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Posted September 09, 2014
To arms, my noble Saxon knights!

Defender of the Crown, a 1986 turn-based strategy classic, originally launched on the Commodore Amiga, is available in all it's pixelated glory on GOG.com, for $5.99!

We are happy to announce a new partnership with Cinemaware that will bring plenty of mouth-watering classics in their best available incarnations. Starting with Defender of the Crown, more classic titles from Cinemaware will release on GOG.com with both PC and emulated Commodore Amiga versions. Yes, the graphically superior, awesome, beautiful and shiny Amiga versions!

Today's release is a wonderful gem straight from the 80s. Back in the day, Defender of the Crown set a new standard for graphical presentation and innovative, fresh gameplay. As the leader of an initially sparse pack of Saxon knights, building up your army and influence as you proceed, you'll have to stick it to the Normans in an effort to gain control of the war-torn medieval England. Your strategic prowess as well as your sword fighting skills will be severely tested. This turn-based strategy classic will have you saving damsels in distress with your blade, jousting with fearsome knights, and besieging Norman castles - all the while reveling in the Amiga quality sound and beautiful graphics.

Defeat those pesky Normans and unite England in Defender of the Crown, for $5.99 on GOG.com.
Post edited September 09, 2014 by JudasIscariot
Posted September 09, 2014
Long awaited for a day like this. Congrats on the new partnership!!
Posted September 09, 2014
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gandalf.nho: Never played this one, how's the difficulty?
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Erich_Zann: Rather easy & extremely fun game.
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gandalf.nho: Never played this one, how's the difficulty?
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Fever_Discordia: Fairly tough IIRC (I WAS pretty young at the time though) - one of those that relied on you being good at the arcadey minigames to make good progress on the more strategic side
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gandalf.nho: Never played this one, how's the difficulty?
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htown1980: go Geoffrey Longsword and you will be sweet :)
Thanks for the answers!
Posted September 09, 2014
Wow, that's a cool release! :-)
Posted September 09, 2014
Oh, one of my first games (if not THE first one) for my Amiga 500.
It was very short, tactics were laughable.......
Later on i bought it for the PC too....and wow, that was a real real bad port...so that means a big NO BUY for me.
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Posted September 09, 2014
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Schnuff: Oh, one of my first games (if not THE first one) for my Amiga 500.
It was very short, tactics were laughable.......
Later on i bought it for the PC too....and wow, that was a real real bad port...so that means a big NO BUY for me.
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You know the amiga version is included right?

Funnily enough, I only ever played the pc version. I much prefer it to the Amiga, but I can't work out why. Just comfort I guess.
Posted September 09, 2014
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Erich_Zann: On a totally unrelated note, this release reminded me that I want D/Generation on GOG, whatever the version. One of my childhood treasures. Now.
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mistermumbles: Hmmmmmm....
Wow, RPS talks about games that include neither inclusive nor problematic content ? Colour me surprised.

"They’ve got the chap behind the Amiga and ST versions of the original, John Jones-Steele, and intend to create a faithful HD remake."

Mh. Cautiously fapping. Though I could also simply boot my ST upstairs instead.
But if this can generate interest in the original title over here, all for the best.
Post edited September 09, 2014 by Erich_Zann
Posted September 09, 2014
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cyboff: while waiting for official Mac version you can try to install it in Wineskin ( http://wineskin.urgesoftware.com ) - it seems it works fine for me (both Amiga and DOS version) using latest wine engine 1.7.26 without any deep tweaking...
Yeah, I know about Wineskin, I use it all the time. It's jut that things usually work better the less layers there are in between. Plus Wineskin uses about 200MB of space per wrapper, which tends to add up over time.
Posted September 09, 2014
That's a good price but wasn't this game released for free at some point? *confused*
Posted September 09, 2014
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htown1980: You know the amiga version is included right?

Funnily enough, I only ever played the pc version. I much prefer it to the Amiga, but I can't work out why. Just comfort I guess.
and? the only reason why it was a success on the amiga were the graphics the gameplay was nil (and its not getting better with time) and € 4.49 for a few old pictures meeehh
Posted September 09, 2014
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htown1980: You know the amiga version is included right?

Funnily enough, I only ever played the pc version. I much prefer it to the Amiga, but I can't work out why. Just comfort I guess.
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Schnuff: and? the only reason why it was a success on the amiga were the graphics the gameplay was nil (and its not getting better with time) and € 4.49 for a few old pictures meeehh
Sorry, I must have misunderstood your post. I read that you said the PC was a real real bad port so that meant a big no buy for you.

I was just checking that you knew the amiga version was included.
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cyboff: while waiting for official Mac version you can try to install it in Wineskin ( http://wineskin.urgesoftware.com ) - it seems it works fine for me (both Amiga and DOS version) using latest wine engine 1.7.26 without any deep tweaking...
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HiPhish: Yeah, I know about Wineskin, I use it all the time. It's jut that things usually work better the less layers there are in between. Plus Wineskin uses about 200MB of space per wrapper, which tends to add up over time.
I only wanted this for the dos version, so i just took that folder out and stuck it in dosbox. Doesn't work if you want the amiga version obviously.
Post edited September 09, 2014 by htown1980
Posted September 09, 2014
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xwormwood: The Atari ST Version was the best version, while the DOS was the worst one, even the C64 version was better than the DOS version.
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Erich_Zann: I don't think I ever got this on Atari, what exactly makes the ST version the best ? I'd like to know if it's worth tracking down a copy for my ST too.

On a totally unrelated note, this release reminded me that I want D/Generation on GOG, whatever the version. One of my childhood treasures. Now.
I don't remember all the differences right now.. One that I do is the different way of handling land battles. In the Atari ST version you actually make tactical choices in real time how to fight the battle.
Here is a video of the Atari ST version I recorded a while back.
http://youtu.be/wovPq9EOEH0?list=PLtpqh8ebqvxfPsPe_b0lCXD3wLz64nR8M
Posted September 09, 2014
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cyboff: while waiting for official Mac version you can try to install it in Wineskin ( http://wineskin.urgesoftware.com ) - it seems it works fine for me (both Amiga and DOS version) using latest wine engine 1.7.26 without any deep tweaking...
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HiPhish: Yeah, I know about Wineskin, I use it all the time. It's jut that things usually work better the less layers there are in between. Plus Wineskin uses about 200MB of space per wrapper, which tends to add up over time.
well, but when there is no mac version available I'm always trying wineskin first, before bootcamping to windows - it's faster :D
my approach is - when it works - great!, when there are problems - bootcamp...
Posted September 09, 2014
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karnak1: and other platforms
*saturn

Once (it's true) I dreamed of seeing Panzer Dragoon Saga on the GOG frontpage :P
Posted September 09, 2014
Defender of the Crown was the first game I bought for my Amiga 500 (along with Starglider and S.D.I.). I played it to death, but two things I never really understood nor mastered in the game, no matter how much I played it or how many times I read the manual:

- raids (ie. fencing; was it merely about click-click-clickety-click?)

- the strategic part, e.g. what was the difference between using the more costly knights instead of common soldiers? If knight was simply a more powerful soldier, how much more, ie. did it make sense to buy only knights with all your money, or was there some reason to buy also common soldiers? Or were the knights for some specific purpose? If it was mentioned in the manual, I must have missed it back then.

That said, I think I'll pass this release for now. If it had included the 2002 remastered Windows version, that would have been a different story. As far as I've seen, the 2002 version seems quite faithful to the original, but is superior in every way (music, graphics, gameplay).

Cinemaware games in general... in my opinion many of them were a bit too simplistic in nature, they were more about the flashiness and being "like a movie", than being interesting games. My personal favorites were Sinbad and the Throne of the Falcon (which was one of the less flashy Cinemaware games, but I liked the gameplay), and Rocket Ranger. I haven't played many of the latter time CW games though, lost interest after King of Chicago, which was ho-hum.
Post edited September 09, 2014 by timppu
Posted September 09, 2014
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JudasIscariot: Well, this is a special case for Cinemaware as they did the legal and programming legwork to get the Amiga versions running :) So let's not get all too excited alright? :)
I know I am going to be minused to hell but let me put this this way

so BarryWoodward contacted Cinemaware and pretty much arranged the grounds for both parties to meet agreement

and Cinemaware themselves did half the work to make those games work on PCs.

The question is

Are you fucking kidding me?
Post edited September 09, 2014 by keeveek
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