Shock!! This isn’t a JOTD Arcade to Amiga port! As I’ve found out from Walter Mamo that Modern Vintage Gamer is working on an Arcade to Amiga port of the top down racing game called ‘Zippy Race’, also known as MotoRace USA in the states. A game in which the player controls a racer who must travel on a motorcycle from Los Angeles to New York City. To coincide with this news, MVG has provided a long video showing how the game came to be and the current progress.
Here’s the latest in regards to the video above. “Ever wanted to code a game from scratch that runs on an old retro computer hardware from 1985 ? Challenge Accepted – This is my Work in Progress port of Zippy Race that runs on a standard Commodore Amiga A500 with the Original Chip Set (OCS) and just 512k/512k. In this episode I walk through how the port came to be and how I solved various challenges with the development of the game. I hope you enjoy!”
A Few Notes:
- I Plan to finish and release this sometime in 2026. No eta yet – when its done. It will be free and open sourced but might do a limited physical print run. We will see.
- The Amiga technical information about theBblitter, Sprites, Scrolling etc is my understanding to the best of my knowledge. I’m not an expert and im still learning this stuff so if i got something wrong please let me know
- Have a fantastic week!
Watch this space for more…
