I can ensure that Putty Squad gets released in a format that does NOT diminish the product, and is 100% what System 3 would be happy to have their name attached to. If you're SERIOUS about getting Putty Squad out for the Amiga, then I can help in that endeavour, no false promises, no nonsense, just plain FACT.
#PUTTY SQUAD I SOFTWARE#
Hard drives are no longer a luxury, they are the norm, very few people would use their Amigas otherwise, and there has been a community of people that have done their utmost to convert most of the Amiga's back catalogue of games (System 3's included) to run from hard drive for instant loading and bug fixes that might have prevented previous A500 based software from working on accelerated AGA Amigas. However, a lot of us remarked at the time that it was a rather crude distribution method, whilst the Amiga is old in comparison to today's technology, the system itself has been continually been updated and, very few of us rely on disks as the medium of choice to play our games. We were heartened and then very saddened to learn that the distribution idea you had didn't work. We've all been following your Putty Squad news with anticipation, and yes, especially the Amiga related news. I contacted Mark via the System 3 website and Facebook, and it was the website he responded to. How did you get hold of Mark Cale, and what on earth did you put in your communication to System 3 that started the ball rolling? Galahad managed to contact System 3 and managed to convince them that he could help master the game! One of the more famous members of the English Amiga Board posted a seemingly inocuous message asking if anyone knew Mark Cale's email address, so that he could impart his feelings on the matter. Once again, Amiga users had the game dangled in front of them, only to be snatched away. This was due to mastering problems, a lack of floppy disks, hassles with faulty disk returns and problems getting permission from publishers to release the game.
In November 2013, Mark Cale appeared in a video interview with Eurogamer where he said that the Amiga version was only an idea that Retro Gamer were not supposed to have published, and that the game was not going to be released. People were extremely excited and tried to order this special edition, but nobody had any success. as he stated that the Amiga version would be released with pre-orders as part of a collectors edition pack. The interview had the Amiga community excited. October 2013 saw the release of issue 121 of Retro Gamer, which featured an interview with System 3 CEO Mark Cale. The conversion job to modern platforms was given to veteran Amiga programmer John Jones-Steele, who informed me that he was working off the original Amiga source code!
#PUTTY SQUAD I 1080P#
Shortly after, email communication stopped, and no further information was known.įast forward to 2013, and System 3 announced the game to be released on a range of modern consoles, with graphics reworked for 1080p displays in 24 bit colour. John appeared to be agreeable to releasing the game. Several Amiga enthusiasts managed to contact John Twiddy in the early 2000s and were told that the game was complete and stored on DAT drives. It became the holy grail sought after by Amiga gamers. Orders were placed, money was taken, deadlines for delivering the game came and went, but the game was never released.
Time passed, and a dodgy outfit called Alive Mediasoft claimed to have the game available for sale around 1997. A SNES version was released, but the Amiga version never materialised. Readers were eager to get their hands on the game!Īccording to Mark Cale, the bottom fell out of the Amiga market about that time, and System 3 had trouble finding stores to stock the game. The game had received rave reviews and scores of 90% or more in the majority of magazines, and it was due to be released in late 1994.
How the Amiga version of Putty Squad finally ended up being releasedĬhristmas 2013 will be fondly remembered by Amiga enthusiasts as a time of miracles! The Amiga version of Putty Squad was finally released, 19-and-a-bit years after being reviewed by all the major Amiga magazines.
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