eno2001's Journal: GAMING: Leander by Psygnosis

Doesn't ANYONE remember what must have been the greatest game ever in 1991? Leander! A 2D platform game for the Amiga and Atari ST. I was hoping that it would get ported to DOS when I saw that Psygnosis ported Lemmings. Unfortunately it appears that Leander just perished. I REALLY want to play this game again, but unfortunately at every attempt, I've been foiled. The Amiga discs aren't readable on a PC. The Atari version is somewhat lacking compared to the Amiga one. The disk images I've found on the net are not only pirated, but they don't tend to work and there are problems with collision detection that prevent you from really playing the game. I really don't want to buy an old Amiga just to play it at this point. Anyone else have any recommendations?

ahh the 90s video games

[nizo]

My fav from that era was Cadash [wikipedia.org], on which I wasted way too many quarters. Luckily the rom for this game is floating around.....

Now if I could only remember the name of the astroids-like game I used to play from that timeframe, where your ship could morph between three different ships with different abilities, as you blew up asteroids. Damn I wish I could remember the name...waitaminute...... whoohooo, I found it!:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasteroids [wikipedia.org]Blasteroid s!!!!

Well thanks for helping me find this :-

Have you tried

[Marxist Hacker 42]

Amiga Forever [amigaforever.com] emulator?

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dd

[RailGunner]

The Amiga discs aren't readable on a PC.
On a linux machine (use Knoppix if you don't have one):

dd /dev/fd0 /home/user/somefile

Surely there's SOME emulator that will read the disk image files.

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[eno2001]

Yeah... sadly the Amiga disks aren't readable by anything other than an Amiga floppy. I remember trying to help a friend replace his dead floppy drive back in the 80s and discovering that my assumption about a PC drive working was wrong. This was before I had my Amiga. It turned out that Amigas had modified PC drives in them that made them and the floppies completely incompatible with anything else. I couldn't use DiskCopy on my Ataris ST back then, or DISKCOPY in OS/2 or dd in *nix to copy the floppies