Long awaited for a day like this. Congrats on the new partnership!!

Thanks for the answers!

Wow, that's a cool release! :-)

Oh, one of my first games (if not THE first one) for my Amiga 500.
It was very short, tactics were laughable.......
Later on i bought it for the PC too....and wow, that was a real real bad port...so that means a big NO BUY for me.
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Wow, RPS talks about games that include neither inclusive nor problematic content ? Colour me surprised.

"They’ve got the chap behind the Amiga and ST versions of the original, John Jones-Steele, and intend to create a faithful HD remake."

Mh. Cautiously fapping. Though I could also simply boot my ST upstairs instead.
But if this can generate interest in the original title over here, all for the best.

Yeah, I know about Wineskin, I use it all the time. It's jut that things usually work better the less layers there are in between. Plus Wineskin uses about 200MB of space per wrapper, which tends to add up over time.

That's a good price but wasn't this game released for free at some point? *confused*

and? the only reason why it was a success on the amiga were the graphics the gameplay was nil (and its not getting better with time) and € 4.49 for a few old pictures meeehh

Sorry, I must have misunderstood your post. I read that you said the PC was a real real bad port so that meant a big no buy for you.

I was just checking that you knew the amiga version was included.
I only wanted this for the dos version, so i just took that folder out and stuck it in dosbox. Doesn't work if you want the amiga version obviously.

I don't remember all the differences right now.. One that I do is the different way of handling land battles. In the Atari ST version you actually make tactical choices in real time how to fight the battle.
Here is a video of the Atari ST version I recorded a while back.
http://youtu.be/wovPq9EOEH0?list=PLtpqh8ebqvxfPsPe_b0lCXD3wLz64nR8M

well, but when there is no mac version available I'm always trying wineskin first, before bootcamping to windows - it's faster :D
my approach is - when it works - great!, when there are problems - bootcamp...

*saturn

Once (it's true) I dreamed of seeing Panzer Dragoon Saga on the GOG frontpage :P

Defender of the Crown was the first game I bought for my Amiga 500 (along with Starglider and S.D.I.). I played it to death, but two things I never really understood nor mastered in the game, no matter how much I played it or how many times I read the manual:

- raids (ie. fencing; was it merely about click-click-clickety-click?)

- the strategic part, e.g. what was the difference between using the more costly knights instead of common soldiers? If knight was simply a more powerful soldier, how much more, ie. did it make sense to buy only knights with all your money, or was there some reason to buy also common soldiers? Or were the knights for some specific purpose? If it was mentioned in the manual, I must have missed it back then.

That said, I think I'll pass this release for now. If it had included the 2002 remastered Windows version, that would have been a different story. As far as I've seen, the 2002 version seems quite faithful to the original, but is superior in every way (music, graphics, gameplay).

Cinemaware games in general... in my opinion many of them were a bit too simplistic in nature, they were more about the flashiness and being "like a movie", than being interesting games. My personal favorites were Sinbad and the Throne of the Falcon (which was one of the less flashy Cinemaware games, but I liked the gameplay), and Rocket Ranger. I haven't played many of the latter time CW games though, lost interest after King of Chicago, which was ho-hum.

I know I am going to be minused to hell but let me put this this way

so BarryWoodward contacted Cinemaware and pretty much arranged the grounds for both parties to meet agreement

and Cinemaware themselves did half the work to make those games work on PCs.

The question is

Are you fucking kidding me?