A rather whopping number for the Amiga 1200, which came with just 2MB as standard. Not only did you need an Amiga 1200/4000 and a CD drive, you also needed a seriously beefed up machine with a 68030 accelerator and at least 16MB of RAM. You only need look at the system requirements on the back of the box to see how unlikely this conversion was. In all likelihood, an Amiga port alone would not have been justifiable. I recently spoke to Mulholland on Twitter, where he explained to me that the previous programmer had used the wrong version of the engine, necessitating the restart, and that most of the money would have been in the Mac version. In the ReadMe file of the CD-only release, it’s explained that after Epic Interactive secured the rights to publish Simon II on Amiga and Mac, the Amiga version had proved particularly tricky to develop and one attempt had been abandoned before Peter Mulholland and Paul Burkey were brought in to restart from scratch. Why did it release so late? Why was it made at all? And was it any good? Well, a few weeks ago, early in 2023, a long held ebay search paid off and I was finally able to find the answers. But I was always fascinated by that unlikely Amiga conversion. Though I still didn’t play it on a PC, I popped the CD in a Mac Mini and played it via the brilliant ScummVM.
#Simon the sorcerer 2 ost Pc
I eventually played the PC version of Simon II in 2005. Two short years later, in the year 2000… Simon The Sorcerer II finally released on Amiga. As the releases dried up and the technical demands of the remaining games led to frustrating incompatibility issues, I eventually decided to move on to an N64 in December 1997 and sold my once beloved Amiga 1200 in January 1998.
I was a die-hard Amiga fan at the time but even I had to admit defeat eventually.
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