/vr/ - Retro Games

Currently playing Lotus Turbo Challenge 2. Can't get past the first level.

>>1372406

To bad Amiga threads alway die fast...

Anyway, what are you Amiga specs fellow Amiga/vr/eaks?
Mine are:
Amiga 500 rev. 6 w/ Fat Agnus;
MC68000 @ 7MHz;
1MB of ChipRAM (512kB on board and 512kB on an expansion board with a clock) thanks to Fat Agnus;
2 external Floppy drives in addition to the internal -- it helps a lot when it comes to multi-floppy games and softwares;
A C=1085S CRT monitor.

>>1372406

Man I'd love to get an Amiga 1000 in good condition that doesn't cost an arm!

>>1372610
I have two Amigas, an NTSC A1000, and a PAL A1200.

My A1000 has the 256K ChipRAM expansion, upping it to 512K ChipRAM total.

My A1200 is stock except for a 4MB Hawk FastRAM expansion, and a PCMCIA 3Com Etherlink III card.

I have a Commodore 1080 monitor that I use with my A1200; I just hook up random CRT TVs I have to my A1000.

>>1372685
I managed to get my Amiga 1000, with the box and a shitload of floppies/games, and a printer, and a MIDI controller for $20 total from some guy on Craigslist.

They seem to be the most common Amiga here in the U.S., in my experience.

>mfw someone tried to give me a mint amiga 2000 10 yrs ago and i didnt take it

Fuck, I'd like to use my amiga 1200 and my commodore 64, but I lost both power supplies, they must be here somewhere, but where...

>>1373091

In 2004, giving a computer who's box haven't been opened since 1987 is pretty deadly considering the fact that the 2000 had a battery on the motherboard. If you accepted you would have enjoyed an acid-riddled Amiga 2000. Those kind of stuff are why it's safer to get a used computer from a good source.

>>1373115
>You would have had to change the battery and maybe clean up a bit of acid on the connector.
>Sorry, I left my llama in my other coat.

>>1373617
>>You would have had to change the battery and maybe clean up a bit of acid on the connector.

It would have been a lot more

>struggling on the internet to find replacement for the chips destroyed by the acid, try to limit de damages to the motherboard after seeing the acid attacked many capacitors that spread their load and destroyed many more chips and erased some of the tracks on the PCD. Battery leakage is truly horrible.

>>1373064

Noice! I bet you could run kickstart 3.1 without any problem?

>>1374905
Well, my A1200 is a Rev 1A motherboard, so it has Kickstart 3.0 chips in it.

I do run Workbench 3.1, however, and it works fine.

Note that this picture is from before I put in the 4MB RAM expansion.

>>1374908

Well, I was asking if you can boot with kickstart 3 on your amiga 1000, but nice to hear though.

I still hate myself with a burning passion for giving away my A4000 11 years ago.

Still have the A500 that was my first computer and the A2000 that I got about 6 years ago. Both I have set up to dual boot either Kickstart 1.3 or 3.1. The only thing I really need to complete my 2000 is an accelerator card.

>>1376254

What I would love to get is an Amiga 500 SCSI controller, to use all my SCSI stuff.

I'm too young to have used an Amiga (turned 18 late last year), but I was going to emulate it and decided I ought to know about the hardware I'm pretending to have, so I found this documentary. Doesn't exactly detail the machine itself, but still very nice to watch, and I'm sure the fellas in this thread will enjoy it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJV_7zR5rBc

Were there actually any amiga exclusives (/best port versions) that are are actually worth playing in 2014?

>>1377037

Silent Service II is the best sub-marine simulation game, there's Star control, there's Worms director's cut that is for Amiga only and is the real precursor to Worms 2.
Starglider II and Simulcra are pretty cool too.
The Amber series is a must too, Shadowgate is one of the best port of the game (WAY better than the cut down NES version). Also, you have the obligatory Turrican I and II, Hybris, Battle Squadron, SWIV.
That's all I have in mind for now.

>>1377063
so ,no, IOW

>>1377640
Zeewolf 1 and 2 were both Amiga exclusive and really awesome games.

You have to remember almost every computer game was being released on multiple computer platforms at the time. There weren't a whole lot of exclusive games for any platform. The Amiga in the late 80's through early 90's usually had one of the best, if not the best, version or port of a game. If you're debating between either playing the IBM/DOS version or Amiga version of a game that was made before 92 or so, the Amiga version will be 9 times out of 10 the better version.

>>1377640
The Amiga version of Cannon Fodder is the best.
War has never been so much fun.

Also, pretty much everything released by Team 17 is great.

Just got UAE. Recommend some games pl0x.
Love point-and-clicks but down for anything.

>>1379671

>Love point-and-clicks

Shadowgate use the mouse to make you interact with the world. For more stuff, check these websites:

http://hol.abime.net/
http://www.lemonamiga.com/

Have fun with UAE and remember that an emulator is cool at first, but nothing beat the real hardware.

Amigaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

I spend the majority of my day playing It came from the desert! That game was awesome and so was Amiga!

>>1379763

>"but nothing beat the real hardware."

How so? Emulator seems to be doing it's job just fine. All you need is a controller and if you want scan lines, get an old ass monitor/tv.

I used to own Amiga 500 and there is no real difference what emulator and physical hardware can do. If you are referring to wait times and sounds the hardware makes, then yes. You cannot emulate those feels without hardware.

But as far as game quality goes, the emulator does fantastic job.

>>1380279
> If you are referring to wait times and sounds the hardware makes, then yes. You cannot emulate those feels without hardware.
Actually, you can. Some computer emulators (not sure if UAE does this, but Micro64 does) do have true drive emulation and drive sounds.

>>1380287
Wow, that's cool. I did not know that.

>>1380287
UAE does support floppy and drive sounds.

Hell, with WinUAE and FS-UAE, you can even get a bezel overlay that makes it look like this.

Personally, I get the best of both worlds by having a physical A1200, but emulating Amiga hardware that I can't afford on my PC.

If I had the money, though, I would buy a ton of high-end Amiga stuff.
But emulation does the job quite well, and takes up less physical space.

>>1380279

Yup, the emulation is really good, but I personally don't feel the same thing when I'm using one instead of the real computer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiU5RnDvJ2o

>>1382231

Just got done setting up my "dream Amiga" emulation environment.

Emulates a fast A4000 with 32MB FastRAM, and looks pretty oldschool.

What do you guys think?

>>1383898

I think it's noice anon. Where does the cutie on your wallpaper from?

>>1383923
No idea, but the image came from this pack of Amiga wallpapers:
http://aminet.net/search?query=animeos

>>1383926

Okay, thanks for the link.

Great thread

>>1383898

> Pixelated Anime Art

So fucking good.

Are AmigaBASIC or AmigaDOS (1.3) any good for learning programming?

>>1386043

Amiga BASIC+AmigaOS 1.3 are good to learn the basis of programming, but learning C or assembler next is important.

>>1385496

>>1373064

$20 for all that? Crap, what a deal, If I had any room somewhere I'd hunt for something like that. Never owned an Amiga by the way.

>>1372685
>>1373064
>>1387109
>search "Amiga 500" on ebay UK
>computer+accessories+fuckton of software for under $30
>search "Amiga 500" on ebay US
>lowest decent bundle is $259
I hate resellers so much.

>>1386887
you did that right? looks cute

>>1388040
Supply and Demand. There are far less Amigas in North America then there are in Europe, and I don't think you want to even think of the cost for shipping an Amiga from the UK to US. That said, those high of prices are ridiculous.

>>1388057

Yes, I posted it on another thread 2 month ago, as they were talking about dithering.

>>1374139
The monitor, keyboard, and mouse are all collectible in their own rights.

Especially the monitor. Old CGA shit is the hotness right now.

>>1388379

Amiga monitors aren't CGA anon.

>over 600 games
>exactly one of them not pirated

It was the original Conan the Barbarian. A pretty good game.

>>1388386

Some of them are badly pirated and/or don't have their protection put down even if it's said to be un-protected too, like the original Dungeon Master release.

>>1388089

Overpriced hardware is common to every Amiga owners that haven't used them since 1995 and want to sell it.

>>1388383

Except some of them are. And old VGA monitors are pretty cool too.

>>1386043
Try AMOS or Blitz Basic. Those were the shit back in the day. A lot of great freeware/shareware games on the Amiga were made with AMOS or Blitz, like Knights and Alien Fish Finger.

I learned programming with AMOS.

Pretty much anything by Bitmap Brothers. Especially Chaos Engine and Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe. They have some of the best pixel art you'll ever see.

Frontier: Elite 2 was arguably better on Amiga than on PC. The sounds and music were better, and although the PC version added textures they were really crap and the graphics ended up looking worse than the flat-shaded polys in the Amiga version.

This is so awesome I almost cried... Now I have a long history with the Amiga in fact the A1200 was my first 'internet' computer.

BUT getting Amiga emulators to work is no fun especially when you are helping friends/noobs who just want to play games and know nothing about AGA, ECS, kickstart roms, disk swapping, fastmem etc.

ANYWAY in my opinion this is the best my to go...

Get your hands on the "Amiga CD32 multigame" iso's (google to find)

I have the following and they are great, basically a couple hundred of the best Amiga games all neatly packaged with a menu system for the Amiga CD32 system.

ISOS:

CD32-100
CD32-200
CD32 Games & Demos
Team17 Anthology V1.2
Tonycrew CD32 Beta
... more do exist but these are my fav.

GO HERE

http://fengestad.no/fs-uae/download

Download:

Windows Installer for FS-UAE Emulator & Launcher (I'm assuming you have a Windows PC)

Run the "launcher" select CD32 as the system, select the iso file location and GO! No farting around with scripts or kickstarts.

KEYS:

(F12+Q) quits
(F12+R) soft reset

>>1383862

>>1390418
It's not even the nineties yet and he's already balding, how pathetic.

>>1390418

>>1390418
>Almás az alma?
This really did it for me. This is worse than Szegasztok.

>>1379671
My personal favourite mouse-based Amiga games:
The Secret of Monkey Island
Heimdall
Frontier: Elite 2
Populous 2
Cannon Fodder
Syndicate
UFO:Enemy Unknown
Megalomania

But here are some fun platformers too:
Rick Dangerous
James Pond 2: Robocod
Magic Pockets
Leander
Another World
Flashback
Simpsons - Bart vs the Space Mutants

And best top down shooters:
Alien Breed
Chaos Engine

And don't forget the fightin' games:
IK+ (International Karate+)
Panza Kickboxing
Shadow Warriors
Moonstone (kind of medieval RPG adventure)
Barbarian

>>1391301
Elfmania was probably the best as far as fighters go.
But Amiga wasn't really the platform for those

>>1391912
And not to forget Body Blows and Capital Punishment.

Amiga fighting games were mostly hilarious rather than good.

>>1391067
The best had to be "Martin a Szív TV-ben", or as most people called it, "Martin szív a TV-ben".

The Art of Breaking Heads!

>>1391930

A1200, I don't remember all of the specs but I know I have kick start 3.1, 4mb fast ram and a 4gb compact flash card that I'm using as a hard drive. I have WHD load installed along with pretty much every game ever. WHD load isn't the greatest thing to work with though. I had so many plans for this thing (towering etc) but time flies...

>>1393376

What is this screw driver doing on your monitor?

>>1393385
Button doesn't stay on. I have to wedge a screw driver or something else in there to keep the button pressed. Monitor itself is a little beat, but the display is still very pretty. Can't beat the 1084.

>>1393390

I see, nice little config anyway. Do you ever use your Amiga for non-gaming related stuff? (BBS, programming, stuff like that)

>>1393404
Nah, it kind of just sits there. When I got it I wanted to make into a really awesome, almost modern, computer that I could use regularly and comfortably (pic related). I have the means, I just don't have the time or motivation to take it up again.

>>1393415

Okay, good luck then.

>>1391928
>Body Blows
NINJAAAAAAAA NINJAAAAAAAA NINJAAAAAAAA NINJAAAAAAAA NINJAAAAAAAA NINJAAAAAAAA NINJAAAAAAAA

>>1389942
Hah, this image is a ripoff of a famous American football painting.

>>1395980

>>1389627

They're not VGA either anon. Some of the early ones accept TTL RGB because they were meant to be used with the Commodore 128, some are multisync monitors that support the 31kHz mode of the Amiga 3000 and 4000, but most of them are 15kHz RGB monitors.

There's a nice adapter that allow Amiga 500 and 500+ owners to hook an Amiga 2000 Zorro II card to the expansion port, here's the link of the schematics on Aminet:
http://aminet.net/package/docs/hard/AddZorro2slot

I think that making a multi-zorro 2 slot version of this adapter and install it on a chassis could be pretty cool, with all the additional cards the Amiga 2000 received during its lifetime.

>>1398206
That actually would be very helpful for a lot of Amiga users. I don't have much use for it myself though because I have a Supra RAM expansion with a passthrough and a SCSI HD/Kickstart Switch box already.

>>1398861

Yep, the problem with Amiga 500 stuff like fast RAM or SCSI controllers is that it's really hard to find.

>>1399759

>>1401327

>>1402267

>>1402461