Monkey Business: First Commercial Amiga Game - It Exists! BELIEVE IT or NOT!!!
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Hello EAB Peeps!
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. At last, here's definitive proof that Monkey Business exists on the Amiga!!! :cool Check out the brand spanking new HOL entry for bigger 'n' better pics of the Amiga release game contents. More goodies will follow...... Monkey Business ------> http://hol.abime.net/6288 <------ (New HOL entry) http://eab.abime.net/attachment.php?...3&d=1522619408 http://eab.abime.net/attachment.php?...4&d=1522619427 |
And the disk?
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Yes Carlos, where is the disk dump lol ? :D
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Strange that the first ever Amiga game would require more memory than was available as standard.
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Very nice, how much?
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Questions, questions, questions!
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Considering that Amiga 1000s only had 256k when they began shipping in the U.S. in late '85, I can only think that the 512k memory requirements of Monkey Business were a legacy of the game being hurriedly ported from the Mac. The game was initially coded for 128k and 512k Macs (and not the Atari ST as some people might assume), which is why the screenshots on the back of the Amiga game box are in B&W. Other possibilities for the 512k ram requirement listed on the game box was that the publisher was being a bit flashy in the "new" Amiga market at the time (and the game actually does work with just 256k). Alternatively, the coder/publisher may have had 512k on their developer machine and didn't test the game with the A1000's standard 256k. Until we get our grubby little hands on a copy of the damn game, we'll probably never really know....... Quote:
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My low down, dirty shame on how I missed out on buying Monkey Business!!
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@Denis
In response to your PM request for a raw dump of Monkey Business (and for anyone else who's taken the wrong end of the stick!)......let me fill in more of the background story to this thread. Do I have a copy of Monkey Business (original or otherwise)? NO! :crying:crying:crying Do I want one (original or otherwise)?? HELL YES!!! :xmas :laughing :xmas As I said before in post #8, someone beat me to snapping up the game on Ebay for a BIN price of US$90 by less than a day (see auction below! :scream). I didn't waste any time contacting the seller at the time to see if he could dump the game and provide good quality scans of the game box/disk for HOL, but when he got back to me the next day he had already posted it off to the buyer (:scream:scream). Unfortunately, the seller was an Atari ST man and he had either cheaply acquired or been given a private collection of pristine Amiga games that included Monkey Business (along with Delta Patrol, also by The Other Valley Software, and snapped up by the same buyer IIRC). Consequently, he had no idea how valuable the game was in monetary terms or, for that matter, historically to the Amiga community. He was quite a nice guy, so I never did let on to him about the sort of silly money he'd missed out on and could have commanded for Monkey Business. Anyway, back to Denis' request for a raw dump. As I said in my last post, for all the good a raw dump would do the SPS team or us if someone ever manages to supply one. The original game disk would almost certainly not have been duplicated professionally back in 1985, so Monkey Business is unlikely to ever receive an official IPF release from the SPS team for this reason. Making a homebrew IPF from a raw dump, however, should be no problem obviously. On the other hand, I'd be surprised if Monkey Business had any copy protection......so making an ADF of the original game disk would be easy enough! Anyone happen to have a copy of Monkey Business sitting around doing nothing?! :help :) :help http://eab.abime.net/attachment.php?...6&d=1522733505 |
I have Delta Patrol on original floppy, unfortunately it's not working :/
But at least i can provide a scan of the disk (i don't have it scanned yet though). |
Nice find :great
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Anyway, it would be great to have a scan of the disk in HOL! :great Can you provide a scan please (size 640 x *)?! :) Quote:
I've only ever seen two boxed copies of this game on Ebay, and the only one I had a chance to bid on was auctioned by Peter Olafson (ex-Amiga games journalist) when he Ebayed his complete Amiga collection a few years back. From memory, Peter's copy sold for US$300+. http://eab.abime.net/attachment.php?...4&d=1522856180 http://eab.abime.net/attachment.php?...5&d=1522856194 http://eab.abime.net/attachment.php?...6&d=1522856209 http://eab.abime.net/attachment.php?...7&d=1522856225 |
Awesome :)
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Mate, do you think it would be possible for you to ask the seller if he could share the buyer's email address so that we could ask him for a copy of the disk?
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That's a pity really. Anyway thanks a lot for trying to reach out to him.
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@Crown
Well, I tried.....we'll get hold of this game one way or another one day, even if it kills me! :p |
you are right buddy. Fingers crossed!
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Please check the zone :D
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