Vapourware Amiga Rage Thread

[RuySan]

The Amiga was my sole machine between 89 and 96. People had to be there to know what was so special about it. It was the biggest technological leap that I remember.

Going from the spectrum straight to the Amiga, like many people in Europe, I suppose, it's something that most Americans won't understand the impact. All the colours... And that sound was poor bliss.

While ultima underworld showed the machine was getting obsolete, there were still many good games released until 94.

And how was it that it was most like a console??? I made my homework on it, and the printer did its job properly for 7 years.

Yes, the 1200 should have come one year earlier and with mandatory HD, maybe it would have been different. Or maybe not.

 

[Jarpie]

Some of the later games were good too, Clickboom's Napalm was quite good RTS, OnEscapee was quite decent too, made by some hungarian bros I think. Alien Breed 3D was very good fps even if the graphics were BLOCKY, Nemac 4 was decent too but best amiga FPS was probably Genetic Species though, and technically probably best one. Foundation was also decent Settlers-clone, and Wasted Dreams was fun action-adventure, but most of the later games were fucking shit, or overly ambitious. Good example of that was Space Station 3000 which was never completed, it was basically gonna be like Star Citizen, where you can go to the space station and manage it, jump to the space fighter and have FPS-sections for invading other space stations, it was ridiculously ambitious plan especially back then.

 

[RuySan]

Didn't know about Napalm, but it looks pretty good.

The games i was thinking about were stuff like Ruff n'Tumble, Virocop, Naughty Ones. Just solid arcade fun without trying to keep up with the contemporaries on the pc.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

Last month I had the pleasure of interacting with an Amiga 500 for the first time, for about an hour or so. Yes, I've read about and listened to lots of stuff about the computer for 30 years, but it's only now that I get a chance to see it first-hand.

The machine was a little rickety (monitor image would flicker if you as much as looked at the cable) but I could see the obvious charm of it.

Didn't change the fact that the little bugger was possessed. I've used dozens of floppy drives, but never one that sounded like it was raging at the world while in use. The keyboard would stop receiving input at times and I felt that the case got too hot after just 5 minutes of being turned on.

Hopefully I'll get more time with this machine in the future, but first hands-on impressions are interesting.

those look to me as signs of a broken machine, it's a miracle it was still working.

still today both the true multitasking and the embedded operating system are huge technologies we're never going to see anymore. in the early '80s, when the walkman was high tech, we had the amiga. that's why i can hardly appreciate any so called today's "marvel of technology": frontier resided on one, single dd floppy. all i see now is graphics.

 

[octavius]

And how was it that it was most like a console??? I made my homework on it, and the printer did its job properly for 7 years.

The games developed for it was mostly console type games.

One thing that impressed me about the Amiga was that I could borrow my mother's work printer, plug it in, press Print and it printed out the thing I wanted printed right away, without any nagging or error messages.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

how can you say that? it's blasphemy! everybody know that plug&play was invented by the almighty windows!

 

[RuySan]

And how was it that it was most like a console??? I made my homework on it, and the printer did its job properly for 7 years.

The games developed for it was mostly console type games.

One thing that impressed me about the Amiga was that I could borrow my mother's work printer, plug it in, press Print and it printed out the thing I wanted printed right away, without any nagging or error messages.

Populous? Lemmings? Black Crypt? Syndicate? Cannon Fodder? Mega-lo-Mania? Laser Squad? North & South? Sim City? Power Monger? Wings? D/Generation? Elite? Frontier? Hunter? Deuteros? Supremecy?

I could go on forever.

You're massively wrong. Even action arcade games were much different from what was seen on consoles. Less slick for sure, but with much more style and soul. Turrican 2, Shadow of the Beast, Gods, The Chaos Engine, Lionheart....

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

dammit, i loved deuteros *_* but i've never been able to survive the first attack :V alright, i was a kid and i was doing something horribly wrong for as smart as i could have been but i've never been able to figure out what. last time i tried to emulate it i haven't been able to make the save disk work.

 

[octavius]

Populous? Lemmings? Black Crypt? Syndicate? Cannon Fodder? Mega-lo-Mania? Laser Squad? North & South? Sim City? Power Monger? Wings? D/Generation? Elite? Frontier? Hunter? Deuteros? Supremecy?

I could go on forever.

You're massively wrong.

Maybe. I guess I sampled too narrow a range of Amiga games. Maybe that's why I'm not such a nostalgic fanboi today; I liked CRPGs too much, and they were mostly convertions.

Elite was originally a BBC Micro or Archimedes game, though, although the Amiga version was good. Frontier was one of those games which made me despair at how much much better the PC version looked.
Oh, and you forgot to mention Midwinter.

 

[CryptRat]

Going from the spectrum TO8 straight to the Amiga

It was a gap indeed.

My amiga 500 is from far the machine where I've played the best games, but the main reason is that it was a period of good games more than the machine itself since many of them were multi-machine games and the best version was not necessarily the amiga one.

 

[Jarpie]

Amiga hobbyist interviewing David Pleasance about his upcoming book.

 

[Daedalos]

I miss my old trusty Amiga 600 and C64.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

nigga please, the 600 was an abomination.

 

[Daedalos]

nigga please, the 600 was an abomination.

How so? My brother had the 500 and I had the 600. Never had any problems, ran like a dream and very good games released..

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

less stable, worse workbench, impossible to expand.
abomination i say!

 

[RuySan]

The Amiga 600 looked kind of stupid, but besides that i don't remember much downsides. Some of my friends had it so i only used for gaming purposes though.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

abomination!

 

[RuySan]

So i just did a write up about Shadow of the Beast II on my blog:

http://amigamemoirs.blogspot.com/2017/03/chapter-xxxix-shadow-of-beast-ii.html

 

[Alienman]

Being a happy kid in the 90's. Saturday night at a friends house. Moonstone title blinking on a almost faded small TV-screen. Popcorn getting ready in the micro.

Amiga makes me miss childhood.

 

[Jarpie]

I remember playing this quite a lot, not great but pretty fun action game.

 

[RuySan]

Fire Force looked like a ZX Spectrum game in 16-bit clothes.

 

[OndrejSc]

 

[Lilura]

So i just did a write up about Shadow of the Beast II on my blog:

http://amigamemoirs.blogspot.com/2017/03/chapter-xxxix-shadow-of-beast-ii.html

Nice write-up. Here is a general write-up by me.

 

[Kev Inkline]

Being a happy kid in the 90's. Saturday night at a friends house. Moonstone title blinking on a almost faded small TV-screen. Popcorn getting ready in the micro.

Amiga makes me miss childhood.

 

[RuySan]

Moonstone and North & Stone were the party games of excellence besides sport games. There wasn't any of my friends who didn't love those games. Eventually I became so fed up with North & South that I made up a story about the game catching virus.