Actually - it is JIF. JPEG/JPG ist the Container, JFIF/JIF is the Codec. As far as I can remember Adpro was already able to support JFIF but not the more modern JPEG-Codecs so sometimes you might be unable to load a modern JPEG. Today I use Irfanview which can do everything ADPRO could do and for everthing else Gimp - which is mindboggling complex but powerfull. And just to put some salt into your memory: Even Irfanview gives MUCH BETTER results on pretty much any operation. Resizing with Resample, Dithering, Smoothing, Sharping, even simply writing a JPEG to a file at 100% quality looked worse than Irfanview at 66% but resulted in a much larger file. Not to mention the mere time every operation took. On my Amiga 1000 working with a 640x480 picture usually took minutes, at 1024x768 it simply ran out of memory. My Amiga 3000 took sometimes ten minutes for operations at 1024x768 and 1600x1200 required horribly slow virtual memory, taking one hour per operation. I remember we once converted a picture of 4000x3000 for printing at my 16MByte Machine. We had to use a dedicated 200MByte Harddrive just for the virtual memory and it took the whole night - when we came back in the morning it was at 95% and counting... My then coworkers quickly went over to SGI systems - which did cost like ten times as much but at least were able to get the work done. Though I remember they said the Amiga Software was still usually better than the SGI alternatives.

It was a great conversion. I still give knods to Project X as the best looking and playing side scroller shmup.

I am very sorry that we could not implement parallax scrolling, but we had so little time for the conversion that our programmer would not have finished in time otherwise. As we were all big R-Type fans, it pains us all the more that we couldn't deliver the full experience.

@@lutzosterkorn6586 Yes, I'm sure that with more time the coders could implement more details from the arcade, maybe some parallax effect too. It's a shame that, at the time, videogame publishers were much more interested in bringing a conversion to the market as soon as possible, rather than producing quality games. The best Amiga games were the ones where developers weren't limited by ridiculously short deadlines. Anyway, at the time I had a lot of fun playing R-Type on the Amiga, so thanks to all its developers.

Thanks for the playlist. The only identifiable authors are 4-mat (Matthew Simmonds) for the first song and Moon Zulie for the second. Others are well known names of amiga library samples.

Oddly the arcade version does not do justice for this game.