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MegaBall is a breakout-style game made by Ed and Al Mackey on the Amiga platform. It's recognized as one of the best ShareWare games for that platform, winning many awards and positive reviews from the Amiga magazines of the day. Many different versions have been released spanning many years. The full version of MegaBall is now available for free.
If you do still have a working Amiga, you can go to the bottom of the page and get the zip that contains ADF files for all the installation disks. If you don't have an Amiga, MegaBall will run in some Amiga emulators.d The most recognized Amiga emulator is UAE, and it's what I recommend to run MegaBall, since some of the others have difficulty with it. UAE is available for many platforms:
- WinUAE for MicroSoft Windows
- MacUAE for Macintosh
- UAE for Linux
- Other versions are listed on the UAE webpage
Aside from the emulator, you'll also need KickStart ROM images and a copy of Workbench. Although these can be found in shady places on the net, it's technically illegal to distribute these to people who don't have them already (that is, people who didn't buy an Amiga at some point), so I can't offer them here, and don't ask me for them. Also do not ask me for help getting an Amiga emulator running. There's plenty of guides on how to do that on the net.
The zip file contains three ADFs, which are files that act like floppy disks to the emulator. On these floppies is the full version of MegaBall, complete with the extra music disk and board editor. Unlike most ADFs, MegaBall cannot be ran directly from these floppies. It's best that you make a directory on your hard drive somewhere where you have some space, and make a virtual hard drive to use it (in WinUAE, this is done on the "Hard Drives" panel, with the "Add Directory" button). Once you install Workbench on the hard drive, reboot the emulator from it. Then, insert the three floppies and use the installer on the first one to install MegaBall to the hard drive.
For MegaBall to work, the sound emulation mode must be set to "Emulated, 100% accurate". Sound Buffering is also recommended. Slower computers may have problems keeping up with real time, resulting in choppy-sounding music and gameplay. The best way to increase emulator efficiency is to decreace the refresh rate (on the Display Settings screen in WinUAE) as needed.
MegaBall4.zip (1.5 MB)
