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Thanks to another heads up from a good friend of ours, we’ve been told that Prototron and team, have released an updated build of the previously released enhanced version of the 1991 US GOLD published Beat ’em up of ‘Final Fight’ for the Amiga; A game that when it was originally released back in the 90’s, was regarded as either a failure, or just a pretty terrible game suffering the same fate as the Street Fighter II Amiga port “. To coincide with this news, provided below is the latest footage of this incredible looking enhanced version of Final Fight. [embedded content] For those of you who missed the big release announcement when the first build was released back in Jan of this year. This is what was said about the game “After three solid years of learning how to code in 68000 assembly language, I think I’ve taken this project as far as I’d like. The game takes place in its own universe separate from the Capcom timeline, and features some changes which blend elements from different iterations of the series. Maki was my favorite feature of Final Fight 2, so I decided quite early on to include her as a playable character, as well as give her spritework and moveset a slight re-design to my own taste. Please be aware that this is a personal project which was used as a way to learn how the Amiga works, and not a commercial game made for public consumption. Therefore, there may be some bugs present, and sacrifices have had to be made in the conversion from arcade to Amiga”. Credits: Programming and music by Prototron Title music by Jolyon “The Judge” Myers Background graphics by Ralph Changes: – ADDED NEW MUSIC TO THE ELEVATOR STAGE – ADDED GUY AND MAKI’S “OFF THE WALL JUMP” – FIXED A BUG THAT CRASHED THE GAME WHEN BELGER WAS KILLED WITH A REGULAR PUNCH – REMOVED SOME SUPERFLUOUS COLLISION CHECKS FROM BELGER IN AN ATTEMPT TO FIX THE STALL BUG. I CAN’T SEEM TO RE-CREATE THIS PARTICULAR BUG IN WINUAE OR ON A REAL AMIGA 600, SO THIS IS JUST A GUESS – SOME MINOR ANIMATION FIXES, PLUS CHECKS ADDED TO PREVENT SOME BUGS THAT DIDN’T HALT THE PLAYER DURING LEVEL TRANSITIONS Links :1) Source 2) Download The post Final Fight Enhanced – An enhanced Amiga AGA/ECS version of a classic Beat ’em up from 1991 (New build available) appeared first on Old School Gamer Magazine.

In the afternoons, when Reasons to be Cheerful’s editors head home for the evening — by subway, by bike or on foot, like most New Yorkers — here’s what we often see: a stagnant river of gridlocked cars stretching down every avenue and street, their drivers trying in vain to get out of the city and leaning on their horns in the meantime. This is the transportation crisis that New York’s congestion pricing plan was designed to confront. Its primary mechanism — a $15 charge for driving into Manhattan below 60th Street — would have reduced traffic by an estimated 17 percent while funneling $1 billion in annual revenues to the city’s transit system, which is desperate for cash for maintenance and upgrades. When New York’s governor suddenly shelved the plan this week, the state lost a generational chance to finally implement meaningful fixes to both its subways and its streets. And we at Reasons to be Cheerful nearly lost something, too: A special series we’d been working on about smart ways cities are solving the problems caused by cars. The plan was to publish the series in a few weeks, when New York’s congestion pricing went into effect. Alas, that moment is now “indefinitely” (many fear permanently) postponed. Become a sustaining member today! Join the Reasons to be Cheerful community by supporting our nonprofit publication and giving what you can. Join But we didn’t want the death of one great idea to cause the demise of another. So we’re running our series anyway, repurposed to show New Yorkers the good ideas that could have been. Today, we’re publishing a story by Eric Krebs on how congestion pricing, and the benefits it has spawned, has won the hearts of the cities that have embraced it, from Stockholm to Singapore. On Monday, we’ll publish a piece by Peter Yeung about how London has used some simple techniques to create “low-traffic” neighborhoods, where cars are discouraged and walking and cycling rates have since surged. And on Tuesday, we’ll publish a story by Kaja Seruga about how some European cities are slowing down drivers, making their streets safer and their neighborhoods more livable. These stories are a reminder that, while New York’s transportation woes may be one step further from being solved, workable, evidence-based solutions are out there. To set them in motion, all a city needs is the willingness to give them a try — and then, to give them a chance to work before pulling the plug. The post The Dream of a Car-Free City Lives On appeared first on Reasons to be Cheerful.

The newly-uncovered blue room at Pompeii Archaeological Park. Source: Italian Ministry of Culture.   The discovery of a rare “blue room” at Pompeii Archaeological Park was announced this week. Boasting bright blue walls—a very unusual, and thus significant, color choice in the ancient Roman city—the residential space most likely functioned as a shrine.   Blue Room Was An Ancient Roman Shrine Excavations of the blue room at Pompeii. Source: Italian Ministry of Culture.   Experts believe the newly-discovered, highly decorative blue room was an ancient Roman shrine known as a sacrarium. The Italian Cultural Ministry noted that the room’s blue wall color is a particularly rare find in Pompeii, signifying the space was functionally and aesthetically important. The 86-square-foot space was recently uncovered in Regio IX of central Pompeii, a residential area that is one of the park’s most active excavation sites.   Pompeiians most likely would have used the blue room primarily for ritual activities and the storage of sacred objects. Its use was not necessarily confined to religious practice, however—just before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, which buried Pompeii beneath layers of ash in 79 A.D.E., the room functioned as a warehouse for ceramic storage vessels called amphorae.   Archaeologists Found Fresco Figures and Construction Materials A female allegorical figure painted on the wall of the Blue Room. Source: Italian Ministry of Culture.   The vivid walls of Pompeii’s newly-discovered blue room feature decorative fresco paintings of female figures holding various symbolic objects. On the room’s central wall, two allegorical figures depict agriculture and shepherding, wielding a plow and a short stick commonly used by shepherds. In the room’s side niches, four additional female figures—known as Horens in Greek mythology—represent the four seasons.   In addition to the fifteen transportable amphorae stored in the blue room at the time of its burial, archaeologists found two bronze jugs and two oil lamps in the area. Building materials used in renovations were also found at the site, including the remains of oyster shells, which would have been crushed and added to plaster and mortar mixes.   Pompeii is an Archaeological “Treasure Chest” The Blue Room. Source: Italian Cultural Ministry.   Archaeologists at Pompeii have made several notable discoveries in recent months, including children’s surprisingly violent wall drawings—unveiled just last week—and a pristinely preserved banquet hall with vibrant mythological fresco paintings. These impressive finds are part of an ongoing project to secure a perimeter between the excavated and non-excavated areas of Pompeii Archaeological Park. Over 13,000 rooms have been fully excavated at the park thus far. According to the Italian Cultural Ministry, this project also aims to improve the infrastructure of the excavation area to help make the “protection of the vast Pompeiian heritage…more effective and sustainable.”   Gennaro Sangiuliano, the Italian Minister of Culture, reaffirmed the significance of ongoing archaeological work at Pompeii, saying, “Pompeii is truly a treasure chest that never ceases to surprise us and arouse amazement because, every time we dig, we find something beautiful and significant.”