Partenariat entre Vulcan Software et Amiga Inc.

Un revenant dans le monde Amiga ? Vulcan Software, studio à l’origine de quelques hits au milieu des années 90 (Valhalla, TimeKeepers…) et Amiga Inc. viennent d’annoncer un partenariat visant à apporter quelques classiques des jeux Amiga sur PC/Windows et d’autres plateformes (non spécifiées dans l’annonce) au travers de leur nouvelle série de produits « Amiga Classic Game Player ».

Les titres sont présents sur shopamiga.com à un tarif réduit de 4.99USD (~3.71 EUR).

D’autres titres devraient suivre et d’autres transactions sont en cours avec Vulcan, si l’on en croit le communiqué disponible en Lire la suite.Ci dessous, le communiqué de presse en anglais :

Vulcan Software Limited and Amiga, Inc. announce new relationship bringing Classic Amiga games to PCs and other devices

Issaquah, Wash USA – Gloucestershire, UK – May 23, 2007 – Vulcan Software Limited and Amiga, Inc. are pleased to announce the launch and availability of Vulcan Software titles for Windows PCs via the new Amiga Classic Game Player.

« The new Amiga offering makes playing these very fun titles simple. Just click and you are playing. It is great to be working with Amiga again, and our relationship will be growing into other areas as well », said Paul Carrington President of Vulcan Software Limited.

With the new Amiga Classic Game Player customers need only to select the game they want to play, download it to their computer, install, click and play. It is seamless fun, and reminds everyone of why we started using computers for gaming to begin with.

Amiga will continue to offer new titles and other Amiga Classic offerings, from the 80s through the 90s, and will offer these great titles initially for the PC and then will begin to expand other devices.

« It has been great working with Paul at Vulcan and this is the first product that is available from our new relationship », said Bill McEwen, Amiga, Inc. « There are several other areas that Amiga and Vulcan are in discussions about, and we look forward on delivering new products and experiences for our customers very soon. »

About Amiga
Amiga, Inc. is the world’s premier provider of multimedia enabling technologies. For almost two decades its award-winning software has been a mainstay for motion picture studios, multimedia creators, and digital entertainment enthusiasts around the world. Today Amiga builds on this legacy leading the way in multimedia development by providing developers with hardware-independent technologies for writing and porting applications to new platforms and interactive devices. For more information visit www.amiga.com.

About Vulcan Software Limited
Vulcan Software Limited founded in 1994 is an independent software development company, based in the United Kingdom. After creating 15 award winning games « over five years » for the Amiga computer, Vulcan has been busy creating advanced 3D game development tools « Mother3D » along with two flagship 3D titles « Hybrid » and « Valhalla & The Curse Of Infinity ». For more information visit www.vulcan.co.uk.