Just mentioning it in case some of you prefer such an option.□ If you do, then you need the ADF’s of the game. You can also run it through RunInUAE for example if you favor that. PS: There are several ways to run this game on AmigaOS 4. It is so worth it! You’ll get access to many superb games free of charge! Once ScummVM is up, do yourself a favor, grab the talkie version of FOTAQ and get cracking.□ Enjoy and thanks for visiting my blog. See you soon! To sum it up, I highly recommend getting ScummVM for your AmigaOS 4 setup. If you enjoy adventure games, you’ll have a great time. The graphics looks really nice as well, which is a big plus. You’ll encounter many absurd situations and characters, but I won’t disclose any of that here. It has great humour, jokes and a cool story. That’s a good question, but the answer is short… FOTAQ is VERY fun. Sometimes this is handy if you’ve already viewed it several times. It’s worth mentioning that you can press “Escape” to skip cut scenes. There are several options as well: Screenshot by Old School Game Blog You use the mouse to click on where your character should go and what to do. These you can combine with on-screen items or characters. Here you can choose to “pick up” objects, “open” doors and so forth. You’ve managed to escape the room, but now what? I won’t get into details here, as discovering it is all the fun!Īs is customary with these point-a-click games, you have an interface at the bottom of the screen. Pick up the sheets, tie them together and hook the “rope” onto the radiator. Since I’m not new to the game, I know what you’ll have to do to get out. Later on your locked in a hotel room, unable to get out, and must find a way to escape. You are captured together with the actress, but are rescued by Sparky the Mechanic. The story of the game sounds pretty weird, but also cool I think.□ Here he uncovers a sneaky plot by a mad scientist to take over the world by creating an army of dinosaur women made from Amazon women. He was hired to fly a famous actress to a gig, but crashed deep in the Amazon Jungle. In the game you play the character Joe King, who is a pilot for hire. I’ve heard that it was developed with AMOS, but can’t confirm that this is true. It was then re-released as freeware in 2004 for use with ScummVM. It was originally released for the Amiga and PC/MS-DOS back in 1995. GameplayįOTAQ is, as mentioned, an adventure game in the style of Monkey Island. As you can see from the screenshot, I’ve only got two games listed, but you can have many, many more. Afterwards you are ready to start playing. To add, click on “Add Game” and select the directory where it resides. When you’ve gotten hold of the games you want, you can start adding them to ScummVM. The CD one has speech throughout the game, but I like reading.□ You can choose the floppy or CD version of FOTAQ (short for Flight of the Amazon Queen). The easiest place to grab a few is on the official website: Once it has finished downloading, unpack it to a directory of your choice (right-click icon, choose “extract to”).īefore you start-up ScummVM, you’ll need some games. To get the game up and running on your system, you first need to download ScummVM if you haven’t installed it yet. Flight of the Amazon QueenĮven if it does look like I’m only going to write about ScummVM, I’m actually looking into the point-and-click classic Flight of the Amazon Queen. A very popular example is the awesome Monkey Island 3, which I will be testing in the future. Having ScummVM on AmigaOS 4 opens up great possibilities, since you can run stuff that never came out for the Amiga. The AmigaOS 4 maintainer is, as far as I can see, a developer by the name Raziel. The current version is 1.8.1 and was released on the 27th of May 2016. Examples are legendary titles like The Secret of Monkey Island, Maniac Mansion, Full Throttle and Sam and Max Hit the Road.ĪmigaOS 4 does have a port of ScummVM and it works great. It’s therefore time to warm up with some nostalgic point-and-click gaming through ScummVM.įor those of you who are unfamiliar with ScummVM, it’s basically an application that lets you run certain old adventure and role-playing games on systems they were never designed for. It’s Thursday evening and the weekend is approaching.
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