a question regarding the game itself.
Does the sound sound really like some 8-bit-like or this is just a sound problem on my Vampire Standalone?? |
The game is supposed to sound as in this video. BTW, with the update the music sounds even better._________________ RETREAM - retro dreams for Amiga, Commodore 64 and PC |
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Re: SkillGrid (formerly SPEEDGRID) - new AGA game in the works Posted on 30-Jan-2021 17:38:59
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Thanks for the hint.
Checked once more under AmigaOS 3.1.4.1.
Same thing, some rough sounds. I wonder what is the cause... _________________ Amiga 1200 + WARP 1260 + AmigaOS 3.2 |
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Re: SkillGrid (formerly SPEEDGRID) - new AGA game in the works Posted on 30-Jan-2021 18:03:29
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Thanks for the hint.
Checked once more under AmigaOS 3.1.4.1.
Same thing, some rough sounds. I wonder what is the cause... |
The OS should make no difference: the game turns it off and uses the hardware directly. Has this last test been made on a real Amiga? If so, which? And does the same happen if you run the game without startup-sequence? BTW, in the past, another Vampire user told me that he experienced issues with both SkillGrid and THE CURE, so maybe it's a matter of emulation, given that I tested both the game and the demo on a wide variety of Amiga systems*, not to mention that I never received a report from anyone.
*These are the systems (running a variety of AmigaOS versions from 3.1 to 3.9) that SkillGrid has been tested on: * A1200 * A1200 + M-Tec Viper T1230 * A1200 + Blizzard 1230 MK IV * A1200 + Blizzard 603e 68060 * A4000/040 + Cybervision + Prisma Megamix * A4000 + Cyberstorm MK III 68060 + VA2000 + VA2000CX + Buddha IDE + SCSI2SD + network card * Amiga CD³² * Amiga CD³² + TerribleFire 328 * Amiga CD³² + TerribleFire 330 * several A4000 68040/68060 UAE configurationsLast edited by saimo on 30-Jan-2021 at 08:34 PM. Last edited by saimo on 30-Jan-2021 at 06:04 PM.
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Re: SkillGrid (formerly SPEEDGRID) - new AGA game in the works Posted on 31-Jan-2021 10:34:40
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Has this last test been made on a real Amiga? If so, which? |
Not yet.
I run it on Vampire V4 Standalone, core RELEASE 5._________________ Amiga 1200 + WARP 1260 + AmigaOS 3.2 |
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