You have 50 OFS disks....what do you fill them with?

[khph_re]

So, my A1200's sound is not working, until I can get if fixed i'm using it as a download pack mule to write ADF's for my A500. My next 50 disks have arrived. I'm also bored and working from home, so I came up with this:

This got me thinking of a fun thought experiment. You have 50 blank DD floppies. You have to show someone all the impressive stuff the Amiga OCS can do, in just 50 disks. You have 512/512k, you have no HDD, and a 68000.

You have to show demos, games, music, graphics, utilities and applications.

You may you may use compressors, you can have multiple EXE's per disk.


What's on your 50 disks?

[E-Penguin]

I'd get as far as copying The Settlers then spend the rest of the month waiting for the guard huts to build.

[khph_re]

Not a bad way to spend the whole of lockdown...and any others that might occur!

[orphan264]

Originally Posted by khph_re

... 50 blank DD floppies. You have to show someone all the impressive stuff the Amiga OCS can do, in just 50 disks. You have 512/512k, you have no HDD, and a 68000.

What's on your 50 disks?

Wow, that's a question I haven't asked myself since I brought home my Amiga 500 in 1988 and had no money left for any software.

I remember the juggler, and lots of Fish disks... and being frustrated that I didn't have 1 MB RAM. Sorry, been too long...

[chip]

I would fill them with a lot of exes ..... mainly demos, but also some single filed games

[d4rk3lf]

Originally Posted by khph_re

You have to show someone all the impressive stuff the Amiga OCS can do, in just 50 disks.

- Another World (intro especially)
- Deluxe Paint (graphic app)
- Project X
- Scala Multimedia (graphic app/mixer for television)
- Ruff'n' Tumble
- Settlers
- Elfmania
- Lotus 2
- Arcade Pool
- Pong
- Octamed (music app)
- Real 3D (graphic app, nice sample scenes to render and show)
- Mortal Kombat 2 (lot's of disk swapping, but imho, worth it)
- Golden Axe
- Fire and Ice
- Gunship 2000
- Monkey Island
- Toki
- Dyna Blaster (or Master Blaster)
- Worms
- Civilization
- Shadow Dancer
- Arabian Nights
- Frontier
- K240
- Brutal Paws of Furry
- FA/18 Interceptor
(I am lazy to count floppies, I can add more personal favorites, if needs to)

DON'T SHOW:
Rolling Thunder, Shinobi, Final Fight, Rise of the Robots, Outrun, Dinasty Wars, Ghouls 'N' Ghosts... etc

[khph_re]

Originally Posted by chip

I would fill them with a lot of exes ..... mainly demos, but also some single filed games

I've been doing a lot of that :-) A fair few old 3d games have tiny EXE's, and I've been filling up the corners with 64k and under demo's.


I was wondering if shrinkler would work to compress stuff further - i'll have to look into that.

[hooverphonique]

Mold? :-P

[chip]

Nice

[khph_re]

Originally Posted by d4rk3lf

- Another World (intro especially)
- Deluxe Paint (graphic app)
- Project X
- Scala Multimedia (graphic app/mixer for television)
- Ruff'n' Tumble
- Settlers
- Elfmania
- Lotus 2
- Arcade Pool
- Pong
- Octamed (music app)
- Real 3D (graphic app, nice sample scenes to render and show)
- Mortal Kombat 2 (lot's of disk swapping, but imho, worth it)
- Golden Axe
- Fire and Ice
- Gunship 2000
- Monkey Island
- Toki
- Dyna Blaster (or Master Blaster)
- Worms
- Civilization
- Shadow Dancer
- Arabian Nights
- Frontier
- K240
- Brutal Paws of Furry
- FA/18 Interceptor
(I am lazy to count floppies, I can add more personal favorites, if needs to)

DON'T SHOW:
Rolling Thunder, Shinobi, Final Fight, Rise of the Robots, Outrun, Dinasty Wars, Ghouls 'N' Ghosts... etc

A great list there, some stuff I hadn't thought of. I put Dune II on floppies and ate six of my 50! Monkey islands etc eat so many disks.

I chose Lotus 2 as well, but I'm thinking of swapping it out for the 96k demo scene version.

A fun lock down hobby till my A1200 sound is fixed :-)

[d4rk3lf]

Yeah, adventures are very big.
Great that you found a demo of Monkey Island, that's the perfect solution.
If there is a demo of Simon the Sorcerer, that would be also great, as this adventure have amazing graphics.

[d4rk3lf]

Btw, I am thorn out between "50 disks for Amiga 500 show off", and "50 disks for my personal use".
There is some game that I like very much (Civilization, K240, Castles...), that I'd definitely have for personal playing, but wouldn't use them when I am showing some "Average Joe" what Amiga was all about.

[sittingduck]

Hunter.
Oh, and X-Copy III :-)

[khph_re]

Originally Posted by d4rk3lf

Btw, I am thorn out between "50 disks for Amiga 500 show off", and "50 disks for my personal use".
There is some game that I like very much (Civilization, K240, Castles...), that I'd definitely have for personal playing, but wouldn't use them when I am showing some "Average Joe" what Amiga was all about.

Having the same problem. I'm setting it up the A500 as an old Amiga head wants to come round and play games after lockdown, and watch Demo's. But I also want stuff too. Luckily the A1200 still works, (without sound) so applications are not a problem.

[khph_re]

Originally Posted by sittingduck

Hunter.
Oh, and X-Copy III :-)

X-copy was the first disk I did, and bad copy, so I can use disks with errors (first batch I got off ebay was full of errors).


I'd forgotten about hunter, never played it. Perhaps now is the time.


Next up is to compress the workbench disk, and then pimp it out with some stuff.

[manossg]

I would cerainly include some of Amiga's greater than life 3d titles; the mercenary 2+3, Frontier Elite, Carrier Command, Starglider 2, both Midwinter titles, maybe Captain Blood as well.

[khph_re]

Yes, some of those titles I already have as EXE's on one disk.
3D games seem often be tiny.
Frontier I was in two minds about, it's pretty sluggish on the 68000.


Captain blood is a good one, it just oozes that French style.

[manossg]

Originally Posted by khph_re

Frontier I was in two minds about, it's pretty sluggish on the 68000.

It is perfectly playable on 68000/42mhz, but I see you want vanilla A500, so let's leave it out. :S

[khph_re]

Originally Posted by manossg

It is perfectly playable on 68000/42mhz, but I see you want vanilla A500, so let's leave it out. :S

I thought about federation of free traders, nice graphics - but the gameplay is a bit suspect.


I'm thinking Zeewolf, Hunter, Stunt car racer, Star glider 2 for the 3d stuff.
Was also considering Robocop 3, and there was a 3d flight sim set in a city underneath fog, don't know what the name is.

Found it: *The Killing Cloud*

[d4rk3lf]

If you want speedy 3D on the A500 (but still nice looking)...
I think, nothing beats the; No Second Prize.

Check it out.
That engine is insane.