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blues for AmigaOS 4.1 FE

blues is a game engine developed by Gregory Montoir and found at his GitHub repository (https://github.com/cyxx/blues)

This engine supports three games developed by Titus Interactive, which are the "Blues Brothers", the "Blues Brothers: Jukebox Adventure" and the "Prehistorik 2"

Installation

Extract the archive wherever you want. There are three folders, one for each game. In these folders there is the executable and a data folder where you need to copy the data files for each game. Please read below for more info about these files.

Blues Brothers

The data files of the Amiga or DOS version, full game or demo (https://archive.org/details/TheBluesBrothers_1020), are required.

*.BIN, *.CK1, *.CK2, *.SQL, *.SQV, *.SQZ

For sounds and music, the Amiga version files or the ExoticA (https://www.exotica.org.uk/wiki/The_Blues_Brothers) set need to be copied.

Jukebox Adventure

The data files of the DOS version are required.

*.EAT, *.MOD

Prehistorik 2

The data files of the DOS version, full game or demo (http://cd.textfiles.com/ccbcurrsh1/demos/pre2.zip), are required.

*.SQZ, *.TRK

Usage

Usage: blues [OPTIONS]...
  --datapath=PATH   Path to data files (default '.')
  --level=NUM       Start at level NUM
  --cheats=MASK     Cheats bitmask
  --startpos=XxY    Start at position (X,Y)
  --fullscreen      Enable fullscreen
  --scale=N         Graphics scaling factor (default 2)
  --filter=NAME     Graphics scaling filter (default 'nearest')
  --screensize=WxH  Graphics screen size (default 320x200)
  --cga             Enable CGA colors
  --dosscroll       Enable DOS style screen scrolling
  --hybrid          Enable fuchsia color as in Hybrid crack

I would like to thank

Gregory Montoir for creating this awesome engine and open sourcing it
Capehill for his tireless work on SDL port for AmigaOS 4.1 FE

Support

If you enjoy what I am doing and would like to keep me up during the night, please consider to buy me a coffee at: https://ko-fi.com/walkero

Known issues

Please avoid using the fullscreen because some times it breaks the game in some situations. Prefer to use --scale
By default the game loads the data files from the data folder. It is not tested if those are in a different place and it might fail
If you have problems in graphics (black screen, missing sprites) try different SDL renderer in prefs

You can find the known issues at https://git.walkero.gr/walkero/blues

Changelog

[1.0.0r1] - 2023-08-04

Added

First release for AmigaOS 4

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