Matchball
Matchball is a tennis game for the Commodore Amiga, whose development was started around 2000, but then put on ice around 2002 due to the decline of the Amiga. Around 2023, after purchasing an Apollo Vampire S4, I discovered an old version of the code on a backup CD and (very) slowly started to work on it again. The code was in pretty bad shape and the game still requires a lot of hardware power. The game is completly written in SAS/C.
Here are a few pictures of the current status. For comparison, there are also some pictures from the year 2000. There are no major differences, but a lot has changed in the background.
Actual features (snapshot)
- 1 or 2 Player
- Training
- 1, 3 or 5 sets
- CD32 Pad support
- Clay, Gras, Hardcourt (different behavior)
- Topspin, Slice, Drive, Lob, Smash, Volley strokes
- Slide (depends on court)
2002
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2025
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Improvements since 2002 version
- Added a menu
- Added scoreboard
- Added shadows to the players
- Different court behavior
- 3 zoom levels for the ball and his shadow
- Added samples for the score
- Basic cpu ai
- Read courts, tournaments, etc from files
- Different ball curves for different strikes
- Improved replay control
- Many bugfixes, refactorings