Commodore Amiga 30th Anniversary

Sounds like Mercenary 2 - Damocles or Mercenary 3 - The Dion Crisis.

Loved those games. Complete sandbox and you could do what you liked. Even the original Mercenary was a sandbox game on the c64.
 
My favourites were Driller (featuring Freescape!) and its sequel, Dark Side. I just loved the atmosphere generated by those games.
 
How annoying was it when a game would crash, and you just got a flashing screen and a boot back to the 'hand' screen. Good ol' days :p
 
Loved my Amiga :) All those blue disk's lol We all thought we were so cool now to that of the old tapes we used to load stuff with.
 
hyperseven said:
Look its running Win10.

Pffft, why a pic of a 1000, when A500+512k RAM pack ruled the roost.
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Do you even vic :p


1000 was the origin of the species
500 was the little cut down version, i forget but it was mostly less memory and programmers made do with it so well it was a mass hit
 
Great to see hired guns getting some love in this thread. I remember being totally blown away when a friend leant me the demo from a coverdisk of CU Amiga or something and I played it for weeks.
I eventually got the full game somehow months later through various swaps. It really was something a bit special, if you had an A1200 machine then the extra sound effects you could have really game the game atmosphere. I heard it is available on CD32 somewhere but I have never seen this mythical beast in the wild, maybe it was unreleased?
I never got to finish the game though, it was a propper original and it kept asking for disk 0 (which didn't exist) and I remember sendign my disks back to Psygnosis or whoever and the sent them back with details of a shell command to run that would fix my disk.
To be fair it did fix my game, however after loads of saves my saves 1 - 10 would appear with "this is a copied game" or something and I could never progress. I tried it years later on WinUAE but had a bug where Cim could never pick up stuff after a certain level. Great game though.
 
McBain said:
How annoying was it when a game would crash, and you just got a flashing screen and a boot back to the 'hand' screen. Good ol' days :p
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silversurfer said:
Do you even vic :p


1000 was the origin of the species
500 was the little cut down version, i forget but it was mostly less memory and programmers made do with it so well it was a mass hit
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A1000 had 256k as standard and the kickstart had to be loaded from a floppy.

A500 has 512kb and a rom kickstart.

Both were OCS, but the A500 pretty quickly went to ECS and got Kickstart 1.3.

To be honest, the A500 is the better machine of the two. But the A1000 is just iconic.
 
The sound was so good for its time quite a lot of acid and dance music from around that time was mastered on Amigas, being a new area at that time it was attracting the youngsters who had just grown up with the dawn of home computing

The sound was only slightly below the quality a lot of studios were using
 
Flibster said:
A1000 had 256k as standard and the kickstart had to be loaded from a floppy.
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I remember the kickstart disk but not the memory, makes sense as it would have been less expensive after time. Was it not superior in some way, forgotten now (must be the max memory Im thinking of)
I did some soldering on my a500 to let its memory be chip instead or something, no idea how that helps now

windows stole the amiga key omg
Its sad that ibm dominated everything including amiga because I dont think it was as good except the dam spreadsheets, floating point etc
Commodore must have been so pants to go broke off the back of that success

*actually who remembers the falcon ? nobody, right as I think Atari nearly went broke like commodore
 
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Acorn Electron
Commodore 16
Commodore 64
Amiga 500
Amiga 1200

that was my route. I still say the best games and music ever in that period, might just have been my age but I still love playing the Amiga games now (I have mine setup in the spare bedroom for nostalgia)

Best Games Ever

Wings
The Lost Patrol
Turrican
Speedball
Geoff Crammond Grand Prix
The Last Ninja
SWOS
Cannon Fodder

Oh the memories of Christmas's at my nans playing games with my Dad, sadly I now have lost them all in my life and it's the memories of gaming at a young age that makes me smile more than ever.
 
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SCALA was the progam that made me realise what a mind blowing USEFUL machine the Amiga was. Couple it with a Genlock, which I still have round here somewhere and it could do amazing video Titles with the ease that I don't believe has been matched yet, let alone beaten.
Then plug in a KRP edit plug and you could do highly accurate assemble editing.
Get a Vidi Grabber and use True Brilliance & ImageFX (Morph) and you could morph baby photos of them into them as Adults. Growing up before your very eyes. I did that regularly with wedding videos I did.
Yup. Amiga was amazing. Cost me a bloody fortune but I never regretted spending a single penny on it.
 
TonyTurbo78 said:
Oh the memories of Christmas's at my nans playing games with my Dad, sadly I now have lost them all in my life and it's the memories of gaming at a young age that makes me smile more than ever.
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I have similar memories of my dad watching me play Elite on the C64 when I got home from school every day. Sadly he is no longer alive either. But when I backed Elite Dangerous in Kickstarter I chose his name as the NCP character I was allowed to name. So he's out there right now in the sequel to the game that most reminds me of him.
 
Loved my Amiga 500. The first game I bought was Lure of the Temptress and that was the start of many great point and click adventures. I probably played more hours on SWOS than any other game ever.
 
It was a great machine the Amiga. I used to get so many ripped off games it was a struggle to store them but many were back door specials that were far from finished. Great days.
 
And let's not forget Lightwave and the Video Toaster which was responsible for some cutting edge 3D rendering. Without it TV shows such as Babylon 5 would not have looked anywhere near as good.

I had Lightwave on the 1200 and ran several batch instances in Screamernet to halve the renedering time. Groundbreaking multi tasking.
 
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