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A mate of mine purchased an A1200 at weekend for £27 with some games, joysticks, spare power pack etc. In good nick too. You can't grumble at that price. I have one myself, which currently resides in my wardrobe in several carrier bags, complete with about 200-300 'backed-up' games.
So we cracked those disks open and had a butchers at the laughable graphics. Shock horror - they really weren't that bad. A lot of the games wouldn't work due to Commodores ingenius idea of making the A1200 not backward compatible with the ol' A500. You can get some of them to work with Relokick 1.3, and by tinkering with the boot up options, but others refuse to. We were sat there eagerly waiting to see some of our old classics boot up, but were faced with the dreaded flashing red 'software error' bar.
Still, most of them worked and it was most agreeable. Classics like Pinball Dreams/Fantasies, Zany Golf, Lotus Challenge 3, Cannon Fodder, Walker, Shufflepuck Cafe, Hired Guns, North and South. I could go on, but I won't. One of the best forgotten greats was 'Scorched Tanks', a shareware title still being recreated for the PC I think.
Choose an angle, velocity, and one of the stupid amount of weapons available, and blow each other to hell. Crap graphics, stupid sound effects, but 9.9 out of 10 for fun factor.
Yes I'm a sad old jam jar glasses wearing geek with milk white skin, but I don't care. Classic gaming still brings a smile to my chops.
So we cracked those disks open and had a butchers at the laughable graphics. Shock horror - they really weren't that bad. A lot of the games wouldn't work due to Commodores ingenius idea of making the A1200 not backward compatible with the ol' A500. You can get some of them to work with Relokick 1.3, and by tinkering with the boot up options, but others refuse to. We were sat there eagerly waiting to see some of our old classics boot up, but were faced with the dreaded flashing red 'software error' bar.
Still, most of them worked and it was most agreeable. Classics like Pinball Dreams/Fantasies, Zany Golf, Lotus Challenge 3, Cannon Fodder, Walker, Shufflepuck Cafe, Hired Guns, North and South. I could go on, but I won't. One of the best forgotten greats was 'Scorched Tanks', a shareware title still being recreated for the PC I think.
Choose an angle, velocity, and one of the stupid amount of weapons available, and blow each other to hell. Crap graphics, stupid sound effects, but 9.9 out of 10 for fun factor.
Yes I'm a sad old jam jar glasses wearing geek with milk white skin, but I don't care. Classic gaming still brings a smile to my chops.
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ßulle†† wrote:
> Now to get an emulator...
Tell me if you have any luck with that.
Me and a friend were trying to get an amiga emulator but no luck finding one that worked... :-(
> Now to get an emulator...
Tell me if you have any luck with that.
Me and a friend were trying to get an amiga emulator but no luck finding one that worked... :-(
I can't believe the Amiga is cone.
I'm sorry Borat
I'm sorry Borat
ßora† §agdiyeV wrote:
> I heard rumours of a new Amiga being released, but with such solid
> competition it'd be an exercise in financial suicide for commodore.
the AmigaONE came out a while ago and was nothing special at all.
it was too little, too late.
> I heard rumours of a new Amiga being released, but with such solid
> competition it'd be an exercise in financial suicide for commodore.
the AmigaONE came out a while ago and was nothing special at all.
it was too little, too late.
That would be wonderful.
Hmmmm. Might make an Acorn thread with links to roms etc.
Yes they like comitting suicide.
They're part of Atari right?
and the Archimedes managed to have the best games (Chock Away) exclusive to it and then nicked a lot of the best PC and Amiga games for itself to.
It was the N64 of it's day.
They're part of Atari right?
and the Archimedes managed to have the best games (Chock Away) exclusive to it and then nicked a lot of the best PC and Amiga games for itself to.
It was the N64 of it's day.
What, that 'Archimedes' machine? Had one of those for a while. Made a good door stop.
I heard rumours of a new Amiga being released, but with such solid competition it'd be an exercise in financial suicide for commodore.
I heard rumours of a new Amiga being released, but with such solid competition it'd be an exercise in financial suicide for commodore.
Acorn kicked Commodore's ass.
Everything was right with the world.
Until apple bought them out to get an education deal and now where left with overpriced good computers (Macs) or shoddy crap (PCs).
Acorn should've gone after Macintosh instead of Commodore.
Everything was right with the world.
Until apple bought them out to get an education deal and now where left with overpriced good computers (Macs) or shoddy crap (PCs).
Acorn should've gone after Macintosh instead of Commodore.
oh, and my favourite amiga joystick was one of these babies : [URL]http://www.cbmhardware.de/misc/joystick/37.jpg[/URL]
And Syndicate is one of the all time greats, I find it hard to understand why they haven't made a 21st century version.
And Syndicate is one of the all time greats, I find it hard to understand why they haven't made a 21st century version.
To follow up on this thread, I got hold of the latest version of winUAE. it's the mutts nuts, really. All the gaming fun minus the compatibility issues.
you can get the latest version here :
[URL]www.winuae.net[/URL]
plenty of games here (it's a french site, but you'll find them) :
[URL]http://www.planetemu.net/index.php?section=menus&machine=31[/URL]
and music demos here :
[URL]http://amiga.nvg.org/warlock/adf/[/URL]
it'll only take a few mins to install. you'll need the ROM files, which can be downloaded from a P2P file sharing program (unfortunately I can't find them anywhere for free), just look for 1.3 rom file for A500 and 3.1 for A1200.
That's it, all the amiga fun you'll ever need. Just been having a crack at 'It came from the desert'.
you can get the latest version here :
[URL]www.winuae.net[/URL]
plenty of games here (it's a french site, but you'll find them) :
[URL]http://www.planetemu.net/index.php?section=menus&machine=31[/URL]
and music demos here :
[URL]http://amiga.nvg.org/warlock/adf/[/URL]
it'll only take a few mins to install. you'll need the ROM files, which can be downloaded from a P2P file sharing program (unfortunately I can't find them anywhere for free), just look for 1.3 rom file for A500 and 3.1 for A1200.
That's it, all the amiga fun you'll ever need. Just been having a crack at 'It came from the desert'.
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