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Colditz Escape is a rewritten game engine for the classic “Escape From Colditz” Amiga game. In this game, you control a set of four prisoners of war trying to escape from the infamous Colditz Castle WWII prison.

The original game, created by Mike Halsall and John Law (with intro music by Bjørn Lynne), was published in 1991 by Digital Magic Software. This new version, which allows you to play the game on Windows, Linux, macOS and PSP platforms, has been reverse engineered from the original Amiga game engine and is released under a GPL v3 license.

Please note that the latest version comes with all the data files required for the game - just extract the archive and play ;)

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Installation

Extract the 7z content into the relevant directory ( PSP/GAME/ on PSP, any location on other platforms). It should create a Colditz Escape/ directory there

on PSP, any location on other platforms). It should create a directory there Launch the game ( COLDITZ.EXE on Windows, ./colditz on Linux or OSX).

Please see the FAQ for additional information.

Controls

The Windows controls use the numeric keypad as virtual joystick, along with 5 for joystick fire (similar to UAE controls). Make sure that Numlock is on. The controls can be modified by editing the config.xml file which is created when the game is first run. You can also use a joystick for directions on Windows

For the PSP, the direction is with the analog pad.

Please see the FAQ for additional information.

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