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First & Last Amiga Games running on set memory sizes 256k/512k/1MB/2MB
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Wasn't Monkey Business somewhere there in the "First 512K Games" category?
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Has anyone tried (in emulated form I guess) some other settings?
I think Mindwalker was intended for 128K. Don't know if it used more. 768K - I only know Dragon's Lair. Or you might name it WCS takeover class? |
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Brataccas *was* unusual in that it was one of the few games that used the ST's 640x200 4-color mode. Since it was a straight port they didn't bother making it 16-color on the Amiga even though it could have done it -- hence why it looks so terrible. |
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I think they just didn't want to confuse people. The A1000 was the only system that you would ever see in a 768k configuration as the A2000 came with 1M stock and nobody made a 256k RAM expansion for the A500 (though I think there were a few supply-your-own-chips third party trapdoor cards that you could conceivably populate with only 256k if you were crazy and dedicated enough). Furthermore, 768k was an incredibly rare configuration on the A1000 (either you had a 512k sidecar expansion but no front-panel 256k expansion, or you had only the front-panel expansion but installed a kickstart ROM board freeing up the extra 256k kickstart RAM.) |
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Interesting. I tried playing Arcticfox & Bratacas few days ago and they would not crash on my A500 + 1Mb + Gotek + K1.3. Do you think it has something to do with my configuration?
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The original of Articfox need a KS 1.2 iirc. I assume you've played a crack?
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I will try the ipf, thanks. But, do these work on Gotek's Flash Floppy firmware now? |
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It seems so, if you use the HxC firmware for Gotek. There is a tool that converts IPF to HFE images and then they should work.
http://hxc2001.free.fr/floppy_drive_...rmwareForGotek |
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Does the "last game..." category make all that much sense? I'm pretty sure one could find some late mini game that uses very little memory...
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Btw later releases in general used more memory, it took more skill to cram a game into 512k or less, later games relied more on the end user having at least 1MB and more likely 2MB by that time. |
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Well there is some games released commercially in box plus disks for the OCS 68000 Amigas last year non ?
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Well the list was made for the time before the Amiga market imploded around 2000 after the last commercial magazine went under too, todays market is more a retro homage and of course games will come under some of these brackets, but this was more of interested to what came before.
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First game 512k:
Archon - 1985, Electronic Arts One-on-One - 1985, Electronic Arts Seven Cities of Gold - 1985, Electronic Arts |
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i tried these games on winuae and with 256k crash or guru. only with 512k they start
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