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[Fularu]

Yeah Moonstone always amazed me, I was so annoyed it was one of the few games that wouldn't work on the 500+, 600 or 1200 tho

Uh what? I played countless nights on my A1200

 

[Neckbeard69]

So many great games!

One of my favorites, a near perfect Arcade conversion of Rainbow Islands.

 

[Elandyll]

Such good memories... I'll always remember the Xmas my parents got an A2000 with a PC board.

Amiga is also I believe partially responsible for my current line of work in Multimedia/ Audiovisual thanks to my then knowledge of Scala and Genlocks, as well as basic 3D modeling (Imagine) when a small video prod studio offered me my first gig in the early 90s.

Thank you Amiga!

 

[Fine Ham Abounds]

My folks were poor so I got a TRS-80. Pity me.

 

[FatboyTim]

1989. I saved all the money I earned from my early-morning job at the local greengrocer, to get my A500 with TenStar pack:

Amegas
The Art Of Chess
Barbarian (Palace)
Buggy Boy
Ikari Warriors
Insanity Fight
Mercenary: Escape From Targ & The Second City
Terrorpods
Thundercats
Wizball

Amazing system.

 

[nubbe]

Thunderhawk was probably my most played game on Amiga

 

[Ingueferroque]

I remember upgrading the RAM on my A500 and then when i played f18 Interceptor - IT HAD FUCKING TOP GUN MUSIC!!!!!!!!!111!

The title song to interceptor was so atmospheric.

 

[zip stick]

Uh what? I played countless nights on my A1200

Yeah i also played loads on my A500+

 

[Trojan X]

Never had one at the time, but towards the end of my 520 ST FM's life I looked enviously at all the games the Amiga was getting...

Happy birthday!

We were in the same boat, bro. Us Atari ST owners were so jealous of the Amiga owners that the only thing we had to gloat about was how our Atari STs were used in the music industry thanks to the MIDI in and output. Due to that, XENON was our marvel game but i was in pain when i saw the quality of Shadow of the Beast I and II on the Amiga. I remember hearing from my old school friend that Shadow of the Beast on the Atari STe featured the same graphics as the Amiga but i don't think that was ever true for i never seen it. My gosh, i remember seeing The Killing Game Show and Atomic Robokid for the first time on demonstration at Dixons. The memories, that feeling, the enviousness, the happiness.. i love and miss those days. i always loved the (got to say it right) Commodore Amiga.

 

[Trojan X]

What about F-19. It had... an F-19!

The thing I remember most about these games is the huge flight manual they'd used to include. I'd just spend hours reading them.

OMG! I was playing that game on my compaq 286 pc. It was actually my dad's game but i tried to play it from time to time. Heh, that was the rare moments i use to watch my dad play video games. *sigh... another happy days.

 

[Sevenfold]

^I had a Goldstar 80286 12.5Mhz. First PC. Cost £1100!

Going from Stunt car racer on Amiga to stunt car racer on PC was harsh.

 

[Accoun]

Fun fact: one of malls in my city has a big advertising screen and among all the ads it shows the Workbench logo for some reason. I know there was a small "gaming event" there (since the top floor is rentable), but while it had a retro corner, the whole thing wasn't retro-themed. Also it was a few years ago, but I don't remember how long they have been showing it.

 

[Pandy]

A500, A1200, CD32.

My childhood in a nutshell.

 

[Straight Edge]

Always wanted one for Shadow of the Beast.

 

[Gaz Pwnage]

Here's to another 30 years (Get those Miggys recapped boys).

 

[panda-zebra]

There's only one way to celebrate anything Amiga.

Going to go home tonight, fire up the Amiga and copy 100 3.5" DS/DD discs with X-Copy Pro.

 

[Fularu]

There's only one way to celebrate anything Amiga.

Going to go home tonight, fire up the Amiga and copy 100 3.5" DS/DD discs with X-Copy Pro.

I'd rather cut my hand

Use a Gotek drive emulator and kiss those pesky 3.5" discs goodbye

 

[serversurfer]

As it happens, EA just made the source code for Deluxe Paint freely available via The Computer History Museum. (Gamasutra) Dan Silva originally created it to make internal art for EA's game studios, and it was so popular and powerful, they released it as a commercial product in 1985. Thirty years later, you can now play with the code yourself.

Edit: This video was made entirely in Deluxe Paint.

Also, everyone should play Llamatron.

 

[Santar]

Happy birthday to one of the greatest computers ever!
So many great memories playing my Amiga 500.
Lemmings, Lotus 3, Addams Family, Monkey Island 1 & 2, Zak Mckraken, Ik+, Settlers, Robocod, the list goes on and on.
And lets not forget all the great demo disks!
I still remember playing the Addams Family demo over and over hoping it'd let me move on past the end of the demo

 

[Fularu]

As it happens, EA just made the source code for Deluxe Paint freely available via The Computer History Museum. (Gamasutra) Dan Silva originally created it to make internal art for EA's game studios, and it was so popular and powerful, they released it as a commercial product in 1985. Thirty years later, you can now play with the code yourself.

Edit: This video was made entirely in Deluxe Paint.

Also, everyone should play Llamatron.

To this day I don't understand why EA left that market and abandonned it to Brilliance and Power Paint.

Deluxe Paint was incredibly powerfull and lightyears head of PC stuff like Corel Draw at the time.

 

[Dicer]

Best gaming computer alongside the good ole C=64

I've owned

A1000
A500
A600
A2000
A2500
A3000
Sadly, I never owned an AGA machine.

Great times, and we should all be using Amigas today, damn mis-managment

 

[LamerDeluxe]

As it happens, EA just made the source code for Deluxe Paint freely available via The Computer History Museum. (Gamasutra) Dan Silva originally created it to make internal art for EA's game studios, and it was so popular and powerful, they released it as a commercial product in 1985. Thirty years later, you can now play with the code yourself.

Cool. Apparently it was originally called 'Prism'.

 

[Hasney]

Deluxe Paint (IV I think) was my art program and I printed out lots of crap on my dot matrix Citizen Swift 240C printer!

The only thing I used my bundled DPaint for was making Worms levels... Mostly around penis shapes.

 

[Shin-Ra]

Edit: This video was made entirely in Deluxe Paint.

 

[Venture]

30 years, wow.

I saw this running in a store window and was blown away.
NewTek Demo Reel 3

I started saving right then and there for an Amiga 500. Eventually I also ended up with a CDTV, A1200, and a CD32. I've always wanted a desktop Amiga though. The A3000 was such a beautiful machine.

 

[Clockwork5]

I miss my Amiga

We had such good times together. I spent so much time with Adventure Construction Set, Lemmings, Falcon, Sword of Sudan, Marble Madness, Obliterator, Insanity Fight, Sky Fox, Defender of the Crown... But mainly Adventure Construction Set. Thank you dad for being such a nerd when I was growing up!

 

[Stike]

As it happens, EA just made the source code for Deluxe Paint freely available via The Computer History Museum. (Gamasutra) Dan Silva originally created it to make internal art for EA's game studios, and it was so popular and powerful, they released it as a commercial product in 1985. Thirty years later, you can now play with the code yourself.

Edit: This video was made entirely in Deluxe Paint.

Also, everyone should play Llamatron.

This is amazing!

Somebody should make a port for the modern systems

 

[cyberheater]

Yep. I had one too.

An awesome machine. It's such a pity that they didn't develop it further.

 

[Accoun]

This is amazing!

Somebody should make a port for the modern systems

Would be cool, but it's the original version and I assume most would be interested in some of the later ones.

 

[Stevey]

Can I also submit for your aural pleasure, the following 2 soundtracks.

Lotus Turbo Challenge 2

Menace

I prefer the original Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge

 

[serversurfer]

Would be cool, but it's the original version and I assume most would be interested in some of the later ones.

It's more about nostalgia and looking back at what was possible on a home computer 30 years ago than it is about functionality. Deluxe Paint was an iconic piece of software, and interested coders now have a chance to directly interact with a piece of history. If you want functionality, just use modern software.

 

[Bumpers]

My father bought my mother an Amiga 500 for their wedding anniversary in the early 90's. She disliked it, but rather than reselling it, they decided to pass it down to their 2 year old son.

Thanks mum, you're the reason I'm stuck playing video games and listening to Chris Huelsbeck.

 

[c0de]

All the hours spent in oil imperium, lotus, lemmings, shadow of the beast...

 

[GamingArena]

One and Only! Competition PRO
Even the joystick was ahead of its time Real arcade parts with microswitches, spent 100's of hours plying Kick Off with it,
one of the best memories i have in all this years of gaming, nothing can touch Amiga, one of the best Computers ever made! Real Classic!

Happy Birthday Amiga!

 

[Moreche]

The Amiga is the one gaming machine I'll never forget.
It was beautiful.

 

[IcyEyes]

I love my A1200.
... and all the people who know me know I'm saying something really meaningful.

The best computer/console ever.

 

[ImBarryScott]

I'd rather cut my hand

Use a Gotek drive emulator and kiss those pesky 3.5" discs goodbye

This looks really interesting! How would you go about swapping disks for multiple-disk games, though?

I remember years ago, when I was at Uni, I found a virtual floppy drive system for OS 3.9 on Aminet and we used to serve adf files to them over the network from our PCs. That was pretty cool but most of the time still much more hassle that using WHDLoad to install games to the hard drive and run from there.

 

[Fess]

Happy birthday! My favorite gaming platform. Still have a 1200 plugged in ready to be used where I want. Commdore going down is the biggest loss ever in the history of gaming,

 

[Herne]

Amazing machines, I started on a C64 but lusted after a 1200 so badly. I finally got one two years ago, and I've been geeking out on it since. I just know that if I got one back in 1993 when I really wanted one, I would know a lot more about computer architecture than I do today.

Really looking forward to Brian Bagnall's The Amiga Years, which recently saw a successful Kickstarter, raising over a hundred thousand dollars.

You beauty...

 

[BradleyLove]

I rocked an A500 with 1.5Mb extra Fast RAM and 2 extra external FDDs.

One of my mates was even more hardcore; he had an A500 with a GVP SCSI External HDD. It cost him £400 for a whopping 40Mb capacity. Watching Secret of Momkey Island being played without any floppies needing to be swapped was a sight to behold (at the time).

I still maintain to this day that Hunter doesn't get enough credit for being one of the first truly open world 3D games.

 

[mokeyjoe]

Never had an Amiga but some of my friends did so it was a big part of my childhood. So much Speedball 2!

Also did anyone else play 2 player Lemmings? That was awesome. Amiga only I think

Split screen Settlers was fun to. More systems should support 2 mice.

 

[halfbeast]

ah, my first true love. happy birthday, babe!

one of the games I miss playing is MegaLoMania. that creepy stage select music, thick british accents and the fact you could send UFOs and nuclear missiles to destroy your AIs little stone throwing henchmen was so satisfying.

Also did anyone else play 2 player Lemmings? That was awesome. Amiga only I think

Split screen Settlers was fun to. More systems should support 2 mice.

double mice fun action was one of amigas biggest advantage over pc gaming. 2 player Lemmings was hella fun!

 

[FlyinJ]

double mice fun action was one of amigas biggest advantage over pc gaming. 2 player Lemmings was hella fun!

I played a ton of 2 mice Settlers on the PC. I think it had custom support for 2 serial mice to be used at the same time.

 

[Shin-Ra]

The three greatest shareware games from cover disks I remember are Biplanes, Tanx n Stuff and Extreme Violence.

I copied and modified a Pong game code from an Amiga Format AMOS guide.

 

[Dash Kappei]

Amiga 500 brother here.
Oh Commodore, how I loved thee!! I came from the C64 and the day I got my Amiga I was fuckin' ecstatic)
My first games on the platform were Sidewinder (shmup), The Uninvited (horror adventure) and Test Drive (”Accolade presents" and dat Porsche's ignition sound).

Basically my teenage years were:
•buy Megadrive/SNES game - play the shit out of it -beat and sick of it
•back to the Amiga and my hundreds (ehrm, it was those days guys, it was impossible to not Yar! back then in my Country) of games
• buy new MD/SNES game - rinse and repeat

all while hitting the arcades like there was no tomorrow of course!

Anyway, Amiga... so many memories :,-)

 

[ChryZ]

I saw this the other day, slightly OT but still kinda awesome:

http://mobile.geek.com/latest/25702...ng-the-ac-and-heat-in-19-schools-for-30-years
http://www.neatorama.com/2015/07/21...ed-Michigan-School-Districts-AC-for-30-Years/

... in Grand Rapids School District in Grand Rapids, Michigan, an Amiga 2000 has run the heat and air conditioning of its schools day and night, without incident since it was installed in the 1980s. As of now, 19 schools rely on the nearly three-decades-old machine. The system's 1200-bit modem and wireless radio signal enables it to communicate with the district's schools.

 

[Mlb_Animator]

Wow! Time flies...Happy Birthday!

Besides playing all of the great games, I pretty much owe my career to the Amiga! Using Imagine3d and LightWave got me into 3d graphics and animation.

Some Amiga trivia....Anyone remember Photon Paint, released way back in 1987 for the Amiga?? It was programmed by Oren Peli, who worked here on the MLB series for a few years before going to make a little known movie named Paranormal Activity.

 

[FirewalkR]

Always and forever the greatest computer and gaming machine.

I have a lot of fond memories of the Amiga days! And no other machine wowed me as much when I first saw something running on it. It helped that in a time where all I had was a Speccy, I saw stuff like Shadow of the Beast, Turrican II, IK+, etc. I don't think any platform will ever recapture that magic and the communities (and demoscene) that were built around it.

Happy birthday to all who were ever involved with this amazing machine!

 

[ckohler]

I LOVED MY AMIGAs! Had a 500 and then a 1200. My high school friend had a 2000.

In 1989, we were running a multi-line BBS from a single A2000 and we could still run apps on the desktop at the same time! Where as my brother's DOS based BBS couldn't even run a GUI. The Amiga's pre-emptive multi-tasking OS was really ahead of the curve.

 

[TheSecondSpitter]

Is there an Amiga emulator for the 3DS?