What is AROS ? - a portable, improved open source reimplementation of Amiga OS 3.1. Currently available for: i386, x86_64bit, Amiga m68k, ARM (RaspberryPi) and Efika CHRP / SAM440 PPC hardware, running natively, and/or hosted inside Linux (i386, x86_64bit, PPC), Windows (i386), MacOS (i386), Android (ARM). (Nice, eh?)

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Wednesday, May 27, 2026

Gloom on AROS 64-bit

Great news for AROS gamers: First-person-shooter "Gloom" has been ported to AROS 64-bit (ABI v11).

This not-to-be-taken-too-seriously Doom clone was a very well made game for the Amiga, first released in 1995. A couple of sequels followed, and the sourcecode was released in 2017, which led to the creation of "ZGloom" engine, which has now been ported to AROS. Which is great, because now you can blast hordes of enemy sprites to pieces on your - compared to Amiga 68k - super high-end AROS machine, meaning smooth gameplay at full frame rate. 

Here's a video from Retrofaza's YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STo5MyKFnoY

Doesn't that look like a lot of fun? You  can get "ZGloom" for AROS x86_64 (ABI v11) from The AROS Archives:

https://archives.arosworld.org/?function=showfile&file=game/fps/zgloom.x86_64-aros-v11.zip

As a sidenote: You can download the final release of Gloom for Amiga 68k, known as "Gloom 3" or "Ultimate Gloom", from aminet:

https://aminet.net/package/game/shoot/UltimateGloomISO

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Additional sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloom_(video_game)

https://aminet.net/package/game/shoot/Gloom_src (Amiga game source code)


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