#AMIGAugust is a month-long chain raid event on Twitch to promote gaming on the Amiga platform. In short we use #AMIGAugust in the title and tags when we stream Amiga during August and raid out to other streamers who are doing the same thing. We aim to help people meet new people, to help viewers find streamers they like but don’t yet know of, and to spread the Amiga joy message! We did a similar event in April called #AMIGApril.
If you want to participate, you can just do it on your own by using the tag (remember to raid to other channels using it!). There is no requirement regarding the amount of Amiga streams you do! If you’d like to be featured on the list, hit me up on Twitch (retroDemiurgi) or Discord (demiurgi). You can also discuss #AMIGAugust on the AmigaLive Discord server.
Also, if you don’t have original hardware and don’t quite know where to start with emulating, feel free to ask! We can also help you pick games that might interest you depending on your taste. First things first: download AmigaLive!
August will close with the online tournament of IK+ organised by GameNight. If you want to know more or to participate in the event, check out amigagamenight.com.
Competition/Challenges
In addition to chaining raids we offer a little optional challenge competition to those interested. You can see the challenges for the 2024 AMIGAugust in the table below. We tried to weigh the points for different challenges according to the difficulty but easy challenges might take longer to complete than some of the tougher ones. It’s all subjective and for fun anyway! For high score challenges you got 4 points for first place at the end of the month, 3 points for 2nd place, 2 points for 3rd and 1 point for 4th and 5th. If you were the only person to complete a non-hi-score challenge, you got an extra point for it!
Trainers, cheats, save states and such can’t be used when completing challenges but they are allowed for practicing. Additionally, for high score challenges endless enemy spawning or any other kind of point milking is not permitted. The 2024 competition lasted until August 31st midnight UTC. Winner was VideoGamEndingsDatabase! Whereas the #AMIGApril winner Girolamo chose a mug as his prize, VED chose a T-shirt (as seen below). Final scoresheet here.
| Category | Game | Goal | Points |
| EASY | Minskie’s Furballs | Beat the game on easy difficulty | 1 |
| EASY | Syndicate | Beat mission “Atlantic Accelerator” (you may use this cheat: Company name “MARKS TEAM”) | 1 |
| EASY | Lemmings 2 | Pick any tribe and beat the first six levels of that tribe with 50 or more lemmings remaining | 1 |
| EASY | Nitro | Complete the game (32 tracks, don’t have to win the championship) | 2 |
| EASY | Shadow Fighter | Beat the championship mode on easy difficulty and default settings (blood optional) | 1 |
| TOUGH | Any Amiga game (just one though) | Get a speedrun world record in any Amiga game (verified on speedrun.com) and still hold the record at the end of the month | 2 |
| TOUGH | Space Crusade | Complete both the primary and the secondary objective of “Destroy Cube of Chaos” using only one team with no promotions or honours held. Your commander must make it back from the mission alive. | 2 |
| TOUGH | Myth: History in the Making | Beat the game | 3 |
| TOUGH | Desert Strike | Beat the first campaign/level (5 missions/objectives) | 2 |
| TOUGH | Flashback | Beat the Death Tower on expert difficulty, with no saves or shield recharging and no wall glitching. Password: LINE | 2 |
| JANK | Cliffhanger | Beat the game | 2 |
| JANK | Red Heat | Beat the first level (the sauna, two phases: inside and outside) | 1 |
| JANK | The Amazing Spider-Man | Beat the game by defeating Mysterio (1 point when using the Black Thunder speedrun trick, 2 points otherwise) |
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| JANK | The Amazing Adventures of Harry Haddock | Beat both levels | 1 |
| JANK | Predator | 1 point for every level you beat | 1-4 |
| CO-OP | Space Gun | Beat the red tentacle crab boss at the end of the space shuttle level with both players alive (2P mode) | 2 |
| CO-OP | Rodland | Beat the game (both players alive, 2P mode) | 2 |
| CO-OP | Super Tennis Champs | Win in a doubles match (best of three sets, 2P mode) | 2 |
| CO-OP | Second Samurai | Beat the first world by defeating the giant plant guardian with both players alive (default 5 lives, 2P mode) | 2 |
| CO-OP | SWIV | Beat the desert boss at the end of the tracks in the sand after the second water part with both players alive (about half-way through the game, 2P mode) | 2 |
| HI-SCORE | Magic Pockets | Get a high score. Continues are allowed but not with using the score retain trick. Score should reset to what you had at the beginning of the level when using a continue and reset to 0 when starting over. |
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| HI-SCORE | Walker | Get a high score (Arcade difficulty) |
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| HI-SCORE | IK+ | Get a high score (1 player, 2 CPUs, swift speed, default point system, bonus rounds included) |
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| HI-SCORE | Slam Tilt | Get a high score on The Pirate table |
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| HI-SCORE | Super Hang-On | Get a high score on the Junior course (Asia) |
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Streamers
Below are the streamers who took part in #AMIGAugust:
Amiga_Cammy
AmigaBill
AmigaLive
amigaruns
AshSaidHi
aZtOcKdOg
bobby_zeal
Brighel83
Carcenomy
CharlieFar
CloakedAlien
CoffeeCupArcade
DCBueller
dennisbusch_de
GeeksVsGeeks
happycamper__
hawkeyex28
HoolioGames
ItalianGrandma
joe64bit
Jogresque
KragleLive
litwarski
NAG_Graham
PhotonSCX
PintzandAmiga
QuanticCD32
RebootTV
Retro_Henni
retroDemiurgi
RetroGamingMusic
RetroHitch
Sfinxi
SpiderMwa
St0rmyCat
techieR0b
TheMP83
Tzibu
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