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 ;)
- Extract the 7z content into the relevant directory (
PSP/GAME/on PSP, any location on other platforms). It should create aColditz Escape/directory there - Launch the game (
COLDITZ.EXEon Windows,./colditzon Linux or OSX).
Please see the FAQ for additional information.
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.
- Windows binaries, v1.2
- Linux binaries (x86_64), v1.2
- macOS binaries, v1.2
- PSP binaries, v1.2
- Sourcecode, v1.2 (Also accessible through github)
- The original game's Reverse Engineered disassembly (if you are actually deranged enough to want to look at this stuff)
- v1.2 [2017.06.14]: Add OSX support + fix a bug when cycling prisoners
- v1.1 [2017.06.07]: Add Linux support (with major thanks to picryott) + overall codebase cleanup
- v1.0 [2017.05.24]: Add XBox360 controller support, VSYNC and more shaders on Windows + fix various issues
- v0.9.4 [2010.07.06]: Fixed memory leaks + various updates.
- v0.9.3 [2009.11.23]: Minor bugfixes + new 2x GPU shader on Windows. Data files are now included in release.
- v0.9.2 [2009.08.17]: First public release!