Amiga VS PC

stopper said:
Jees, most of you only enjoyed games on your Amigas?
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Amstrad and all the other gaming systems too, just the Amiga holds a special place in my heart :D

Oh and i do have a website that specialises in Amiga games runnable via an exe just like Gog and dos games. Load the Amiga game exe and that it's it, no configuration. Shame i can't post it here :(
 
Still got my V1.3 A500 in my attic with 3 large boxes of Original games (and a few 'blank floppies' :D )

Pinball dreams, F-29 Retaliator, The Lemmings, Damocles, IK+, Geoff Crammond's F1GP and Stunt car racer... And to think in the late 80's I thought my gaming days were over when I stopped using my Speccy!
 
The memories, Super-frog, Walker, Soccer Kid, Persia of Persia (the original and best version) I still have my A500+ around which I will setup in my games room when I move house.
The amount of effect devs put into the Amiga was amazing, the Amiga series in general was way ahead of its time. The only platform I knew where piracy helped it and never killed it. Shame PC devs don't think that way now like they did back in the Amiga days.
 
Neil79 said:
Amstrad and all the other gaming systems too, just the Amiga holds a special place in my heart :D
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Well yeah same here, all my gaming was on my master system, then my SNES. But my Amiga was all for octamed, some delux paint (Bet a few here didn't know DP was published by EA did they?) and a few demos. Only really ever played Cannon fodder and Pinball dreams/fantasies on the Amiga.
Neil79 said:
Oh and i do have a website that specialises in Amiga games runnable via an exe just like Gog and dos games. Load the Amiga game exe and that it's it, no configuration. Shame i can't post it here :(
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Can you PM it? :D Would love a ganders.
 
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I could talk about the Amiga all day but in sticking with the thread title, the biggest differences for me were:

Sound:
The Amiga had really good sound, especially at the time. It was only limited by storage. Many PC games used either the Tandy and/or soundblaster soundcards, there wasn't really a standard. The fact was that half the time when I played a PC game at a friends house, it would use 'PC Speaker' which as terrible, probably behind a spectrum.

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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iv-tecman said:
Sad times, the PC O/S using Windows 3.1 and DOS was years behind Amiga WB3.0 and it wasn’t until Windows 95 came along did I really feel the PC was anything like a replacement to the mighty Amiga..
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tbh, i never thought much of windows as a gaming platform, it wasn't until windows 98 did games really start to use windows.

most games coming out before would be dos based games, and a lot even had trouble running in windows 95.

maybe the interface wasn't to everyones liking, having to type in commands rather than clicking on icons, but i always prefered it.

for me, pc gaming took over amiga a long time before windows 95

the early 90's especially saw a lot of really good pc games that were hard to match on other platforms
 
When I play old games I used an Amiga emulated version over PC. Simply because of sound difference being superior with the Amiga version. Most recent being Speedball 2, Eye of the Beholder, Corporation, Populous 2.
 
mame said:
As good as the Amiga was, it just couldn't do first person games.
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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.

Thats how I remember it anyway


Damocles was an old 3D game, more of an adventure game

yep, looking at this vid its wireframe, not good lol

Random old tech fact, the Archimedes was related to the chips now used in iphones and most modern smart phones
 
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Remember being a bit annoyed at the flash harrys at school who had Amigas (or even Atari STs for that matter...). I had an Amstrad CPC 6128 which although being arguably top of the range for 8bit computing was a long way behind the Amiga when it came to games.
 
Those were the days, you actually learned to CODE stuff, not like now when all they teach you at school is how to use WORD and EXCELL.

poke 14325.
 
Damocles is an unfair example, that game was also available on other formats and it looks virtually identical on those. it isnt wireframe either, though the graphics are very basic. the first game, Mercenary, was entirely wireframe but that was available on the 8bit computers



Mercenary was a breakthrough at the time. Damocles didnt push the format forward like mercenary. frontier elite was far better in the graphics department (well, every department) and that was multi platform also.

 
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