Atari ST vs Amiga

A500+ with a 1mb upgrade here. I think my dad got it so he could play gunship 2000 faster or something!

Alienbreed tower assault, skidmarks, super hangon, offroad, nebulus, newzealand story, captain planet, Project 1, Moonstone, turrican, back to the future, cannon fodder, mavity well, dogfight, dynablaster, sensible soccer, virus, worms, pinball fantasies, speedball, operation wolf, brutal sports football, settlers...

I want my amiga back. ...(goes to check ebay)

edit - though everyone knows this was their most played game -

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I can't believe I put my Amiga in the bin :(

The Amiga was amazing for the day. The reason it was so good was the various dedicated sound and graphics chips which was a real innovation back then.
 
Bubo said:
Did anyone else program their ST's and Migs? I remember using Fast Basic and GFA Basic on my ST, and later HiSoft Basic on the Mig. Those were the days.
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Oh yes. Infact, I still have these...

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Still have AMOS Pro and STOS in the attic somewhere. I do vaguely remember playing about with GFA Basic, and also failing to get anywhere with 68k assembler/Devpac.
 
with all the hardware available today my best gaming moments were on the Amiga, Sensible Soccer all nighters with a few mates were the days.

nothing compares to hitting a severely swerving bouning goal from the halfway line on an icy pitch in the last few seconds :p
 
It's interesting in all the time I've owned a computer that the best times have been on the earlier formats. Without typing out a massive game list l remember having so many all nighters and all dayers with mates just trying to get past certain bits in a game.

The only thing that has come close was the first MMO I ever played (Asherons Call) nothing, other than that, has come close in wanting me to keep playing on my computer at 5AM in the morning.



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Kick oFf and Player Manager - consumed so much of my university days and then of course SWOS - also speedball and Alienbreed were classics.

Aye those were the days - My first ever computer upgrade was adding a 1MB upgrade to the Amiga 600
 
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Surprised no one has mentioned the Cinemaware games on the Amiga
Defender of the Crown, Sinbad, Rocket Ranger, It Came from the Desert
All pretty simple multi event games looking back but mindblowing at the time
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Thanks for the memories. I had a huge joystick that sat on my lap (A Kenston Pro if I recall) and Rocket ranger was ace on it. It had two fire buttons one either side of the joystick handle and building the pace to start your flight was easy on it.

Loved my A500.

I also composed some of my first tracks on it using some vertical scrolling sound software that I can't remember the name of. We are talking 20 years ago.....

I also found some excellent demo's for it and (shamefully) ripped off the soundtrack as one of my own and submitted it for GCSE music as a composition. It got highly rated!! :o



All this talk.....I'm going to have to find myself and Amiga emulator!!!
 
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I also composed some of my first tracks on it using some vertical scrolling sound software that I can't remember the name of. We are talking 20 years ago.....


All this talk.....I'm going to have to find myself and Amiga emulator!!!
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Music-X? Octamed? One of the many trackers?

I'd recommend AIAB (Amiga In A Box) if it's still available. All you need is kickstart ROMs (easy to get) and you've got an Amiga up and running. And on modern PC's it's much faster than the real thing!
 
just found this in the cupboard Elite for the Amiga
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and this for the Atari ST....

Rocket Ranger Box and original receipt!
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was it really that long ago..only seems like few weeks ago to me...
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inside base of box

Rocket ranger sucked on the Atari ST anyhow,a lot of the animations was missing compared to the Amiga,i think after seeing how crap it was on the ST i got myself an Amiga shortly after and pirated everything!

I think its amazing how old retro boxwork can unlock powerfull emotions in people that enjoy there games with a passion :-)
 
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thevet said:
just found this in the cupboard Elite for the Amiga
and this for the Atari ST....

Rocket Ranger Box and original receipt!

Rocket ranger sucked on the Atari ST anyhow,a lot of the animations was missing compared to the Amiga,i think after seeing how crap it was on the ST i got myself an Amiga shortly after and pirated everything!

I think its amazing how old retro boxwork can unlock powerfull emotions in people that enjoy there games with a passion :-)
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Yeah loved Rocket Ranger on the Amiga and still have my original box complete with anti piracy lunarium decoder wheel! You need to be a dedicated gamer to complete that one as when you get to the moonbase if you make a mistake time to start the entire game again as no way to save it (until Action Replay cartridges came out!). Nowadays its easier on WinUAE as you can snapshot that. I kept about 70 boxed original Amiga games as well as 2 x A500's as could not bear to sell them cheap! C64 version of Rocket Ranger actually had a few different sections in it mine cost me £29.99 in 1988 (which was a lot of money then for a game). Cinemaware developed a remastered version in 2002 but due to legal issues it never got released as the company sub contracted to make it were some dodgy outfit. You can legally download it on a variety of formats (including PC but its not a great version) from Cinemawares own website nowadays as well! http://www.cinemaware.com/clsgame_rr.asp

Cinemaware made some great Amiga games like Rocket Ranger, It Came From The Desert + Ant Heads, The 3 Stooges (co-designed by a space shuttle NASA engineer!!).

You can also run Rocket Ranger from Hard Drive nowadays either on the A500 or emulator if you still have the original media. Some dedicated hardcore fans have spent years creating HD install scripts (http://www.whdload.de/) for original Amiga media so that games which originally had long floppy disk loading times or no HD installs (Rocket Ranger manual says no HD install as their disk loader clashes with the Amiga OS) are now HD installable which is great news as you can setup an emulator like WinUAE (perfectly legal if you own a set of Amiga Workbench disks) with a Virtual Hard Drive install then install games images to this install So you end up running WinUAE with a virtual HD as well as all thegames installed to this virtual HD which is really sweet as no disk swapping and minimal loading times:D
 
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Yeah loved Rocket Ranger on the Amiga and still have my original box complete with anti piracy lunarium decoder wheel! You need to be a dedicated gamer to complete that one as when you get to the moonbase if you make a mistake time to start the entire game again as no way to save it (until Action Replay cartridges came out!). Nowadays its easier on WinUAE as you can snapshot that. I kept about 70 boxed original Amiga games as well as 2 x A500's as could not bear to sell them cheap! C64 version of Rocket Ranger actually had a few different sections in it mine cost me £29.99 in 1988 (which was a lot of money then for a game). Cinemaware developed a remastered version in 2002 but due to legal issues it never got released as the company sub contracted to make it were some dodgy outfit. You can legally download it on a variety of formats (including PC but its not a great version) from Cinemawares own website nowadays as well! http://www.cinemaware.com/clsgame_rr.asp

Cinemaware made some great Amiga games like Rocket Ranger, It Came From The Desert + Ant Heads, The 3 Stooges (co-designed by a space shuttle NASA engineer!!).

You can also run Rocket Ranger from Hard Drive nowadays either on the A500 or emulator if you still have the original media. Some dedicated hardcore fans have spent years creating HD install scripts (http://www.whdload.de/) for original Amiga media so that games which originally had long floppy disk loading times or no HD installs (Rocket Ranger manual says no HD install as their disk loader clashes with the Amiga OS) are now HD installable which is great news as you can setup an emulator like WinUAE (perfectly legal if you own a set of Amiga Workbench disks) with a Virtual Hard Drive install then install games images to this install So you end up running WinUAE with a virtual HD as well as all thegames installed to this virtual HD which is really sweet as no disk swapping and minimal loading times:D
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yeah i never did complete rocket ranger or it came from the desert,i think ill set aside sometime for thses on winuae,and like you said we have the snapshot now...i think in it came from the desert near the end you had to do 5 ants in a row which was bloody hard....wouldnt mind doing it now :)
 
AWPC said:
Yeah loved Rocket Ranger on the Amiga and still have my original box complete with anti piracy lunarium decoder wheel! You need to be a dedicated gamer to complete that one as when you get to the moonbase if you make a mistake time to start the entire game again as no way to save it (until Action Replay cartridges came out!). Nowadays its easier on WinUAE as you can snapshot that. I kept about 70 boxed original Amiga games as well as 2 x A500's as could not bear to sell them cheap! C64 version of Rocket Ranger actually had a few different sections in it mine cost me £29.99 in 1988 (which was a lot of money then for a game). Cinemaware developed a remastered version in 2002 but due to legal issues it never got released as the company sub contracted to make it were some dodgy outfit. You can legally download it on a variety of formats (including PC but its not a great version) from Cinemawares own website nowadays as well! http://www.cinemaware.com/clsgame_rr.asp

Cinemaware made some great Amiga games like Rocket Ranger, It Came From The Desert + Ant Heads, The 3 Stooges (co-designed by a space shuttle NASA engineer!!).

You can also run Rocket Ranger from Hard Drive nowadays either on the A500 or emulator if you still have the original media. Some dedicated hardcore fans have spent years creating HD install scripts (http://www.whdload.de/) for original Amiga media so that games which originally had long floppy disk loading times or no HD installs (Rocket Ranger manual says no HD install as their disk loader clashes with the Amiga OS) are now HD installable which is great news as you can setup an emulator like WinUAE (perfectly legal if you own a set of Amiga Workbench disks) with a Virtual Hard Drive install then install games images to this install So you end up running WinUAE with a virtual HD as well as all thegames installed to this virtual HD which is really sweet as no disk swapping and minimal loading times:D
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yeah i never did complete rocket ranger or it came from the desert,i think ill set aside sometime for thses on winuae,and like you said we have the snapshot now...i think in it came from the desert near the end you had to do 5 ants in a row which was bloody hard....wouldnt mind doing it now :)

Just downloaded the decoder wheel from that link...thanks

yeah macca lets see your towered 1200 please,never knew they existed ....
 
I think the main reason I never really got too involved with worms games is that, even now, they continue to be realeased on DS etc but that part of me still thinks "thats just tanx on the amiga" A PD free game that someone ripped off and sold for £££

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mame said:
I think the main reason I never really got too involved with worms games is that, even now, they continue to be realeased on DS etc but that part of me still thinks "thats just tanx on the amiga" A PD free game that someone ripped off and sold for £££

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Oh my god, tanx was the best game ever. I forgot all about it and I think its one of the games i played most. Would play it for hours with mates
 
Anyone remember NightHunter on the ST? It was a sidescrolling game in which you played Count Dracula or some vampire or other. You had to find rings or something to progress to the next level. You also had to feed on people to sustain yourself. When the birds started singing, you had to retire to your grave or you'd burn.
You also had Van Helsing pursuing you if anyone saw you feed or change into a bat. The graphics were lush for the time.
 
Think I've still got my Atari 1040 STE down in the cellar somewhere, I remember my mates dad used to get all the pirate games for me, we used to spend hours playing Sensible soccer on our quickshot speedkings.
 
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