No, my review in no way indicates that modern features or control schemes were expected in the games themselves, and they weren't. My review mentions some very specific issues with the release, some of which are completely outside your control (e.g. the PC speaker music is horrible), and some of which are very much within your control (e.g. ridiculously high mouse sensitivity with no way of changing it). The fact that an issue is outside your control does not magically make the issue go away. A review is meant as information for potential buyers, and they need to know what issues exist, not who to blame for those issues.

The fact that you included the soundtrack as an extra, apparently without anyone ever listening to it to see if it actually sounded like it does in the game, makes it seem like you only did it to sell more copies, and didn't actually care whether the people who paid for those copies got what they were led to expect that they'd get. I'm not saying this is the case, but it makes it seem like this is the case.

When you sell a product, you will be judged by the quality of that product. We are not your friends, we are customers. We don't know how many man hours you put into making your product, we can only see the end result. And in this case, the end result isn't very good, I'm afraid.

I see. I've never heard of Cinemaware before. I guess GOG couldn't make it work with UAE or couldn't get needed licenses for those ROMs.

Nice emulation of the Amiga but I think people should have the option of the Amiga .asf disk images if they prefer to emulate or have to if they are using a non Windows OS. I was surprised that there were no disk files and that the game was an embedded .exe file unlike the DOS version. I will still purchase games like this but would like to have the option.

Wow. WOW.

I love it when GOG releases a game that is: 1) Really good. 2) Really old.

Hooking up with Cinemaware to release emulated Amiga classics... I never thought I'd see the day. This is a huge coup for GOG. Well done.

Am I a terrible person for loving the pc speaker music? :)

doo doo doo doooo, DOOO DOO DOO DOOO

Thank you so much everyone at GOG.
A most wonderful deal.
And such a rich, enjoyable back catalogue to choose from
Thank you again

Nice. It's good to see some cold hard reality stated clearly on GOG every once in a while. As Ludwig von Mises says of customers in Human Action:

"They are merciless bosses, full of whims and fancies, changeable and unpredictable. For them nothing counts other than their own satisfaction. They do not care a whit for past merit and vested interests. If something is offered to them that they like better or that is cheaper, they desert their old purveyors. In their capacity as buyers and consumers they are hard-hearted and callous, without consideration for other people."

People like to pretend that it is otherwise, but on the whole it is not and producers who fool themselves with such fancy have a tendency of ending up out of business.

BTW, the bolded part of the following statement is fiction:

There are multiple improvements that can be made via emulators, if you know what you're doing. (E.g., fixing/minimizing irregular frame rates and audio updates despite them existing in the original is one of the things that is entirely possible when you have control of the emulator as Cinemaware does in this case.) That's not to say anything about the effort required or whether or not it makes economic sense to do so, but "not possible" is simply not true. (If pressed I would argue, though, that fixing such rate issues - as long as the host CPU has sufficient horsepower - is actually not very difficult.)

Absolutely not. Square waves are a good first-order approximation of that most divine instrument, the clarinet. And who doesn't love clarinets? (To anyone who raises their hand -- PAGAN!)

I've noticed on several occasions in the past that you strike a decent balance between tact, objectivity, and candor in discussions like this.

I still appreciate seeing a pub/dev rep here at the GOG forum interacting with other members, but it's important to keep it real too.

Good to know it.
Never gave much thought to the review system here.
I understand that people can review a game even not owning it (here at GOG, at least) since said person could have played a long time ago, before it was on GOG. But it would really be nice to show if the person reviewing owns it here or not. So we could have a better idea if the person is reviewing the GOG version (for old games) or is just remembering the good old days (which tends to bring the fond memories). Maybe could there be a functionality in which one could see all reviews, or just the reviews from people who own it. Like a system where you can see all reviews, just the positive, just the negative... (There's other place with games where there's this system, I'm sure you know it.)
Showing images from the old versions seems bad to me. I understand that maybe they just got the old promotional images to use, but since they're selling a "new" product they should have made pictures that really show the product. I mean, could it be that they had to use the old pictures for legal reasons? I don't know.

Oh, thanks for making it clear.

I agree with everything you say (except for the dos sound thing, but that's because I am a loser), but I don't understand this comment "Two versions of a true classic made awful by incompetent developers".

I don't understand why you say the versions have been made awful by incompetent developers. To me, the games haven't changed at all since they were released, they recreated the "classic" versions in all their "glory".

Sure there are issues with them, sound, graphics, slow-down, but those issues have always been there. That is the game. I don't understand in what way you believe the developers have made the games awful. Whilst I love Defender of the Crown, I think it is just a classic game that is, by modern standards, awful.

Edit: some terrible spelling and grammar

I'm on the fence. I'm awaiting the response from Wishbone. :) I played this game a bunch on C64 back in the day.

What are your thoughts about the mouse sensitivity and the MP3 soundtrack?

Some tracks on the Soundtrack (Only in the MP3-Soundtrack) are running slower. We are working on an update.

The soundtrack has some slowness and quality issues, but I haven't really listened to it all that much. I can't imagine I would ever want to listen to a soundtrack from a game from 1986. The music just isn't that good.

The mouse sensitivity thing is a bit of an issue, not game breaking, but a bit annoying. I personally prefer the dos version though (I struggle with sword fighting in the amiga version), so you should probably speak to someone who has played it a bit more of the amiga version than me.

Personally, I would recommend that anyone who isn't buying this for nostalgia reasons, wait for a sale.