I know I have said this before, but we as the Amiga community could do with being a tad more vocal with companies like gog.com in letting them know that Amiga users are still out there and would like access to the PC game files without having to install them on a PC and then carry them across back to the Amiga in this manner. Unfortunately, as those who read my Freespace Descent 2 post will realise, gog.com does not allow you to get hold of the complete file to unpack on an Amiga and so sadly we must download this to a PC, install it there and then port the required files across on a USB key to the X5000 to then place in the folder. Now I sourced the game using gog.com which currently has this game on sale at the for the price of £4.59 as you can see here The four files that you will need to move into this folder are the following: When we try to start the game, we get a message saying that we need to have the following files from the original PC version/game disk added to folder which is labelled as “Main”. Indeed if we take a look at the files which have been provided as part of HunoPPC’s package you will see the following: Once we have the donated to HunoPPC for his efforts, there is a small other thing that you will need to do here which is download a copy of the PC version of the game, (or indeed if you have a copy of the PC CD-Rom) as files from this version are required in conjunction with the Amiga OS4.1 executable files that HunoPPC has provided us. I know it can be easy to overlook, but he has spent quite a bit of time and effort in bringing this game across to the Amiga and any donation no matter how small can always help to motivate any programmer to carry on and more importantly help bring new games across to our platform.
The specs themselves to run this game are set quite high, so whilst classic A1200 owners with a PPC board are welcome to try this out, I am not sure that this will actually run very well on a lower spec machine.įirst of all before you download anything I would advise you to offer a small donation to HunoPPC for his work in porting this across which can be done via his PayPal link on his website. By far the largest and most positive response I have got is the subject of today’s post Return to Castle Wolfenstein which comes to us courtesy of the prolific coder HunoPPC and can be downloaded from his website here The file itself is not that big (36.4MB) and so should only take a few seconds to download. Quake II HD even got a few people salivating in their response. In the past month alone I have shown off pictures of a High Definition version of Quake II or the FPSE Sony Playstation Emulator on a few Facebook forums and this has got people asking questions about the new machines and how to run them. One interesting thing I have found by demonstrating games which run on OS4, is that it does pique the curiosity and stir interest amongst the casual user. Equally marketing hasn’t exactly been the Next Generation Amiga’s strong point over the years, there are no adverts in mainstream press, we have a bi-monthly magazine in Amiga Future that isn’t sold at newsstands so the general public don’t tend to see much and most of the current scene and events rely on word of mouth either via social media or through dedicated forums than through coverage in the mainstream.
Posting on various Amiga Facebook groups, I am rather surprised at how little knowledge there is out there about gaming on Next Generation Amiga machines or even the existence of Next Generation machines themselves, but this perhaps should come as no surprise as the current next generation user base is tiny and what machines are currently available tend to be either in short supply, or dismissed as too expensive for the casual gamer to care about.