amiga days blast from the past

Daveyboy said:
Speaking of which, any one ever have one of these



Yes, the Commodore CDTV

Never saw one in action... come to think of it, Commodore were quite the ingenious ones back then (if they hadn't gone bust)
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Yep, queued up outside a store on launch day for one, think it was about £599 when it first came out (for top end model).

Took it back within 10 days as the mouse was absolutely awful and the cd-caddy rattled like hell.
 
+1 for the number of people that had to hand-craft a 'null modem cable'.

4 player Lotus challenge (2 each on 2 computers) and I was just in heaven. I can't believe it, but I actually thought 'Computers can't possibly get much better than this'

!!
 
Daveyboy said:
Speaking of which, any one ever have one of these

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Yes, the Commodore CDTV

Never saw one in action... come to think of it, Commodore were quite the ingenious ones back then (if they hadn't gone bust)
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Gonna make you sick now! I had one of these, with everything except the scsi controller which I hunted for high and low and then gave up :(

I never did much with it because essentially its an a500 (using an a3000 style motherboard) with kickstart v1.3 and a cd drive that gobbles a bit of memory. I had big plans but ended up selling it. Many years later I know of a few people who have pushed their cdtv's further than I thought possible with kickstart 3.11, extra ram, 030 cpu's etc.
 
Daveyboy said:
Couldn't find any good mod sites that weren't just text...

Seems a good mod was a hard drive, although i had one for the A1200 but can't for the life of me think what size... maybe it was 20MB? (!)
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If I have some time I will fish out all the stuff I hoarded back along, I would save sites offline and any pictures I could grab. There are some really nice mods which sometimes look like factory jobs... made me wonder why commodore just didnt take the same approach. Also you can use much larger hard drives with a suitable ide buffered interface kit. I once had a pair of 40gb maxtor drives on an a1200 lol.
 
Anyone remember towards the end of the amiga there was a doom style of game but with robots and it nigh on demanded a blizzard board otherwise it ran like a pos?

It was the first game i remember to push the amiga in the right direction too many devs were content using the standard architecture which was part of it's demise imo.
 
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hux said:
Anyone remember towards the end of the amiga there was a doom style of game but with robots and it nigh on demanded a blizzard board otherwise it ran like a pos?

It was the first game i remember to push the amiga in the right direction too many devs were content using the standard architecture which was part of it's demise imo.
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Rise of the Robots?
 
hux said:
Anyone remember towards the end of the amiga there was a doom style of game but with robots and it nigh on demanded a blizzard board otherwise it ran like a pos?

It was the first game i remember to push the amiga in the right direction too many devs were content using the standard architecture which was part of it's demise imo.
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I remember Alien Breed 3D

ClickBoom also converted Quake, which lead to some rather power hungry PPC titles following.. Wipeout 2097 and Quake II, all of which needed a bit more then the bog standard A1200 68020 and 2MB of Amiga chip memory at the time... You needed PPC upgrades and all sorts to really make them work... :p

it was reported that Quake would run at like 5fps on a 68020 2MB A1200 model...
 
hux said:
Anyone remember towards the end of the amiga there was a doom style of game but with robots and it nigh on demanded a blizzard board otherwise it ran like a pos?

It was the first game i remember to push the amiga in the right direction too many devs were content using the standard architecture which was part of it's demise imo.
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Could possably be Alien Breed 3D2, that had robots and needed a faster processor to run at its best.

Or there was Genetic species, which required taking over of specific cyborgs to complete levels. a game that takes advantage of any extra hardware.

Perhaps if we got doom on the amiga at same time as pc users, we would all have had the incentive to upgrade , and be playing higher spec games on the amiga today ! ;)
 
Wasn't alien breed or rise of the robots, it was terminator style of robots iirc the company that developed it had ties with the blizzard boards could very well have been the same company?
Just had a nose at genetic species, hmm close but im sure it isn't that.

Anyone else remember a game set on a different world where you had to investigate folk about murders and various other golings on, was a 3d game i quite enjoyed that.

Sorry for being so obscure it was years ago.

I believe it was on the cd32 primarily.
 
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hux said:
Wasn't alien breed or rise of the robots, it was terminator style of robots iirc the company that developed it had ties with the blizzard boards could very well have been the same company?
Just had a nose at genetic species, hmm close but im sure it isn't that.
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Breathless maybe ?

Power Computing Distrubuted it, and often as a freebe with cpu cards.
 
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