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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
Alright, I remember this game but sadly every copy I brought back in the day for the Amiga 500 was corrupted. Here it is and now I get to play it and hopefully it will work. I knew it was a good game from seeing everybody else play. I hope you bring King of Chicago too because I loved that game and to me it was hard as nails. Kudos on doing this and hope to see some more Games for Amiga. I have Amiga Forever which allows me turn my machine into a Amiga through Emulation and play most of the games. Amiga 500 and 2000 was like a computer from the future or before it's time beautiful graphics, it utilities and sound. I also owned the Commodore 128 another great machine but not powerful as the Amiga. Oh such memories.
Post edited September 09, 2014 by Lonewolf1044
Posted September 09, 2014
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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
Now I have that song stuck in my head!
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.
This might be of interest to you until a Mac version comes out.
Posted September 09, 2014
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karnak1: I confess that, some years ago, I was against the idea of selling emulated games here. I've now changed my mind.
The irony is that GOG has been selling emulated games all along. DOSBox emulates not only a DOS environment, it also emulates specific PC hardware. That's one of the reasons why DOSBox allows to play DOS games on all sorts of operating systems and CPU architectures.
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JudasIscariot: They have their own custom emulator called RockLobster ...inspired by the B52's :D
Thanks for clarifying this. I presumed that this was gonna come bundled with WinUAE and a legally distributed Kickstart ROM. Too bad. Still, awesome that we're finally getting at least some Amiga games here! :)
Post edited September 09, 2014 by F4LL0UT
Posted September 09, 2014
Both DOS and Amiga? You, Sir, have sold me on this.
Posted September 09, 2014
I hope that this will be the start for more Amiga-Games, or even better, CDTV / CD32 Games.
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trusteft: I never played the PC version. Is it closer to the better Atari ST version or the more beautiful but less options Amiga version?|
The Atari ST Version was the best version, while the DOS was the worst one, even the C64 version was better than the DOS version.
Post edited September 09, 2014 by xwormwood
Posted September 09, 2014
Neat release. Now where is the C64 version? :D
Posted September 09, 2014
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JudasIscariot: 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? :)
I still hope that seeing all the enthusiasm here you guys will take it into major consideration again to work out a deal with whoever has the rights to the Amiga BIOS and stuff to sell more Amiga games here. :)
Posted September 09, 2014
Buying this immediately as I played the shit out of a pirated copy when I was a kid (and adult), and someone else paid for my dinner and drinks tonight.
Posted September 09, 2014
I am not interested in that old games. But I have to say: this looks really impressive.
Great work, GOG and Cinemaware! I have a feeling, that lots of people are going to enjoy this.
Keep the show running, GOG!
Posted September 09, 2014
Milestone day on GOG. Well done!
Posted September 09, 2014
Excellent.
Post edited September 09, 2014 by Crosmando
Posted September 09, 2014
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JudasIscariot: 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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F4LL0UT: I still hope that seeing all the enthusiasm here you guys will take it into major consideration again to work out a deal with whoever has the rights to the Amiga BIOS and stuff to sell more Amiga games here. :)
Cloanto holds the rights. They have talked with GOG before, and expressed interest in bringing out Amiga games, but it never seems to go any further. GOG has been mute as to their side of the talks.
Posted September 09, 2014
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gandalf.nho: Never played this one, how's the difficulty?
go Geoffrey Longsword and you will be sweet :)
Posted September 09, 2014
Wow, looks amazing for a game made in 86.
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