Hi!

Might be interesting to some despite no native port:

Settlers 2 has been ported to AmigaOS (by me). A AmigaOS 3.x + WarpOS Version is also included which also runs on MorphOS.

The version of the game ported is NOT Return to the Roots, but the original - Settlers 2 Gold Edition. The game will be released by Look Behind You for AmigaOS 68k/WarpOS/AmigaOS4.

Steffen "MagicSN" Haeuser

The legendary game for the legendary operating system. I am not a gamer, but I will consider buying it since the WOS version works on MorphOS/PPC.

Thank you and respect for creating this version! :)

I just pre-ordered the collectors edition. Thank you very much for this gem, you made my day (year!).

My humble Amiga will not be able to run it, so I'm hoping that MorphOS is. But even if it can't, I am still extremely happy to add this to my collection.

@retrolinuz Don't worry, it runs fine on MorphOS. Just select the WarpUP Version on installation. If default MorphOS installer makes troublle, use geit installer or InstallerLG or InstallerNG.

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geit installer equals "default" MorphOS installer afaict...

Interesting. Maybe it was an older version which caused the issues ? It was always some issue with copyfiles with the "all" attribute this always failed (for example with Gorky 17).

I later let people with MorphOS test installers of more recent stuff (Settlers 2 Beta, RetroArch). I have to admit we did not try the default installer anymore then (and the testers who tried this where not really MorphOS people - they were AmigaOS 4 people who also had a MorphOS system, MacMini), we only tried Geit installer (Aminet version) and various other installers then, and none of them caused any problems.

Anyways the game itselves absolutely runs great on MorphOS (using the WarpOS version of the game), it was actually tested on several MacMini machines.

Yes, the MorhOS default installer is the one I made.

But even more shocking (especially for me) is that the 68K Installer Settler2 will come with, is also mine! :D

I should have demanded on a review copy! :D

How is the two/multi player support in this version? I don't have any interest/time to single player gaming, but we do play Settlers 1 as two player split-screen game regularly with my wife on classic Amiga. Is there a split-screen or network option in this Setters 2 port? Does it work (with two mice?) in MorphOS?

The pc version worked with two mice and split screen. We played it a ton back than.

I could not find any information on how the new amiga version handles this. Probably they silently killed the two player mode.

[ Edited by geit 15.08.2025 - 20:17 ]

I think it was said that the port is based on the Mac version of the game, and now a user at EAB told:
"There was no multiplayer in MAC version so I expect no for Amiga version too."

I haven't seen MagicSN confirming this, but it seems very likely that there isn't two-player option, which is a shame, because the original Settlers was famous, and quite unique, with its two-mice multiplayer feature.

I remember MagicSN saying (IIRC on a1k.org forum, but I can't find it there) that he might reimplement the two-player option in a later update.

Many sales at Amiga40 and we'll see the update

Yesterday I received my downloadable link: installation went smooth (just choose WarpUP version). Like with Gorky 17, mplayer needs to do cache after initial run. So, if the intro vid is stalled, the game isn't paused/hasn't crashed, just be patient a couple of mins. This happens only at the first run. Ingame at 1024x768 I get 40fps, which is awesome.

This is my second purchase of MagicSN's port and the quality is truly professional (to both), to say the least.

By the way, how do I setup window mode? I wanna do some grabs :)

[ Edited by Cool_amigaN 19.10.2025 - 19:00 ]

Just interested if anyone here is running it successfully on an X5040? I get a crash on start. I have emailed the crash log, just curious to hear if anyone (on X5040) has it working.

What a great port it is! Kudos to the devs seriously. I've been playing it for a couple of hours already and it runs perfectly well on my G4. Very well done.

Brilliant port. I've played it for a couple of hours on my PowerMac G5 and its really stable.

Recently i installed Settlers 2 on my Powerbook A 1106. I experience screen flickering and only 640x480 filling up all screen of my machine. I hope its not hardware issue. Anybody can help me to fix the problem please ?
Powerbook got 128 MB V-RAM, 2 GB RAM and is not HiRes version.
Thanks in advance

I nearly have Settlers II Gold installed on 3.19. Full screen graphics are not legible enough to work with at the moment. Brings me back to the days when we had to work for a few nights to get our software configured just right! Ug!

So it's normal behave at this point ? Everyone got the same problem ? Controversial.

Oh, I missed your question. Make sure that all the possible game resolutions are correctly configured in screen mode prefs, for all colour depths. I could then switch to higher resolutions in the game without problems.
But in 640x480 I always have massive screen flicker with white pixels (looks a little bit like chip men remnants if a bitplane pointer is set to some strange values on classic Amiga). I asked the developer about that, and he insists on a driver issue. But other WOS programs do not show that.

As in:

Add 320x256 (etc) to the Prefs/Monitors for 8 bit. 15/16bit and 24bit ?

I was hoping to see the supported 1024 x 768 on Morph 3.19 but I'm unsure if I should be adding Ram:ENV/Settlers2 "ResX" "ResY" ENV variables for that...

All I see in the Readme is:

The Settlers II runs on Picasso 96, CyberGraphX and AGA. On AGA it only runs at 320x256, while on CyberGraphX, and Picasso 96, 640x480, 800x600, and 1024x768 are available.

Thanks,

-E

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Thank you Alexco. Works perfectly. I must admit I have loads to learn. Let's play now


[ Edited by Tomtom76 08.02.2026 - 14:54 ]

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I finally tried the game and I was thinking that the resolution selection doesn't work, because it didn't change the menu screen, even after restarting the game. Then I finally noticed that the resolution selection only affects to the actual gameplay screen, not for the menu screen which is always 640x480.

After realizing that the game looked to work ok. Only thing that gives me some unfinished feeling is that graphics refresh under the mouse pointer isn't synced properly and there's some wobbling under the pointer, seen especially well in Activity windows, for example. Anyone knows if the original game had that issue?

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The startup menu and screens are so blurry, I can't even see the options in the menu to change anything. ENV ResX and ResY didn't change anything either. Where / how did you tweak the resolution?

So. Close.

-E

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I didn't do anything. Just installed the game and ran it, and I always get 640x480 menu screens with readable text. I even tried to re-install it to another location and selected the Low Res version when the installer asked for it (first time I didn't choose that version). Menu screens are still 640x480 even though the game screen is smaller resolution (and you can't even choose resolution for it anymore). BTW. got some graphics corruption from the mouse pointer in the in-game menu where you quit the game, as a side-note.

If you swap back to Ambient screen when the game is running in the menus, and launch the Utilities/Grabber program, what resolution you can see for the Settlers screen? Is it 640x480 or something else? And do you have such modes in MorphOS Preferences -> Monitors?