Mini Amiga nostalgia
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A500, 1200 or other?
A few times i've looked at A1200 listings and then thought to myself "wow, that's a lot of hardware and effort setting up for something emulation get now do very well"
I had an A500 back in the day.
And yeah I agree. The hassle and size of it always puts me off actually buying one.
Me too (A500 with 1MB upgrade) but second hand for my 7th birthday in 1991. Came with quite a few big boxed games and loose games in a small cabinet along with a trusty (copied) version of X-copy
That and a second hand Yamaha DT50 a few years later were my favourite childhood presents. BMX and a Sony 3-CD HiFi and first PC when I was 16. Damn, 90s and early 2000s were great! Amiga, motorbiking, BMX, music and early PC with Windows 95.
The games that I have downloaded either work or come up with an A500 loading screen and then eventually a software error.
Googling this comes up with quite a few people with the same problem (years ago on Reddit) but not many answers.
I have found a new source of lha files so will try some of those.
Desperately want to play Flashback and Megalomania!
Googling this comes up with quite a few people with the same problem (years ago on Reddit) but not many answers.
I have found a new source of lha files so will try some of those.
Desperately want to play Flashback and Megalomania!
Just like the 90s then with dodgy disks!
I remember even buying £30 games with birthday/xmas money or pocket money I had saved up, only for them to Guru Meditation after 5 minutes of loading. Body Blows Galactic was a good one of that!
Im not sure how the A500 mini runs lha/whdload packages but for what its worth they do work when properly installed on a Workbench setup on WinUAE A1200 config (but I had to manually configure and install all the components which took hours)
Great series, I followed about 1 - 15
Fantastic game. I had a bit of a play the other day and still remember most of the levels. It was the first and one of the very few if not only game I played with my mum.
Rainbow islands was also great and a but harder.
The music is stuck in my head 35 years later!! Short game melodies on repeat for hours
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Ha...Fantastic game. I had a bit of a play the other day and still remember most of the levels. It was the first and one of the very few if not only game I played with my mum.
Rainbow islands was also great and a but harder.
The music is stuck in my head 35 years later!! Short game melodies on repeat for hours
I remember getting a Sanyo seperate system off the old man, thing was loud.
A week later him bursting into my room saying "turn that down I heard it walking up the other end of the street".
I was playing Bubble Bobble at the time
I also rigged up a separate sound system and it always freaked me out when a game had a bit of stereo, just wasn’t expecting it!
I’m working my way through Lemmings now, loving that, it’s amazing how much emotion they put into so few pixels!
Megalomania next when I find a working copy.
I’m working my way through Lemmings now, loving that, it’s amazing how much emotion they put into so few pixels!
Megalomania next when I find a working copy.
@nands is it the mini Amiga you're using or something else? I noticed playing Bubble bobble on an A1200 in WinUAE tends to corrupt the game as it runs too fast with glitches. Its probably due to me running RTG (ZorroIII) on one of my configs.
@Nate75 I used to love blasting out the Turrican, Turrican II and Shodow of the Beast series music on an old Sony TV we had.
I recently bought a second hand (from Vinted) iPad pro M2 and Korg iM1 to have a play around with. The original Shadow of the beast music was created using an M1 and it sounds very much like the Pan Flute M1 preset.
Similar to this is SOTB 2
and SOTB 1
I did think about (and look at) getting an original Korg M1, but that would have been daft (due to space and other equipment needed - not to mention I can't play piano )
@Nate75 I used to love blasting out the Turrican, Turrican II and Shodow of the Beast series music on an old Sony TV we had.
I recently bought a second hand (from Vinted) iPad pro M2 and Korg iM1 to have a play around with. The original Shadow of the beast music was created using an M1 and it sounds very much like the Pan Flute M1 preset.
Similar to this is SOTB 2
and SOTB 1
I did think about (and look at) getting an original Korg M1, but that would have been daft (due to space and other equipment needed - not to mention I can't play piano
)Do HDF (hard disk files) work with the mini?
If so, MegaAGS / Amiga Vision is fantastic. A curated list of 3000 odd games and loads of demos built into a frontend running full Workbench and all pre-configured.
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I’ve just tried it on iPad (Retroarch PUAE) and it works well.
If so, MegaAGS / Amiga Vision is fantastic. A curated list of 3000 odd games and loads of demos built into a frontend running full Workbench and all pre-configured.
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I’ve just tried it on iPad (Retroarch PUAE) and it works well.
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@Guest2 im using a mini and Bubble Bobble which I got from Turran FTP works extremely well, the only slight issue is when a bomb goes off the screen corrupts slightly and I have no idea how to spend the eight credits you get, hence why I did it without dying until level 100.
I will check out the Amiga Vision link later, thanks.
I will check out the Amiga Vision link later, thanks.
I expect it will work (somehow) as the mini runs whd load which im sure runs preconfigured hdf files.
Running a hdf file directly though I doubt it will - or they’ll have made it more difficult.
Once working though, MegaAGS is your friend for endless Amiga gaming (and Workbench use)
It does not work straight off but reading about it led me to Amiga Game Selector which has a version specifically for the A500 mini, I now have access to many gigabytes worth of Amiga games and demos.
The few games that I tried out of the seemingly thousands available worked flawlessly so I am hugely impressed.
Now what do I try next?
You try connecting original bits of hardware like a Zipstick or Commadore tank mouse via adapters that are available
I have a feeling you’re only at the tip of the iceberg with this stuff (as am i really)
I’ve setup a few WinUAE configs and Workbench, configured a (virtual) hard drive and RTG graphics and installed thing like whd load and a game launcher on Workbench. Maybe 5-8 hours of youtube videos.
Physical side I got a joystick & mouse connected with serial adapters and thats about it.
The full or even partial hardware route seems quite time (and physical space) consuming. You can even mix physical original hardware in with emulation - someone connected an old ISA graphics board and Commadore monitor to WinUAE.
@nands on the flip side, there are many hardware mods for old physical original Amiga hardware - Gotek drives instead of original floppy disks seems to be the main one allowing compact flash memory to store the disk images instead of having loads of knackerd old floppy disks.
Fast boot time for the disk side of things whilst using the original hardware for CPU, sound and everything else. It depends how far you want to go with it either way. You could fully emulate everything but run all original hardware but there are slight downsides to both, I guess people like getting a balance (with things like just the Gotek drive)
Half of the 'fun' for me was the anticipation of a game booting and actually working! That any I didnt know it at the time but most of the enjoyment was buying the game, reading the manual and looking at the (usually) fantastic artwork and game intos. 70% of the time, Amiga games were terrible. Music is baked into my head for lifetime though from many titles.
Fast boot time for the disk side of things whilst using the original hardware for CPU, sound and everything else. It depends how far you want to go with it either way. You could fully emulate everything but run all original hardware but there are slight downsides to both, I guess people like getting a balance (with things like just the Gotek drive)
Half of the 'fun' for me was the anticipation of a game booting and actually working!
That any I didnt know it at the time but most of the enjoyment was buying the game, reading the manual and looking at the (usually) fantastic artwork and game intos. 70% of the time, Amiga games were terrible. Music is baked into my head for lifetime though from many titles.
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