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Rumours ?!? Never heard of those. Without confirmation not valid anyway.
And still, a competitive product would have succeeded. But the CD32 wasn't. Quote:
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And that many games suffer from just Music of Sound is lazyness IMO. Play titles like Turrican 1-3 f.ex. where you can enjoy very good music and sound together. Yes, CD32 could play cdaudio. Which is cool, don't get me wrong. But not much of a needed or extravagant feature. Quote:
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Thus I stand to my opinion: The best Amiga in my opinion is still A4000. If we're talking money the A1200(HD). Quote:
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Not for the average user/consumer. Those will have to give the device avay for repair.
I take everyhing apart and try to repair by myself (and I have a good hitrate ). But this is not the case for everyone. Just wanted to say that desktop Amigas have even here a slight advantage. |
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?Generally, when someone begin to speak about the X68000 and blaming the Amiga to don't be technically on par with it without mentioning that it wasn't available in western countries and cost 3000$ in his home country at that time, you know that the topic will be a dead end.
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@Konrad I absolutely suck at anything electronics. I just followed the excellent Akira lens replacement twice and fixed 2 failing consoles.
Real amiga repairs involve recapping and soldering. Not something I would attempt on my working board... I just repaired a A2000 keyboard (with a tutorial) and switched the A500 failing floppy by a A1200 one (using a lego to make the eject button longer, and taping the wires instead of soldering them...). Changing RAM or drives doesn't count as "repairing" IMHO. |
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29 November 2020, 16:00 | #49 |
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All owners i knew had A1200's with HD. Directly from the shop, not added afterwards.
The first units were delivered without hd, although I don't know how many and when that changed. |
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Yet here in the uk, near enough every a1200 of anyone I knew came without a hdd installed, and everyhbody was shoehorning 3.5" drives in them within 6 months as the drives where far cheaper.
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I think Germany always had a history of having higher spec Amiga's than the UK market did. Didn't the German divison insist on A600's having hard drives in them from the start or something along those lines?
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they tried to capitalise of the publics love of bit, it's 32Bit Wow but really it had no memory or anything else it fell short of other 32Bit machines even the Sega 32x at best it could of competed with the Snes and Mega Drive as a cheap console if it was cheaper and with some FMV games the CDi and MegaCd but FMV games never appeared and there was nothing exceptional.
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The problem with the OCS sprites was that they are 16 pixels wide only, and that you only have 4 of them if you want them to be in 16 colors like the rest of the graphics. What would be great is 16 colour sprites and 32 pixels wide. And on your second point, just more sprites wouldn't have made the Amiga much easier to code for. It's a difficult machine. Difficult to set up, difficult to work with or around the OS, Amiga sprites are weird, getting BOBs and blitting running is hard, it's difficult to do stuff that's easy on any other machine that I have worked with. I can understand why man preferred the ST back in the day to code games for, especially british coders that were familiar with coding games for the Spectrum and CPC. Last edited by Tigerskunk; 01 December 2020 at 10:10. |
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I never owned a CD32. I say that upfront because it IS important. People become fanboys (let's not kid ourselves, that's all we are these days about these machines we love) when they owned or played with the machine back in the glory days...
Much of what I had to say has already been said. I agree with the guys that say that the CD32 is little more than a crippled A1200 (no keyboard, no mouse, needs the SX-1 to be what the A1200 was out of the box). A much talked about but actually meagre Akiko chiphe, the ability to read CDs (at a Whopping! 300k/s, haha) and decode CDDA tracks wasn't enough to make it better than the A1200. In my personal opinion - I, being a fan of retro COMPUTERS - the CD32 isn't even better than the A500 on the final average. That's why I own 3 A500 and 0 CD32 (that and nostalgia, as I said above). I also remember the CD32 launch and, as another member has mentioned here, I remember feeling underwhelmed. The CD32 stood no chance whatsoever. The SEGA Saturn was much, much better (and still got massacred by the eventually ubiquitous PlayStation a few meters down the road...) The CD32 was still hung on the old paradigm of games and didn't offer - I argue that it couldn't offer - the true possibility of next-gen gaming. As I said myself on another thread ("is AGA real Amiga spirit", or something like that), the CD32 was Commodore's last ditch effort to still be in the market and make a few bucks. It was never a true contender at anything. When I came to the Amiga World - in 1989, before owning one and 1990 with my own - The Amiga ruled supreme as the absolute best of two worlds - computing and gaming. It was on par with many overpriced, overpowered but underperfoming PCs of the time on what came to computing and was better than the consoles (with the best available being the NES and the MasterSystem) for gaming. The MegaDrive was the first console to really challenge the Amiga as the king of gaming and that only reached Europe in late 1990. And even with all the better features it had, the MegaDrive still lacked compared to the Amiga in some key areas (resolution, sound & music, inputting [no keyboard, no mice], etc). Only the SNES (for gaming) and a bit later the cheapening of the 486DX2+VESA SVGA+CD-ROM PCs (as a true multimedia machine) killed the Amiga. Comparatively, the CD32 was a stillborn. During a few years of my life, I didn't even consider it an Amiga at all. It was just the CD32. Later, already on the 21st century, I did concede and went "ah, it does say Amiga in it, it is based off the A1200... OK, you can be an Amiga, then". But even in being so magnanimous, never - EVER - would I dare to say that CD32 is the best Amiga. It never was, it isn't and it will NEVER be. |
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I emulate Amiga since 2002 with WinUAE
But two machines i just tried and immediately put apart were CD32 and CDTV I really don't need both of those So, no, CD32 is NOT the best Amiga IMHO |
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There's a misunderstanding
I tried the CD based machines with emulation |
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Saying CD32 is a best Amiga is a bit like saying Jaguar was the best Atari
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As it was, I believe that all the CD32 versions were farmed off to Rob Northern, and were created (hacked) from the original master floppies.. I wasn't even aware of these CD32 versions until they were actually released. |
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that explains a lot. Rob Northen just applied his CD-routines & joypad reads. no other improvements.
On the Core Design side, I bridged the gap with Wonderdog & Premiere getting proper treatment sfx AND music and proper joypad controls (with blue button for jump) Something could be done for Chuck Rock but there's only one music track so it would be rather repetitive. The music is good but annoying on all levels probably (I always chose sfx) |
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