Quarter-Century Amiga Retrospectives
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Some of my best gaming memories are from my A600HD. Rome 92AD, SWOS matches that ended with 70 goals each and half the team sent off, Chaos Engine, the tongue-in-cheek Cannon Fodder to name but a few. Hell, even the intro music to Monkey Island takes me back! Thanks for posting Neil79!
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Before my time. My brother did have an amstrad though.
I loved my A500+, must have spent countless hours on it with SWOS, Settlers, Monkey Island, Alien Breed and many others.
Was the perfect computer at the time for me, had great graphics and sound, most of the capabilities of pc's (as far as I was concerned) but much less fiddly and was just as good (better!!!
) than the consoles of the time in terms of games and just being able to sit down, whack in a game and play it.
Definitely my favorite computer/console that I've ever owned.
Was the perfect computer at the time for me, had great graphics and sound, most of the capabilities of pc's (as far as I was concerned) but much less fiddly and was just as good (better!!!
) than the consoles of the time in terms of games and just being able to sit down, whack in a game and play it.Definitely my favorite computer/console that I've ever owned.
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Amiga A500, what a great machine that was back in the day. Its amazing but after all this time, there is still an avid following of what has got to be one of the best home computers ever released. Commodore took a fantastic idea, with a suitably fantastic, small and very efficient O/S and threw the whole idea into chaos with poor management decisions and bad utilisation of a fantastic, and very powerful platform.
The O/S was simplistic enough to get the job done for those who didn’t want to have or learn the in-depth complexities of a quite a powerful O/S yet highly configurable to meet the demands of enthusiasts.
Its taken Microsoft until Windows 7 to pretty much get to where O/S 3.0 or 3.1 left off, the problem with PC platforms is that the Hardware started to well overtake Amiga hardware since the release of SVGA, the AGA chipset just couldn’t compete with the 800 x 600 SVGA standard, or even display workbench at 800 x 600 with 256 colours.. SVGA could handle Windows 95 at 800 x 600 256 colours or higher with ease. In fact SVGA when Windows 95 came along could display 1024 x 768 and this soon became the standard resolution for most, and 3D GPU such as 3Dfx made 640 x 480 or even 320 x 200 gaming a thing of the past.. 800 x 600 anyone? AGA could barely handle 320 x 200 at 256 colours, hardly going to blew you away…
Made the whole A1200 look like a toy in the end. Picasso boards for Amiga resolved this, but Zorro Picasso boards were just way too expensive or out of each for the average Amiga owner..
What with Commodores collapse, and its inferior graphics array, no love for such an excellent O/S and love for a superb and easy to use computer was going to really compete with PC.
Whatever happened to the whole X1000? Some new PPC Amiga hardware to run OS 4.0? Seems a bit OTT, as it was a whole Amiga system with a ATI R700 video standard based on some Dual PPC system? Called X1000 to celebrate 25 years of Amiga… Despite the platform well and truly dead to all but the extreme of enthusiasts.
Still, fond memories of my A500 + and A1200. Such a shame really.
The O/S was simplistic enough to get the job done for those who didn’t want to have or learn the in-depth complexities of a quite a powerful O/S yet highly configurable to meet the demands of enthusiasts.
Its taken Microsoft until Windows 7 to pretty much get to where O/S 3.0 or 3.1 left off, the problem with PC platforms is that the Hardware started to well overtake Amiga hardware since the release of SVGA, the AGA chipset just couldn’t compete with the 800 x 600 SVGA standard, or even display workbench at 800 x 600 with 256 colours.. SVGA could handle Windows 95 at 800 x 600 256 colours or higher with ease. In fact SVGA when Windows 95 came along could display 1024 x 768 and this soon became the standard resolution for most, and 3D GPU such as 3Dfx made 640 x 480 or even 320 x 200 gaming a thing of the past.. 800 x 600 anyone? AGA could barely handle 320 x 200 at 256 colours, hardly going to blew you away…
Made the whole A1200 look like a toy in the end. Picasso boards for Amiga resolved this, but Zorro Picasso boards were just way too expensive or out of each for the average Amiga owner..
What with Commodores collapse, and its inferior graphics array, no love for such an excellent O/S and love for a superb and easy to use computer was going to really compete with PC.
Whatever happened to the whole X1000? Some new PPC Amiga hardware to run OS 4.0? Seems a bit OTT, as it was a whole Amiga system with a ATI R700 video standard based on some Dual PPC system? Called X1000 to celebrate 25 years of Amiga… Despite the platform well and truly dead to all but the extreme of enthusiasts.
Still, fond memories of my A500 + and A1200. Such a shame really.
Should be the spectrum, probaly the playstation, the first jump and the last great leap.
Thing is with the amiga though, virtualy everything that played so great back in those glory days of the late 80's through to the mid 90's, does as well today.
Everything from bubble bobble, games like speedball, cannon fodder, megablast, swos, pinball fantasies, never droped in playable.
Personaly, my greatest amiga moments were spent lost in premier manager 2, frontier, and swos in the middle 90's.
A classic.
Thing is with the amiga though, virtualy everything that played so great back in those glory days of the late 80's through to the mid 90's, does as well today.
Everything from bubble bobble, games like speedball, cannon fodder, megablast, swos, pinball fantasies, never droped in playable.
Personaly, my greatest amiga moments were spent lost in premier manager 2, frontier, and swos in the middle 90's.
A classic.
I wish you could get a *proper* kickstart 1.3 font for the pc, I would use nothing else
Someone must have converted it for Themes and stuff. Search for Topaz (Amiga standard is topaz 8 / 9 pt).
i still got my a1200 with the addon cardi loved it
I don't remember an addon card? What did/does that do?
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I had a 500 and the add on card was extra 512mb of ram that inserted under the door below the keyboard to take it to 1024 mb of ram i think
I think you mean kbs rather than mbs!... easy to forget how far things have come.
I had a 500 and the add on card was extra 512mb of ram that inserted under the door below the keyboard to take it to 1024 mb of ram i think
LOL they never even had that much with my amiga you could buy a max of 2MB memory
