About
Escape from Colditz is an Amiga game created by Mike Halsall and John Law, with intro music by Bjørn Lynne, published in 1991 by Digital Magic Software. Colditz Escape is a rewritten game engine for the original Amiga game, reverse-engineered from the original Amiga binary and released under GPLv3. It runs on Windows, Linux, MacOS, and PSP, controlling four prisoners of war trying to escape Colditz Castle during WWII.
Getting started
Self-contained archives for Windows, Linux, MacOS, and PSP are available from the project's releases; for PSP the archive is extracted to the PSP's Memory Stick. Extract the archive for your platform and run it.
Media
Additional notes
- Technical
- The engine reimplements several original file formats and effects, including a Bytekiller decompression algorithm, PowerPacker decompression, and GLSL upscaling shaders (HQ2X, HQ4X, 5XBR, SABR).