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[tahrikmili]

Not enough:

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[Lemming_JRS]

What I did is I changed the extension from .mp4 to .mpg and Windows Media Player 10 played it fine. mp4 extension was assigned to Quicktime on my computer and with it I was just getting black screen.

Also, looks like it's using FFDShow decoders for audio and video (which I have installed).

That did the trick; thanks!

 

[birdchili]

gave the amiga away (actually two amigas) when i last moved, along with boxes and boxes of (completely legal) games. it was a sad thing to do (even though i hadn't hooked it up in ages), and the wound remains fresh. bought the 500 with the proceeds from my first legit full-time summer job and spent an afternoon hitting up every hobby shop, game store and comic den downtown trying to find Dungeon Master (success!)... sweet memories... sweet nostalgia thread.

 

[Willy Wanka]

I forgot these two sports classics on the Amiga

I loved both the 4D Sports games but especially Tennis. I remember being totally blown away by the player movement and the ball physics at the time, even though the players were made up of 25 polygons or something :lol I think the developers were bought up by EA and became EA Canada.

 

[Crag Dweller]

Just got amiga forever online for $30. Now I'm post thru winuae with aweb on neogaf. Now to figure out how to copy the games I have that still work on to this pc.

 

[Queeg]

Just got amiga forever online for $30. Now I'm post thru winuae with aweb on neogaf. Now to figure out how to copy the games I have that still work on to this pc.

Some games you may only need to download legally.

Try Liberated Games Cinemaware games available through here

Thalion Webshrine Thalion games here

Amiga Land A number of games here including all the Pinball games.

and Amiga Sector One

Ian Bell's Elite page The original Elite in all flavors

-- according to their own statements -- they have permission by the respective right holders to put the games online.

There are more IIRC but it was a quick search.

Adding another one Dream17 Team17 games.

Factor 5 3 Games here plus the Turrican games for download so long as you own originals of the games.

Gremlin 17 games directly from them.

 

[Crag Dweller]

Some games you may only need to download legally.

Try Liberated Games Cinemaware games available through here

Thalion Webshrine Thalion games here

Amiga Land A number of games here including all the Pinball games.

and Amiga Sector One

Ian Bell's Elite page The original Elite in all flavors

-- according to their own statements -- they have permission by the respective right holders to put the games online.

There are more IIRC but it was a quick search.

Thanks for the links.

 

[Ollie Pooch]

i used to love wings of fury and rainbow islands. amiga rocked!

 

[Mr.Potato Head]

The Official

"RoseTinted" Thread

Dedicated to the personal computer (massive in the UK) that was used for many hours of great gaming.

So lets look back at this great machine that gave use games like:

Sensible Soccer, Cannon Fodder, Cool Spot, Zool, Moonstone, James Pond, The Chaos Engine, Worms, Shadow of the Beast, Fade to Black, Flashback, Alien Breed, Synicate, Monkey Island and the list goes on

Man i still remember when my Amiga 500 was delivered to my front porch. I tell you this, at the time, The Amiga was ahead of its time..i remember getting dropped off from the school bus in 7th grade and i had a flock of kids that would get off the bus at my stop just to see the sweet visuals on my Amiga 500 for its games.

 

[isamu]

DUNGEON MASTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BEST RPG EVERRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THE *ORIGINAL* DUNGEON CRAWLER BABY!!!!!!!

 

[Red Scarlet]

Anyone around with video making knowhow? If I could get it to work I'd absolutely, instantly do an U4 playthrough vid for a handful of people.

 

[Ignatz Mouse]

DUNGEON MASTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BEST RPG EVERRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THE *ORIGINAL* DUNGEON CRAWLER BABY!!!!!!!

Well, not the original, but a damned good one!

Of course, that made me realize that I first played hack and nethack on my Amiga.... ah, glorious days.

I remember going to the local Amiga SIG with my AMiga-owning friends and they were all raving about Hack, which I had never heard of previously. I first got it on my ST, then later version on Amgia.

Man, did I spend a lot of time on that game!

 

[sriyantra]

Anyone know how I can track down classic Amiga ROMSand then get them onto original Amiga floppies? I have a load of Amiga 'blanks' I bought on ebay but the games are so chronically bad, I intend to use them as blanks.

I have an old A500 1Mb that works perfectly and while PC / console emulation is okay, there's nothing quite like running titles on the original system... accompanied by the red loading light and the buzz buzz buzz of the disk drive (sometimes making some God awful noises).

I am SO mad that I sold my collection of 500+ Amiga floppies containing all the best games in the early 90s....

Any help would be most appreciated

 

[birdchili]

DUNGEON MASTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

unmitigated awesome, that. picking characters in the hall of portraits, figuring out the spells, the holy terror that was those purple worms on four, or the cardiac-arresting giant scorpions a bit further on... nifty "physics" puzzles (throw a stone and then run past the pressure plate before it landed...), and some great treasure set-ups (the sword in the alcove at the end of the hallway of vents was a fave, but there were lots of treats where you'd look at the environment, know that taking that nice glowy-thing was going to be so-very-bad, and figured out how you'd get the heck out of there as soon as you picked it up).

 

[tahrikmili]

unmitigated awesome, that. picking characters in the hall of portraits, figuring out the spells, the holy terror that was those purple worms on four, or the cardiac-arresting giant scorpions a bit further on... nifty "physics" puzzles (throw a stone and then run past the pressure plate before it landed...), and some great treasure set-ups (the sword in the alcove at the end of the hallway of vents was a fave, but there were lots of treats where you'd look at the environment, know that taking that nice glowy-thing was going to be so-very-bad, and figured out how you'd get the heck out of there as soon as you picked it up).

As good as all that was, Eye of the Beholder was MUCH better.

And Eye of the Beholder II was simply perfect.

 

[Gowans]

Man this is a Good Thread

- Peoples Amiga Experiance & Gaming Memorys
- Great Games I'd Forgotton About
- The Whole Amiga Scene
- How Amiga help shape gamers & future games

Its wierd that Amiga often gets left out of all the retro stuff and people feature on consoles or the PC as they can be more readly traced back from now, but man this thread speaks for itself and in the UK the Amiga was king.

Ahh now might have to get hold of the Amiga emulator and post some game thoughts hmm or just remeber it in that "RoseTinted" way

 

[Crag Dweller]

After a bit of trial and error, I got some of my old games on my computer now. Almost everything I needed was included in the Amiga Forever pack, which made it fairly painless. Now with winuae I'm using a virtual hot rodded amiga and playing Indiana Jones and The Fate of Atlantis like I never saw it before when I played it in the early 90's. No more swapping 11 disks for me! I think all of my Wing Commander disks still work, so I'll try that one next because I remember that game running like hell on my poor 1 meg A500.

 

[Gowans]

This thread deserves a bump, (Speedball 2 coming to XBLA!, Stardust to PSN!)

just been reading through again today after finding some old Amiga mags & disks while helping my Dad tidy out his attic,

man this was the gateway drug to my crack addiction today

(good points also, no emulator for me tho, think I'll leave these in memory's)



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0AcrZr5sws

 

[DCharlie]

unmitigated awesome, that

indeed - the best ST game ever! Oh yeah, the amiga crew eventually got it but you needed a 1meg machine unlike on the ST

*put away the shot guns, i had an ST and an Amiga and i'm a huge C= fanboy.

 

[MightyHedgehog]

Don't know how I missed this thread. Cool stuff and all that I would list is already here and much praise already heaped upon them.

 

[RamzaIsCool]

If I should pick one system which I truly loved then it would be the amiga 500...maybe it was because I was young, but I have such fond memories of it. Even the swapping of disks every minute didn't bother me. Anyway here are some of the games I can remember.

Shadow of the Beast series (1-3)

Cannon Fodder

Super Frog

First Samurai

Turrican

Elfmania

The Chaos Engine

Chuck Rock

Another World

Jaguar XJ220

Jim Power

Well there is some more stuff which I can't remember at the moment, but awesome machine for sure!!!!!

 

[SiegfriedFM]

I was an Amiga only gamer from 1989 to 1994 and I certainly wasn't unhappy about that. Some of the best games ever.

Also wanted to add that I have a copy of Immortal 3 signed by Hülsbeck himself

 

[Yagharek]

I was an Amiga only gamer from 1989 to 1994 and I certainly wasn't unhappy about that. Some of the best games ever.

Also wanted to add that I have a copy of Immortal 3 signed by Hülsbeck himself

My Amiga lasted me from december 1989 until mid-96. It is probably my favourite gaming system ever.

Speedball 2 is my favourite though. And the port of Final Fight.

 

[Dimmuxx]

So awesome!

Ufo enemy unknown on amiga 1200 was weird. Alien turns took up to 30min sometimes. :lol :lol

 

[byproduct]

I ****ing love everyone who has posted in this thread. I ****ING LOVE YOU GUYS!!

Most of my faves have already been mentioned, but there's also Nuclear War, Action Fighter, Vaxine, and the most fun non-game application ever, Octamed.

AMIGA IS AWESOME! AWESOME IS AMIGA!!

<Edited to remove images that no longer worked.>

 

[MikeB]

Some more honourable mentions:

Napalm:

Genetic Species:

Ruff 'n Tumble

Traps 'n Treasures

Banshee
http://hol.abime.net/31

Capital Punishment
http://hol.abime.net/2921

Mega lo Mania
http://hol.abime.net/2437

Super Cars II:
http://hol.abime.net/2181

I want to see this on for the PS3!

AmigaOS4.0

 

[MikeB]

IMO best pinball game for the Amiga, beating even Pinball Fantasies:

SlamTilt Pinball:

Worms: Director's Cut

Monkey Island 2

 

[Drinky Crow]

Is anyone here that uses UAE familiar with the video recording? It'd crash whenever I would try to make some videos.

I played through Xenon, didn't know there was a 2. Did Xenon 2 have simply flying stages or was it like 1 where you could be on the ground on levels 1 and 3 and fly on them too, whereas levels 2 and 4 were flying only.

One shooter I haven't seen mentioned yet that I enjoyed playing was called Sidewinder; anyone play through that?

yup. easy shooter, but RAPID FIRE = OMG. i remember it having great explosion sound effects. xenon 2 is all flight, and stupidly easy compared to xenon 1. xenon 1's last level was harsh.

where's the love for n.y. warriors, which made me upgrade my 512 MB A1000 to 2 MB?

 

[TheDarkKnight774]

Holy crap what a great thread.

Growing up my parents bought us kids an Amiga computer. The game's colors and graphics were ahead of its time compared to the IBM/Dos machines.

The only downside to the great machine is when the NES came out, i wanted one but my parents wouldn't buy me one because i had an Amiga! That hurt a bit as a kid. Fortunately my friend across the street had both a Master System and NES


I remember the christmas we got the machine. The first game we had for it? Arctic Fox That was a sweet game back in the day

 

[Jocchan]

 

[camineet]

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

Lionheart was absolutely friggin' amazing, more parallax scrolling than Neo-Geo and SNES games.

like Shadow Of The Beast, but on steroids, and actually PLAYABLE.

 

[camineet]

it's too bad that the 2nd-generation Amiga with the AGA chipset, was never pushed as hard as the original Amiga chipset.

it's also a shame that the 3rd-gen Amiga chipset never saw the light of day.

 

[MikeB]

Dyna Blaster

@ camineet

it's too bad that the 2nd-generation Amiga with the AGA chipset, was never pushed as hard as the original Amiga chipset.

it's also a shame that the 3rd-gen Amiga chipset never saw the light of day.

Yep, really sad that Commodore didn't allow more freedom and offer more focuss to the Amiga devision until it was already too late. Putty Squad for the Amiga was one of the victims, after receiving raving reviews and me loving the demo on the coverdisc of the Magazine "The One", the game never actually got released. A real pity, the game played great!

Putty Squad

Hopefully the game gets an unofficial release at some point, like for instance Snow Bros was released last year. Amiga 500 version, release 16 years late:

Snow Bros

 

[Quartet]

about Putty Squad, you can play that game on SNES. Might have been released on genny also but that i don't know.

 

[aranth]

Drakkhen

"3d" world to explore, day-night cycle, real time combat, no dungeon crawling, and a poor translation from french. A really underrated rpg title with many innovations for its time and some rough edges, but still a classic for me.

 

[PS360]

Please. Y'all know little about the CLASSICS

 

[DDayton]

Wasn't the Amiga the spiritual successor to the Atari 8-bit computers? It would have BEEN the next Atari computer, if it weren't for Commodore buying up the rights first, right?

 

[Danj]

I never had an Amiga as a kid. All I had was a BBC Master (with the 80186 coprocessor upgrade). I thought it was pretty awesome at the time, but one year I went on a sort of computing summer camp type thing with it and was dead jealous of the people with Amigas since they could do awesome music with samples in ProTracker whereas all my crummy BBC could manage was chiptune versions of Pet Shop Boys songs that I got off of some BBC magazine cover disc (forgot which one).

 

[loffer]

Silkworm!
It was on of those rare ( or shall we say unique) cases there thehome conversion was better than the arcade version!

Fantastic game with fantastic sound!

 

[Dimmuxx]

Another game that was awesome was Bubba 'n' Stix.

 

[Gowans]

Another game that was awesome was Bubba 'n' Stix.

haha totally forgot about that game,

That came out pretty late in the Amigas life yeah?
I remember the redneck dude and his little stick buddy :lol :lol :lol

Its fuzzy but I remember great graphics and music & bubblegum???
Good old Core

Its amazing how many games I played on that boy (piracy was the norm with everyone & good old xcopy). Piracy brought that system to everyones home but also killed it and many titles too.

Its great to see how many titles were played on the Amiga and there IPs are still going to day and again sad to see the ones who were so much fun who arn't.

 

[stilgar]

just gotta add one more, probably put more hours into this than any other game except WoW;

Such a travesty they have made so many Civs but never remade Colonization.

Sooooooooooooo true . It's unsound.

 

[Ignatz Mouse]

Wasn't the Amiga the spiritual successor to the Atari 8-bit computers? It would have BEEN the next Atari computer, if it weren't for Commodore buying up the rights first, right?

You asked this in post #169, and I answered "yes."

More specifically, the designers of the Atari went on to form Amiga (the company), raised money to design the computer by selling 2600 controllers. I'm not sure how the Atari/Commodore thing went down exactly, but they were the designers of the Atari computers and game systems.

 

[MikeB]

Awesome Amiga shooters:

Apidya:

Disposable Hero:

Walker:

 

[Dimmuxx]

Yeah, Walker was really nice too.

 

[DECK'ARD]

it's too bad that the 2nd-generation Amiga with the AGA chipset, was never pushed as hard as the original Amiga chipset.

it's also a shame that the 3rd-gen Amiga chipset never saw the light of day.

The AGA chipset was a mess, and severely kludged to retain backwards-compatibility. As soon as you tried to push it you ran out of bandwidth too, causing all sorts of strange things to happen. Although you could take advantage of that.

You could do some nice things with it - quarter-pixel scrolling etc. - but it was never going to be pushed to the same degree as the original Amiga chipset. Which really was perfect for what it was. AGA was just too compromised.

Never getting to see the AAA chipset was gutting though, as that promised to be quite a leap. Seeing a finished board just lying on a table in Commodore's R&D department in Dave Haynie's Deathbed Vigil video on the day Commodore went bankrupt was heartbreaking.

So close.

 

[MikeB]

@ Nash

I agree with you that the AGA chipset from 1992 was a little underwhelming, but IMO mainly because the OCS chipset was so far ahead of the competition back in 1985. Sadly due to market uncertainty there were only a handful of really great AGA games released (such as Banshee, Worms: Director's cut, Capital Punishment, etc), one major downfall was that for most Amiga games companies double density discs (half of a high density disc) were still the primary method of distributing games, extra storage was really needed to show off the more colorfull graphics, a small minority of A1200 owners owned a CD-Rom drive or even a high density drive which was pretty much the default for any other system at the time.

IMO best Sonic clone on the Amiga, Mr Nutz:

http://hol.abime.net/2527/screenshot

T-Zero

http://www.clickboom.com/t0/

 

[Munin]

I too was one of the biggest fans of Commodore back when the Amiga 500 was at its peak. Lately I've considered buying one again, as well as a few games. But I'm unsure if the games still hold up well today. Are games like Disposable Hero and Ruff 'n Tumble still as playable?

 

[Label]

Oh boy am I glad to see the amiga get so much appreciation!

I see nobody has mentioned:

I used to love that game! until I lost the manual and I could not play it anymore

As well as all the classics which have been mentioned

My personal favourites were Cannon Fodder, Alien breed, James pond, Zool 1 & 2, Stardust, Speedball 2, Flashback. Ah hell the list is too long :lol

As well as all the free little games that came free with the Amiga mags! some were great! one game called Goblins (an adventure game to do with maths) or something had me and my mate hooked for days and days!

I do remeber Cannon Fodder 2 being so damned hard!! and I thought level 99 of Cannon Fodder 1 was hard until I played that game :lol

 

[Forgotten Ancient]

I never played an Amiga and now feel completely cheated during my childhood.