Amiga Dungeoneering Collection

[octavius]

I recently got into Amiga emulation and I wonder about version of games that are better (either graphics, sounds or some gameplay features) on Amiga than on DOS. I read that the Gold Box games are part of this category. Is it true?

Partly.
The Amiga version of Secret of the Silver Blades has a serious bug; Cloaks of Displacement give you total immunty to physical attacks, so I'd definitely use the DOS version for a playthrough of the Pools series.
The Amiga versions of the Krynn games have much better looking premade combat icons, which is nice unless you actually enjoy "painting your own figures".
But overall the games play better using DosBox, since you avoid disk swapping and long saving and loading times. The older games don't take advantage of using several floppy disk drives, and I'm not sure if all or any of them can be installed to hard disk using WHDLoad.

 

[A user named cat]

Wait, so it's cool to post Amiga roms but I get potatoed for posting my huge DOS game collection? On what planet does that make sense? Amiga roms are just as "illegal" to distribute as DOS games, the same as any non-public domain rom.

Note: I have no problem with piracy or this great collection, just bitching.

 

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

Wait, so it's cool to post Amiga roms but I get potatoed for posting my huge DOS game collection? On what planet does that make sense? Amiga roms are just as "illegal" to distribute as DOS games, the same as any non-public domain rom.

Note: I have no problem with piracy or this great collection, just bitching.

You can buy a lot of DOS games at GOG.com.
But you can't buy Amiga games anywhere.

 

[Taxnomore]

Even though I have romsets, it is nice to know where to find the games easily and play them directly. You have my gratitude. I will store them in a dark corner of my hard drive and forget about them when I want to play an amiga game in a few years.

 

[A user named cat]

You can buy a lot of DOS games at GOG.com.
But you can't buy Amiga games anywhere.

That's beside the point. I got bitched at regarding copyright issues and piracy. Well Amiga's game library was grabbed by an LA distributor and is also obviously copyrighted - thus piracy. A bunch of Amiga games are also going to be sold on Google Play later this year apparently. Just saying, it's assbackward logic to allow one thing and moderate the other.

 

[Luzur]

nice list, i played most of them but i think im gonna add a few from it.

now, get out there and buy the real games, and post that instead.

 

[Renegen]

Wow so Captive has shitty Grimrock-like blobber combat? And I really had it at the top of my list.

Any good ones that truly mix complexity with somewhat function interface/graphics?

 

[octavius]

Wait, so it's cool to post Amiga roms but I get potatoed for posting my huge DOS game collection? On what planet does that make sense? Amiga roms are just as "illegal" to distribute as DOS games, the same as any non-public domain rom.

By "rom" do you mean Workbench or the games?
One way to get the Workbench roms legally is by buying the Amiga Forever emulator.

But if you mean games, I agree. They are hardly available to buy, so are Abandonware as far as I am converned (yes, I know most technically and legally aren't).

 

[Don Peste]

Any decent way of playing this on Android?

 

[Alchemist]

Thanks for all the effort putting this together. I largely missed out on Amiga gaming due to being a PC user from the beginning. I'll definitely dig into this collection sometime.

 

[Turjan]

Wait, so it's cool to post Amiga roms but I get potatoed for posting my huge DOS game collection? On what planet does that make sense? Amiga roms are just as "illegal" to distribute as DOS games, the same as any non-public domain rom.

Well, we have a GOG employee post here, and the site gets kickbacks from sales there. Life isn't always fair , but that's how it is.

 

[Turjan]

Very nice service . I have wanted to try some Amiga versions for some time now.

The rest is packed by theme/style:
- ADC Pack - 3D/Dungeon - Abandoned Places 1+2, Black Crypt, Bloodwych + Extended Levels, Crystal Dragon, Dungeons of Avalon 1+2, Evil's Doom (originally unreleased), Fate: Gates of Dawn, Knightmare, Legend of Faerghail, Legends of Valour, Ve stínu magie
- ADC Pack - Horror - Elvira 1+2, Lords of Doom

I'm not sure whether you noticed, but these two links go to the same file.

 

[Turjan]

I recently got into Amiga emulation and I wonder about version of games that are better (either graphics, sounds or some gameplay features) on Amiga than on DOS. I read that the Gold Box games are part of this category. Is it true?

Graphics are what make a cRPG great. Not it's mechanics or rule systems.

u dumb? name which goldbox games - or other RPGs for that matter - have different mechanics or rule systems between Amiga and DOS ports?

1980's PCs were unmitigated shit, and this not only regarding games, but pretty much everything. They were the playground for masochists. For games, Ataris and especially Amigas were much better. Even all of our production software ran on Ataris during that time (more memory, faster processor, better graphics, useable as terminal for the central mainframe via acoustic modem, better software). PCs were for secretaries who had gone to WordPefect and Lotus 1-2-3 workshops. Though we had Elite on some of the PCs, so it wasn't all for naught.

 

[Kaucukovnik]

these two links go to the same file.

Thanks! Fixed.

The spoiler tag got broken in the process though. Anyone got a clue?


Regarding the legality discussion, this collection is more about convenience rather than simply providing the content. Excluding any part for legal reasons would pretty much defeat the point.

 

[A user named cat]

Nothing in your collection is probably legal to be sharing publically, but again I don't care. Paying for digital copies of decades old games is derp in the first place.

I grabbed a pretty much complete Amiga collection from this site long ago (GameBase Amiga v1.6 Games.7z): http://gbamiga.elowar.com/files/

 

[latexmonkeys]

Does anyone know if the Amiga version of Wizardry VI has a soundtrack?

 

[Mortmal]

No amiga soundtrack as far as i know.
Btw why is is this thread in general gaming ? I can hardly find a more classical rpg list than that.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

Wow so Captive has shitty Grimrock-like blobber combat? And I really had it at the top of my list.

Any good ones that truly mix complexity with somewhat function interface/graphics?

Captive is one of the few games where the combat improves (a bit) once you progress further. It's never gonna be more than "click-icon-to-bash-monster-in-realtime" over and over again, but being able to fight from the ceiling, using weapons with rebounding projectiles and some SUPERFAST opponents at least calls for some tactical diversity.

 

[Jasede]

This should be in RPG discussion; also bump for amazing

 

[Daemongar]

Just found this myself. Quite a lot of definitive versions, and if folks have problems running these, may be easier to use Amiga Forever. It has built in configs for almost all games, so you don't have to tweak them.

Also, the list should have Dragon Wars, Adventure Construction Set, and Demons Winter.

 

[Sordid MCA/Prosper Hybryd]

Over 60 games for now, more games will be eventually added. With manuals, maps, box scans and whatever else. This is what a directory with the entire current collection looks like:

Also, the list should have Dragon Wars, Adventure Construction Set, and Demons Winter.

And Starflight 1/2.

 

[Grim Monk]

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I'd love to play Amberstar and Ambermoon since I love Albion.

I just cannot into the Amiga Emulator (it's ok for short games but when it comes to rpgs and saving... something always breaks for me ) so my motivation to start the first game isn't too great since I fear I won't be able to play the second one. A remake would be cool but my hopes aren't that high for it.

http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/inde...re-rpg-games-legacy.85985/page-2#post-3692347

Scrooge just though you might find this of interest.

Plus Kaucukovnik deserves a bit more exposure for putting this together for us.

Only a two page thread...

 

[Scroo]

OMG this is absolutely incredible! Thank you so much for pointing me to this Grim Monk!!

I immediately DLed the base pack and the Thalion games and tried them but unfortunately both games feel... muddy and a bit slow and the sound is completely broken, the music is slow and scratches

Might be an issue with Win 8.1? But still thanks this is so amazing, I hope I can somehow get it to work smoothly :D

Also thanks to Kaucukovnik for all that work!

 

[Grim Monk]

OMG this is absolutely incredible! Thank you so much for pointing me to this Grim Monk!!

I immediately DLed the base pack and the Thalion games and tried them but unfortunately both games feel... muddy and a bit slow and the sound is completely broken, the music is slow and scratches

Might be an issue with Win 8.1? But still thanks this is so amazing, I hope I can somehow get it to work smoothly :D

Also thanks to Kaucukovnik for all that work!

Sadly I can't really help with the stability problems.
I've only played "Perihelion" on Win 7, then got side tracked back to my large already existing backlog...
For what its worth, "Perihelion" did work fine on Win 7 64bit.

Best hope is asking Kaucukovnik if he has any helpful advice.

 

[Scroo]

Sadly I can't really help with the stability problems.
I've only played "Perihelion" on Win 7, then got side tracked back to my large already existing backlog...
For what its worth, "Perihelion" did work fine on Win 7 64bit.

Best hope is asking Kaucukovnik if he has any helpful advice.

Yeh I'll just wait for Kaucukovnik maybe he can help me

I randomly tried some other games and it's always the same, also I have these numbers at the bottom no idea what they are:

I looked into the config menu of the emulator but I have no idea what to do with all these configurations, my computer skill level is too low I fear. Also what's weird is when I switch out of the config menu game and sound run normal for like 1 second, then the yellow number on the far left side on the bottom goes up and slow-mo sets in again.

Maybe someone has an idea from this info ^^