just bought an amiga

Malakite said:
No way the whole game can't have been just 15 mins long.

Play on the emulator a few times, not for that long will need to give it a go on trainer mode to check but just off the top of my head there were about 8 final bosses. The shrimp thing, the big spider, the long boss that you had to kill things along one side then the other.

Can't have been just 15 mins surely.
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it was an exaggeration like your "8 bosses"

its 45 mins long just watched someone complete it on youtube
 
I just bought some Amigas too.. Actually I've collected more than I need... Got an A500, A1200, A4000, and some parts. I'm going to sell the 4000 (cos its minty and valuable!) and the 500 but keep the A1200.

Deuteros.. thats the game to play ;)
 
I had an Amiga 1200 back in the day, loved it to bits such as shame Commadore couldn't keep up with emerging PC market.

Does any one remember Monkey Island 2 which came on 12 floppy disks, lol? You had to change the disk every time you went to a new part of the map! I can't say I miss that part of retro gaming (thank god for emulators and roms).
 
Simon the Sorcerer was another biggie... But TBH I dont think we needed BIG installed games like PCs had (and have)... Look at all those 1 or 2 disk wonders the Amiga had!!
 
I still use my Atari Falcon Every day... I use it more than the PC in fact.
I also use my Atari TT too, though not as much
 
FatRakoon said:
I still use my Atari Falcon Every day... I use it more than the PC in fact.
I also use my Atari TT too, though not as much
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Yeah but what is connecting you to the net? Hmmmm


LizardKing said:
720KB of unadulterated fun!!

Hard to imagine anything coming in a package that small these days!
(demo scene aside :p)
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880k for an Amiga.. 720k for an Atari (more with sensible formatting utils)
 
I had to throw away my Amiga 1200, Amstrad CPC and loads of games out when I had a massive clearout of the house. Absolutely no choice and had to de-clutter. :(

I'm toying with having a retro cabinet now with a SNES, Megadrive, Amiga 1200 and Neo Geo, although it would probably make more sense to build an HTPC. You just can't beat having the hardware though!
 
Methanoid said:
Yeah but what is connecting you to the net? Hmmmm
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On my Falcon, I have a CT63 with a CT-PCI, in that I have a Radeon 9200 and a RealTek 8139D Network card. Thats connected to the Switch and thats connected to the Router.

I can provide screenshots and piccies of my Atari if you so wished?

I browse using Either CAB 2.8 ( The guy who wrote this went on to write Safari, so while CAB started life as a Netscape Clone, it is in fact a pre-runner to Safari ) I am also using Highwire as that has Scripting capabilities while CAB does not.

My Operating system is MiNT 1.17 using the Jinnee 2.5 Desktop.

MiNT is on the Atari, what Linux is on the PC in many ways

That is what is connecting me to the internet... Hhmmmmmm

Why? did you not know that Atari and Amiga can access the internet just as well as a PC or Mac can?

Sure, a bog standard ST can also do it, with varying levels of success and capability.

My old MegaSTE is still fully able to access the internet and I have done not too long ago purely for a laugh, but it was limited to 640x400 in Monochrome and I used SLIP to a Linux based PC and routed the internet through that.

So, never say never.

The Falcon however looks identical to a PC running an out of date browser.

Methanoid said:
880k for an Amiga.. 720k for an Atari (more with sensible formatting utils)
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Only the basic bog standard ST series has 720K floppyDrive.
The MegaSTE, TT, and Falcon all had 1.4MB

The original ST had a 720K drive to make it compatible with the PC at the time. This is also what happened when the PC went up to 1.4MB, so did the Atari computers.
 
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Best ever game across multiple platforms for me, simply must be Turrican.

The Commodore 64 version was absolutely incredible... How the hell was it even possible to cram such massive maps and such detailed graphics into that little computer?

It was impressive enough on the ST/Amiga, but the C64 ?????
 
I remember having an A500+ (used to write chip tunes in ProTracker) but for the life of me I don't ever remember what happened to it.
 
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