7j557j7j5 there is a decent amount of creativity in indie development now. Proteus for example.

JimPlaysGames True, I really like Proteus. It's great that there's such an active indie industry atm. But still, big developers aren't going to task risks on weird/new games like they used to. Just imagine if Bethesda poured millions of dollars and hundreds of staff members into an Archipelagos sequel; that would be cool to see.

looks like a fever dream

I remember getting the cover disk on Amgia format. My Mum threw the magazine out that had all the passwords in it.

Got the very same one, however the game there was not broken like the most common disk images going around for this one.

Yep I have that demo disk on my desk right now. Its been sitting there for about 25 years.

MaximumRD yeah, so many Amiga games I'd be surprised if anyone has played them all.

MaximumRD yeah still finding out such cool games for the Miggy after all these years. thx Jim for the video I had to give the game a go immediately after watching this. & 1 tip: at later stages you have to connect any isolated "islands" with big rocks on them with the "island" which the obelisk is on b4 you'll be able to destroy them. such a great puzzle game!

***** No never heard of em :) r those Amiga games? I take it ofc they're kinda like archipelagos right?

***** The first time I saw a blood egg detonate was...interesting #RUNAWAYRUNAWAYRUNAWAYRUNAWAY

***** yeah I wonder if the developers of Proteus played this back in the day.

Yeah, The Sentinel was mentioned often among this game back in the day, like an unofficial sequel, but I don't believe the original programmer was involved on the development.

Mitch Crane Didn't Sentinel pre-date Archipelagos?

***** Yes,by about 3 years, I believe.

LastofAvari hehe, yeah I dunno why they bother sometimes.

rhydermike yeah that's something that holds me back from playing a lot of old games more. Sometimes all a remake really needs is an updated UI.

ripoutyourprejudice interesting. Somehow it actually looks worse. Old texture mapping hasn't aged well at all.

JimPlaysGames Yeah it sure does. There are remakes for a lot of these older 3D cult classics from the Amiga days. Like the dozens of Elite Classic remakes, the remake of Zarch aka Virus that's actually better than the original. There are even some Freescape engine games that got remade. I hope I don't sound too old :)) only 24.

IntrinsicPalomides yeah I'm not sure about that either. Sometimes people ask me questions in the comments and I can't reply :\

IVI00101 yeah I think so too, but it's surprisingly tricky given how narrow they are.

Anders Kaare ooh looks very cool. I'll add it to the list.

Chris Shaw ah quite possibly that. It said it was cracked though so I don't know if it's a piracy thing. Probably an emulation issue given the unusualness of the game.

JimPlaysGames Nope all the cracked copies are broken. When they cracked it, they missed the data for the hand-drawn levels, which is why they look so messed up. It's just using whatever random data it finds on the disk to try and build the level. There are good copies of the original online, but they'll take a couple more steps to use. I'll post the information below. First, I wanted to comment that the reason you're having so much trouble clicking on objects is that you don't actually click on the object itself, you click on the square that it's on. That's why when you tried to click on objects in the distance you ended up moving to them. Because the square was so small at that distance, when you placed the crosshair on the object itself, it was up high enough that you were actually clicking on the square BEHIND the object. Move to a few squares away from the object and then make sure that the crosshair is the green part of the square at the base of the object before clicking. Also, since there's a time limit once you destroy the last "node", always leave the one closest to the obelisk for last. That way you don't have to go across half the level to get back to it. Now, for a 100% working copy, go here; www.theoldcomputer.com/roms/index.php?folder=Commodore/Amiga/Games/SPS/a You will need to register (free) to download any of the games. Download the version named "Archipelagos (1989)(Logotron)[0627]". The US copy works as well, but uses a much larger batch of passwords to start the game. It's easier to use the European one. I have a plain-text copy of the US passwords if anyone really needs them. Anyway, these are all disk images created by the Software Preservation Society from original disks. As such they are in IPF format, which you will need an additional library to read in UAE or other emulators. To get the library, go here; www.softpres.org/download If using WinUAE, just download the archive, unpack it and put "CAPSImg.dll" in the WinUAE directory. From then on, it will automatically recognize IPF images, even if they're Zipped. Now that you have a working copy of the disk, you will need the passwords to start the game. You can find them here; amr.abime.net/issue_180_pages Click on page 28. Note that you *MIGHT* be able to transfer this game to a real Amiga. Currently there's no way to write IPF disk images to a real floppy. However, since this game doesn't have any disk-based copy protection, I see no reason you can't create an ADF file out of it. To do so, you'll need an Amiga emulator setup with a hard drive. Boot the hard drive, mount the IPF disk image in one of the floppy drives and then run an ADF program like TransADF to read the disk and create the ADF file. You should then be able to transfer this ADF file to a real Amiga and write it back to disk. At least I *THINK* this will work. Back in the day I knew someone with an original copy of the US version and I don't recall having any problem making a working copy of the disk. I just couldn't use it until I hand-copied the red pages out of the manual and typed in a few thousand codes! I hope this helps. :)

lurkerrekrul Many thanks for all that, only problem is the bottom link to the passwords does not really go anywhere, but from what it is in the link I am sure I can find the info :)

Chris Shaw ARGH! Sorry about that. I tried the link when I posted it and it worked at the time, but now it doesn't. Actually someone else posted the link to the page full of magazine scans and I tried to link directly to the page in question. I guess they have some sort of protection against that. In any case, go to; amr.abime.net/issue_180_pages And click on page 28. Pages 26 & 27 also have some instructions for the game.

lurkerrekrul Nice one, thank you very much for that :)

+Kered Drahcir I think it's only broken in the cracked version.

I use WinUAE to play Amiga games on my PC and it's broken that version. Do you know where I can get a version that will work on my PC where I can progress above level 20? Having said that, this game still spooks me out. It could do with remembering which archipelagoes you have completed.

Andrew Locke I've heard a lot of people mentioned The Sentinel. Maybe I should give that a try.

Andrew Locke Supposedly 10000, but given that you could only enter four digits in the level select I did wonder how map 10000 worked - did it load immediately after 9999? Did it exist at all? As you may have guessed. level 9999 is rock hard! So god knows!

BuzzKill yeah it seems that way, but it's weird because that only applies to the plural. If you call a woman a guy that isn't appropriate, but if you call two women guys it is... :\