Cinemaware is Back on AmigaOS!

[eliyahu]

January 28, 2013

Cinemaware in cooperation with Hyperion Entertainment are proud to announce the re-distribution of its classic Amiga 68K Cinemaware titles. Through the magic of emulation and genuine Amiga ROMs, you can once again play titles such as Defender of the Crown® on PowerPC-based AmigaOS systems with a simple double click of the mouse. Everything you need to run these classic Cinemaware games is already included in AmigaOS 4.1. There is even an option for using an original joystick via the Catweasel joystick driver for a truly nostalgic experience.

All registered AmigaOS owners now have access to these Cinemaware games at www.hyperion-entertainment.biz in the downloads section. Customers can simply choose the games they are interested in and click download. Manuals are also included for a majority of the games.

AmigaOS has evolved from its humble beginnings on those original 68k systems and so has Cinemaware. Cinemaware not only has a brand new web site at www.cinemaware.com, but Cinemaware titles are also available for iOS such as Defender of the Crown® and the upcoming The King of Chicago™. You can expect many more classic Cinemaware titles to be available on a portable device near you soon! Also keep an eye out for Cinemaware Kickstarter projects which will reboot your favorite titles with HD graphics and new gameplay content!

Hyperion Entertainment is offering these games as a free bonus for all its AmigaOS customers, and is distributing these games with the full cooperation of Cinemaware. Issues may be posted at support.amigaos.net where we will do our best to help you.

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edit: Cinemaware have also announced this re-release on their website, their twitter account, and their facebook page. Always nice to see some publicity for the Amiga from outside the community!

[eliyahu]

@thread

a couple of quick notes here. first: these are not just ADF files, but nicely packaged games which launch from an icon and include scans of the original manuals and even the reference cards that came in the packaged games back in the day. second: these are designed to run on AOS 4.1u6. not on earlier versions of the OS, so if you have a back-level amiga NG, get updating! third: there are quite a few available, including:

• defender of the crown
• it came from the desert
• antheads: it came from the desert 2
• the king of chicago
• lords of the rising sun
• rocket ranger (both german and non-german editions)
• S.D.I.
• sinbad and the throne of the falcon
• the three stooges
• tv sports: baseball
• tv sports: basketball
• tv sports: football
• wings

yes it has been possible for some (if not all) of these to be downloaded from the cinemaware site before, but not as nicely packaged as this. so if you have a modern amiga running OS4.1, go for it. if not, use the ADF files easily found. either way it's nice that cinemaware (in its current incarnation) supports amigans of whatever flavor, so let's all be happy and have fun. :)

-- eliyahu

[eliyahu]

Why they approached hyperion instead of cloanto?. Aiming for classics willget more widespread.

if i remember correctly it was the other way around. someone approached cinemaware to see if they would be willing to allow hyperion to re-release the games for their customers. maybe @ssolie can confirm that; if i remember correctly he did quite a lot of the legwork on getting these games nicely packaged for us. it's been a real treat.

since cinemaware already have the ADFs available for classic-compatible platforms, who knows? maybe cloanto would be interested in including them in their next amigaforever release? i think you've got a good idea there. i'm very happy with the re-released packages since i get the manuals and everything and the games launch from the workbench like any other. maybe you could contact cloanto to see if they can build RP9 versions of the cinemaware games, too?

-- eliyahu