itch.io

Wait what? You actually built a version for the C128?! Sweet Christmas! 😮 Thank you so much - I'll definitely check it out and tell the community members about it! 😮

Itch.io's web server prevents Amiga browsers from accessing the site. Aminet, om the other hand, does not. Unlike itch.io, Aminet also offers standard anonymous FTP downloading. Finally, Aminet's recently added files are mirrored across its various servers around then globe, and also automatically displayed on news sites like Amigaworld.net and Amigas.net, just to name a few.

Supporting Aminet is, and should be, a no-brainer for any Amiga user.

Why do you refuse to release this on Aminet so everyone can download it?

Why do you refuse to release this on Aminet so every AmigaOS user can download it?

Thank you very much for even considering it - I'm of course not talking anything for granted, but very much crossing my fingers! 👍 Perhaps Copilot, Gemini or ChatGPT can give some additional help on how to assemble the code for the C128. Hoping for the best! ❤️

Wow! 😮 This is mind blowing! Of all the games you could have picked from, you chose H.E.R.O.!👍 Any chance you'll please consider building a native version for the Commodore 128, too? It doesn't have to have any extra features or anything - just being able to start H.E.R.O. straight from the C128 natively would be a massive feature all in itself - and a huge gesture of goodwill to the C128 community and its humble little library of games ❤️.

Excellent. Aminet offers standard FTP downloads. Unfortunately, the bloated HTML code that Itch.io used doesn't lend itself well to most Amiga web browsers, like Ibrowse. That's why supporting Aminet and its FTP service is crucial.

Nice - maybe. Why do you refuse to provide the game in a standard AmigaOS LhA archive? Why isn't the game available for every Amiga user straight from Aminet, so everyone can enjoy it?

Sorry, but how is that supposed to render on 2-bit screen modes?

Sorry, I can't download it here. That's why I'm asking for a BBS. It's impossible to download straight to our C64 and C128 systems from itch.io - and that's why we need an official release on an online BBS.

Nice, but from what online BBS can we officially download this from straight to our C64/C128 systems?

Excellent! Please see this Lemon64 thread for a list of online BBS systems - I'd suggest getting in touch with Particles BBS.

Fair enough. Here's a tutorial for using LhA:

https://forum.amiga.org/index.php?topic=23259.0

About how to upload files to the world's largest Amiga file repository, here are the official step-by-step instructions (please note that they include using FTP):

https://wiki.aminet.net/Uploading_instructions

Here's the point. Amiga users rely on FTP for file downloading and Aminet for distribution.

Why do you refuse to release this in a standard LhA archive on Aminet so everyone can enjoy it?

Of course, which is why a demo would be a great way to gain some traction among real Commodore 64 and Commodore 128 users. There are plenty of big Commodore BBS systems connected to the internet. Most of them support Punter or X-Modem, so downloading to your Commodore setup is really easy.

But this isn't an online BBS we can download the game straight to our C64/C128 systems from 🫤. That's why I asked where we can expect to officially find it, seeing there are quite a few online BBS boards out there.

Incredible! 😮 From what official online BBS can we download this from straight to our C64/C128 systems, so everyone can enjoy it and try it out??

Thanks, appreciate it 👍. Since all major Amiga sites show Aminet's most recently uploaded files, your target audience should grow significantly.

Why do you refuse to release this on Aminet in standard LhA format so everyone can download it?

Why do you refuse to release this on Aminet so every AmigaOS user can find it and download it?

Why do you refuse to release this on Aminet in a standard AmigaOS LhA archive, so that everyone can find it and use it?

Not sure what this actually means, so my question remains. Aminet is the go-to site for AmigaOS users. It's the planet's largest Amiga file archive. How that can't be the first place where you find your audience is puzzling. Ignoring it borders being { appropriate adjective here } to the AmigaOS community.

Nice, but why do you refuse to upload this to Aminet in a standard LhA archive..? 🤔

Why do you refuse to upload it to Aminet? 🤔

Thanks 👍.

Of course. AmigaOS users have been supporting developers since Aminet first launched in the early 1990s.

LhA on Aminet?

Please don't use the bloated adf format. LhA is the de facto standard file archive for AmigaOS. Also, why do you refuse to upload the demo to Aminet so every Amiga user can easily download it and enjoy it? 😑

Thanks! 👍

Ok, so you won't release it on Aminet. That's sad. And why do you refuse to release it in a standard LhA archive?

Why do you refuse to release it on Aminet, the standard file archive for every Amiga user? And why do you refuse to use the standard LhA archive format that the Amiga uses for small, tight file sizes?

Why is this not available on Aminet so everyone can download it and enjoy it? 😐

Please upload this to Aminet so that every Amiga user can enjoy it (unfortunately, itch.io refuses to work using a lot of Amiga web browsers). Thanks!

Very nice! Please consider uploading the LhA-archive to Aminet, so all Amiga users can enjoy it. Thanks!

Awesome! Best of luck with future builds, and please don't forget to embed the standard AmigaOS $VER:-string in the binary! <3

Please upload this to Aminet in the standard AmigaOS LhA-archive format. Thanks.

Will you please consider uploading this to Aminet in proper LhA format so that everyone can download and enjoy it? Thanks.

Ah, now I get it! 🙂 What I meant is if you build a demo version, please upload it that release to Aminet. Thanks!

Nice, but what does that have to do with uploading it to Aminet? 🤔