So your memory failed to memorize the memory available on floppy disks. It happens.

I'd almost prefer they release a single product for $20, and it includes anything and everything they have for the Amiga system... But i'm not sure how many games that would be; It's not like the collection is otherwise giving them any income otherwise is it?

I was one of the few, the proud, American Amiga owners. I had several Cinemaware games, including It Came From The Desert, Defender of the Crown, Wings, The Kristal, TV Sports Football, and TV Sports Basketball.

I also supported the Wings Remastered Kickstarter. Hopefully this means that the new Wings game is coming the GOG and that I'll be able to redeem my Kickstarter purchase here as well...

That's nothing. In 1988 Flextra already introduced 3.5" floppies with 21 MB. The Zip drives (not 3.5", however) allowed for 100 MB as early as 1994 and up to 750 towards the end.

I received an e-mail today from Cinemaware regarding my pledge-details for Wings remastered.

They asked me, for which OS I want my Wings remastered - copy, AND...for which OS I want my emulated Amiga version of the original Wings.

So - if you are a backer - check your e-mails.

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But those required more expensive and specific hardware/floppies, while the extending of sectors worked for standard floppies that everyone had.

I've used the Iomega Zip drives, they weren't very good for the hype. Sure they store quite a bit for the time, but hardly anyone had them. Plus about the same time burnable CD's were coming out. Sure you might only be able to do one write at 600 something Megs, but buy the disks in bulk and it cost 25 cents per disk compared to the $5-$10 per zip drive.

But no arguing, there were larger disk technologies than the 1.44Mb disk :P The 1.44 was just the most popular... and probably cheapest... And you got free disks in the mail that originally were labeled AOL or Compuserve or something, just flip the write protect off, format the disk and instantly get 1.44Mb storage for free! :)

I had a Zip drive as well. Clunky, painful things that felt obsolete from the moment you bought one. Glad they were superceded by better technology.

I would have loved it a lot more if the hardware manufacturers were more open about how to use the hardware, then i could have used it in GNU/Linux much easier and more fun...

edit: I was originally going to mention clunky, but it wasn't that much bigger than a floppy so i skipped over that.

Ahh simple days! Did that all the time. You could also do that with the Amiga and copy games as well its just a switch.

It wasn't just the device that I found clunky, but the whole Zip backup process. I'm vastly happier with an external hard drive now for such needs.

Can't say, as a backer, I 'm terribly excited about this at all. I questioned them about this initially and they claimed that they would consider my objection, but obviously it was just talk. As a backer, you are being forced to choose a platform for *both* the copies of the Remastered version of the game and the emulated Amiga version. For the Remastered version you can choose between Windows, Android, IOS, or Mac. If you want copies for multiple OS then you have to pay for it again. It's the same with the Amiga version. You must choose one choice between Windows, IOS, and Android.

If this is how they're handling their Kickstarter backers, I shudder to think how they will sell games on GOG. Will the Amiga versions of the games come as paid DLC for the DOS versions of the game? Color me officially disillusioned with Cinemaware... :/

You mean with the proprietary parallel cable and external device? Yeah that was really bad... Internal ones weren't bad though.

Great news!
I admit I never played an Amiga game (too young to have the chance), so this will be the perfect time to see by myself of what material legends are composed of!
I don't know how many times I read posts on this forum asking exactly for what is about to happen, so I'm glad one of the "biggest" wishes of the community is becoming reality.
This time, after taking so much (both deserved and undeserved) harsh criticism, GOG really managed to land a critical strike! ;)

I assume that how it is. Don't get me wrong I'd LOVE for Amiga games to finally come to GOG but alot of them such as Captain Planet, James Pond, etc are in Limbo, and there are the copyrights as well as the means.

I hope steam doesn't start trying to sell off similar games and genres; Like when they noticed GoG was actually making money off old titles...