**The Plague**  

*Platform: Commodore Amiga (OCS/ECS)*  

*Developer: Innerprise Software*  

*Release: 1990*

Infect the world from your Amiga 500. *The Plague* is a real-time strategy virus simulator that puts you in command of a lethal pathogen—engineer its transmission, lethality, and symptoms while humanity scrambles for a cure. Spread via air, water, rodents, or blood across a scrolling 256-color world map rendered in chunky Amiga copper-list glory.

**Key Features:**  

- **Pathogen Lab:** Mix 32 traits (fever, necrosis, psychosis) using a drag-and-drop DNA sequencer with 16-bit sound effects that pop through Paula’s filters.  

- **Dynamic AI Nations:** 48 countries react with quarantines, vaccine research, or nuclear sterilization—watch riots erupt in real-time when infection hits 40%.  

- **Hardware Scrolling Map:** Zoom from global view to city-level streets; infected pixels literally bleed red across the bitplanes.  

- **MOD Soundtrack:** 4-channel tracker score by “The Plague Master” (aka Tim Wright pre-WipEout) that accelerates with global death toll.  

- **Floppy Swapping Chaos:** 3-disk installation; Disk 2 must stay in DF0: during play or the virus “escapes” and formats your save.  

- **Easter Egg:** Name your plague “RODENT” to unlock zombie rats that overrun Paris in 256-color HAM mode.

Cure too slow? Watch the population counter roll backward to zero. Includes a 32-page “CDC Field Manual” with real epidemiology tables.  

*“Like Populous, but with pus.” – Amiga Format, Gold Award 92%*