Amiga VS PC

I was a coder! *nods* I coded my own games back in the day..

Well....

By 'coded' I mean I copied 1000 lines of text into a ZX81 'poke' sensitive keyboard from a magazine then cursed when the magazine had printed an O instead of a 0 and my game didn't work!

The alternative was to get lucky and the game worked! Well....

If by 'game' they meant point my capital A at the descending letter Ts and Os and shoot them with full stops then I was in gaming nirvana.

All in glorious monosound monochrome too.

Having said that I was happy.If my mates had xbox360s and I had a zx81 then I'd be pretty miffed of course.It's all relative I guess...
 
NZXT30 said:
did people really used to game on these things?
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YEs, and the funny thing is you remember them as being better than games these days in many respects. But I bet if I went back and played Cannon Fodder now I'd be like /uninstall...
 
i was in the other camp as i had an Atari 520 STE, but it was very similar to the amiga and fondly remember playing games like strider and rockstar ate my hamster :D
 
Craig R said:
And Deluxe Paint. :D
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Yeah it wasn't just the great games. One of my favourite programs was a landscape generator called Vista. It was an Amiga Format cover disk if I remember rightly. Used to take an age to generate a scene but I loved playing around with it.
 
Two bits of great music. Cant be bothered to work out how to embed again.

Shadow of the Beats 2 death sequence

Utopia (dont even bother with the PC version!)


Super cars 2


Last Ninja 2 - Not Amiga but who cares its the mother of all.


OK, so three bits.

Im so glad i grew up with these games.
 
Amiga was an awesome machine. I once had a heavily modded Amiga 500, I installed this 4mb ram module to bring it up to 4.5mb :D Had to hot wire it to the gary chip and the keyboard wouldn't go back on so it was quite a sight on my desk....now what the hell would I need that for?, games didn't take advantage of it. But it did for some of the earliest 3d rendering apps like videoscape 3D and Vista (terrain generator) for anims and stuff. Crazy days back then, great memories :)
 
Of cause you have to remember back then gaming wasn't a consideration for the PC but for Amiga it was. So as great as the Amiga was it's a slightly unfair comparison.

Btw I still have a few Amiga's in the loft :D
 
ExRayTed said:
I was a coder! *nods* I coded my own games back in the day..

Well....

By 'coded' I mean I copied 1000 lines of text into a ZX81 'poke' sensitive keyboard from a magazine then cursed when the magazine had printed an O instead of a 0 and my game didn't work!
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I remember that frustration well :(:D
 
Jees, most of you only enjoyed games on your Amigas?
Octamed was my reason for owning one, started with Octamed2 and stopped when MED soundstudio was released.
The last one I had was an A1200 with a PPC card, hosting a 180mhz processor, a 64mb simm, CDRom and a 3gig HDD on top of that. That was in 1998!!! Then in '99 I acquired a PC.
Only a couple months ago I managed to transfer all my old Amiga floppys (filled with Med tunes and samples ;)) with disk2fdi and now they live happily backed up on DVD ready for use in WinUAE.
 
paradigm said:
Zool?
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No, ZOOM!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Zoom-Genesis-NTSC/dp/B000035XM9

It predates Zool. I am more oldskool than you :p

(By the time the mega drive cart was released, it was already an old Amiga game).

Though I remember playing a version that had better graphics on the Amiga, it had a nicely coloured square grid and you would walk around it picking stuff up and avoiding / killing baddies.

Each level was like a puzzle with a different grid and you had to light up the squares.
 
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It had such great games such as Simon the sorcerer, Jetstrike and Robocod might dig my A1200 and cd32/A1200 out of the loft :D
 
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