I AM IRONCLAW! | Amiga Longplay [332] Mega Typhoon @iamironclaw | Uploaded May 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
"The fastest arcade action game ever made for the AMIGA!"
Pretty impressive as it runs perfect even on an Amiga 500 with 1MB RAM.
Reviews I've read compare this game to Raiden, another "bullet hell" shoot 'em up.
02:35 - World 1
09:32 - World 2
16:01 - World 3
20:29 - World 4
24:28 - "World 5", the game loops back to World 1, so I ended it here.
From the documentation:
*****************************************************
TECHNICAL FEATURES:
* more than 100 objects moving on screen
at the same time
* 50 (!) frames per second (fps)
(all conventional games with comparable number,
size and complexity of moving objects run at 17
or at most 25 fps only )
* Full performance on ALL AMIGAS (including A1000,A500)
* pioneering new graphics engine featuring
64 BOB's, 48 Sprites, 16 Colors
* copper driven blitter
* virtual sprite engine
* virtual playfield scrolling
* asynchronuous multi-process animation algorithm
* animation/control process separation
In other words:
The fastest arcade action game ever made for the AMIGA !
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Some more technical stuff, but in German:
*****************************************************
Vitual Playfield Scrolling: ( IFF ) - Graphic-Brushes beliebiger Größe,
können an jeder beliebigen Pixel - Position auf dem virtuellen Hinter-
grund plaziert werden, welcher mit beliebiger Geschwindigkeit gescrollt
werden kann. ( Größe des Virtual Playfields: bis zu 448 x 1684 Pixel )
Copper Controled Blitter: Alle Blitter-Operationen verlaufen Copper-
gesteuert, unabhängig von der CPU im Hintergrund ( Mit zunehmender An-
Zahl der BOBs erreicht dieses Verfahren gegenüber dem herkömmlichen
" Blitter-finished-Interrupt-Chaining ", wegen der relativ langsamen
Interrupt-Verarbeitung, eine Performance-Steigerung um bis zu 30%.
Interleaved Bitplane Format und Blitter Optimized Coodinate Fomat (BOC)
zur weiteren Reduzierund des " Blitter-Overheads ".
Animation/Control Process Separation: Dank dieser völlig neuartigen
Technik, bei der der gesamte Programmablauf in 3 unabhängige, asynchron
kommunizierende Prozesse aufgeteilt wird, ist die sichtbare Frame-Rate
( 50 Hz ) in keinster Weise durch die CPU-Berechnungen beschränkt, son-
dern ausschließlich durch den Blitter. Das heißt: selbst aufwendige
Berechnungen, wie z.B. 50 gleichzeitig laufende Zielsuch-Algorithmen
verlangsamen die Bildwiederholrate nicht!
Systemkonforme Programmierung, Kompatibilität: Trotz der auf die Spitze
getriebenen Ausreizung der Hardware, wurde das Programm so systemkon-
form wie möglich konzipiert. Der hardwarespezifische Teil des Programm-
codes ist über wohldefinierte Schnittstellen vom übrigen Programm abge-
kapselt, welches ausschließlich Standard-Systemfuntionen verwendet. So
läßt sich " Mega-Typhoon " z.B. problemlos auf Festplatte installieren
und wurde auf allen AMIGA-Modellen (A1000, A500, A2000, A12000, A4000)
erfolgreich getestet.
*****************************************************
"The fastest arcade action game ever made for the AMIGA!"
Pretty impressive as it runs perfect even on an Amiga 500 with 1MB RAM.
Reviews I've read compare this game to Raiden, another "bullet hell" shoot 'em up.
02:35 - World 1
09:32 - World 2
16:01 - World 3
20:29 - World 4
24:28 - "World 5", the game loops back to World 1, so I ended it here.
From the documentation:
*****************************************************
TECHNICAL FEATURES:
* more than 100 objects moving on screen
at the same time
* 50 (!) frames per second (fps)
(all conventional games with comparable number,
size and complexity of moving objects run at 17
or at most 25 fps only )
* Full performance on ALL AMIGAS (including A1000,A500)
* pioneering new graphics engine featuring
64 BOB's, 48 Sprites, 16 Colors
* copper driven blitter
* virtual sprite engine
* virtual playfield scrolling
* asynchronuous multi-process animation algorithm
* animation/control process separation
In other words:
The fastest arcade action game ever made for the AMIGA !
*****************************************************
Some more technical stuff, but in German:
*****************************************************
Vitual Playfield Scrolling: ( IFF ) - Graphic-Brushes beliebiger Größe,
können an jeder beliebigen Pixel - Position auf dem virtuellen Hinter-
grund plaziert werden, welcher mit beliebiger Geschwindigkeit gescrollt
werden kann. ( Größe des Virtual Playfields: bis zu 448 x 1684 Pixel )
Copper Controled Blitter: Alle Blitter-Operationen verlaufen Copper-
gesteuert, unabhängig von der CPU im Hintergrund ( Mit zunehmender An-
Zahl der BOBs erreicht dieses Verfahren gegenüber dem herkömmlichen
" Blitter-finished-Interrupt-Chaining ", wegen der relativ langsamen
Interrupt-Verarbeitung, eine Performance-Steigerung um bis zu 30%.
Interleaved Bitplane Format und Blitter Optimized Coodinate Fomat (BOC)
zur weiteren Reduzierund des " Blitter-Overheads ".
Animation/Control Process Separation: Dank dieser völlig neuartigen
Technik, bei der der gesamte Programmablauf in 3 unabhängige, asynchron
kommunizierende Prozesse aufgeteilt wird, ist die sichtbare Frame-Rate
( 50 Hz ) in keinster Weise durch die CPU-Berechnungen beschränkt, son-
dern ausschließlich durch den Blitter. Das heißt: selbst aufwendige
Berechnungen, wie z.B. 50 gleichzeitig laufende Zielsuch-Algorithmen
verlangsamen die Bildwiederholrate nicht!
Systemkonforme Programmierung, Kompatibilität: Trotz der auf die Spitze
getriebenen Ausreizung der Hardware, wurde das Programm so systemkon-
form wie möglich konzipiert. Der hardwarespezifische Teil des Programm-
codes ist über wohldefinierte Schnittstellen vom übrigen Programm abge-
kapselt, welches ausschließlich Standard-Systemfuntionen verwendet. So
läßt sich " Mega-Typhoon " z.B. problemlos auf Festplatte installieren
und wurde auf allen AMIGA-Modellen (A1000, A500, A2000, A12000, A4000)
erfolgreich getestet.
*****************************************************
![Amiga Longplay [332] Mega Typhoon](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/uEyu6PUscWs/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [332] Mega Typhoon
The fastest arcade action game ever made for the AMIGA!
Pretty impressive as it runs perfect even on an Amiga 500 with 1MB RAM.
Reviews Ive read compare this game to Raiden, another bullet hell shoot em up.
02:35 - World 1
09:32 - World 2
16:01 - World 3
20:29 - World 4
24:28 - World 5, the game loops back to World 1, so I ended it here.
From the documentation:
*****************************************************
TECHNICAL FEATURES:
* more than 100 objects moving on screen
at the same time
* 50 (!) frames per second (fps)
(all conventional games with comparable number,
size and complexity of moving objects run at 17
or at most 25 fps only )
* Full performance on ALL AMIGAS (including A1000,A500)
* pioneering new graphics engine featuring
64 BOBs, 48 Sprites, 16 Colors
* copper driven blitter
* virtual sprite engine
* virtual playfield scrolling
* asynchronuous multi-process animation algorithm
* animation/control process separation
In other words:
The fastest arcade action game ever made for the AMIGA !
*****************************************************
Some more technical stuff, but in German:
*****************************************************
Vitual Playfield Scrolling: ( IFF ) - Graphic-Brushes beliebiger Größe,
können an jeder beliebigen Pixel - Position auf dem virtuellen Hinter-
grund plaziert werden, welcher mit beliebiger Geschwindigkeit gescrollt
werden kann. ( Größe des Virtual Playfields: bis zu 448 x 1684 Pixel )
Copper Controled Blitter: Alle Blitter-Operationen verlaufen Copper-
gesteuert, unabhängig von der CPU im Hintergrund ( Mit zunehmender An-
Zahl der BOBs erreicht dieses Verfahren gegenüber dem herkömmlichen
Blitter-finished-Interrupt-Chaining , wegen der relativ langsamen
Interrupt-Verarbeitung, eine Performance-Steigerung um bis zu 30%.
Interleaved Bitplane Format und Blitter Optimized Coodinate Fomat (BOC)
zur weiteren Reduzierund des Blitter-Overheads .
Animation/Control Process Separation: Dank dieser völlig neuartigen
Technik, bei der der gesamte Programmablauf in 3 unabhängige, asynchron
kommunizierende Prozesse aufgeteilt wird, ist die sichtbare Frame-Rate
( 50 Hz ) in keinster Weise durch die CPU-Berechnungen beschränkt, son-
dern ausschließlich durch den Blitter. Das heißt: selbst aufwendige
Berechnungen, wie z.B. 50 gleichzeitig laufende Zielsuch-Algorithmen
verlangsamen die Bildwiederholrate nicht!
Systemkonforme Programmierung, Kompatibilität: Trotz der auf die Spitze
getriebenen Ausreizung der Hardware, wurde das Programm so systemkon-
form wie möglich konzipiert. Der hardwarespezifische Teil des Programm-
codes ist über wohldefinierte Schnittstellen vom übrigen Programm abge-
kapselt, welches ausschließlich Standard-Systemfuntionen verwendet. So
läßt sich Mega-Typhoon z.B. problemlos auf Festplatte installieren
und wurde auf allen AMIGA-Modellen (A1000, A500, A2000, A12000, A4000)
erfolgreich getestet.
*****************************************************")
![Amiga Longplay [257] RoboCop 2](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vWYiY8Tpre4/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [257] RoboCop 2
This mas much harder than I expected. The controls suck, and so does the collision detection with the walls/ground. I longplayed this 9 years ago and it was time to redo the longplay as I did things that was not up to my todays standard.
Due to bad collision detection, I can get past the big box in the beginning if I wanted to. I could fall through floors in many different locations, which could be useful for speedrunning. Jumping from one platform to the next was extra hard in certain places, like 13:19, failed so many times to get to the other side, same with some of the next jumps. Some seem to be less wide than others, didnt check, but feels like that, as some jumps required me to jump off the very last pixel of the edge, while others didnt. Could land on the other side and STILL fall through the floor due to bad collision detection. Need both legs on the ground to not fall, or something.......
02:54 - Lots of stuff dropping, but cant touch them or I fall.
10:19 - Look at that shitty spawn. Enemy spawned too close so I lose health before I can move. Its random. Lazy coding to not make the enemy spawn at random but within a certain area.
11:03 - I found jumping to catch these cranes were really hard. So easy to miss. They dont all seem the same. Some need to be jumped to at the exact moment... like, need to jump within 0.3 sec or something, too early or late and I miss, even if I stand as close to the edge as possible. Others I have a much bigger area/window to succeed, dont need to be by the edge, and dont need to jump exactly at a specific moment (sure, you cant wait TOO long when its close to you before it turns back, but still - some are not as picky as others). I died many many times on these.
16:28 - At the second shooting range, instead of killing the villains, I decided to kill only the good ones :)... just cuz I could... I never care about score in games anyway. But, they spawn too slowly so after a while I just use up my bullets on nothing so I could get to the next level quicker.
20:15 - Walking left here to show the message. Could also when jumping down, hug the left wall as I fall and fall through it, and get to the bottom floor. Didnt try to see if when walking to the right once down there if it would trigger the end without having the robot (Cain) there as well. Its all these edges that you can pass through if you want. When I jump down, I show I cant kill the robot. No amount of bullets will kill him. Your weapon is only used to destroy his rockets.
01:53 - The River Rouge Complex (Level 1)
07:42 - Brainstorm 1
09:20 - Shooting Range 1
10:07 - Tokugawa Brewery (Level 2)
14:48 - Brainstorm 2
16:28 - Shooting Range 2
17:39 - Civic Centrum (Level 3)
22:33 - Ending
23:38 - High score")
![Amiga Longplay [269] Time Warrior](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vkuucu4oURY/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [269] Time Warrior
00:01:16 - Intro
00:01:50 - Instructions
00:04:58 - History of Time Warrior
00:05:51 - Gameplay starts
00:48:36 - I turn on dalek, its a text-to-speech command, which is not supposed to be used, hence not documented anywhere. It needs the narrator.device file which is not supplied by the game, without it the game crash.
00:58:56 - Defeating Ribolorn
00:59:40 - Outro
01:02:49 - Special outro supplied by the dev (it was meant as a promotional video).
01:06:55 - Instructions/introduction (talks about the game) - supplied on disk 10
01:07:28 - How to play - supplied on one of the disks
Looked through my PD tosec and sorted on games with most disks, this game won. Its on 10 disks. Took a quick look and didnt know what to do, but could see a lot of effort had been put into it so wanted to longplay it. After a bit I realized it would take a while to longplay if I had to figure everything out by myself. So, looked for a walkthrough, found nothing. No guides, hints, tips, nada. Seems like a very uncommon game (first time Ive seen it), which is common for PD. Only thing I could find was a 2 minute short video on YouTube that ended in an error message and then guru mediation after the intro. I too had a crash the first time I ran it, but if installed correctly and enough memory, it run properly.
So, I decided to contact the developer, didnt expect him to reply as its an old game and the site looks very outdated, but he replied. We have for a few weeks, whenever we have time, traded messages back and forth discussing the game and how to finish it. Its been like xx years since he last even looked at the game so he didnt remember everything. I asked if he could write down a walkthrough, or as much as he remembered. He recorded a video and it had almost everything that was needed to get through the game. He sometimes used landscape mode tho when traveling so I had to email him a few extra times asking directions as I didnt know where he went. So its been back and forth trying to solve the mystery of how to properly beat this game :). He said the game is easy to play, but hard to beat, and I totally agree.
Theres no need to sleep/camp as often as I do, but did it to show the different dreams. Some even contains clues. Yes, some are also included in the outro.
Should have made a map from day one. I did it later and it really helped. Im not too fond of how walking around works, it was kinda confusing to me. Not enough text space here to get into the details. Only real complaint I have is the text parser. Cant type capital letters or punctuation marks (, . ?...) so had to type broken English. Asking questions without using a question mark, etc.
Some pictures, including my map: https://imgur.com/a/1xQBQim
~~~ Developers comment: ~~~
Time Warrior originated with the story ‘Axe: A Tale of Carthelion’ nearly 4 decades ago. I was in North Africa and to pass my spare time I had taken several award-winning books to read. As it turned out they were the wrong books thus I picked up a pencil and started writing.
Back in Britain the novel was supplemented with an album and an adventure game of the same name for the ZX Spectrum. As the game was supported by a major company it did well making No3 in the adventure charts. Putting a book into print in the 80s was a nightmare but nevertheless it came to pass.
Following ‘Axe’ I wrote ‘Shades of Evil’, again with an accompanying. Album. The book and Album were tightly entwined. ‘Axe’ and ‘Shades’ came together in the Amiga adventure game ‘Time Warrior’. A text only version known as ‘Dark Staff’ was available on the Spectrum. To really understand how the stories and ‘Time Warrior ‘ knit together you need to visit http://www.shadesofevil.com. The book ‘pdf’ of ‘Many Shades of Evil’ which contains both novels resides there allowing you to read both stories.
The aim of ‘TimeWarrior’ was to create a large graphical world where you could move around freely on your mission to obtain the ‘Dark Staff’ and rid the world of its most dangerous character. You would be writing your own adventure. There is much character interaction in the game and as the walkthrough shows little aimless wondering. You can of course forge your own path. For anyone who wants to try their hand the adventure it is still obtainable and the walkthrough ensures a happy ending, sometimes? I use walkthroughs to drop back on when I’m struggling. When the going gets tough, the tough get going, or cheat?
Starlight, the name on the books and software is basically a brand name. Most of the landscape is real. Too many places to list but the focal point, the Tavern is the ‘Marquis of Granby’ Most of the characters are also real. My daughter welcomes you to the game and despite the passing of years, she hasn’t changed.")
![Amiga Longplay [286] Green Beret](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wI1-B9PCtZw/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [286] Green Beret
I played it twice. Second time with the NES music.
Controls says the green CD32 pad button is secondary weapon, but couldnt get it to work (tried both ports). Secondary method to trigger second weapon is holding fire, which works, but I stab with the knife first, which I dont like. Now after fished longplaying the game and re-reading the instructions, I see it says a THIRD way to use the second weapon is with space bar, which works and I wish I saw that before playing through the game :). Yeah, no biggie, just sayin.
As I play on a keyboard (using the arrow keys), I can sometimes break/glitch games, so its always fun to try pressing like left and right at the same time, which you cant on a gamepad or joystick (unless its one of those more advanced controllers where you can remap buttons). In the case of this game, all I could do was holding down up+down while in the air, which shows the lying down sprite while sloooowly falling back down to the ground, so kinda hovering a bit. Could also lock/freeze in different sprites depending on other presses. So, nothing special could be done this time :). My fav was in Last Ninja 3 (I think it was, got video of it) I could walk through walls and stuff.
System requirements: Minimum A500 OCS, 512KB chip + 512kb other RAM. A1200 is recommended.
Can be downloaded from here: https://danteretrodev.itch.io/greenberet")
![Amiga Longplay [247] Chicken Little (Robot Reader)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wc05FgfuL3k/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [247] Chicken Little (Robot Reader)
These animals be stoooopid...")
![Amiga Longplay [301] Maria Renards Revenge](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wdTBbL7bkx8/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [301] Maria Renards Revenge
A new and free Amiga game, developed in the Scorpion Engine.
Its a very short game, only 4 short levels, and the bosses die too quickly and easily. So, I really took my time on each level, didnt quite just rush through, even goofed around on some of the bosses to make them last a bit longer. Still only a 9 minute longplay, and thats including the intro/outro and waiting a bit at the main menu for the spooky tune to play a bit before I started level 1.
Also, at 04:08, I noticed I could jump up into the ceiling and while up there run to the end of the level. I dont want to use exploits and stuff in games, and was thinking of skipping it and add it in one of the typical extras videos I sometimes do for my longplays, where I show stuff in a separate video that I didnt show in the longplay, but... as the level is so short anyway and the stuff below isnt much of a challenge, I at least ran for a bit up there and jumped back down shortly after, so I didnt go all the way and didnt have to make the extras video.
And yeah, massive clicking/popping in the audio, which some games get way more than others in WinUAE (emulator). The music/sound files are fine of course if played in an external player. Another thing this game got (which is kinda rare), mainly the Intro part is a high frequency beep in several places, starting at 00:37. Again, the music module plays fine in an external player of course, and all other videos I checked of this game on YouTube have all the same beeps/clicks/pops in the same places. So kinda easy to see which recordings were from emulation :). Also, the volume of the game is pretty low (not the fault of the emulator), normally I amp the volume a bit if needed, but didnt bother this time.
Can be downloaded here: https://z-team.itch.io/maria-renards-revenge
00:14 - Credits/Intro
01:04 - Level 1
02:44 - Level 1 boss
03:16 - Level 2
04:55 - Level 2 boss
05:09 - Level 3
06:30 - Level 3 boss
06:52 - Level 4
07:47 - Level 4 boss part A
08:22 - Level 4 boss part B
08:43 - Outro")
![Amiga Longplay [293] The Island of Lost Hope](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/x1lrH2pjws8/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [293] The Island of Lost Hope
As there exist no longplay of this game with the ending, I felt it was time to do it. Theres a very good reason why no video shows the ending, its broken in like all versions. YouTube only seem to have one playthrough of this game, which is by me 15 years ago (on both World of Longplays and my other YT channel that got banned because I upped 2 Family Guy clips... yeah, YouTube was worse then, didnt take much, had more subscribers then too, after that it was only on WoL).
I always use ipf version when possible (not cracked, unmodified version of the disk(s)), unless its a game on many disks and it loads a lot, then I install it to HD if possible (without WHDLoad), if not possible I use WHDLoad as last resort (the reason I prefer adf/ipf over WHDLoad is because WHDLoad is sensitive to savestates and other stuff, I often run into problems when using it).
So, in this case I used ipf, got to the end, and theres an outro but has broken graphics. It asks for disk one before the outro loads, so I tried different cracked versions and also different version numbers (and different settings in the emulator, like chipset, cycle-exact on/off, floppy speeds, which I didnt think would make a difference anyway as everything else looked fine), like v1.0, v1.01, v1.1. All v1.0 were broken, all v1.01 were broken. I even tried saving the game (couldnt with the one I used as its ipf, they can apparently not have write-protection removed, so saved to an adf version) and put the saves on other versions and loaded the saves with those versions of the disks so no game file at all was used from the one I played (except the save file) to the end with, but they of course still had the broken outro.
Now there was only v1.1 left, which was the WHDLoad version, did the same there, took the save file and put it with the game and loaded it, and it worked, it loaded the ending without errors... BUT, Im not sure if its the actual ending. The one that I got from the floppy versions had moving parts and sound, but the WHDLoad version only showed a static image. Maybe they couldnt find a non-broken version or fix it, so they made their own ending. I read the WHDLoad notes of the installer and it didnt mention anything about that, couldnt even find anything mentioned over at English Amiga Board (and other places I looked). Anyway, heres what the broken ending looks like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9NCL_topic (lol, topic)
Also, I took a quick look at the game files for the floppy version and compared it to the ones in the WHDLoad version, looks identical, same amount of files and file sizes. So if they did make their own outro, maybe they matched the size (sometimes there are reasons to do so).")
![Amiga Longplay [284] Ramses](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/x8LHsg9ljq4/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [284] Ramses
This game has always been on my to-do list as I love everything Egypt-related, but never bothered to longplay it as theres no instructions anywhere on how the game works. The game only have a few short clips on YouTube of people not knowing what to do, and as this game came with a German magazine (Amiga Fun, September 1990), theres no scanned or documented manual for it.
On the disk theres the game and a text file (in German, that I translated to the best of my ability) that is just vague with the insrtuctions, like (Im paraphrasing) click here to get to where you buy/sell ships, right click on a port to get other type of info, on the main screen is where you see your ships moving around, some tips are to always keep 2000-3000 gold available, when selling ships try several times as the prices might change etc... The only REAL thing I learned from these instructions and tips was what The Temple part was for, as I couldnt figure that out by myself. Its for donating to the gods so shit are less likely to happen on the sea (monsters and pirates attacking etc). Didnt really seem like donating did much difference, especially not the every-now-and-then stupid ship crash that happened so I had to buy a new one.
Pretty much the only thing you do in this game (like 95% of it) is staring at the main screen where you see your ships move, as you just send them out again once they return, and you cant be elsewhere if you want the game to progress, as everything is paused if youre not on this screen and have exited all the sub-menus (like, cant even check out stuff in a port where its info is shown in the big black box to the right). So, when the clock on your mouse cursor is not active (or you dont hear the sea sound), nothings happening.
I kept to the small 10k ships only as I didnt feel it was worth buying the more expensive ones. With these 10-cargo-limited ships, I had more control when buying/selling, what I mean by that is like...
* With small ships only I could buy and sell with more precision. So if a place only had like 15 of something I wanted to buy, I sent 2 ships, and to not waste the other 5, as both ships = 20 in cargo space (T), I also checked the place if they had something I could sell to them, and made that 5 if possible. Sometimes I was only after building materials, so if a place only had... for example 8, I sent one ship, and then filled the other 2 with either 2 other materials that were cheap to buy, or stuff I could sell to them.
* Kinda the same as the above example, but also not. I feel it was more often than not that ports didnt have more than maybe 10-20 of stuff I wanted to buy/sell, so would be wasteful sending a bigger ship. And often several ports had like 10 each I wanted to buy/sell, so was better to have this cargo space split amongst different ships so they all could go to a place each. Having a bigger ship would only be ok-ish in late-game I guess, as in the beginning, if you saved all your money to get one big ship, trading would be sooo slow as you could only go back and forth between one port at a time (and pretty much never fill its space). I didnt like the idea of having some small ones and some bigger ones, would just take more work then to keep track of things (so didnt bother naming my ships properly, like what their loading space was, as I knew they all were 10 T).
* When a ship crashes it would be more easily replaced. Maybe the more expensive ones have less chance of crashing, or never crash at all, dont know.
So, basically, heres my short HOW TO PLAY:
1. When you start the game, buy 2 of the cheapest ships (10k each)
2. Buy about 500 acres of corn
3. Set taxes to 20-25% (not really needed as you get very little gold from taxes anyway (IMO), but if at 0% you could need more acres of corn later as the people multiply quicker)
4. Now all you do is buy cheap stuff (always prioritize getting building materials, and never sell it, ofc) and sell for more, and when you have 10k, buy another ship (keep repeating until max ships)
5. Once you have enough materials for the pyramid, like maybe 22k or something like that (didnt check exactly how much was needed per % of completion of the pyramid), and enough money of course (250k-ish), put all workers (or a lot, the more = the faster the materials are used up and the faster the pyramid gets built... I know, kinda obvious)... to work.
I was close to quit many times as it was sooooo boring to do the same thing over and over again for hours, as this game has very little challenge or variety in the stuff you need to do. But I kept going as no longplay had been made of this game, and I didnt worry about there not being an ending, or it being broken because of a bad dump of the game, as I cheated and gave myself loads of gold and materials when trying to figure out how the game worked, before playing for real.")
![Amiga Longplay [081] Popeye (PD)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/xJ4xBOY0Xxo/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [081] Popeye (PD)
Amiga Longplay [081] Popeye (PD)")
