----------------------------------------------------------------------------- AMIGA CLASSIX 2 (c) 1999-2000 Epic Marketing ltd. - http://www.epicmarketing.ltd.net (c) 1999-2000 Darkage Software - http://www.darkage.it ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- CD ARTWORK (c) 2000 Jan-Christoph Sievers (JCS/Haujobb) - bato@gmx.de ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- BTTR EMULATION GUIDE / CONFIGURATION FILES (see the '!!readme/bttr' folder) (c) 2000 Juergen Beck (Bobic/BTTR) / Ralf Steines (Hippie2000/BTTR), BTTR - Back to the Roots - http://back2roots.emuunlim.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. GETTING STARTED 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Requirements 1.3 Installation 1.3.1 Amiga computers 1.3.2 PC computers 1.3.3 Other platforms 2. PLAYING THE GAMES 2.1 Amiga computers 2.2 PC computers 2.2.1 Emulator newbies 2.2.1 Experienced emulator users 2.3 Other platforms 3. LEGAL INFORMATION 3.1 Copyright 3.2 Credits 3.3 Disclaimer 1. GETTING STARTED =================== 1.1 Introduction ---------------- [Amiga Classix 2] is the official sequel to one of the most successful Amiga compilations ever! It contains over 270 freeware, shareware and full versions of commercial games, no demo versions! It was produced exclusively for Epic Marketing ltd. and is suitable for both Amiga and PC. Nearly all games can directly be played from the CD, no installation required for Amiga computers and Windows PCs. 1.2 Requirements ---------------- AGA Amiga with a CD-ROM drive, or a Pentium PC with Win32 and a CD-ROM drive (Pentium II system recommend). 1.3 Installation ---------------- 1.3.1 Amiga computers No installation required. Simply insert the CD in your CD-ROM drive and start the games from your Workbench. 1.3.2 PC computers No installation required. Insert the CD in your CD-ROM drive and wait, until the menu appears. Start the games by selecting one of the games from the menu. For further info about Amiga emulation check out 'emuguide.txt' which can be found in the [!Readme/bttr] folder. 1.3.3 Other platforms Mac users or PC users with different OS than Windows will find Amiga emulators in the [Emulators] directory of the CD. Just install one of the emulators and select one of the games which are located at the [Games] Directory of the CD. 2. PLAYING THE GAMES ==================== Important info about 'BENEATH A STEEL SKY': The english version of Beneath a steel sky is available for £20.00 from Epic Marekting ltd. The codes can be found in the [!Readme] directory, and in the [Beneath a steel sky] directory of this CD. 2.1 Amiga computers ------------------- Doubleclick the [Amiga Classix 2] icon. Now browse through the entire archive of the CD and select one of the games. A screenshot will appear in the background showing how the game will look like. Another menu appears where you can select your CPU type. 2.2 PC computers ---------------- 2.2.1 Emulator newbies After inserting the CD in your CD drive the autostart feature will directly start the Amiga emulator called [WinUAE], which will show up it's configuration GUI. All you have to do there is to doubleclick one of the game names. The game will immediately load then, and you can play all games with a PC Joystick or Gamepad. For further info about Amiga emulation check out 'emuguide.txt' which can be found in the [!!Readme/bttr] folder. 2.2.1 Experienced emulator users If you have already used WinUAE before and have installed a Workbench or the [Amiga in a box] package (http://www.emuunlim.com/aiab) you can play all the games directly from the Workbench too. Before you boot WinUAE go to the [Hard Drives] menu of WinUAE and enable the [Add PC Drives at Startup] feature, then click OK. Now you can access the CD from your WinUAE Workbench and can start every game with a simple doubleclick. For further info about Amiga emulation check out 'emuguide.txt' which can be found in the [!!Readme/bttr] folder. 2.3 Other platforms ------------------- After you have installed the emulator for your system (see chapter 1.3.3) you can configure the emulator as you want. A detailed description comes with every emulator or please read the 'emuguide.txt' which can be found in the [!!Readme/bttr] folder. 3. LEGAL INFORMATION ==================== 3.1 Copyright CD Compilation by Paolo D'Urso and Juergen Beck. WinUAE version by Juergen Beck. Cover Artwork by Carlos Pardo (http://made.planet-d.net) Produced exclusivly for Epic Marketing ltd. Published by Epic Marketing ltd. BTTR Emuguide + Configs by Ralf Steines and Juergen Beck 3.2 Special thanks We want to thank the following people for being so kind to let us use their fantastic games for our little project: - Tony Warriner from Revolution Software (http://www.revolution.co.uk) for giving us the permission to include 'Beneath a steel sky' on this CD. - Marc Rosocha, the company director from Eclipse software (http://www.eclipse.at). He has permitted us to include the brilliant shoot 'em up game 'Lethal Xcess' and the funny platform game 'Monster Business'. In the past Mr. Rosocha has created such Amiga classics like Chambers of Shaolin or Wings of Death for Thalion. - Andreas Seebeck - a friendly man who has made the games 'Hannibal', 'Space M.A.X.', 'Aunt Arctic Adventure' and 'Charon V' in the past. His software company is called 'Andreas Seebeck Software Development' and you can visit his homepage at http://www.febe.com/ - Paul Hellier, the creator of the old classic 'Kelly-X' for being so nice to giving us the permission for this great game. - Don Milosavljevic, founder of Digital Concepts, for giving us the permission to include the full versions of his games 'Island of lost hope', 'Torch 2081' and 'Lords of War'. All these games were published by his company Digital Concepts in the past, but unfortunately they don't exist any longer. - Mark Sheeky from Scorpius Software, for allowing us to use 'Hilt - against the hoardes', 'Hilt 2' and all his other wonderful games. Mark Sheeky makes meanwhile PC games and has changed his company name to 'Information Software'. His homepage can be found at http://www.informationsoftware.ic24.net. - Rolf-Dieter Klein and Martin Ulrich, the creators of 'Ports of Call', for their permission for this classic game. Their actual project is the sequel to 'Ports of Call', which will be released soon for the PC. Get the latest infos about this game from their homepage at http://www.rdklein.com/ - Paul Robertshaw, the friendly boss from Mental Image Software Design, the company who's specialised in creating excellent fruit machines. Thanks Paul for allowing us to include 'Bandit Mania', 'Technology 2' and 'The Winning Post'. - Darren Ithell for his fantastic games like 'Furball' or 'Dithell in Space'. Please visit his homepage at http://www.web-site.co.uk/dith/games.html. - Michael P. Welch, who has allowed us to include the full version 1.90 of 'Scorched Tanks'. Also he is very active at the moment on the PC market and plans some new cool games for this platform. More infos are available at http://home.stny.lrun.com/scorched/ - the friendly people from Rocten Interactive. They have created 'Brutal Homicide' and 'Brutal Homicide 2' and also they have allowed us to include both games onto the CD. If you want to know more about them, please visit them at http://www.rocten.com/ - Andrew Crowe from Mantasoft for his games 'Wizards of Odd' and 'James Bond - you only live twice'. He's very active on the Amiga and you can find infos about all his productions on his HP at http://members.tripod.com/~mantasoft/ - Peter Elzner from Diamond Productions (http://www.diamond-pro.com) for all his games. - Christoph Stahl (http://fsinfo.cs.uni-sb.de/~stahl/welcome.html) and MegArts for their excellent Dynablaster clone 'Bomb Mania'. - The brazilian company HiTek Softworks for releasing their great beat 'em up game 'Barravento' into the public domain. - Frank Otto for releasing 'Lost on Parrott Island' as Freeware. - and especially Jan-Christoph Sievers (JCS). Amiga Classix 2 would never look so good without his fantastic cover artwork. - Bernd Schmidt, Brian King and all the other guys who are working on UAE for giving us the chance to enjoy Amiga games also on many different platforms. - and all the other people who have created so many excellent games and have supported us. Thanks to all of you. You're making many people on this planet very very happy with your excellent work. 3.3 Disclaimer -------------- All commercial games offered on the [Amiga Classix 2] CD compilation are licensed by the software companies, as well as the special full versions of Shareware games. This means you're welcome to use these games for your own personal usage. However, you're not allowed to redistribute any of the licensed games without permission. All trademarks and copyrights still remain the property of their respective owners. Each game on this compilation was tested before, but we can't guarantee that each game will work on all the different Amiga, PC or other systems. Neither any software company, nor Epic Marketing ltd., nor Darkage Software may be held responsible for any damage which may be caused to your system, use all files at your own risk. If you don't accept these terms you're not allowed to use any files from this CD.