im never had a Amiga, but if i did id have this game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hiZiRsS6BE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hiZiRsS6BE
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The Official AMIGA "Rosetinted" Thread
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Ivan
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Some of you guys, have great Amiga treasures. I am so jealous whlile watching it.
However I wonder have you ever heard about 3 polish games on Amiga - probably not - (imho very funny/crazy) like Franko: Crazy Revenge, Doman and Street Rod.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=112141237&postcount=496
https://youtube.com/watch?v=dRGIww533Y4
Franko was famous in southeastern Europe
Man, do I miss Amiga days...
I was a proud A500 owner, 1084s monitor and all that.
I still remember getting QuickJoy Megastar for my birthday. It looked indestructible, but the stick was too stiff for my weak hands
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Is there a thread with help for Amiga emulation? I'm using FS-UAE, but I am having trouble mapping buttons on my Dualshock 4. I'm using it with a windows tablet so ideally I'd like to map some of the spare buttons as PC keys to control the emulator - F12 etc. but it isn't recognising them when I map them using DS4windows
I was surprised to see those free downloads by gremlin etc often have cracked front ends rather than being pure disk images.
I was surprised to see those free downloads by gremlin etc often have cracked front ends rather than being pure disk images.
It was a combination of hardware and software which allowed for manipulating ntsc video with, animation, video switching, character generation, chroma keying. I remember wanting to get one but never saved enough money to replace my A1000 with an A2000 and a video toaster. IIRC, it allowed TV stations and end users to do the work of 30k-100k equipment for a fraction of these prices at the time. I believe NewTek also introduced Lightwave with the toaster.
Shit was amazing.
hooijdonk17
Member
All of this is correct.
As a side note, Adult Swim periodically airs a station ID created using the Video Toaster. I recognized the "Kiki Stockhammer" video transitions and Lightwave wireframe animation.
hooijdonk17
Member
I still own my A500 and 512KB addon ram, though no games - and copying games onto floppies for use with Amiga is a bitch So it's mostly just for show to run Workbench and Sensible Soccer on.. I wish there was an easy way to write Amiga 500 disks on the PC.
So it's mostly just for show to run Workbench and Sensible Soccer on.. I wish there was an easy way to write Amiga 500 disks on the PC.I still own my A500 and 512KB addon ram, though no games - and copying games onto floppies for use with Amiga is a bitch
Check a page back. There is a replacement for the disk drive that lets you use USB memory.
hooijdonk17
Member
I can't seem to find any information about how to get it and how to get it working..
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Emulador-disquetera-USB-Amiga-Gotek-Floppy-Emulator-/201121615245?ViewItemNext=
This one. Replace the old drive and copy games there. I have not bought one, but I read it is good. Someone here recommended one.
Edit: It was Krejlook, but he is banned. He knew a lot about it so he can't really say how the installing is done for a GoTek drive.
Today this book was finally delivered to me. Sam Dyer's Commodore Amiga: a visual Commpendium. It's much thicker than I thought. A lot of more content (e.g. interviews and company profiles) compared to the C64 book. I'm more than satisfied having backed this. I did ask this in another thread, but does anyone have any book recommendations about Amiga or Commodore? After this visual piece, I'm interested in history.
Recently I bought this Amiga 500 as well to give me a proper trip down the nostalgia lane. I was quite surprised that all those old flyppy disks that were included worked. A500 isn't the most convenient nowadays, but I just had to have that. But now I'm looking for either a 600 or 1200. So which one should I get? A600 has the small form factor that really attracts me, but A1200 has AGA. As a A500 peasant, are there any must have AGA games or any other reasons to get A1200?
Recently I bought this Amiga 500 as well to give me a proper trip down the nostalgia lane. I was quite surprised that all those old flyppy disks that were included worked. A500 isn't the most convenient nowadays, but I just had to have that. But now I'm looking for either a 600 or 1200. So which one should I get? A600 has the small form factor that really attracts me, but A1200 has AGA. As a A500 peasant, are there any must have AGA games or any other reasons to get A1200?
Memorabilia
Member
That book looks amazing. Where can I pick one up?
Back in the day I owned the Amiga 2000 (video toaster equipped, no less). Amazing piece of kit. I picked up a cherry Amiga 1200 on a whim about 3-4 years ago, complete with all kinds of games & software & extra hardware. Have been so busy I haven't even bothered playing around with it. This thread makes me want to fire it up....
Damn it, why didn't I find out about this before funding ended? :/
hooijdonk17
Member
How hard is the A500 fd0 sdcard reader swap mod if I sould be bold enough to order one?
Fess
Member
In case you've missed it and in case you have some cash to spend and want to take your old amiga to the 21th century.
Step 1
There are Compact Flash drives available for Amiga 1200, for maybe $50 or so, which makes you get a hdd to hold 4 GB or even 8 GB of data, which is likely your whole game library and then some.
Step 2
We're not done yet. You'll probably want a turbo card too to run WHDLoad, a loader for games that lacked an HDD installer. I tried an IndividualComputer ACA 1232 at first but it didn't work with my mother board revision, it froze all the time, so I finally bought an old Blizzard 1230 MKIV instead which works wonderfully.
Step 3
We're not quite ready yet. Get an Indivision AGA MK2 CR too, and now you'll have a DVI port in the back of your Amiga! Connect it to your flat screen and enjoy!
Step 4
Final tuning. If you're a framerate nut you'll instantly spot a weird issue now. Every 50hz game displays on a 60hz screen which makes some frames show twice and you'll get micro-stuttering. Annoying!
So lets get rid of that. Install the Indivision config tool and set the display mode to 100hz. 50hz x 2 = 100 Hz. Every frame shows twice and the micro-stuttering is gone! But be careful, wrong display mode will turn the screen black.
Done!
Enjoy a 4/8GB butter smooth 50hz Amiga games library on your modern flat screen monitor!
Edit: Here's my PC/Amiga setup as of now, the screen to the right acts as an Amiga monitor plus third PC monitor for tripple screen PC racing, I just push a button to switch between DVI or HDMI input on the screen depending on if I want to play on PC or Amiga. PC keyboard and mouse is in the drawer below.
Step 1
There are Compact Flash drives available for Amiga 1200, for maybe $50 or so, which makes you get a hdd to hold 4 GB or even 8 GB of data, which is likely your whole game library and then some.
Step 2
We're not done yet. You'll probably want a turbo card too to run WHDLoad, a loader for games that lacked an HDD installer. I tried an IndividualComputer ACA 1232 at first but it didn't work with my mother board revision, it froze all the time, so I finally bought an old Blizzard 1230 MKIV instead which works wonderfully.
Step 3
We're not quite ready yet. Get an Indivision AGA MK2 CR too, and now you'll have a DVI port in the back of your Amiga! Connect it to your flat screen and enjoy!
Step 4
Final tuning. If you're a framerate nut you'll instantly spot a weird issue now. Every 50hz game displays on a 60hz screen which makes some frames show twice and you'll get micro-stuttering. Annoying!
So lets get rid of that. Install the Indivision config tool and set the display mode to 100hz. 50hz x 2 = 100 Hz. Every frame shows twice and the micro-stuttering is gone! But be careful, wrong display mode will turn the screen black.
Done!
Enjoy a 4/8GB butter smooth 50hz Amiga games library on your modern flat screen monitor!
Edit: Here's my PC/Amiga setup as of now, the screen to the right acts as an Amiga monitor plus third PC monitor for tripple screen PC racing, I just push a button to switch between DVI or HDMI input on the screen depending on if I want to play on PC or Amiga. PC keyboard and mouse is in the drawer below.
Memorabilia
Member
Yep, from what I understand 100% of Babylon 5's SFX were done on Amigas equipped with Video Toasters & Motorola accelerators. If you've never watched B5, I highly recommend it...it's of the best Sci-Fi operas ever in my humble opinion. The story is amazing & in certain ways its unlike anything done before or since in the genre. The SFX are obviously dated now, but I recently went back & checked it out & have to say they still look cool. You can spot the "Amiga look" right away in how things are rendered.
On a side note: The show creator/writer was out of the biz for years after B5 ended acrimoniously over creative differences with producers (it seems bean counters always want to meddle, eh?) But he managed to get his story fully told & rode off into the sunset. He resurfaced recently as the co-creator of a new Netflix show called Sense8, which is fantastic. The Wachowski brothers (guys who did The Matrix) are co-writers/producers. It may not be everyone's cup of tea & its a little "out there" & a bit slow at first over the first few episodes as they lay down the rules & you're wrapping your head around how they want to tell this story...but its flat-out amazing sci-fi with moments of sheer awesome like you just dont see very often in Hollywood films. Its just as bold & brilliant as Babylon 5 was in its day, perhaps moreso since they have full creative freedom on Netflix & they definitely push things beyond the norm when it comes to social commentary.
At any rate, if you're a sci-fi fan you owe it to yourself to check out Babylon 5. The Amiga based visuals are the cherry on top.
It used to be on Netflix, but was taken off last year so you'll have to find alternative means to watch it....Edit:
I've been watching Farscape for the first time over the past week & it sure looks like the SFX were done on an Amiga as well. Also a great show with lots of animatronics done by Jim Henson's production company (yep, of the Muppets...I guess Farscape was his second love). Good stuff.
RAIDEN1
Member
Not sure if this has already been mentioned but having found out recently the the Sharp X86000 roughly came out at a similar time to the Amiga (1985 to the Sharp's 1987 release) had the X86 been released in Europe, I think it would have wiped the floor with the Amiga...and the competition would have been a hell of a lot stronger than what the Atari ST could give....
Memorabilia
Member
In case you've missed it and in case you have some cash to spend and want to take your old amiga to the 21th century.
Step 1
There are Compact Flash drives available for Amiga 1200, for maybe $50 or so, which makes you get a hdd to hold 4 GB or even 8 GB of data, which is likely your whole game library and then some.
Step 2
We're not done yet. You'll probably want a turbo card too to run WHDLoad, a loader for games that lacked an HDD installer. I tried an IndividualComputer ACA 1232 at first but it didn't work with my mother board revision, it froze all the time, so I finally bought an old Blizzard 1230 MKIV instead which works wonderfully.
Step 3
We're not quite ready yet. Get an Indivision AGA MK2 CR too, and now you'll have a DVI port in the back of your Amiga! Connect it to your flat screen and enjoy!
Step 4
Final tuning. If you're a framerate nut you'll instantly spot a weird issue now. Every 50hz game displays on a 60hz screen which makes some frames show twice and you'll get micro-stuttering. Annoying!
So lets get rid of that. Install the Indivision config tool and set the display mode to 100hz. 50hz x 2 = 100 Hz. Every frame shows twice and the micro-stuttering is gone! But be careful, wrong display mode will turn the screen black.
Done!
Enjoy a 4/8GB butter smooth 50hz Amiga games library on your modern flat screen monitor!
Amazing! I think you just assigned my new summer project.
In case you've missed it and in case you have some cash to spend and want to take your old amiga to the 21th century.
Step 1
There are Compact Flash drives available for Amiga 1200, for maybe $50 or so, which makes you get a hdd to hold 4 GB or even 8 GB of data, which is likely your whole game library and then some.
Step 2
We're not done yet. You'll probably want a turbo card too to run WHDLoad, a loader for games that lacked an HDD installer. I tried an IndividualComputer ACA 1232 at first but it didn't work with my mother board revision, it froze all the time, so I finally bought an old Blizzard 1230 MKIV instead which works wonderfully.
Step 3
We're not quite ready yet. Get an Indivision AGA MK2 CR too, and now you'll have a DVI port in the back of your Amiga! Connect it to your flat screen and enjoy!
Step 4
Final tuning. If you're a framerate nut you'll instantly spot a weird issue now. Every 50hz game displays on a 60hz screen which makes some frames show twice and you'll get micro-stuttering. Annoying!
So lets get rid of that. Install the Indivision config tool and set the display mode to 100hz. 50hz x 2 = 100 Hz. Every frame shows twice and the micro-stuttering is gone! But be careful, wrong display mode will turn the screen black.
Done!
Enjoy a 4/8GB butter smooth 50hz Amiga games library on your modern flat screen monitor!
One last step duder - pick up a Cortex amiga floppy drive emulator. Physical floppies are dying en mass these days, probably 2/3 of my amiga floppies have died within the last 3 years. A floppy drive emulator lets you use a usb flash drive in place of your amiga floppies - you put adf files onto the flash drive and boot. The emulator itself has a window with an led number indicating which disk image is inserted. By booting the amiga with "disk 0" inserted, you get a menu where you can map adf files on the flash drive to floppy spots from 1 to 99.
With an external floppy drive and disk2adf, I went through and backed up my entire collection onto flash cards. These things work exactly like floppies, the amiga sees them no differently than any other floppy. This will keep your amiga running as originally intended for decades longer. Whdload sometimes induces glitches.
Everything described above, including the floppy emulator, is my amiga set up. I have one a1200 set up like the above, with the indivision dvi scan doubler, and a cd32 with an sx-1 converter attached as well. Both machines have cf kits inside, both have cortex floppy emulators (internal on my a1200, external on my cd32), both have additional ram installed.
True amiga magic. My floppies for my floppy emulator are shaped like credit cards. I printed out a bunch of labels on them using sticky paper and a laser printer and they look like pc engine hu cards.
Sharp x68000, not 86000. 68k because it uses a motorola m68000 cpu. X86 would indicate it uses a completely different architecture.
And it released 2 years after and cost way, way more. The amiga's best feature was the price - it was so much cheaper than way shittier computers. Of course it wasnt the best hardware out there period - stuff like sega's space harrier hardware existed obviously. It was merely the best bang for your buck, in that it was affordable and way ahead of comparably priced machines.
Fess
Member
Awesome!
Is disc2adf an Amiga program? Have you managed to copy everything? I actually tried to copy my whole collection to the PC like that at first, to run on UAE the emulator, using a KryoFlux plus the Amiga floppy drive. KryoFlux copies the discs block by block. But way too many games would fail during the copy process for some reason.
So my floppies are still on life support I'm afraid, but I got most of my save discs for AMOS, Deluxe Paint, Sound Tracker etc to work which are the most important ones for me.Awesome!
Is disc2adf an Amiga program? Have you managed to copy everything? I actually tried to copy my whole collection to the PC like that at first, to run on UAE the emulator, using a KryoFlux plus the Amiga floppy drive. KryoFlux copies the discs block by block. But way too many games would fail during the copy process for some reason.
I backed up everything I could, but yeah, some disks have died and I had to resort to cracks and things of that sort. Luckily, most of my applications I care about I've backed up, like a legit copy of Turrican 1-3, Shadow of the Beast 2 and 3 (1 had sadly died already), Deluxe Paint, my Workbench Disks, etc.
I had looked into getting one of those KryoFlux drives a while back, my dad and I were talking about splitting the costs. He has a bunch of ancient disks he wants to back up before they die as well.
I love that new media solutions exist for classic computers like these. I backed up a bunch of C64 games recently onto SD cards as well.
Fess
Member
Sounds great, I'll look into that as well. I still have some floppies I'd start crying if I lost :/
I actually can't recommend KryoFlux as of now, not even Turrican could be copied with that, I see the welding logo and hear the Welcome to Turrican voice then it all goes black. But I'm a noob so I guess it could be my fault somehow, I know the disc work though since it works both on the Amiga and with WHDLoad, maybe there are some settings I could change I don't know. Or maybe the floppy drive was faulty? I bought an internal floppy drive on ebay, it worked on lots of discs but way too few, maybe I should've opened up the Amiga and used that instead.
WHDLoad uses a similar copy process though, which works great. You download game packages for each game and move them from the PC to Amiga with a pcmcia CF adapter, then you install the games using your floppies and when you're done you'll get a tidy folder for each game with an icon etc. It's really slick. Finally, when in workbench, just double click on the game icon to start the game and quit the game by pressing F10 (every game explains how to quit the game at startup) and you're back at the workbench again. I really can't recommend it enough, feels almost like using Steam, super easy
The only downside is that if you're unlucky the game you have doesn't exist on the WHDLoad database. You can usually choose between a few different releases during the install but if your game is another one you're out of luck. But the database is constantly updated with new games, bug fixes etc so be patient and it'll arrive soon or enough. In the mean time you can always go old school and use the floppy drive.
I don't think there is anything shady about WHDLoad either, cracked games simply doesn't work at all, it's kind of like Steam but your Steam key is your floppy disc, kind of. There is a second hand market for Amigas with CF Cards though, many with preinstalled workbench plus games or just the CF Cards itself, which could possibly be like buying a Steam account I guess.
thesuperfunk
Member
Skidmarks/Super Skidmarks
Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge
Viz
Cannon Fodder
James Pond
So many happy memories!
Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge
Viz
Cannon Fodder
James Pond
So many happy memories!
I used to watch B5, but didn't have a clue about this. After reading a few articles it really seems Amiga was perfect for the series with a limited budget. Also, there seems to be some vague comments about Amiga usage in films like Robocop and Terminator, but I haven't seen a proper source yet.
This is an excellent guidance and something I'm looking into. Now I really need to add addtional RAM or an accelelator card to my A1200. It seems the only available card at the moment is the ACA 1233, which tends to be a bit too expensive for my purposes. So I think I'm going for a second hand alternative. However, if there are these compatibility issues, is there any way to make sure whether my mb revision works with certain card or not? I have the ESCOM Amiga 1200 with the crappy floppy drive.
I still remember getting QuickJoy Megastar for my birthday. It looked indestructible, but the stick was too stiff for my weak hands
My old Amiga joystick takes pride of place on a shelf in my lounge, and I still get a warm fuzzy feeling every time I see it.
Just had to back this to show my love for the best computer system of all time:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1462758959/commodore-the-amiga-years-book
I don't know.. That was a whole 2 years later. What the Amiga did in 1985 was far more impressive than the X68k to me.. Looking at the other machines out at the same time as an A1000 there was the original Mac and Atari ST etc Amiga was so far ahead of the competition its not even funny. X68k seems like a good gaming machine but it was basically a really expensive computer with arcade hardware and a really lackluster OS.
Commodore really didnt upgrade Amiga as fast as they should have. More due to the managemant since they had some amazingly talented engineers. Really wish Jay Miner and co had been able to finish the Ranger or that Davy Haynie had been let to roll out the AAA chipset.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1462758959/commodore-the-amiga-years-book
I don't know.. That was a whole 2 years later. What the Amiga did in 1985 was far more impressive than the X68k to me.. Looking at the other machines out at the same time as an A1000 there was the original Mac and Atari ST etc Amiga was so far ahead of the competition its not even funny. X68k seems like a good gaming machine but it was basically a really expensive computer with arcade hardware and a really lackluster OS.
Commodore really didnt upgrade Amiga as fast as they should have. More due to the managemant since they had some amazingly talented engineers. Really wish Jay Miner and co had been able to finish the Ranger or that Davy Haynie had been let to roll out the AAA chipset.
maquiladora
Member
Atari ST 4life
foamdino
Member
This looks like an amazingly good way of playing old amiga classics.
http://www.armigaproject.com/
http://www.armigaproject.com/
giant_frying_pan
Member
Did you neuter it?
This was my favourite C64/Amiga stick; the Zip Stick. It made such a satisfying set of clicks when using it! (pic not mine btw)
Lightning Count
Member
I recently picked up a copy of Shadow Fighter for £1.25 from a charity shop.
Some of you guys, have great Amiga treasures. I am so jealous whlile watching it.
However I wonder have you ever heard about 3 polish games on Amiga - probably not - (imho very funny/crazy) like Franko: Crazy Revenge, Doman and Street Rod.
I loved Street rod and tuning cars and doing pink slips, chased by the cops etc.
So true. The Mac had black & white graphics. Really slow and couldnt multitask. Ig was almost twice the price aswell.
The St at the time was ok, but didnt have as fast graphics and a pretty meh soundchip (same as in my old spectrum 128kB) the ste was better but it didnt arrive until a few years later.
the st was a bit cheaper so it was a pretty good buy anyway and it still rocks for midimusic with its timing.
But the Amiga had its soundchip with sampling capabilities. A sampler synth with same memory at the time cost way more and didnt usually have graphical editing of the samples.
it had the blitter and used dma.
Competition Pro with the steep fire buttons & the soft rubber stick - the one and only great joystick. That is a great place for such an elegant weapon.My old Amiga joystick takes pride of place on a shelf in my lounge, and I still get a warm fuzzy feeling every time I see it.
My old Amiga joystick takes pride of place on a shelf in my lounge, and I still get a warm fuzzy feeling every time I see it.
I like your filament radio valve clock. Did you make it yourself?
Fess
Member
Not sure but there are guides how to fix the incompatibilities on the web, search for Amiga 1200 timing fix and find out the revision of your mother board. But the guide didn't work for me, my Amiga didn't even boot up after the fix. :/ Might be my fault though.
I went with a second hand Blizzard 1230 MKIV I found on ebay instead of the ACA1232 that just froze the computer because I read that the old cards should work on all revisions.
One more thing. Depending on what kind of power supply you have now you might have to get a bigger one when adding all these extra stuff. I bought a bigger one from AmigaKit but if I built another one I would try finding a better one since the one from AmigaKit is just a cheap regular ATX PSU for the PC with an Amiga connector from what I can see.
Very carefully, so it's easily fixed.
I did indeed, and it's a nixie tube, not a radio valve
Not sure but there are guides how to fix the incompatibilities on the web, search for Amiga 1200 timing fix and find out the revision of your mother board. But the guide didn't work for me, my Amiga didn't even boot up after the fix. :/ Might be my fault though.
I went with a second hand Blizzard 1230 MKIV I found on ebay instead of the ACA1232 that just froze the computer because I read that the old cards should work on all revisions.
One more thing. Depending on what kind of power supply you have now you might have to get a bigger one when adding all these extra stuff. I bought a bigger one from AmigaKit but if I built another one I would try finding a better one since the one from AmigaKit is just a cheap regular ATX PSU for the PC with an Amiga connector from what I can see.
At this point, when you start adding accelerators to your amiga, you should look into towerizing your system. I think if you look around you can still find kits. That'll let you do some cool stuff like adding a CD Rom drive.
I've always wanted an Amiga tower. My dad and I were IBM Compatible tinkerers, I always tell him that if we were in europe we would have been so hard into the Amiga scene.
Regarding joysticks, my favorite is the bug:
I also like the Zip Stick posted above. I have a crystal blue Competition Pro joystick that was advertised for the SMS that seems to only use one button when on an Amiga, but it has micro switches like the Zip Stick.
If I'm not using a joystick on my amiga, I have two controllers I prefer. The first is the CD32 Competition Pro gamepad, which looks like a Genesis controller with an SNES layout and turbo switches, and the Amiga version of the Gravis Gamepad. The Amiga Gravis Gamepad rules because it has a switch on the joypad that let's you change the mapping of the other two buttons on the controller. One setting makes them a rapid fire version of the normal red and blue buttons, but the other maps them to Up and Down on joystick, which effectively makes one of them a jump button in many games.
My favorite joystick was the one i started using with the c64(IIRC)
I had what i think was an unusual way to handle it, the right hand on the base with the index finger on the button and the left hand on the base with index and thumb around the base of the lever(i'm not left-handed), i was very fast and precise because little movements were already enough unlike the more ample movements required to move the lever from the top.
I also had this(but with a black base IIRC)
But i didn't use it because i couldn't use the same pose as the other joystick.
I had what i think was an unusual way to handle it, the right hand on the base with the index finger on the button and the left hand on the base with index and thumb around the base of the lever(i'm not left-handed), i was very fast and precise because little movements were already enough unlike the more ample movements required to move the lever from the top.
I also had this(but with a black base IIRC)
But i didn't use it because i couldn't use the same pose as the other joystick.
Fess
Member
I'm sure it's holding me back but you know I really need the Amiga to look like an Amiga, I'm way too nostalgic to mess with the physical appearance, and it's such a beautiful piece of hardware
hooijdonk17
Member
I'm sure it's holding me back but you know I really need the Amiga to look like an Amiga, I'm way too nostalgic to mess with the physical appearance, and it's such a beautiful piece of hardware
This is why I couldn't bring myself to mod a gotek into my A500 case and ended up with using it as df1:
I was a die hard Amiga user... The most productive years of my life (as a hobby).. No other system made me want to create stuff as much. Even did stop motion animation with a friend using a digitizer, completely on Amiga. Did some basic programming, arexx scripting, AMOS, Brilliance drawing, Protracker stuff (I sucked at it but still). Will try to find stuff I did on Amiga and post here.
Edit - Here's one my brother drew and I painted on Amiga:
Edit - Here's one my brother drew and I painted on Amiga:
Fess
Member
Nice drawing hesido! Deluxe Paint?
I made some terrible attempts at making art with Deluxe Paint but mostly logos and animations, still had tons of fun, making art with Photoshop on high res monitors is not nearly as fun, it's something special when you're putting every single pixel right where you want them without a bunch of plugin effects helping you out.
I made some terrible attempts at making art with Deluxe Paint but mostly logos and animations, still had tons of fun, making art with Photoshop on high res monitors is not nearly as fun, it's something special when you're putting every single pixel right where you want them without a bunch of plugin effects helping you out.
Yautja_Warrior
Member
Still have my Amiga A500+ (still works) So many great gaming memories with the Amiga, Monkey Island, Wings, It Came from the Desert, Lemmings, Worms, Zool, Cannon Fodder, Sensible Soccer, Speedball 2, Pinball Dreams, Stunt Car Racer, DeamWeb the list just goes on and on with how many awesome games there were.
While I do still love gaming today, I never get the same feeling as I did back in the day playing Amiga games, maybe it's because I'm older now, but gaming these days is just not the same as it used to be for me.
While I do still love gaming today, I never get the same feeling as I did back in the day playing Amiga games, maybe it's because I'm older now, but gaming these days is just not the same as it used to be for me.
Fess
Member
I totally agree with your closing comments, and I still play Amiga games and try new ones I've never played before so I know it's not just blind nostalgia. I don't know what it is but there is definitely something about old games that modern games lack. Maybe it's the simplistic gameplay or controls? Usually you just have an 8-way joystick and 1 button. But mouse-controlled games can be great too, I totally love Rock'n Roll for example, it's one of the most clever and fun uses of the mouse in games ever.
Some of my favorites:
Ninja Remix (One of the best games ever made)
Turrican
Dungeon Master
Rick Dangerous
Flashback
Rock'n Roll
Battle Squadron
Black Crypt
IK+
Z-Out
Impossible Mission 2
PP Hammer (incredibly fun and clever puzzle platformer)
Another World
Shadow of the Beast 2 (it's an impossible game but still fantastic)
Shadow of the Beast 3 (easier than 2 but not quite as good imo, still great though compared to most games)
Some of my favorites:
Ninja Remix (One of the best games ever made)
Turrican
Dungeon Master
Rick Dangerous
Flashback
Rock'n Roll
Battle Squadron
Black Crypt
IK+
Z-Out
Impossible Mission 2
PP Hammer (incredibly fun and clever puzzle platformer)
Another World
Shadow of the Beast 2 (it's an impossible game but still fantastic)
Shadow of the Beast 3 (easier than 2 but not quite as good imo, still great though compared to most games)
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
That's a damn fine list.