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The Story of Another World on the Amiga | MVG

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Modern Vintage Gamer explores how Eric Chahi programmed the cinematic game Another World to run on the 7MHz Amiga 500 using 2D polygons.

Another World released in 1991 by Delphine Software originally on the Commodore Amiga 500. The game was developed by Eric Chahi made use of 2D Polygons, Rotoscoping and Genlocks to bring its cinematic experience to life. Another World is considered one of the most influential games of all time. In this episode we take a deep dive on how the game was built and how it managed to run well on a stock 7mhz Amiga 500. ► Support the Channel - patreon.com/ModernVintageGamer Music Credits: ► Another World: Official Soundtrack - Jean-François Freitas ► Eon by The Black Lotus - h0ffman Sources: ► Another World - The Making Of with Eric Chahi - youtube.com/watch?v=J0gv2bV9ok4&t=389s ► Another World GDC Post Mortem - gamedeveloper.com/console/gdc-2011-eric-chahi-s-retro-postmo… ► The Polygons of Another World - fabiensanglard.net/another_world_polygons/index.html ► Anotherworld.fr - anotherworld.fr/anotherworld_uk/another_world.htm ► Another World GBA - gbadev.org/demos.php?showinfo=1279 ► Alain-TreeSong - github.com/alain-treesong/ ► Amiga Bitplanes - amigadev.elowar.com/read/ADCD_2.1/Hardware_Manual_guide/node… ► Making of - Out of This World / Another World - youtube.com/watch?v=VhGtYfpmxyY ► The Black Lotus - Eon - Amiga Demo - youtube.com/watch?v=iD9xk3SDSYc&t=222s ► Phenomena - Enigma - Amiga Demo - youtube.com/watch?v=iGpU3DicbLQ&t=89s ► Commodore Amiga Genlocks - youtube.com/watch?v=__XLZxN_1eE&t=1207s Social Media Links : ► Facebook : facebook.com/ModernVintageGamer ► Twitter : twitter.com/ModernVintageG ► IG: instagram.com/ModernVintageGamer ► BandCamp : modernvintagegamer.bandcamp.com/ #AnotherWorld #Amiga #Polygons

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What people say. Recommended as an excellent breakdown of the clever programming techniques and hardware utilization used to build Another World.

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See as well: - Infernal Runner for Amstrad CPC reverse-engineering and JavaScript port by cyxx [title from creator of Another World, both games utilizing virtual machine architecture]: link - The Virtual Machine Architecture of Infernal Runner presentation by Norbert Kehrer (in German with English slides): link - The Story of Another World on the Amiga | MVG: link to this video - Nintendo 64 port of Another World: link - Another World PlayStation 1 port: link