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Blood Money (1989)
Defender Of The Crown (1986)
Dungeon Master (1987) + Chaos Strikes Back (1989)
Elf (1991)
Elvira: Mistress Of The Dark (1990)
Elvira II: The Jaws Of Cerberus (1991)
Fiendish Freddy's Big Top O' Fun (1990)
Flashback: The Quest For Indentity (1992)
It Came From The Desert (1989) + Antheads (1990)
The Killing Game Show (1990)
(1991) + [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glWTIKqT1CA]Oh No! More Lemmings (1991) + Holiday Lemmings (1994)
Lemmings 2: The Tribes (1993)
The Lemmings Chronicles (1994)
Rocket Ranger (1988)
Shadow Of The Beast (1989)
Shadow Of The Beast II (1990)
Shadow Of The Beast III (1992)
Turrican (1990)
Turrican II: The Final Fight (1991)
Turrican III: Payment Day (1993)
Wings (1990)
Post edited May 25, 2013 by Barry_Woodward
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Barry_Woodward: snip
Decent selection. Here's a few more:

Alien Breed II - The Horror Continues (AGA)
Alien Breed 3D
Apidya
The Chaos Engine
The Chaos Engine 2
Fire & Ice
Hybris
K240
Leander
Project-X
Smash T.V.
Speedball 2 - Brutal Deluxe
Strider
Strider 2
Switchblade
Switchblade II
Wings of Fury
X-Out
Xenon 2: Megablast
Z-Out
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keeveek: I don't know what Kickstarter ROM is :-(
It's a ROM containing a program that only runs if enough people pay for it.
What would be the best way to pass this information along to GOG?

http://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/port_amiga_games
Post edited May 27, 2013 by Barry_Woodward
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Barry_Woodward: What would be the best way to pass this information along to GOG?

http://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/port_amiga_games
Get someone from Cloanto to fill out this:

http://www.gog.com/support/contact/business
It's not that simple, even if GOG got the rights to distribute Amiga ROMs, they would still need to go through the same process of getting the rights to the games themselves, and GOG still are only slowly getting through their DOS backlog.

It also raises other questions, what if Cloanto demands a cut of the profits for every Amiga game sold? Sales of old games are still low compared to new stuff, and GOG is still a niche site, would they be willing to cut their profits in THIRDS, not just between themselves and the publisher, but also Cloanto? What if the publisher of an Amiga game GOG wanted to sell were unwilling to accept giving a cut to Cloanto? Negotiating a three-way contract like that would be very difficult.

GOG have enough trouble getting games here without worrying about a third-party. Don't get me wrong there's some Amiga games I'd love to see here, but it seems to me to be pure fantasy at this point.
I can´t believe the little attention this got from the communtity.
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tejozaszaszas: I can´t believe the little attention this got from the communtity.
Until there is more news, there isn't really all that much to say.
If you want GOG to sell Amiga games, let them know by voting on the wishlist:

http://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/port_amiga_games
Post edited August 10, 2013 by Barry_Woodward
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Barry_Woodward: If you want GOG to sell Amiga games, let them know by voting on the wishlist:

http://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/port_amiga_games
So many great adventure games... This must happen!
Voted. Hopefully GOG can bring improved versions of games they already have here, too. (DOS vs. Amiga and such)

EDIT: Will post in the "search for game rights" thread, too.
Post edited August 10, 2013 by tfishell
I'm not an Amiga fan, but I'd love for Amiga titles to wind up here. I've heard so much about the system over the years, that I'd love to have some of those games. I'm sure at least some of them hold up after all these years.
1. Amiga Forever comes bundled with ~100 games.
2. An assortment of kick ROMs are included.
3. The kick ROMs are DRM protected and that may be incompatible with GOG's brand image.
Pardon me if this has already been discussed and I overlooked it, but it seems like the logical approach is to develop an Amiga equivalent of a hybrid of DosBox and VMWare. Essentially a small virtual machine environment that, for each game, only uses the most appropriate Kickstart and, if applicable, Workbench. Each game has an optimal environment, depending on when in the Amiga lifecycle it was released. If this kind of small VM could be created, it could directly incorporate the Kickstart/Workbench ROMs in an integrated way so that they cannot be removed from the image (well, not easily), thus protecting the licenses on them.

Then Cloanto, or GOG, or whoever, could wrapper each title, or set of titles, in the best version of the engine and provide it as a self-contained download. I assume this is what DotEmu is doing with their Sega Genesis releases.

I am a long-time Amigan and would be happy to see many of the Amiga titles get a re-release here, even though I can already play them myself. They deserve a new audience, and in many cases the Amiga version of the game was the superior one which all other systems received an inferior port of.

I don't doubt that this can be done. The question, as others have asked, is whether the money to be made justifies the effort. I would like to believe it would, but then I'm biased towards the Amiga.
It's very easy to create a package that will play a certain game, but the sore point is the rom files. As long as Cloanto refuses to make these free or doesn't find a way to integrate them into the game file (essentially stopping people from ripping them out), it won't work, however.