HUNGRYHORACE001: Cybernoid CD32 collection

Note: This is the same as the previous release, reuploaded for your gaming pleasure.

Hewson
Uses: WHDLoad by Wepl, WHDLoad slaves by Hungry Horace
Cover: Hungry Horace, template by Steve
ISO Master and Menu: Hungry Horace

A special treat from Hungry Horace for Hewson and Cybernoid fans, both games on a single disc! With a few other treats:

• A beautifully animated menu system for choosing the games.

• CD32 Joypad support for both games (press RED on the menu).
• Two button pad support for both games (press BLUE on the menu)

Both games - but especially part two - are unashamedly 80s hard. You have been warned!

Controls for two button mode:

• Red for Fire
• Hold Red for Special Weapon
• Blue for Cycle Special

Controls for CD32 Joypad mode:

• Menu: Blue (SFX Toggle)
• Menu: Play (Show Highscores)
• Menu: Forward + Rewind + Yellow = Activate Cheat
• Menu: Forward + Rewind + Play = WHD Quit
• Game: Green for Special Weapon
• Game: Forward for Cycle Special Weapon Up
• Game: Rewind for Cycle Special Weapon Down
• Game: Play for Pause
• Game: Yellow for Quit (While Paused)
• Game: Blue for Level Skip (While Paused & Cheat Enabled)
• Game: Green for Level Restart (While Paused & Cheat Enabled)

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Cobe 002: Burnout Ultimate [Fast RAM Required]

Vulcan
Covers: Lemming880
ISO Master and new arenas: Cobe

Burnout is a game from late in Amiga's run (part of Vulcan's "MiniSeries" label), a frantic and graphically superb vehicular Battle Royale and one of the very few commercial games for the Amiga that absolutely required Fast RAM to run.

As such, this is the first release on the blog that requires an expanded CD32, both the brand new TerribleFire expansion and more classic expansions like the SX-1 or SX-32 should work fine.

Four custom made arenas feature in this release, three of them have been featured on Aminet but the fourth is exclusive to this disc.

1. EAB Arena
2. Hellspade Arena
3. Star Arena
4. Terrible Fire Arena

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005: Moonstone

Mindscape

Uses: CD32Load by JOTD, slave by Wepl

Cover: Steve

Control screen: Earok (Template by Steve)

ISO Master: Earok

Our first new release since the rebuild began, this one's been coming for quite some time! Steve did the cover back on a whim back in 2014, but we decided not to release until we could properly do the game justice. The final piece in the puzzle came recently when JOTD graciously updated his CD32Load tool to support the game - allowing us to properly map a few vitally important keyboard commands to the controller.

A beta version has been doing the rounds lately, but this is the final build - including a control screen detailing both the CD32 specific controls and the fighting commands.

Download for CD32

COBE001: Press Play on Pad: The Demoscene Disc

Various Authors
ISO and Cover: Cobe
Menu: Earok and Cobe

This one's a little bit different for a number of reasons!

Cobe has assembled a cracker compilation of 32 demoscene productions on a single disc - almost all AGA titles such as the remarkable Nexus-7 by Andromeda, but also a few classic OCS demoscene productions as well (notably, State of the Art by Spaceballs).

What's more, the disc will by default play demos in a random order, making it a perfect "virtual jukebox" for the CD32. If there's a specific demo you'd like to watch, all you need to do is (as the title suggests) hold down the "Play" button when the console is booted.

The complete demos list:

1. nexus-7
2. love
3. friday at eight 3
4. achallamahalla
5. among the living
6. arte* 
7. extension 
8. quite unusual
9. interference 
10. fullmoon
11. cream
12. despair
13. state of the art* 
14. futuristic mind
15. hardday
16. kid
17. desert dream* 
18. pee wee
19. real 
20. breath of the muse
21. hardwired* 
22. lech 
23. gevalia 
24. the prey
25. wit premium
26. enigma* 
27. dove
28. bosnisk metall 
29. jammin'
30. syndrome
31. in a world of ascii
32. panta rhei

*using cd32load by jotd
Arte slave by Wepl
State of the art slave by Wepl
Desert dream slave by BlackWine
Hardwired slave by Mr.Larmer & Wepl
Enigma slave by BlackWine

Content warning: The disc includes nudity as well as coarse language. Viewer discretion is advised.

Download for CD32

004: Turrican Anthology

Factor 5 / Rainbow Arts
Uses: CD32Load by JOTD, WHDLoad by Wepl. Slaves: T1, T2, T3, Super Obliteration (Easter Egg)
Cover and select screen: Steve
CDXL Intro: Derived from the Turrican 3D Trailer and Motion Reel, using Charles-Henri Avelange's Heavy Metal remix of the Turrican 1 Title.
ISO Master and control fixes: Earok

A complete revamp of the previous anthology release, now all three games feature seven button CD32 pad support - almost all functions are on discrete buttons, including "Jump" on the Blue/Forward buttons for the first time.

Turrican 3 in particular receives a significant gameplay boost, in that the "rope" mechanic can be activated or deactivated at will without a charge up time.

Select and control screen

Exclusive intro

Download for CD32

003: Heart of the Alien

12th June 2017 - While Heart of the Alien for CD32 has been re-released without enhancements, there's now a WB friendly package that includes Another World/The Lost Level with WHDLoad slaves, and an HD installed Heart of the Alien - no CD music required. 

Another World / Out of this World: Eric Chahi
Heart of the Alien: Interplay (Adapted for Amiga by D.J.M)
Lost Level: Eric Chahi (Hacked on to the Amiga by Earok)
Cover: Steve
ISO Master: Earok
WHDLoad Slave: Harry and JOTD
Much appreciated assistance: Cobe

A long time coming! The legendary Another World mythos has finally made it's way to the CD32 in its entirety.

Another World (aka: Out of this World)
The original classic, with one minor tweak - Press BLUE to open the level code screen. If you want to skip through the lengthy introduction, just use the code "EDJI" after the (cracked) copy protection sequence.

The Lost Level
An entire level that was added to later editions of the game has been back-ported to Amiga and included on this disc as a standalone entry.

Heart of the Alien
The largely unknown and forgotten sequel makes it's way to the Amiga due to the incredible and much appreciated efforts of D.J.M.

Controls have been faithfully adapted from the Sega CD original.

• Action: Red
• Whip: Blue
• Jump forward: Green
• Activate Bomb: Red+Blue+Green
• Enter Code: Pause

Special thanks to Cobe for tweaking some of the Heart of the Alien audio tracks, as well as squeezing "The Lost Level" on to the selection menu.

Download for CD32 / AmigaCD
Download for HDD Amiga

002: Inherit the Earth

5th June 2017 - This one has been re-released more or less as it was, as there were no changes that I wanted to make. However, a zip version is included for HDD equipped Amigas.

Wyrmkeep Entertainment / Realogic / Softdisk
Cover: Steve
ISO Remaster: Earok
Thanks to anonymous for uploading the original file!

Something of a holy grail for us is the uncovered English language version of the adventure game "Inherit the Earth". This charming adventure game featuring furries anthropomorphic animals was already released for the Amiga in German but (to the best of our knowledge) the unreleased English version has never been on the Internet - until now.

This is largely the same to what appeared on an Amiga Future cover disc several years ago but with a few changes:

• Signed with a trademark file so it will boot on a stock CD32.
• The "Bonus" folder from the German release is included, which includes: mod files, animations, CDXL videos, AGA and ECS demo versions of the German release.
• Manual PDF is also included in the Bonus folder (sourced from: http://adventure.klasyka.do.pl/files/inherit.pdf).
• The startup-sequence is the same except for the addition of a doublespeed command

Given that this is an unreleased beta version, I had to give it a full playthrough with walkthrough (on a real CD32) before publishing it here. I'm happy to say that this appears to be the complete game, all of the gameplay appears to be intact and it's all in English, both text and voices from start to end.

There are some issues though - movement is often sluggish, the "use" command sometimes misfires (eg it attempts using the object on itself when you wanted to use it with something else on screen), and I had no less than two full crashes and one fatal bug (in all fairness this could just be because of misreads from my CD32 drive). Make sure you safe often!

Some other things to note:

• NVRAM saving is a feature, but you'll need around 83 blocks free (!) I'm afraid you might need to drop that Simon the Sorcerer save file.
• Mouse is not required, gamepad works just fine.
• Press Red+Blue to skip the length intro sequence (thanks to Cobe for working this out).
• During the overworld and isometric sequences, you can just hold down RED to move, this might be a little quicker than just tapping RED repeatedly

There are also two executables on the disc for playing from an HD equipped Amiga, both an AGA and ECS version. However, given that the voices file is over 200mb you're either going to need a CD-ROM or a decent hard drive!

(Edit: I've received confirmation that this works just fine on an A1200 with a compact flash "hard drive" and a Blizzard accelerator card, as well as a 4mb ECS A600 with cd rom)

(As a side note, a modern version of the game is available from Wyrmkeep, GOG and Steam. Also the game inspired a sequel web comic that's been running for ten years!)

Download for CD32 / AmigaCD

Download for HDD Amiga (ECS and AGA)

001: Time Gal [ReImagine]

ReImagine (original game: Taito 1985) 
Cover: Steve (Download)

Something a little different from us! The second release in the ReImagine series of ports and hacks is the never before on Amiga LaserDisc classic Time Gal, ported from the arcade original in it's entirety.

• All Sixteen levels from the original game, along with "mirrored" versions of each level and all of the death animations (including those that were censored on the Mega CD port!)
• Six difficulty levels from Easy to Insane. Including a special "Anime Mode" for a more relaxed, cinematic experience. (Note: This mode isn't simply the cutscenes, it's still a playable experience but with absolutely minimal UI distractions)
• Five different static ending screens to discover.

System requirements:

• 68000
• OCS
• 1MB of free chipram (2MB total ram required)
• 500MB of free HDD space, OR
• 2X CD-ROM drive

Download for CD32 / Amiga CD

Download for HDD Amiga

The future of CD32.co.uk

Due to infringement claims on some CD32.co.uk releases, the blog's Mega account has been suspended, and as such every single release is offline. Such an outcome was disappointing but not particularly surprising due to the nature of projects like this.

I think it might be a good opportunity to start over with patched and enhanced re-releases, and maybe the occasional new one, possibly each Saturday. I don't intend to re-release every project (certainly not the ones that triggered takedown notices!) but the more popular and substantial ones will receive a re-release.

It's kind of sad but kind of exciting too - and I look forward to the future of the blog.