Legend of Kyrandia demo

Kirben · 25 February 2007, 09:25

Was a demo of the Legend of Kyrandia ever released for the Amiga? maybe on a coverdisk?

DrBong · 27 February 2007, 14:02

Doubt it as the final release was 9 disks and most mags usually only devoted 1 coverdisk to a game demo. Still, some mags used custom disk formats to squeeze big demos on to single disks, so you never know.....

s2325 · 27 February 2007, 14:11

Preview of Beneath of Steel Sky was on single disk.

Dizzy · 27 February 2007, 15:53

The demo for the pc is 491 KB

ftp://ftp.westwood.com/pub/kyrandia1/previews/demos/

Dont know what what the demo look or play like

Kirben · 27 February 2007, 23:08

Yes, I know about the PC demo, available on Westwood's FTP stie. I'm looking for an Amiga specific demo of this game.

Dizzy · 28 February 2007, 16:29

I know you looking for an amiga demo, but this just show DrBong that a demo could be made as a small file

DrBong · 28 February 2007, 17:50

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dizzy

I know you looking for an amiga demo, but this just show DrBong that a demo could be made as a small file

Erm, I would never have known that if you hadn't told me!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kirben

Yes, I know about the PC demo, available on Westwood's FTP site. I'm looking for an Amiga specific demo of this game.

I had a look through a lot of my Ami mags and couldn't find anything mentioned about a Kyrandia coverdisk demo on any of them. I was buying a lot of Ami mags around 1992 and TBH I can't remember a Kyrandia demo either.

The URLs below all relate to Amiga coverdisk demos, but I couldn't find anything mentioned about Kyrandia:

http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?...ight=coverdisk

http://eager.back2roots.org/DEMO/index.html#B

http://nthdimension.emuunlim.com/

http://www.planetemu.net/index.php?section=roms&dat=376

Out of curiosity, why are you chasing the Kyrandia demo anyway?

DamienD · 28 February 2007, 20:16

...and one more link for you Kirben:

http://amigacoverdisks.emuunlim.com/

Good luck

Kirben · 01 March 2007, 00:10

I already searched Amiga Coverdisks Site, The Nth Dimension and this forum, before posting this request.

Unfortunately the coverdisks section at Planet Emulation doesn't list the contents of most coverdisks, so it isn't much help.

Quote:

Originally Posted by DrBong

Out of curiosity, why are you chasing the Kyrandia demo anyway?

An Amiga demo could help improve support for the Amiga version of Legend of Kyrandia in the ScummVM project.

DamienD · 01 March 2007, 22:35

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kirben

An Amiga demo could help improve support for the Amiga version of Legend of Kyrandia in the ScummVM project.

ScummVM is cool

Wouldn't the full Amiga game be better for this purpose though?

Kirben · 02 March 2007, 00:00

Quote:

Originally Posted by DamienD

Wouldn't the full Amiga game be better for this purpose though?

Yes, we just bought the full Amiga version of the Legend of Kyrandia. But an Amiga demo would still be useful, for the project.

DamienD · 02 March 2007, 10:13

Sorry for the Off Topic guys.

You know there is also an FM Towns version of The Legend of Kryandia and The Legend of Kryandia 2: Hand of Fate... Unfortunately they are only in Japanese though

Actually, quite a while back I offered to give one of the admins on the ScummVM forum "full / non ripped" images of the following FM Towns games for development purposes as they seemed to be after them:

... Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
... Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
... Loom
... Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge
... The Secret of Monkey Island
... Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders

The guy said ScummVM only wants originals so if I was prepared to buy them then donate it would be cool...

This is ludicrous... As said above the images I have are "full / non ripped" ones made from a friend's originals. These games are so very rare, hard to even track down for sale and finally if you do actually manage to source them, very expensive. I don't mind donating things for a good cause but who in their right mind would donate these gems when you don't have much chance of finding them again

Dizzy · 02 March 2007, 17:30

Good point DD

Kirben · 03 March 2007, 01:17

Quote:

Originally Posted by DamienD

The guy said ScummVM only wants originals so if I was prepared to buy them then donate it would be cool...

We discourage all use of pirated games, as we keep the ScummVM project legit. By been a legit project, we have been allowed to use the original source code of several games for reference, and even been allowed to release a few games as freeware.

DamienD · 03 March 2007, 12:50

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kirben

We discourage all use of pirated games, as we keep the ScummVM project legit.

I can totally understand and am cool with that

...just thought that offering images of rare, expensive originals to the ScummVM team in order to further development would have been a good thing. You may never get them any otherwise, I certainly know that my friend who paid over £1000 for the FM Towns LucasArt / LucasFilm collection would never give them up. Took him over a year to even track them down for sale...

Anyway

25 February 2007, 09:25	#1
Kirben Registered User Join Date: May 2005 Location: Australia Age: 46 Posts: 21	Legend of Kyrandia demo Was a demo of the Legend of Kyrandia ever released for the Amiga? maybe on a coverdisk?

02 March 2007, 10:13	#12
DamienD Banned Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: London / Sydney Age: 47 Posts: 20,420	Sorry for the Off Topic guys. You know there is also an FM Towns version of The Legend of Kryandia and The Legend of Kryandia 2: Hand of Fate... Unfortunately they are only in Japanese though Actually, quite a while back I offered to give one of the admins on the ScummVM forum "full / non ripped" images of the following FM Towns games for development purposes as they seemed to be after them: ... Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis ... Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ... Loom ... Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge ... The Secret of Monkey Island ... Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders The guy said ScummVM only wants originals so if I was prepared to buy them then donate it would be cool... This is ludicrous... As said above the images I have are "full / non ripped" ones made from a friend's originals. These games are so very rare, hard to even track down for sale and finally if you do actually manage to source them, very expensive. I don't mind donating things for a good cause but who in their right mind would donate these gems when you don't have much chance of finding them again Last edited by DamienD; 02 March 2007 at 10:20.

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27 February 2007, 14:02	#2
DrBong HOL / AMR Team Member Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Australia Posts: 2,632	Doubt it as the final release was 9 disks and most mags usually only devoted 1 coverdisk to a game demo. Still, some mags used custom disk formats to squeeze big demos on to single disks, so you never know.....

27 February 2007, 14:11	#3
s2325 Zone Friend Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Gargore Age: 44 Posts: 17,789	Preview of Beneath of Steel Sky was on single disk.

27 February 2007, 15:53	#4
Dizzy Pirate Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Denmark Posts: 3,395	The demo for the pc is 491 KB ftp://ftp.westwood.com/pub/kyrandia1/previews/demos/ Dont know what what the demo look or play like

27 February 2007, 23:08	#5
Kirben Registered User Join Date: May 2005 Location: Australia Age: 46 Posts: 21	Yes, I know about the PC demo, available on Westwood's FTP stie. I'm looking for an Amiga specific demo of this game.

28 February 2007, 16:29	#6
Dizzy Pirate Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Denmark Posts: 3,395	I know you looking for an amiga demo, but this just show DrBong that a demo could be made as a small file

28 February 2007, 20:16	#8
DamienD Banned Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: London / Sydney Age: 47 Posts: 20,420	...and one more link for you Kirben: http://amigacoverdisks.emuunlim.com/ Good luck

02 March 2007, 17:30	#13
Dizzy Pirate Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Denmark Posts: 3,395	Good point DD

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