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Despite its untimely bankruptcy in 1994, the Commodore range of Amiga computers still prove a popular choice of hardware for bedroom programmers to create games on with some still developing software for release in 2014. The best selling Amiga 500 model was released in 1987 and its popularity led to hundreds if not thousands of public domain (PD) and shareware games being released, with many titles being superior to their commercial rivals. This book showcases the very best of these games as well as those released on Commodore's financially doomed successor, the Amiga 1200. Contained within the pages of this book are 200 mini reviews of arcade perfect conversions, high quality point and click adventures, classic beat em ups, adrenaline pumping shooters and charming 2D platform games. There are also many innovative titles which could only be found within the PD / shareware market, such as Jeff Minter's Revenge of the Mutant Camels, where you control a camel firing at exploding sheep and skiing kangaroos. The book also contains two exclusive interviews with Amiga shareware programmers David Cruickshank and Michael Welch, the talent behind shareware classics Alien Fish Finger and Scorched Tanks. For Amiga fans, this book is must have reference book providing key information on over twenty five years of shareware / PD releases. For those interested in gaming generally the book contains a rich history of games, many of which have been developed and transported to modern technology, especially the booming mobile phone game market.

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Christian Clarke is the founder of Amigapd.com, a website dedicated to the preservation and promotion of Amiga shareware and public domain games. His passion is finding shareware games which were previously feared lost and discovering unreleased games. The most successful find to date was Ola Zandelin's Outpost - Final Battle which had been missing from the Amiga community since 2010. The game was finally returned to the Amiga community in 2013 after successfully making email contact with the original programmer. Since creating Amigapd.com, Christian has also become interested in programming on the Amiga and released his first ever computer game in November 2012. The game was a football manager game set in the 1980s and included the darker side to football, with player and referee bribes as well as no nonsense Brian Clough inspired half time talks.

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