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Posted September 09, 2014
To arms, my noble Saxon knights!

Defender of the Crown, a 1986 turn-based strategy classic, originally launched on the Commodore Amiga, is available in all it's pixelated glory on GOG.com, for $5.99!

We are happy to announce a new partnership with Cinemaware that will bring plenty of mouth-watering classics in their best available incarnations. Starting with Defender of the Crown, more classic titles from Cinemaware will release on GOG.com with both PC and emulated Commodore Amiga versions. Yes, the graphically superior, awesome, beautiful and shiny Amiga versions!

Today's release is a wonderful gem straight from the 80s. Back in the day, Defender of the Crown set a new standard for graphical presentation and innovative, fresh gameplay. As the leader of an initially sparse pack of Saxon knights, building up your army and influence as you proceed, you'll have to stick it to the Normans in an effort to gain control of the war-torn medieval England. Your strategic prowess as well as your sword fighting skills will be severely tested. This turn-based strategy classic will have you saving damsels in distress with your blade, jousting with fearsome knights, and besieging Norman castles - all the while reveling in the Amiga quality sound and beautiful graphics.

Defeat those pesky Normans and unite England in Defender of the Crown, for $5.99 on GOG.com.
Post edited September 09, 2014 by JudasIscariot
Posted September 09, 2014
I never played the PC version. Is it closer to the better Atari ST version or the more beautiful but less options Amiga version?|
Posted September 09, 2014
This is actually pretty big. Yes it is not technically a new platform that GOG is releasing games ON but it is new platform that GOG is releasing games FROM.
Posted September 09, 2014
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damien: does this mean more Amiga titles in the future? Or is this a one time Cinemaware deal?
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Fever_Discordia: I would image there's more CINEMAWARE Amiga titles to come - not sure if that's a yes or a no...

How are they going it then? some kind of BIOS less emulation? Was it because Cinemaware used loaders that pretty much negated the Amiga's BIOS in the first place or something?
They have their own custom emulator called RockLobster ...inspired by the B52's :D
Posted September 09, 2014
Wow, I had no idea the Amiga had a much better sound chip than the DOS PC's. Even the graphics is a major improvement too! What kind of Amiga emulator will GOG be using?

Update: So the emulator is called RockLobster? That's hilarious!
Post edited September 09, 2014 by IronArcturus
Posted September 09, 2014
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tomimt: Impressive. Maybe this will open the floodgates for other Amiga games as well, and why not other older systems.

Cinemaware has some pretty interesting titles I've always wanted to give a spin, so I'll be looking at these releases with an interest.
Yeah, they were really ahead of their time when you think about it, looking back!
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Fever_Discordia: I would image there's more CINEMAWARE Amiga titles to come - not sure if that's a yes or a no...

How are they going it then? some kind of BIOS less emulation? Was it because Cinemaware used loaders that pretty much negated the Amiga's BIOS in the first place or something?
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JudasIscariot: They have their own custom emulator called RockLobster ...inspired by the B52's :D
Oh yeah, because
"Early Commodore Amiga 500 units had "B52/ROCK LOBSTER" etched on the main circuit board"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Lobster#In_popular_culture

Any that whole 'Guru Meditation' thing on a system hang - those Amiga engineer were crazy guys!
Post edited September 09, 2014 by Fever_Discordia
Posted September 09, 2014
Nice release I must say. Will pick it up as soon as I can.
Posted September 09, 2014
Yay! Wishlisted!
Posted September 09, 2014
Will Wings Remastered be coming to GOG?

http://cinemawarewings.com/
Posted September 09, 2014
No Mac version? I guess that's because of the emulator used. At least with DOS games I could just take the files and dump them into Boxer or der Mac version of DOSBox.
Posted September 09, 2014
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HiPhish: No Mac version? I guess that's because of the emulator used. At least with DOS games I could just take the files and dump them into Boxer or der Mac version of DOSBox.
We're hoping to have a Mac version out for everyone soon but no ETA as of right now :)
Posted September 09, 2014
THANK YOU, GOG!

Now, if some time later, we manage to get Playstation, Genesis, SNES (and other platforms) classics here on GOG, I strongly support this new idea of yours.

I confess that, some years ago, I was against the idea of selling emulated games here. I've now changed my mind. Old computer and console classics have the right to be brought from oblivion and restored so that all may learn and play with the past.

Thumbs up!
Posted September 09, 2014
Never played it, despite having been sitting on a disc copy of the remake (from ~2007) for ages. Will gladly grab this. The fact that the Amiga version is included almost made this an instabuy for me. Almost. I should really keep my game purchases to a minimum for a while.
Posted September 09, 2014
I'm going to have to buy this one for sentimental reasons if for nothing else. This was one of my favorite C64 games.
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rtcvb32: Wow, this game was made 28 years ago? It looks like it's aged very very well in comparison to other games out at the time...
That's because the Amiga was way ahead in technology when it was released. And Cinemaware made good use of the Amiga.
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karnak1: THANK YOU, GOG!

Now, if some time later, we manage to get Playstation, Genesis, SNES (and other platforms) classics here on GOG, I strongly support this new idea of yours.

I confess that, some years ago, I was against the idea of selling emulated games here. I've now changed my mind. Old computer and console classics have the right to be brought from oblivion and restored so that all may learn and play with the past.

Thumbs up!
Well, this is a special case for Cinemaware as they did the legal and programming legwork to get the Amiga versions running :) So let's not get all too excited alright? :)
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