Fantastic Dizzy AGA?

[Graham Humphrey]

Apparently there's an AGA version of Fantastic Dizzy according to this review. It's not listed in HOL however and I've never come across a copy anywhere myself. Does anyone have this or know if it actually exists?

[TheBoss]

Never heard of any Dizzy AGA game either but this is interesting news!

[Ultron]

Is there? Never heard of it. There's a SNES version though.

[Dizzy]

Originally Posted by Ultron

Is there? Never heard of it. There's a SNES version though.

I dont think SNES got an AGA chip

[CodyJarrett]

It sounds like an A1200 fixed version rather than one with AGA enhancements.

[Ultron]

Originally Posted by Dizzy

I dont think SNES got an AGA chip

Oh, you little bitch!

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[Graham Humphrey]

Originally Posted by CodyJarrett

It sounds like an A1200 fixed version rather than one with AGA enhancements.

But I'm pretty sure the original worked with the A1200 anyway...

[Ultron]

Maybe it never came out.

The reviewer claims the difference is negligeable.

Could just be AGA crock.

Dear lord knows there was so much of it flying around in those days.

If only half of what i saw announced for AGA had gotten released...

[Graham Humphrey]

I think you've hit the nail on the head there Ultron. It was worth trying though...

[delz]

There is indeed a super rare AGA version of Fantastic Dizzy.

It used all the sega megadrive graphics and removed the big black borders for full screen scrolling and quarter pixel scroll!!

It came as part of the BIG6 CD32 collection. I also still have a version on floppy, with an install to HD option. I wrote it on my Amiga A4000 after I left Codemasters to join Core Design.

Seems to be quite hard to find a copy of the AGA version, but worth hunting for it as it was the best version, better than the megadrive version too


Del / 2010

[Supamax]

Originally Posted by delz

I also still have a version on floppy, with an install to HD option. I wrote it on my Amiga A4000 after I left Codemasters to join Core Design.

Really??
Would you dump it and upload to The Zone?

[delz]

I'll unbox the a4k and dump the disks when I get a chance. Surely there is an iso of the big6 cd32 CDROM somewhere on the net... Saw a copy on eBay recently

[tero]

:d

it's from the big 6 cd32, sadly it's iso is ~400mb
and a little too much for me to upload...

but i zoned the fanatstic dizzy from the cd, without sound because of cdda
.info added, starts without problems from my 3.9 rtg winuae setup

[Graham Humphrey]

@delz

Welcome to EAB - that's (ahem) fantastic. Who'd have thought starting a thread with a casual enquiry three years ago would pay off

If you get the chance to create ADFs of your disks and upload them that would be excellent - the floppy version appears to be non-existent unfortunately. Or at least I've never seen it crop up anywhere.

Thanks a lot!

[seuden]

That's awesome delz, thanks

EDIT: I wonder if we could get a copy of that cd on the server?

[TCD]

@delz
Thanks for the upload and info. Oh and welcome to EAB

Originally Posted by seuden

EDIT: I wonder if we could get a copy of that cd on the server?

Will see what I can do later

[Galahad/FLT]

I'm assuming Delz is in fact Derek Leigh Gilchrist? AKA DEL/Anarchy

[tomcat666]

Wow, now one of the hackers here (hint, hint) can make a WHDLoad of the AGA version and include ECS music in it... perfection

[mr_0rga5m]

DizzyCollection Big6 CD

DizzyCollection.part1.rar
DizzyCollection.part2.rar
DizzyCollection.part3.rar

Total files                      4
Total size             467,052,149
Packed size            217,085,416
Ratio                          46%

Name                 Size         Packed       Type      Modified          CRC32
$ºñ¡ø·.nfo           1,944        416          File nfo  01/01/2000 00:00  E5D8B184
DizzyCollection.ccd  1,181        315          File ccd  01/01/2000 00:00  454E60B0
DizzyCollection.img  448,733,376  216,619,489  File img  01/01/2000 00:00  CEA63392
DizzyCollection.sub  18,315,648   465,196      File sub  01/01/2000 00:00  771F4A15

[seuden]

Originally Posted by mr_0rga5m

DizzyCollection Big6 CD

DizzyCollection.part1.rar
DizzyCollection.part2.rar
DizzyCollection.part3.rar

Total files                      4
Total size             467,052,149
Packed size            217,085,416
Ratio                          46%

Name                 Size         Packed       Type      Modified          CRC32
$ºñ¡ø·.nfo           1,944        416          File nfo  01/01/2000 00:00  E5D8B184
DizzyCollection.ccd  1,181        315          File ccd  01/01/2000 00:00  454E60B0
DizzyCollection.img  448,733,376  216,619,489  File img  01/01/2000 00:00  CEA63392
DizzyCollection.sub  18,315,648   465,196      File sub  01/01/2000 00:00  771F4A15

Nice, thanks