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Port Amiga Games
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predcon Anyone can find .adf (Amiga Disk File) images, but usually they're poorly cracked or copied versions, resulting in unpreventable Software Errors (Guru Meditations). I'll wager there's more like me who'd pay a premium for first-hand scans of original Amiga game disks for our WinUAE (or emulator of choice).
Gideon_Nine And I just found out about Cinemaware Anthology: 1986-1991.
There's hope that will come back at some point.
Gideon_Nine I've been looking for Amiga games myself. Been wanting to play IT Came From the Desert and I don't care for the abandonware sites.
I think we might have better luck asking rights holders directly. For example, I'm pestering Nordcurrent, the current rights holder for a Cinemaware collection to be released on GOG.
Hopefully we see some progress because just asking GOG hasn't worked for the past 12 years, looking at the age of this thread.
BlackStar42X Keep in mind that the selling focus of GOG are the 3 big current OSes. Games should have once run on at least one of them to fit into this strategy. Also, implications for selling Amiga games include negotiating additional licence agreements with possibly hard to come by copyright holders. Once you offer an Amige game, what will happen next are the fights between the one users demanding the game in the DOS edition, the other users demanding it in the Amiga edition, putting GOG in the position to having to go though the nightmare of licencing the game twice for a very tiny profit, if any at all. Next, you also need a reliable Amiga emulator, which has an active developer community because you wouldn't want to be dependent on a buggy or outdated emulator. Once GOG has committed to sell an Amiga game, they need to be sure, the emulator won't just be abandoned next year. Also, for what platform should GOG sell the Amiga games anyway?
FlightDreamz I would LOVE to see more Amiga emulated games as compared to their (often weaker) PC/DOS versions
flanner YES. in case of games never published for pc.. e.g. BLACK CRYPT and so on
Revenile As someone who grew up with the Amiga, and looks at various sites available where to download legal disk images of games for my legally purchased copy of "Amiga Forever," I would enjoy this option very much, even if somehow you could only carry the disk images and stuff, but not the actual Kickstart ROMs to run them right from download. I'd love to see many of the Psygnosis classics available legally again, games like Leander, Lemmings 2, Shadow of the Beast 2 and 3, and Walker. Among other games like Core Design's games. I can understand that licensing these games might be a chore and a pain considering who knows where half of the rights anymore (Psygnosis though would be easy to start, look at Sony...). I'd be happy with just that, as most Amiga games that were popular would only need the $10 Amiga Forever package to legally run (unless the user has their own personal dump of the ROMs they made themselves), or even pay more for a version that works right from download and setup, but still able to access the disk images if possible. I highly doubt this one will really become a reality, but I'd love it if it did.
neumi5694 They would have to sell Kickstart to each game, which is an additional cost of 1$ or 1.50$ every time. Still ... it would be a viable option. As an alternative they can sell "Amiga Kickstart" and Amiga games als DLC for this "game".
As far as I know there exists a 3rd party kickstart project that does not have to be licenced. But it's still in development and not compatible to all games.
I prefer FS-UAE over Win-UAE. While Win-UAE has the better emulation for exotic hardware, FS-UAE is much more accessible and has the better front end (for swapping disks and creating game state savepoints). I tried it because WinUAE at some point had bad sound lag and never went back since.
For now I created my own collection of Amiga configuration files and can launch my games directly using batch files or links without needing a UI.
kogz GOG should definitely team up with The Company, polish team making Amiga games runnable on PC with one click! I know they don't have licenses for doing that but GOG could definitely make it happen! Old PC games are neat but we should have also option to run same classics with better audio or visuals (from Amiga version).
playingmantis I want emulated Amiga games too. Just too expensive on eBay and would have to emulate anyways. Apidya, Apocalypse, Lion Heart, Odyssey, Ruff 'n' Tumble and many more I don't remember off hand
AndrewThrawn I second this. Make Amiga and C64 titles available who work with an Emulator or even on the real machines. There are still new games being released and i'd love to have the old classix too. :)
Pixel_Crusher Please GOG, make this happen. PC gaming isn't all about DOS and Windows games, the Amiga (along with others such as the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64) has a fantastic selection of games both popular and obscure (Apidya, Ruff 'n' Tumble, Walker, Lionheart ) that just can't be found or played anywhere else and need to be readily available for the masses.
PedroPalhoto Sometimes the Amiga version has some better features than the PC counterpart, being that the PC versions were ports from the original on some other platform. Being able to side purchase additional ports (not just Amiga) when buying the PC main version on GOG is top on my GOG feature wishlist.
For instance, the Amiga version of Pinball Dreams is better (imo) than the PC version. The PC version has distorted physics (fixed in Pinball Fantasies) and lacks of the original Nightmare/Graveyard table with family favorite inverted crosses. To be able to legitimately purchase the Amiga version today, the closest available is the iOS version (which has some enhancements).
Doc0075 So many great Amiga games I would love to see here even though I know it is not going to happen.
greypatch3 I recently purchased Pirates! which came with the original PC version and Pirates! Gold. While I have yet to play the Gold edition, I played the original many, many times on the Amiga...and by a wide margin, the Amiga edition is by far the better edition. More colorful graphics, vastly superior sound, tighter controls...it's not even a contest. Granted, the game is pretty much the same content-wise (and still a load of fun), but having seen that the much higher quality edition of Defender of the Crown from the Amiga was released, why not find ways to emulate/port these and more titles? I love my Amiga and the games for it, but one of the great things about GOG, besides DRM-free materials, is that it future-proofs my collection. No more worries about disks falling apart or manuals vanishing without a trace. I want to play BattleChess with the OOHs and AAGHs I remember instead of bleeps and bloops. The Sid Meier series of games alone should be reason enough to port them. Not to get RID of the IBM versions, but if we can have five different versions of Akalabeth available, why not let people pick and choose their poison when it comes to these? (Maybe within reason...once we start getting into Commodore 64 versions, maybe it's going too far!)
jorlin GOG: Please mark as "In Progress" Even while oyu are not doing this yourself, you are already carrying a few ported Amiga games.
reflekshun I would love this, they are essentially doing the same thing with dosbox which emulates old dos environments. I along with many others would pay ALOT to have these old Amiga games in my collection again. A LOT
Bwey That would be fun to be able to play again on MOONSTONE, DARK SEED...
KOC I have a dream, and that dream involves perfectly emulating Amiga games hassle-free on a PC.
ecamber And thecompany.pl is illegal abandonware. They do not have any legal right to distribute the games, nor the included ROMs. I would love it if GOG could do something similar to what they do but legally and with the "best" versions of each game. For now, please support Amiga Forever, AFAIK the only legal way to get the ROMs other than owning an Amiga.
ecamber I've been trying to get into legally emulating amiga games lately and boy is it a headache. Amiga forever has a nice UI, but doesn't have many necessary features and has little documentation. WinUAE has all the features you could ever need but is very difficult to use and has a steep learning curve. I would love a GOG solution where games were easy to install and played from a single icon click without hassle.
stqn After buying Pinball Gold Pack (aka Pinball Fantasies + Pinball Mania, whatever that is) and seeing how crappy that version of the game is, I can only agree with this wish…
Hanzu @Happschaetzu I have to correct your false information. There are more than 450 Amiga AGA games that also had 256 colors of 16 million palette like DOS VGA versions. See hol.abime.net/hol_search.php?N_ref_hardware=2 and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_Advanced_Graphics_Architecture What is even more convincing is that Amiga games are still being patched to be more compatible with newer Amiga hardware, sometimes they also correct bugs or add little features like quit keys or saved highscore lists: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHDLoad
Love & Thunder The only thing that could make this idea better would be for GoG to make a deal with another company and start producing Amigas again along with reproductions of older games, and then they set up a delivery service so they could send you an Amiga and whatever games you want.
Yeah, it will never happen, but wouldn't it be awesome?!
Paddy thecompany.pl/ - these guys show us how user-friendly the end-product can be. They should partner up with GOG!
needo2 Release Benefactor for 1$ and you'll be the richest
RetroCodger426 Absolutely. Loved the Amiga! Christmas '91 only became Christmas once Robocod was fired up :)
Great memories of the greatest computer of the 16-bit era.
KOC the amiga rocked my socks off
zgwortz @Happschaetzu: Actually, you could pretty easily get all 4096 colors on screen at the same time -- HAM mode allowed it through modifying R, G, or B from the previous pixel (great for images, not as great for games), and horizontal retrace handlers let you change some or all of the selected palette colors during each retrace. Many games used the latter mode to great effect. And remember that Amiga was out in 1985, 2 years before VGA was introduced. Amiga games were pretty much the best looking ones you could get during the mid-late 80s by an order of magnitude, and it's audio support was also unparalleled for the time.
CountScargut I'd pay money for Amiga games, definitely, partly for nostalgia, partly because there's still a treasure trove of games out there you can only get from car boot sales at the moment.
ircLimerick Well, Amiga Forever has the licenses to distribute the necessary files. Whether they would have the license to distribute it GOG style... I don't know. But still very much in favor of this if it could be done.
Happschaetzu @Narf_the_Mouse For games the AMIGA could use only 32 colors out of 4048 at the same time. That was better then EGA, but worse than VGA. VGA offered 256 colors out of 16 Millioen at the same time. And later DOS games used that.
Happschaetzu This would require a kickstart ROM or original AMIGA to get the ROM legally. Without a kickstart ROM, which is protected by copyright, WinUAE is rather useless for most AMIGA games.
Narf_the_Mouse Why you should support this: While Microsoft was struggling with 16 colours, the Amiga had 4096.
Ewu This would be a dream come true for! I have no idea how feasible that is, but integrating an Amiga emulator into the games the way GOG does with those using dosbox would be amazing.
retro_gamer I would also like to see AMIGA games on GOG.com. It would be nice to be able to buy games in *.adf format for "normal" AMIGA's and disc images for AMIGA CDTV and CD32. You cannot buy them anywhere these days.
F4LL0UT Well, that wouldn't be porting then, it would remain emulation. But I completely support the idea of GOG adding Amiga games to their catalogue, especially since there's already several games on GOG that used to be much better on Amiga (i.e. Populous and Cannon Fodder).
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