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The Official AMIGA "Rosetinted" Thread

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lilltias

Member
OMG THE SOUNDS IN GOBLIINS 2 WERE AWESOME. :lol

I Love this thread. So much good stuff in here. So much GOOD STUFF.

Lotus 2 via nullmodem just plain rules.

Alos: Super Cars II. (Cats against the bombs were terrifying)
 
M

MikeB

Banned
@ Lemmings_JRS

Lemming_JRS said:
Sorry, ONE more game I totally forgot about... Thalion's LIONHEART. Epic platformer and amazing graphics...





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Indeed this game really showed off the power of the Amiga 500, the parallax scrolling beats Shadow of the Beast. For those who never played this game you can see it in action here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2px97_lj2Q

Apydya in action:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdYflCdS9Ds

Only Amiga makes it possible! (in the 80s)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yckH20ngY4Y&mode=related&search=
 
M

MikeB

Banned
Amiga wasn't only the most powerful games console of the 80s, for professional uses the Amiga really shined as well, I learned to do video editing on the Amiga, overlaying Deluxe Paint animations over video, for instance Walt Disney studios used Amigas to animate the Lion King and overlay animations in Dinosaur. Great stuff!

Amiga artwork by James D. Sachs (Defender of the Crown - Artwork fame)
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Amiga Launch event video from 1985, remember that the time of monochroom soundless Macs and beeping MSDOS PCs, Amiga graphics demonstrated by Andy Warhol, demonstration of realtime speech synthesis:

Part 1 Amiga 1000 launch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eNOEEv0l3c

Part 2: Amiga 1000 launch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X36S4km41UY

Art by Eric Schwartz (Superfrog intro, Aerotoons animations)

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Almost everything you are used to do on computers since the mid/late-90s was already pioneered on the Amiga, such as drag & drop between color/windowed spreadsheets and word processors (Lightwave, Scala, Final Writer, etc, all great programs, Pagestream DTP is still used to print various Magazines):

Videos from the Computer Chronicles:
http://www.archive.org/details/amiga_3 (Also showing Menace, Battle Chess, etc)
http://www.archive.org/details/amiga_2
 
M

MikeB

Banned
My favourite Amiga / Atari ST is Dugeon Master and I loved the Eye of the Beholder series as well. I recently bought Oblivion for the PS3, feels a lot like a modern 3D adventure version of the gerne!

Dungeon Master II - The Legend of Skullkeep

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Black Crypt

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B

Brimstone

my reputation is Shadowruined
D.R.A.G.O.N. Force

One of hell of a strategy game where you control a squad and equip them with mortars, sniper rifles, machine guns, and so on.



The F/18 Interceptor sim is magical. What Golden Eye is to the Nintendo 64, F/18 was to the Amiga. Both games just feel right.
 
Norse

Norse

Member
some of the best game days of my long life.....Amiga rocked! And did you all notice that most if not all the games were controlled with a joystick with 2 buttons tops! None of the mega buttons we need now. I miss the days of simple controls.
 
M

MikeB

Banned
@ PS360

So are these Amiga emulators good for games? Is it easy to find the games?
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WinUAE is currently the most solid Amiga games emulator and is actively developed a new version was released yesterday:

http://www.winuae.net/

Games are easy to find, for pointers read my article I linked to earlier within the thread. Many games are available with permission of the original publishers.


@ Thread

Sadly another game which was never commercially released, but an almost finished illegal Magazine review copy is circulating the web, Evil's Doom, a very impressive Dungeon Master clone:

Evil's Doom

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More fond memories:

Prohecy: The Viking Child

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Exodus: The last War

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M

MikeB

Banned
@ SpoonyBard

Shit, Warhead keeps crashing on this one mission and I can't get past it. Should have used WinSTon instead of UAE.
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If you experience any problem with Amiga games, I recommend to use WHDLoad patches, apart from loading faster, these often fix bugs and add other enhancements such as removing annoying copy protections, bugs and adds high score savings.

http://www.whdload.de/games/Warhead.html

@ Thread

Some nice Zelda clones:

Speris Legacy

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Legends

Lemon Amiga
 
S

SpoonyBard

Banned
MikeB said:
If you experience any problem with Amiga games, I recommend to use WHDLoad patches, apart from loading faster, these often fix bugs and add other enhancements such as removing annoying copy protections, bugs and adds high score savings.

http://www.whdload.de/games/Warhead.html
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Thanks, I'll try that. (But if I have to start from the beginning again I'll just switch to ST emulator. Even if the intro music sucks.)
 
L

Lord Error

Insane For Sony
SpoonyBard said:
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Shit, Warhead keeps crashing on this one mission and I can't get past it. Should have used WinSTon instead of UAE.
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You can find a HDD patched version of Warhead that not only runs fine, but you can get it to run in a "really-smooth-framerate-mode" when you run WinUAE emulation for faster CPUs, and with JIT mode. The only problem with that version is that it doesn't have intro sequence, but another version does, so I keep both.

I believe Warhead is in freeware domain now, no? I remember seeing it somewhere listed as such. In that case, feel free to PM me.
 
C

camineet

Banned
MikeB said:
Amiga wasn't only the most powerful games console of the 80s, for professional uses the Amiga really shined as well, I learned to do video editing on the Amiga, overlaying Deluxe Paint animations over video, for instance Walt Disney studios used Amigas to animate the Lion King and overlay animations in Dinosaur. Great stuff!

Amiga artwork by James D. Sachs (Defender of the Crown - Artwork fame)
648.gif


Amiga Launch event video from 1985, remember that the time of monochroom soundless Macs and beeping MSDOS PCs, Amiga graphics demonstrated by Andy Warhol, demonstration of realtime speech synthesis:

Part 1 Amiga 1000 launch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eNOEEv0l3c

Part 2: Amiga 1000 launch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X36S4km41UY

Art by Eric Schwartz (Superfrog intro, Aerotoons animations)

Survivor2.jpg


Almost everything you are used to do on computers since the mid/late-90s was already pioneered on the Amiga, such as drag & drop between color/windowed spreadsheets and word processors (Lightwave, Scala, Final Writer, etc, all great programs, Pagestream DTP is still used to print various Magazines):

Videos from the Computer Chronicles:
http://www.archive.org/details/amiga_3 (Also showing Menace, Battle Chess, etc)
http://www.archive.org/details/amiga_2
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oh man, those Youtube videos of the Amiga 1000 launch have been removed :(

any other sources for those vids?
 
Bojanglez

Bojanglez

The Amiga Brotherhood
The Amiga was great, this thread has inspired me to rummage through my mum's house to find mine. Not sure if I still have all my games tho :-( I am sure I can find them somewhere tho. I hope my Quickshot joystick is still working!
 
D

Dimmuxx

The Amiga Brotherhood
MikeB said:
Beneath a Steel Sky

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That was the first game that I played that was translated to swedish. I have no idea why it was translated to swedish though maybe the developers were swedish or something.

PS. my new custom title is awesome!
 
N

nightez

Banned
I had Commodore 64 and always wished I could upgrade to the Amiga then I got a Snes. I always liked the idea of computer that connects to the TV. Nowadays we have HDTV too.


...
 
L

Label

The Amiga Brotherhood
Another classic game I used to love when I was younger and into football!

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damn that game was fun!

Another great racing game was Skidmarks! I had endless fun messing up the tracks with the skid marks :lol

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Does anyone remeber the free bullet that came in the cannon fodder box! Somehow I managed to get two of them but I have lost them now :(
 
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Fireye

Member
I'm a bit sad that no one has mentioned MegaTraveller. Based on the Pen and Paper RPG, the amiga/msdos game was a good bit of fun. Lots of places to go, solid RPG elements, and great graphics. Of course, the amiga version was the best.

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G

ghibli99

Member
I know they've been mentioned, and I know a lot of folks consider these demos one-trick ponies, but man, you can't deny the impact they had on the viewer the first time:

Phenomena - Enigma (one of the first demos I ever saw, and instantly made me fall in love w/ Amiga .mod music)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1uBK7Wfac4

Spaceballs - State of the Art (couldn't believe this the first time I saw it, and again, the music is just top-notch... holds up really well, as with most Amiga tracked music)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feTVE283aKc

Maturefurk (aka Futuremark) - Lapsuus (I nearly crapped myself when this broke, since I hadn't been paying attention to the Amiga scene for years)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aoIsWxGWHQ

There are so many other good ones. I only mention demos in a gaming thread since most demo folks have gone onto work in the industry.

And oh yeah, if you don't have an Amiga and don't want to emulate, this is your best bet on reliving some good memories:

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http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000LC5AQQ/?tag=neogaf0e-20

...as well as Volume 1 (PC Demos).
 
K

Kuran

Banned
Fireye said:
I'm a bit sad that no one has mentioned MegaTraveller. Based on the Pen and Paper RPG, the amiga/msdos game was a good bit of fun. Lots of places to go, solid RPG elements, and great graphics. Of course, the amiga version was the best.
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I have always been attracted to Megatraveller, it seems so deep.

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Wreckers

Very atmospheric, if slow, isometric action game. The gameplay design is very lacking, or perhaps I was too young at the time.. but the atmosphere was incredible. You felt so alone in that space station.


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Exile

This game has it all, atmosphere, gameplay, depth.. I never beat it, I doubt many people did... it also has a kickass title screen and theme song. Reminds me a lot of Metroid 2 on GB, it gave me such a feeling of solitude. Alone in space. Alone in our old basement. (Mom didn't like to have the Amiga in the living room..)
 
K

Kuran

Banned
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Pluto's

Very basic shooter, but very addicting and worth tracking down.

BTW, its fun looking for Amiga games on eBay, usually the prices are fair.. its just that the shipping costs are high because of the large boxes.


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Weird Dreams

A very weird, if unplayable little game. Very unforgiving, but the whole weirdness of it was incredibly captivating when I was young. Just found this complete on eBay for a few pounds...
 
M

MikeB

Banned
@ Kuran

Exile

This game has it all, atmosphere, gameplay, depth.. I never beat it, I doubt many people did...
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An AGA remake was also released on diskette and CD:

World's first full 32-bit console:
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Kuran

Banned
Yeah, and although the graphics look nicer, I think it lost a lot of its atmosphere and style in the AGA game... the main sprite is just too big.. and the added colour doesn't suit the game...
 
M

MikeB

Banned
@ Kuran

I can understand that the art direction is pretty different and might take time getting used to if you loved the original. Personally I hadn't played the original and maybe therefore prefer the remake. I preferred the original Pirates over Pirates Gold as well.

Some c64 classics were not very satisfying playing the Atari ST / Amiga ports despite more colors, stereo sound and higher resolution. For example Creatures I preferred on the c64, for which I was impressed with for how far the c64 could be pushed. On the Amiga Creatures felt so-so in terms of art direction (Darker, Clyde too big and brown), maybe also because in comparison to other Amiga games the game did not really feel special at all.

C64:

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Amiga:

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M

MikeB

Banned
Jean-Louis Gassee, former head of development at Apple (1996 in Amazing Computing interview): "When the Amiga came out, everyone was scared as hell. No one could figure out how they packed so much power into its off-the-shelf parts. We [at Apple] were really scared of the Amiga. Fortunately, Irving Gould [CEO of Commodore] helped Apple by running Commodore into the ground."

Microsoft and Apple learned a lot from the Amiga, IMO funny how Microsoft nowadays feverishly registers relatively meaningless patents.

A look at why Apple was afraid, an introduction to the Amiga 500 from the 80s (introducing viewers to online gaming, video editing, multitasking, etc):

http://youtube.com/watch?v=EY27PC9FWT0
 
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Project Midway

Member
Thread Of The Year!!

That "Only Amiga" song brought tears into my eyes... *sniff*

Lots of my favorites have already been mentioned, but here we go:
TV Sports Basketball
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Hunter
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SWIV
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North&South
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Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge
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Super Cars II
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Formula One Grand Prix
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And of course all the LucasArts adventure games, Sierras games, Cinemaware and so on. Time to fire up UAE-X...
 
Schrade

Schrade

Member
This thread was such an awesome outpouring of nostalgia. I remember buying my first Amiga 500 by selling my Commodore 128 system and also paying for the rest of the Amiga with money I earned from my first job.

Man, imagine if they had actually marketed the Amiga right :( We'd all be using them now.

Mike B, did you ever hang out on #Amiga in IRC back in the day?
 
L

Lord Error

Insane For Sony
MikeB said:
Some c64 classics were not very satisfying playing the Atari ST / Amiga ports despite more colors, stereo sound and higher resolution. For example Creatures I preferred on the c64, for which I was impressed with for how far the c64 could be pushed. On the Amiga Creatures felt so-so in terms of art direction (Darker, Clyde too big and brown), maybe also because in comparison to other Amiga games the game did not really feel special at all.
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Nah, I agree with you, and I don't think it has to do with how much each version pushed the console. C64 version of Creatures and Creatures 2 flat out had better art direction and character design. Characters gave much better impression of cuddliness and fluffyness, that added a lot to the charm of the game. Amiga version characters on the other hand, almost look like something out of a freeware flash game.
 
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Project Midway

Member
btw guys, what was THE game that made you buy an Amiga? For it me was IK+. The awesome soundtrack and fluid animation were too hard to resist. I had to get an Amiga. Honorary mention has to go to Alf -demo. A computer that could sing with Alf -voice?!!?!1 omg!
 
M

MikeB

Banned
@ J^aws

FM Towns Marty released circa 1991, with an AMD 386, predates it?... What's your definition of "full"?
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The Marty is interesting, but was commercially only sold in Japan, so I never used one myself. AFAIK the very rare first generation only came supplied with a 386SX CPU which had a 32-bit achitecture internally like all 68k CPUs, but similar to the 68000 CPUs as used by the A1000 and A500 without system upgrades offered a 16-bit external data bus.

The system could run early versions of Windows but also TownsOS:

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M

MikeB

Banned
@ Project Midway

btw guys, what was THE game that made you buy an Amiga? For it me was IK+. The awesome soundtrack and fluid animation were too hard to resist. I had to get an Amiga. Honorary mention has to go to Alf -demo. A computer that could sing with Alf -voice?!!?!1 omg!
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Not just one game, but multiple and AmigaOS / apps made me upgrade from an Atari ST. I got an Amiga in 1989:

Silkworm

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Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3kN1rblzhI

Defender Of The Crown

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Dungeon Master

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Battle Squadron

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@ Schrade

I rarely used IRC at all. Usually AmigaWorld.net IRC.
 
D

dejay

Banned
Project Midway said:
btw guys, what was THE game that made you buy an Amiga? For it me was IK+. The awesome soundtrack and fluid animation were too hard to resist. I had to get an Amiga. Honorary mention has to go to Alf -demo. A computer that could sing with Alf -voice?!!?!1 omg!
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Marble Madness sold me and my dad on the Amiga when I played it at the shops, as well as mucking around with Workbench.
 
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VNZ

Member
Project Midway said:
btw guys, what was THE game that made you buy an Amiga?!
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Hybris (Discovery, 1988)

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Compared pretty favourably to the arcade shooters at the time, with its rock steady 60fps, nifty enemy formations and massive ship/weapon upgrades.

It also featured the best arcade style soundtrack ever to grace the Amiga, composed and programmed by the elusive Paul van der Valk.
 
M

MikeB

Banned
As a kid I regularly played multiplayer Amiga games together friends at my home, 3 of them later bought Amigas themselves:

The multiplayer games we played, Battle Squadron, IK+, Lemmings (2 mice support!), Silkworm and:

Supercars 2

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Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWzlO7HkF3w

Alien Breed

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Video:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9158817670205610693&q

Swiv

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Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzD81DjnLl0

North & South

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Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHcoemBuUZ0

Banshee

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Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKEyYR4QSm4

Chaos Engine

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Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtGPv8l_SYE

Kick Off 2

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Sensible World Of Soccer

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Speedball 2

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Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3DpH5kO7e4

More videos:

Jim Power:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8JpduxQz0o
Battle Squadron
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1864055179638235263&q
Volfied:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8759398464936675923&q
Alladin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mvhOi7Rogk
Nuclear War
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xu_Ldvn1GA
Three Stooges
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qJ0OjMCQWI
 
M

MikeB

Banned
D

dejay

Banned
Ooh, I've remembered two more that kicked all kinds of arse.

1 - Their Finest Hour: Battle of Britain
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Despite an often stuttering frame rate, this thing was amazing for it's time. Scores of aircraft in the air and debris flying off the aircraft when you hit them with your guns/cannon.


2 - Nitro
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Me and my step brother played this to death. The loading song was awesome and we'd drum along to it on the desk every time, usually hurting our hands in the process from banging the last few bars too hard. It used to crash every now and then though. The settings went from post apocalyptic urban to desert. Very cool
 
M

MikeB

Banned
@ Shrike_Priest

Micro Machines was a good game, but Xtreme Racing, a Mario Kart - style racer with up to 8-Player (split-screen) serial + modem link abilities was impressive and lots of fun as well. The game also included a fun multiplayer deathmatch mode.

XTreme Racing

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Gloom was one of the best co-op/deathmatch Amiga Doom clones on the Amiga, pretty much proving ID Software claims of Doom not being possible on an Amiga to be incorrect. At the time people had to heavily upgrade their PC or buy a new one to play Doom. This was of course well before ID Software's games like Doom (68k) and Quake 1 (68k port by Clickboom), Quake 2 (68k and PPC port by Hyperion) and 3 (AmigaOS4 PPC) were ported to Amigas.

Gloom series

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