Quarter-Century Amiga Retrospectives

I had an Amiga A600, gaming has certainly got worse after the amiga days.

I strongly believe devs in the 80's and early 90's liked gaming then.

Now do you ever here devs talk about how fun there game is? How they love to poly it?

All I here is "we added this grpahics effect" "we will have DLC out for £12.99 next month" "WE want to go subscription based" where has the lvoe for gaming gone?

All devs talk about now is profit, profit, profit...
 
I too never understood the guru meditation message, it would just pop up on screen for no apparent reason at all. The only resolve, as with today’s BSOD was to simply restart your Amiga.

Remember seeing it for the first time on my Amiga 500+, had no idea it was even referring to Zen at the time, to be young and naïve. Ironic that Zen is about peace and calm, yet the guru medication resulted in many a thrown tantrum as it appeared on screen, just at that moment in a game where you was about to finish a level or completed something rather tricky…

The Amiga 500+ and Amiga A1200 I owned were special machines to me, and will always been fondly remembered. It wasn’t just about the games, it was the whole feel of having a computer that was personal. Amiga Workbench was just so configurable, you could do so much with it with the help of hundreds, no thousands of free applications.. I had hundreds of music modules, pictures, demos and disks full of games, the whole scene will never be recaptured ever again.

Happy times, but sadly as everything, it eventually came to an end. I do admire the small community that religiously hold on to their Amiga’s and dream of new machines to keep their love of the machine alive. The whole Amiga, name and O/S and fanbase just won’t die….

The PC won’t be so fondly remembered when it eventually comes to an end. Will it? lol
 
Oxy said:
I had an Amiga A600, gaming has certainly got worse after the amiga days.

I strongly believe devs in the 80's and early 90's liked gaming then.

Now do you ever here devs talk about how fun there game is? How they love to poly it?

All I here is "we added this grpahics effect" "we will have DLC out for £12.99 next month" "WE want to go subscription based" where has the lvoe for gaming gone?

All devs talk about now is profit, profit, profit...
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Well its gone. Obviously, I mean Team 17 a very respected Amiga developer actually took their Worms Game from a guy who entered a competition in Amiga Format to design a game.

You’ll not see that today would you?

The guy who programmed Another World, Eric Chic was it? He wrote the whole game on Amiga out of passion for gaming. He helped to release Another World 15th anniversary in 2005 and said ‘he’d love to program another game but something is missing from developers today’.

Games were good back in those days, but will the current crop of gamers say the same in 25 years when Xbox etc is all dead and buried?

“Remember the Xbox 360?” says someone from 2010 in the year 2035 “Yeah – man games were so good back then, it was all about using a pad to control movements, you felt like you was playing” says someone you’re talking to via some chat room with digital images of you and everyone else you're chatting to in the same room. And as little Billy, your son then has a game injected into his brain from a box on the wall in his living room then waves his arms around to fight some demon. lol

hmmm vivid imagination for me today.. lol
 
colinuk said:
it was indeed!! found a link on utube and the music brings back so many memories hehe!!

Now, if the pc had a game like that....
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Supremacy was actually very good on the C64 - the music and graphics were very good considering how big the game actually was!


M.
 
The Amiga will always have a special place in my heart. Now I absolutely LOVE modern pc gaming, but that era for me will always be special - aside from the plethora of amazing and addictive games for the system, there just seemed to be an originality and "special" feeling associated with the whole scene.
 
Droolinggimp said:
Lightwave was amazing. Making funky animations and wireframe rendering and seeing it in all its smoothness then fully rendering it. 20 second animation of a few ships flying past a planet taking around 10 hours to finish..:eek:
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That was the program they used for the effects in Babylon 5 right? :)
 
Me to I loved my Amiga 500 with the 1mb upgrade card.

I played Grand Prix every day all day man I was very very good at than ;)
I had my Amiga wired up to me stereo was epic back then hahahaha.

My mums favorite game on my Amiga was Shadow of the Beast.
 
Really miss my A500 days.... best platform ever. Building and flogging Cyclone devices by sawing off 2 pins from the 25-D adapters... Great days.

Ysmalari said:
I miss companies that had a sense of humour...
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Some still do, like Sun Microsystems (pre-takeover) - things like Happy Meal Ethernet, the Psycho chip, and engineers etching their names/nicknames onto each board they make.
 
x1000 looks cool, but what would it be used for? new software? old software?

Cant remember the Amiga we had but pretty sure it was a keyboard/all in 1 type.

Can remember using the text to voice program a lot to make it swear etc and remember being slightly scared of the open cut scene of shadow of the beast, the baby crying, wind etc.

good times.
 
Hank_Marvin said:
x1000 looks cool, but what would it be used for? new software? old software?

Cant remember the Amiga we had but pretty sure it was a keyboard/all in 1 type.

Can remember using the text to voice program a lot to make it swear etc and remember being slightly scared of the open cut scene of shadow of the beast, the baby crying, wind etc.

good times.
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That'd be the second one then :cool:
 
My first computer was an A500 and had it for years.

I've now got an A1200, fitted with a 4Gb CompactFlash HD, loaded with about 1600 WHDLoad games that load instantly and a Viper 1230 4Mb Accelerator :cool:

Nothing beats the feeling of swapping 8 floppies though...
 
Neil79 said:
That'd be the second one then :cool:
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Arr remember that blood bottle/health bar, did he make loud noises when he was damaged? Think I mainly watched my bro play that one.


Remember having to activate the game etc by typing the 10th paragraph on page 145, think a grand prix game had these method.


Nice setup
 
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