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The Commodore Amiga has received an unofficial fan port of Roc’n’Rope, a Konami arcade game that was first released in 1983. The original arcade version of Roc’n’Rope recently received an official release on modern consoles via Hamster Corporation’s Arcade Archives and Arcade Archives 2 lines of emulated coin-op titles, as we reported previously.
Roc’n’Rope is a platform game that has previously received home ports for the Colecovision and Atari 2600 consoles, and now, the Commodore Amiga can join the very short list of formats that have received a home conversion of Roc’n’Rope (albeit via an unofficial fan port of the game).
The Commodore Amiga port of Roc’n’Rope runs on Amigas ith either the ECS chipset, or its 32-bit successor, the AGA chipset.
The Amiga version of Roc’n’Rope has been ported by a developer going by the name of jotd666, who claims that the port’s visuals are identical to the arcade original whether running on an ECS or AGA machine, though he does note that while the Amiga port of Roc’n’Rope “runs on vanilla A1200 at 50 fps and on A500 1MB at 25 fps (slightly slow). With faster CPU, ECS version is much more playable.” He also notes that the game requires either a two-button joystick or keyboard controls to play, as opposed to the usual single-button joystick required to play Amiga games.
Jotd666’s Amiga port of Roc’n’Rope is available now as a free download, via his itch.io page.
