A downloadable Custom Maps

I started working on this disk in 1996 as my brothers, friends and I were huge fans of Worms, making our own levels all the time from scrappy images drawn in Deluxe Paint, when I thought about sharing the more fun levels with other people. I finished the disk around 1999, leaving room for future levels, but never released it.

Fast forward to 2015, and I rediscovered the disk whilst preserving Amiga floppy disks to my PC. I added a few new images to fill the space (and edited out all the embarrassing teenage shout-outs), and semi-released it into the wild, uploading it whenever anyone showed interest.

Now I am giving it a proper home here on Itch.io where people can find it.

The disk is self-booting in an emulator and on an actual Amiga, where it loads up Workbench and allows the user to peruse the levels as images without the need to load Worms, simply by double clicking each file in the TWCUSTOM folder. There are on-disk instructions in the form of a wee disk-zine; incidentally, this was the gateway to teaching myself how to use HTML, so it is very easy to navigate.


Download

Download
WAR OF THE WORMS.adf 880 kB

Install instructions

The images can be viewed by double-clicking them in their folder after the disk self-boots in your emulator or actual Amiga. In order to use the images as levels, you will require Worms or Worms: Director's Cut for the Amiga. The disk contains easy to follow instructions. For the sake of easiness, I've included them below...

1. Load Worms or Worms: Director's Cut into your emulator or Amiga.

2. After you've loaded the game and customized your options, find the "Custom Levels Disk" option, which is 2 or 3 pages into the "RECORDS!" sub-menu.

3. Insert your War of the Worms disk/adf file, and select "CHANGE LEVEL DISK!".

4. Select "CHANGE LEVEL DISK!" again; the game has a strange loading glitch requiring you to select the level disk twice before using it.

5. Select "LIST CUSTOM LEVELS". If there are about 20 names, then you've done everything right. The level names are as follows;

2AND4
BABYLON5
BEATLESNEW
BIRDOFPREY
BLOCKWAR
DROPSHIP
DS9
ENTERPRISE
FUTURAMA
HOTH
ID4
LIBERATOR
PROMETHEUS
SERENITY
STARBUG
WARSHIP

6. Start up a battle. When the screen goes blue, quickly press the right mouse button and type the name of a level you'd like to play on.
10. Enjoy!