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Posted January 11, 2012
Look, up in the sky: It’s a fish! It’s a frog! It’s Superfrog!

One of the best-known 2D platformers for PC and Amiga jumps straight into our catalog for $5.99 only on GOG.com.
This ‘almost a fairy tale’ tells a story of an unnamed prince who finds himself turned into a frog, his princess kidnapped, and generally all lost beyond retrieval. Suddenly, a wild bottle of Lucozade appears and saves the day. Apparently, drinking this miraculous potion grants frogs temporary super powers, which sounds exactly like what this little green prince needs. Enter a new mighty hero: Superfrog now has the means (a lot of Lucozade) to defeat the evil witch and rescue his beloved princess. Armed with superspeed, superjump, fairly regular cape, and the fearsome Destructospud (his faithful flying potato sidekick), Superfrog needs to complete 24 levels across 6 worlds, defeat many memorable enemies, and finally send the evil witch wherever witches should be sent to complete a fairy tale.

Superfrog is an amazing example of Amiga-esque platform gaming at its best. Team 17’s best-seller delivers much more platforming enjoyment than you'd expect from your average nameless green amphibian. Superfrog offers simple but addictive gameplay, stunning and detailed visuals, amazing music, and tons of 2D cuteness, which is certainly more than enough to satisfy any platformer-lover.

Although it may not be as well known as the Worms franchise, this pixelated amphibian is definitely worth $5.99 for your own Superfrog on GOG.com.

NOTE: This is the MS-DOS version of the game, but our QA team has confirmed that you can indeed finish it. If you're wondering if you can beat the GOG.com version of the game, worry no more. ;)
Posted January 13, 2012
The problem with the Amigas is that the kickstart roms for every version of the Amiga available (Amiga 500, 600, 1200, 4000, 2000, 3000, 2500 etc) is copyrighted, and those are required to run the games, making emulators useless on their own. What would be possible is if GOG.com could make some kind of deal with the copyrightholders to sell kickstart roms seperately on this site, and inform on which rom you would need to play this and that game.

Fortunately, you'll probably only need two rom files, One for the A500 games and one for the A1200/A4000 games. Perhaps one for the CD32 games as well.
Posted January 13, 2012
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SimonG: For a start, you would need something comparable to DosBox for Amiga.
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StarEye: A500 games and one for the A1200/A4000 games. Perhaps one for the CD32 games as well.
Which is why I mentioned Cloanto, who currently 'own' the kickstart licenses (or at least the right to distribute them?). Given their permission, you could easily bundle the games with , a tested and working Amiga emulator for Windows. [url=http://www.amigaforever.com/]Cloanto even sells Windows 7 compatible bundles with several ROMs and games included.
GOG would probably have everything served to them on a silver plate with the real trouble being game license acquisitions, which is their strong side anyway and Cloanto gaining a broad user base with more exposure (and hopefully better priced sales :p).
Posted January 13, 2012
Cloanto have compilations, so you only pay for the license once for each compilation you buy, but GOG would need to either sell them seperately, or you would have to buy a new license for every Amiga game you buy on GOG. They could sell us an Amiga Kickstart Pack, which you can install on your computer, and then they set up every Amiga game they sell to search in the folder you installed it to.

Personally, I can't see any better way to do it, unless we want the prices of Amiga games be higher than it needs to, or we get the key for free.
Posted January 13, 2012
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StarEye: (...)either sell them seperately, or you would have to buy a new license for every Amiga game you buy on GOG.
I'm convinced that GOG and Cloanto could and would negotiate a deal that's best for the GOG customer and easiest to apply.
Personally, I see no problem if a small part of the revenue goes to Cloanto with each sold Amiga game and the ROM is licensed for use with that game only (you can download them anyway, so 'cheating' is a matter of good will and moral, like with all DRM free titles), which would allow GOG to 'outsource' potential support and configuration issues to Cloanto in exchange.
Posted January 13, 2012
Yeah, if they could make out some deal about a very limited license that doesn't affect pricing enough to warrand a higher price, I guess they could make it work. I just checked the Amiga Forever website, and it seems they won't sell the kickstart roms seperately, and the cheapest downloadable pack they sell costs about 10 euro. If the license for the kickstart rom is only half the price of that (considering there's not a lot of of stuff that should cost a lot of money), it end up at around 5 euro which is still more than a game would/should cost on GOG.com.

So a limited license would be a way to go, unless you go for the seperate pack option.
Posted January 13, 2012
indeed this is a good platformer and it was one of the best on the amiga, which is where it is really meant to be played (just like the mighty speedball2 and sensible soccer ;))

anyways about emulating the mighty miggy, u dont need cloanto, all u need is the awesome "winuae" emulator, i´m pretty sure u can run this game from an adf "a file that simulates an amiga disk" in winuae without a kickstart rom, since it's running from a "trackdisk/nondos" and for that very reason it bypasses the amiga system or bios if u will :)

huuge thumbs up for the gog team for getting their hands on some of team17´s greatest games :)
Posted January 14, 2012
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extralife_psx: winuae without a kickstart rom, since it's running from a "trackdisk/nondos" and for that very reason it bypasses the amiga system
Can anybody confirm this?
Does anybody have a list of games that require/do not require the kickstart ROM?
Posted January 14, 2012
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TomNook: This announcement gives me the strange urge to drink Lucozade. How odd.
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jamyskis: Funnily enough the Lucozade advert is still in there - I'd imagine it would be pretty difficult to get out of there. Was that clarified with Lucozade? I'd guess the marketing deal between T17 and Lucozade has long expired...
Shhh. Nobody tell Lucozade.

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extralife_psx: winuae without a kickstart rom, since it's running from a "trackdisk/nondos" and for that very reason it bypasses the amiga system
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Fujek: Can anybody confirm this?
Does anybody have a list of games that require/do not require the kickstart ROM?
It certainly never used to work without a Kickstart ROM. I've not tried it recently, but I can't find anything in the documentation about it.
Posted January 15, 2012
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TomNook: It certainly never used to work without a Kickstart ROM. I've not tried it recently, but I can't find anything in the documentation about it.
That's completely wrong! WinUAE had a Kickstart replacement built-it almost right from the beginning. There's now also the AROS rom included, though I don't know if that is far enough to boot any games.
Posted January 16, 2012
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jamyskis: Funnily enough the Lucozade advert is still in there - I'd imagine it would be pretty difficult to get out of there. Was that clarified with Lucozade? I'd guess the marketing deal between T17 and Lucozade has long expired...
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kalirion: Do they have to clear it with Taco Bell whenever somebody sells a copy of Demolition Man?
Funnily enough, yes they do.

Some DVD versions, including my own, have all the Taco Bell references eradicated and either replaced by CGI or dubbed over.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpRzusd9Yi8
Post edited January 16, 2012 by jamyskis
Posted January 16, 2012
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kalirion: Do they have to clear it with Taco Bell whenever somebody sells a copy of Demolition Man?
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jamyskis: Funnily enough, yes they do.

Some DVD versions, including my own, have all the Taco Bell references eradicated and either replaced by CGI or dubbed over.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpRzusd9Yi8
Wow, I never knew that! Thanks!
Posted January 17, 2012
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TomNook: It certainly never used to work without a Kickstart ROM. I've not tried it recently, but I can't find anything in the documentation about it.
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timo.weirich: That's completely wrong! WinUAE had a Kickstart replacement built-it almost right from the beginning. There's now also the AROS rom included, though I don't know if that is far enough to boot any games.
Well I never managed to boot anything without supping the ROM. :p
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