Amigaplex

The Amiga version of Supaplex (1991), ported to Windows.

Supaplex is a fast puzzle game with some action. You play Murphy, a small red ball living inside a computer. In each of 111 levels you must collect enough infotrons and reach the exit, while zonks fall around you, disks explode and snik snaks hunt you through the circuits.

Amigaplex is not a remake. It runs the original Amiga program, translated instruction by instruction into modern code. The levels, graphics, music and every rule of the game are exactly those of the 1991 Amiga disk; only the parts around the game (window, keyboard, sound output) are new. A level editor is included.

How to play

1. Unpack the archive anywhere and start amigaplex.exe.
2. Click to skip the intro, click new player, type your name, press Enter, then Space to start level 1.

Nothing is installed. The game keeps everything in its own folder, so you can copy it to a USB stick and play on any 64-bit Windows 7 or newer.

The archive includes a full illustrated manual, Amigaplex_Manual.html: every object, the menu, the settings and the editor.

Controls

Where	Action	Keys and buttons
Menu	everything	mouse; Space starts the selected level
In a level	move	arrow keys, gamepad D-pad or left stick
	fire (snap, plant a red disk)	Space, gamepad A / B / X / Y
	pause	P or the right mouse button
	give up	Esc
Anywhere	full screen	F11 or Alt+Enter
	quit	F12

What the port adds

The game logic is not changed: every level plays exactly as on an Amiga. Everything new is about how you control the game and how it looks.

• No Amiga and no disk image needed. The data files are in the data folder.
• Keyboard and gamepad instead of the Amiga joystick, with the keys DOS players know: Space, Esc, P.
• Skippable intro.
• No accidental clicks. A click left over from the previous screen does not press a button on the next one, and the left mouse button no longer blows Murphy up in the middle of a level.
• Smooth scrolling, with an optional 50 Hz full-screen mode that shows the game at its true speed.
• A resizable window, full screen, pause when minimized.

Amiga and DOS

Supaplex is best known in its DOS version. The two versions are separate programs written by different people, and they differ in more than looks: the Amiga has only two sound effects, stores a start camera in every level, has an extra "no crush" zonk setting, switches special ports at a different moment and plants red disks with different timing. The manual has the full comparison.

Level files made for DOS can be imported into the editor, which adapts them to the Amiga rules.

The level editor

amigaplex_editor.exe edits the 111 levels with the game's own graphics.

• pencil, line, frame, box, fill and selection tools; copy, paste, mirror
• unlimited undo for each level
• level settings: title, gravity, zonk mode, infotrons needed, start camera
• special ports with their own gravity and freeze settings
• Check (F7) finds problems; Play (F5) starts the game on the level you are editing
• import and export of .SP levels and whole LEVELS.DAT files, including DOS ones
• English or Russian, light or dark theme

Credits

Supaplex (1991): written by Philip Jespersen, visuals by Michael Stopp, music by David Whittaker. Think!ware Development · Dream Factory · published by Digital Integration Ltd.

Amigaplex (Windows port and level editor): DarkSoL (aka Kufterin), Discord: darksol41.

Thanks

• To the Supaplex community, which has kept this game alive for more than thirty years with levels, tools, research and good company.
• To Gregot for his help and advice, and for suggesting the name.

Gregot is the author of Megaplex Online, an excellent free online version of Supaplex and the home of its community. If you enjoy Supaplex, come and join:

• Megaplex Online: https://www.megaplex.website/
• Discord server: https://www.megaplex.website/discord/

License and legal

• The original game. Supaplex (its program, graphics, music and levels) was published in 1991 by Digital Integration Ltd, which held the copyright. Digital Integration was acquired by Titus Interactive in 1998 and no longer exists. This project claims no rights to the original game. The files in the data folder come unmodified from the 1991 Amiga release and are included only so that the game can be played as it was.
• An unofficial fan project. Amigaplex is non-commercial and is not affiliated with, authorized, sponsored or endorsed by the original authors, by Digital Integration or its successors, or by any other holder of rights in Supaplex.
• Not connected with inArcade. This project has no relation to inArcade or to the Supaplex games they publish for PC, mobile devices and consoles. It uses none of their code, graphics, levels or other material. "SUPAPLEX" is a registered trademark of its owner in the United States; the name appears here only to identify the 1991 game that this is a port of.
• Trademarks. Amiga, Windows and all other names mentioned are trademarks of their respective owners and are used for identification only.
• Amigaplex and its editor are free. You may play and share them freely, but please do not sell them or include them in paid products.
• SDL2 is © Sam Lantinga and contributors, used under the zlib license.
• Rights holders: if you own rights in anything included here and want it changed or removed, contact the author (Discord: darksol41).