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The Official AMIGA "Rosetinted" Thread

Every once and a while I get the urge to dust off my Amiga 1200 and see what I can make it do.

It'd be fun to see if my Digiview Gold still works. Maybe digitize some stuff.
 
ckohler said:
Every once and a while I get the urge to dust off my Amiga 1200 and see what I can make it do.

It'd be fun to see if my Digiview Gold still works. Maybe digitize some stuff.
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Digiview was such a mindblower back then. The Mac was still black and white wasn't it?

It was amazing seeing the HAM/4096 color Amiga scans and then the closest thing on PC was like 256 color scans and the hardware was like thousands of dollars.
 
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I was 11 years old when I first saw F-18 Interceptor. It was my first contact with real time 3D graphics. I knew then this was the greatest, most beautiful art form / hobby ever invented. Been completely in love with games ever since

God bless Bob Dinnerman and his team. Also.. god bless the Amiga 500
 
Ingueferroque said:
What do you use as a joypad/stick on CD32?
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The actual cd32 6-button joypad. Specifically the competition pro cd32. If not that, then usually a zipstick, although now I'm switching to the bug which is honestly a fantastic joystick.

Special tip: the amiga version of the gravis gamepad has two buttons on the face dedicated to up and down, giving you basically a dedicated jump button.
 
I had so much fun with my Amiga 500, /nostalgia...

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...and many, many others.
 
Ingueferroque said:
That ELF Game Over sequence is one of the best, ever. Haunting.

And one of my first crushes was on that title-screen female elf in the frame. :p
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Haha, I can understand.
And that Game Over sequence was truly a thing, as a child i *really* wanted to avoid getting it indeed.

I still have my Amiga stored, maybe I should get some new cables for modern TV one of these days.
 
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It's alive!!!

Thanks for the composite cable tip. Was easy to test that this worked.

Now to sleep, tomorrow pay the guy who sells the Amiga to me and hope he finds the proper rgb cable. Otherwise I have to buy online.

I am super excited for this project!
 
These were glorious days. At the time Unreal was, well, unreal! And Midwinter, countless hours on the slopes.
But one game really left its mark: Lost Patrol. This one just made you feel the weight and guilt of the war.
 
I remember being so mad that I had an apple IIe instead of an Amiga.

Buying pc gaming magazig was so depressing. Titus was killing the graphics on the Amiga during late 80's.

Three stooges
That Ferrari racing game

Fuck they looked great
 
So my cd32 is tricked out. It's got an sx-1 attached with 4mb memory, along with a cf->ide kit installed and a 4gb flashcard. I have a floppy drive emulator attached that is daisy chained to a second normal floppy drive. I have a a4000->ps/2 keyboard converter, and an Amiga mouse ->ps/2 converter.

I also have basically the same setup in my normal a1200, plus an indivision scan doubler/flicker fixer for a vga port.

Got my entire collection backed up three ways - once installed using whdload on each Amiga, once as adf dumps of my floppies on individual usb drives (I use flat credit card shaped usb drives with labels printed on them that mimics the appropriate floppy disk label), and once as self booting Amiga cd32 ports.
 
The Amiga is awesome. My upgraded A1200 was my main computer until 1999, but then I got a 450MHz PC.

Anyway, here are some of my favorite Amiga games (would love to see many of them on PSN or something).
Agony
Another World
Barbarian
Beyond the Ice Palace
Cabal
Civilization
Defender of the Crown
Double Dragon
Dragon Ninja
Dune II
Elite II: Frontier
F/A-18 Interceptor
Final Fight
Flashback
Giana Sisters
Golden Axe
Gunship 2000
Hard 'n Heavy
Hero's Quest (based on the board game)
Hostage
Hybris
Into the Eagle's Nest
Lemmings
Lotus Turbo Challenge II
Marble Madness
Midnight Resistance
Moonstone
Monkey Island
Monkey Island 2 (on 12 floppy discs and no hard drive to install it on, argh! Got a a HD later)
North & South
Obliterator
Oil Imperium
Pang!
Pinball Dreams
Pinball Fantasies
Pinball Illusions
Pirates!
Ports of Call
Road Rash
Rodland
R-Type
Shadow of the Beast
Shufflepuck Cafe
Sky Chase (fun player vs player dogfight game in a wireframe 3D world)
Speedball II
Stunt Car Racer (still the best racing game ever)
Super Cars II
Super Frog
Sword of Sodan
Syndicate
The New Zealand Story
Turrican II
Turrican III
X-out
Wing Commander
 
Krejlooc said:
Buy a scan doubler/flicker fixer, it'll let you connect a modern monitor to your amiga.
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I would but at the moment I am out of a job and grant money so I don't have any extra money. I try to manage with as little as possible expenses for the moment.

Buying this even for 30€ is a bit expensive for me. When I graduate and get a job, I'll focus on making a fully working and tweaked Amiga game corner where I can play with friends and swim in nostalgia. Moonstone, North&South and other multiplayer games were the most requested by them already. Everyone is existed.

Thanks all for the tips. There is also a local Amiga club, so I'll contact them and ask for the best way to continue.

Edit: found two games in storage:
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dofry said:
I would but at the moment I am out of a job and grant money so I don't have any extra money. I try to manage with as little as possible expenses for the moment.

Buying this even for 30€ is a bit expensive for me. When I graduate and get a job, I'll focus on making a fully working and tweaked Amiga game corner where I can play with friends and swim in nostalgia. Moonstone, North&South and other multiplayer games were the most requested by them already. Everyone is existed.

Thanks all for the tips. There is also a local Amiga club, so I'll contact them and ask for the best way to continue.

Edit: found two games in storage:
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Rocket Ranger - another great title I poured hours into. A lot of those Cinemaware games were proto-QTE cut scene games that a lot of people would swear about now but at the time were amazing.
 
dofry said:
I would but at the moment I am out of a job and grant money so I don't have any extra money. I try to manage with as little as possible expenses for the moment.

Buying this even for 30€ is a bit expensive for me. When I graduate and get a job, I'll focus on making a fully working and tweaked Amiga game corner where I can play with friends and swim in nostalgia. Moonstone, North&South and other multiplayer games were the most requested by them already. Everyone is existed.

Thanks all for the tips. There is also a local Amiga club, so I'll contact them and ask for the best way to continue.

Edit: found two games in storage:
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Just so you know, an official copy of Moonstone is stupidly expensive...
 
Nice, I didn't know there was an Amiga thread. I only had an ST at the time but I still have nostalgia for it. Some of my friends had Amigas so I played the games on theirs and gameplay wise the ST versions where usually the same anyway, I know Amiga smoked it in terms of sound and graphical power. Yes I admit that now :P

I can't say I have much nostalgia for most of the platformers I played back then anymore, I feel the best Japanese console platformers outclassed them. The likes of Lemmings and Sensible Soccer are timeless though, I can still play them today.
 
Commodore 64 and AMIGA 500 this is where I spent my childhood. The lift in gameplay and graphics from C64 to A500 was amazing. I cant count the hours me and my friends played Sensible Soccer. Good memories
 
marcincz said:
Sorry for my ignorance and interrupt, but all these old disks on Amiga, are they still working properly?
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I tested both Laser Squad and Rocket Ranger and they worked flawlessly. The disks are about 20 years old and have been in storage boxes for years.
 
dofry said:
I would but at the moment I am out of a job and grant money so I don't have any extra money. I try to manage with as little as possible expenses for the moment.

Buying this even for 30€ is a bit expensive for me. When I graduate and get a job, I'll focus on making a fully working and tweaked Amiga game corner where I can play with friends and swim in nostalgia. Moonstone, North&South and other multiplayer games were the most requested by them already. Everyone is existed.

Thanks all for the tips. There is also a local Amiga club, so I'll contact them and ask for the best way to continue.

Edit: found two games in storage:
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My memory may be hazy, but wasn't Laser Squad the precursor to the XCOM games?
 
As an ex-Amiga owner I can vouch that it was a great system....as some have mentioned Turrican series, Lotus, Crazy cars anyone? Desert Strike, Speedball 2....

However with the rise of the SNES and Megadrive, there would be a slight turn of envy, when it came to games such as Streetfighter 2, or Coolspot how great they looked on those systems but on the Amiga left a bit to be desired...

And Body Blows was no Street fighter either..or even when Doom came out you'd look to see what was comparable at the time on the Amiga hardly anything...

I fell for the hype for CD32 , brought it when it first came out....yet even that hardly had much support to it.... : (

I eventually brought my first PC back in '94...
 
dofry said:
Pretty much. Turn-based strategy with many of the same mechanics.
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I loved my Amiga. Had the A500+.

My Mother's cousin's husband worked for Microsoft at the time as well, so I somehow managed to get a 20mb (WOW!) harddrive, a 2400bps (WOW!) modem and three daisy chained external 3.5" diskdrives to go with it, as well as the 512kb trapdoor expansion memory.

In hindsight it was a bit of a beast. I even had my hi-fi hooked up to it via the dongle at the back.
 
I loved my old Amiga before it stopped working (I don't even remember how...). Lemmings and Base Jumpers were two of my favourite games, spent many hours playing them and other ones. <3
 
Also, that separate power brick with power switch was a right bastard when you had a toddler younger brother kicking about. I lost count of the times I was left staring expectedly at a blank TV screen where Moonstone was previously.
 
I just searched this thread and NOBODY mentioned Panza Kickboxing? So disappointed :(

Game was so cool and the ranking system is unique. Having a editable move set for your own character is also quite huge.
 
Handy Fake said:
I loved my Amiga. Had the A500+.

My Mother's cousin's husband worked for Microsoft at the time as well, so I somehow managed to get a 20mb (WOW!) harddrive, a 2400bps (WOW!) modem and three daisy chained external 3.5" diskdrives to go with it, as well as the 512kb trapdoor expansion memory.

In hindsight it was a bit of a beast. I even had my hi-fi hooked up to it via the dongle at the back.
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You had a beast. I had the extra memory and an extra floppydrive. That was it. I probably used about a thousand controllers on it as the microcontroller ones kept breaking.
 
philion said:
The music from Shadow of The Beast still haunts me to this day.
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The music from Flashback was a big favourite of mine.

Was talking to my 25 year old brother the other day (he of turning off the power on the Amiga brick fame) and even he remembered it, said it still creeps him out.
 
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