Hi everyone,

It’s been quite a while since I last played the classic game Rick Dangerous from Core Design. I remember it very well from my Amiga 500 days in the 1990s, but have only played it from time to time since then.

While checking OS4Depot for new releases, I noticed that a Rick Dangerous SDL 2 port had been uploaded in December. Needless to say, I downloaded it and gave it a go. It worked straight away and brought the good, old Rick Dangerous game on the desktop of AmigaOS 4. 🙂

This clone of Rick Dangerous is called xrick, made by carefully reverse-engineering the PC and Atari version of the game, and re-coding it in C. The author of xrick is Stephan aka ZpqrtBnk. The original author is Simon Phipps. The people responsible for porting it to AmigaOS 4 are Javier (Jabirulo) and Marek (smarkusg). Thanks so much, guys!

If you want to have a look for yourself, you can download it here. Read more about it on GitHub. There is also a thread on Amigans.net with discussions about the port.

Installation is easy, just unarchive it to your wanted destination and double-click on the icon of the game to start.

That was all for this. Hope you’ll check out the game and that you will enjoy it! It is certainly a blast from the past. 🙂

Thanks for visiting my blog and for reading. See you in another post here on the Gaming on AmigaOS 4 blog!