ScuzzBlog: Diaries February 2021 Entry 13th February 2021: Post 1: AUI - Colonial Conquest II. AUI - Colonial Conquest II. Someone recently requested a copy of Colonial Conquest II in ADF format. So I dragged out my Jan 95 copy of Amiga User International and ADF blitzed the game which came on SuperDisk No.50. To extract the game from the disk I booted from the accompanying SuperDisk 49 and then created a fresh floppy of the game. I then used the very wonderful ADFBlitzer to create the ADF file and copied this to a PC formatted ZIP disk utilising CrossDOS and my own mountfile. I then hotfooted over to the PC I have with the ZIP drive and then copied that to USB and back to this computer. And below is the ADF copy of the game in a ZIP file which you need to simply extract. THE FILE IS CALLED CAR_CCII.ADF Having tried the game on the Amiga 1200 I fired up the emulator on the PC and played the game without any problem. However, if I first booted into the Workbench of the 1200 and then clicked the icon the game did not run. It needs to boot from the disk. So open your configuration for the 1200 but don't start it. And then go to floppy disks and find the CAR_CII.ADF file and simply start the emulator from the floppy disk and it will work fine. The game is Colonization in space. Has the feel of a crude version of Stars for the PC which is Eve Online without the Online stuff. More Elite than Colonization. Looks like it takes a lot of time. Just a word about AUI. The magazine was not a favourite of mine I have to say. When you are packed next to the magazine shelves and haven't got your reading glasses its very difficult reading what is on the cover disks. And green and purple and sometimes yellow lettering... impossible to read at distance. When I did buy the mag it generally had a lot of stuff on disk I didn't need. The features were a bit light and low on serious content. It never really improved for me. I do have a generous amount of magazines but I don't think I pull them that often. I did photograph a clutch of magazines for reference to those cover disk images. I also photographed what for me were the highlights of the Jan 95 edition. If you want full size images of the pages then hop over to the Magazine Rack of EAB. Select Amiga User International and a blank search gives you all they have. I have most disks but not all the magazines. The game was created using AMOS by Christian Mumenthaler 1994. The ADF file is in this ZIP file Colonial Conquest II ZIP By Christian Mumenthaler 1994 using AMOS. AUI - Colonial Conquest II.

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