Amiga games on the PC?

[hollyp]

Have many Amiga games been made into PC games?? I have Rainbow islands and Bubble Bobble but am wondering what other ones are out there and where to look for them? I was looking for Dizzy Prince of the Yolk Folk!

[Phantom]

The best way to play Amiga games is to buy an Amiga. ;-)

At least, you will end up with the searching all around. :-D

[Christian Johansson]

Or to download WinUAE and get the amigaversions which probably are better than the pcversions anyway.

[persia]

There's a little known company called Amiga Inc who's sole product is Amiga games that run on PCs...

[Daniele]

if you find well on internet there is an huge repository of PC abandoware games but of course the quality sucks and since they was programmed for 386/486 you need a Pentium II/III to have the best performance.

[tokyoracer]

If your just looking for games that were officially ported to the PC/MS-DOS just give Lemon Amiga a look.

[rkauer]

Hall Of Light is a superb Amiga games site, too!

[Speelgoedmannetje]

Almost all games on the Amiga have been released on the PC also, though mostly in far worse quality. Prince of Persia is the only original game which is better on the PC, because it has less framedrops. But that I guess is because of bad coding.
There have also been remakes, like Turrican 2 and Rampart, both being better than the Amiga versions (Turrican 2 having more colours, but the same gameplay, and Rampart with more versatile gameplay).
Also, Apogee made Amiga game clones for the PC. Games like Alien Carnage (like Dan Dare 3) and Death Rally (like Super Cars). Quite good games, not original, but very fun to play.

[itix]

Have many Amiga games been made into PC games?

See www.abandonia.com.

Dizzy - Prince of the Yolk Folk

Most of those games play nicely on Amiga with DosBox.

[foleyjo]

itix wrote:
Most of those games play nicely on Amiga with DosBox.

Ive never used DOSBOX but your post and the games on that link got me interested. So I have a couple of questions
Is the one on Aminet the latest one?
will it run on an A1200 060 64MB Ram OS3.9?
If the answer is yes what else do I need to download as it says on the readme I need SDL Librarys

Extra Question - How do you know if a game will work or not or is just trial and error.

[Angus]

foleyjo wrote:
Ive never used DOSBOX

will it run on an A1200 060 64MB Ram OS3.9?
If the answer is yes what else do I need to download as it says on the readme I need SDL Librarys

Extra Question - How do you know if a game will work or not or is just trial and error.

I don't think Dosbox runs at acceptable speed on 060, but I've not tried. What I did with a similar spec to yours was run on of the Amiga pc emulators, like pc-task and the other one, and got Mechwarrior 1 running very nicely. Its a 3D game. Yes, I think its trial and error.

[foleyjo]

Ive just tried dosbox but it brings up an error
"SDL INIT - No Available video Device"
I ave the SDL.Library in my SYS:Libs/ like it says and have everything else it says

I tried PC Task in the past but could not get it to do anything. I think I was missing the actual dos files needed to run it. Dont suppose you could spend a few moments to talk me through getting it setup

theres a few adventure games that I want to play that arent available on Amiga or ScummVM

[foleyjo]

OK So Dosbx wont work without SDL.Library which Im guessing doesnt work without a graphics card of some kind so unless someone knows another way to get this working thats a no go

PC Task I have version 3 but I dont have a floppy drive on my PC so even if I get dos I dont know how I could use it.
Maybe someone has zip of a preinstalled setup they could send me or something??

[Angus]

foleyjo wrote:
PC Task I have version 3 but I dont have a floppy drive on my PC so even if I get dos I dont know how I could use it.
Maybe someone has zip of a preinstalled setup they could send me or something??

I had a hardfile I believe, and managed to import DOS to it. Then I would fire up the emulator into DOS, and execute the game. I can have a look and see what I have archived if you like - it might be later in the week though.

[itix]

060 should have enough juice to run some old MS-DOS games but better try PC-Task or similar instead.