Amiga Classix 4

by AMIGA CLASSIX 4

Product Features

• There are 127 full version Amiga games and 66 additional Amiga Demos in this issue. And since those games aren't ports, an emulator (UAE) is included too.
• The compilation uses an easy to use GUI, where you can start a game with a few mouse clicks. You don't have to fiddle around with WinUAE (respectively eUAE for the Mac), in fact, it's even so programmed that you don't need to know how the emulation is done.
• Emulated are not just the games itself, but also the actually loading time and i.e. the sounds from the disk drives while reading or writing. Copy protections are nearly completely removed, just three out of the 127 games still have it in place. But since multitasking is working, you can easily look up the manual in those cases.
• The following 127 full version games are included (in order of the manual):
• Once you started the compilation, and you are inside the compilation's window, you can select the genre you are interested in (Action, Adventure, Arcade, Sports, and Strategy & Sim; or Demo), select the game you want, and the compilation will present you with screenshots and basic info (Year, Company, Web Link, and Manual) about the particularly game, and up to two buttons to start the game (depending on how you want to control the game; mouse/keyboard or mouse/joystick). The game will then immediately start.

Product Details

• ASIN: B00130UXH6
• Media: CD-ROM
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #30,091 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

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Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Dodgy advertising, but not a terrible collection, September 8, 2011

By 

J. Segerbäck (Sweden) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Amiga Classix 4 (CD-ROM)

The software runs fine on PC (if you run 64 bit Windows Vista or 7 you probably should replace the included winuae.exe with a more recent 64 bit version, available for free from the WinUAE website, though, as the included version is from 2004), I have not tested on Mac, and I could not see any Mac related software on the disc either - it's possible there's another Mac only partition on the disc not visible in Windows, as the files that are visible use less than half of the capacity of a CD-ROM. There's a front end program that categorizes and lists the games by genre, with some release information on most games, at times also with manuals and links to the developer's websites. The front end will launch the games configured to run the best way possible (hopefully) through emulation. There really isn't anything to complain about on this part, the real issue is that the cover art implies that games like Turrican 2, Alien Breed 2, Cadaver, Superfrog and many others are included are full versions, when they are actually only demo versions, which were obviously already legally available for free. There are still some real classic Amiga titles available as full versions on the disc, like Another World and Beneath A Steel Sky. Many, if not most of the games are the same pirated diskette copies available online though - complete with cracktros and trainers inserted by the pirate release groups back in the 80's and 90's, so it's not like you get the retail versions of the games, and some of the cracktros aren't self-evident how to get past - for example, to play Sirius 7, you first get the cracktro, where you can select to start the game, but even then the cracktro doesn't end until you hold both mouse buttons, which isn't mentioned anywere but in the support section of the html manual on the CD-ROM.

For those who mainly wants legal access to the Amiga kickstart ROMs which are required to run most Amiga emulators (including WinUAE), Amiga Classix 4 (as well as Amiga Classix 5) only includes the Amiga 500 1.2 and 1.3 kickstart files - which is enough to run most games (at least all on the CD), but not games for Amiga 1200 or other Amiga systems, which you'll have to look elsewhere for.

In summary, this isn't a great collection, but apart from the dodgy advertising it does include some decent or even classic titles (it's not a full on ripoff like the Amiga Revive collection was). It might be worth getting if you find it really, really cheap, but Amiga Classix 5 has a better selection of full versions, and even then, I'd probably recommend you getting the Amiga Forever package instead, which is rather expensive, but does include kickstart ROMs for all the Amiga machines, as well as a lot of fascinating bonus content, and most of the games from all the Amiga Classix releases, plus some for the higher end Amiga's.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A trip down memory lane!, February 27, 2011

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gak80 - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Amiga Classix 4 (CD-ROM)

I know I played the Commodore 64 computer alot with video games and the graphics aren't near as good as the Commodore Amiga computer. This Cd that I have purchased for only $10, Wow what a deal getting around 200 games for that. I am having alot of fun playing games like Arkanoid and awesome differant pinball games! You will not be disappointed with this, but I could only run this on my windows xp computers! Also get the Amiga classix 5 cd, just as good!