Amiga VS PC

silversurfer said:
I think this was down to the intel superior floating point performance. There was some real downside with motorola chips and I think it was best used on integers.
FPS require proper 3D processing so I dont think they could avoid intel being superior, it was a problem for all the consoles too for a while.
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Wolfenstein 3D and Doom didn't use floats, they used fixed point maths for stuff like that. I think Quake was the first iD FPS at least to start using proper floating point numbers :)
 
mmj_uk said:
If it's one with battery backed clock you might want to remove the battery, they have a tendancy to leak and nuke the motherboard. :(
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The capacitors on the mainboard can start leaking too and generally should be replaced around now. Have to do that to my 1200 and 500 at some stage soon I guess :(
 
mame said:
First Person games
As good as the Amiga was, it just couldn't do first person games. there were a few efforts. Off the top of my head, Legends of Valour and an Alien Breed FPS (yes really) but this came much later when we all had moved on to other platforms. I was always very jealous of seeing Wolfinstein and Doom on friends' PCs. That's quite possibly the reason I like FPS today so much.
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Behind the Iron Gate :)

 
I have quite a few Amigas and AmigaOS capable machines - CDTV (with k/b, mouse, disk drive etc), A4000T with a PowerPC upgrade + video toaster, AmigaOne G4-XE and a Sam 440ep.

The new AmigaOne X1000 should be arriving at my door any day now - very excited :-) I'm a beta tester.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AmigaOne_X1000
 
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Loved my Amiga 600, spent many, many hours in my teens playing the likes of

Frontier: Elite II
Sensible World of Soccer
Cannon Fodder
Pinball Dreams/Fantasies
Syndicate Wars
Worms
Super Skidmarks
Flashback
Civilization
Colonization
Brutal Sports Football
Speedball 2
Supremacy

MS-DOS versions of Amiga games just looked and sounded like crap in comparison. Wonder what the home computer landscape would've looked like if Commodore hadn't mucked it all up and went bust.
 
An Amiga 500 was my first 'proper' computer (still in the loft at my old mans' I think) I got it as my birthday, christmas and the following years birthday present in the first week it was released. I vaguely remember getting some kind of T-shirt with it too.

Anyway, some awesome games

Elite II
Sensi Soccer
Syndicate
SWIV
Monkey Island
Shadow of the Beast II
Speedball II
Soccer Kid
Ceasar
Mega-lo-mania
R-Type
Champ Manager
Super Cars

Fond memories of watching the little orange circles turn green when using X-copy to 'back-up' my mates games ;)

*Edit actually thinking on some of those games may have been early PC games.
 
mame said:
As good as the Amiga was, it just couldn't do first person games. there were a few efforts. Off the top of my head, Legends of Valour and an Alien Breed FPS (yes really) but this came much later when we all had moved on to other platforms. I was always very jealous of seeing Wolfinstein and Doom on friends' PCs. That's quite possibly the reason I like FPS today so much.
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I quite enjoyed Breathless.


Doom

Quake

Quake II

Wipeout 2097

All came out when the Amiga was past it's prime though - still, shows the platform WAS capable of matching the PC, just needed C< to carry on thier R&D - such a shame the Hombre chipset never had a chance to get past proto stage - PS1 killer right there.
 
Ah those were the days, Superfrog, Cannon Fodder, Stardust AGA, Sensible Soccer, Silkworm, Vroom,Speedball, Alien Breed, Flashback, Xenon 1+2 to name but a few. The Bitmap Brothers, Team 17, Psygnosis were epic.

Who could forget the jesus on e's demo:D

There is a ton of content ripe for remaking for live arcade/psn/mobiles.
 
Another game that brings back memories was Pacific Island. The multi-tasking involved in controlling four tanks made for some hectic gameplay.


http://amr.abime.net/review_1262

Another not too dissimilar was Carrier Command.

BTW...that Amiga Magazine Rack site is great. More nostalgia reading some of those reviews again, (mainly Amiga Format in my case).
 
Im impressed by Quake on the 1200. I never had the later Amigas, never really saw them taken advantage of as of course they mostly developed for the massive 500 base

Looks very capable, a lot of these companies got wiped out when it all became a big money game so sad

I still have a lot of early 90's amiga mags stored away I think
 
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