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there's a full dos game, but the Amiga version is 100x times better. Don't waste your time with the bad ports.

Do you know how to run this effectively, ie some A500 emulator? Readme doesn't mention much for actually playing this on PC

WinUAE is the best one. Also you will need the rom image 'from a friend' -- search for 'amiga kickstart 1.3'

Worth noting that, this being an AGA game, it won't run in the good ol' A500 that was requested. You need an Amiga 1200 or 4000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_Advanced_Graphics_Archit...

If it was that bad, why was it ported back to the Amiga in this project?

The PC version had higher resolution and more colors, so it made better source material to rewrite for AGA graphics. Everything from the old Amiga version that was lost in the PC port was re-added in this version, so it's more half-and-half.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9osSrCFWL8

Also, it's not actually a port, but a rewrite: "I rewrote the code from scratch attempting to recreate the original as close as possible just by playing the original (and by watching longplay videos). I didn't have any access to the original source code."

https://itch.io/t/2565630/how-did-you-do-this

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