Two A1200s and serial play!

[DDNI]

So we spent the afternoon avoiding the TV, the PS2, the XBoX360 and the incessant rain....

What else could we do?


2 x A1200. On the left is a my Danish 1D4 A1200 with 50mhz Blizzard 1230 MkIV with 32MB RAM it is using a Phillips screen.
On the right is my retr0brite A1200 with a 50mhz Blizzard 1230 MkII and 68882 it is using a Microvitec multisync screen.



Joysticks, kinda tricky compared to PS joypads.



All smiles despite both being off the track! The shame



Concentration!

[cosmicfrog]

nice family photos thanks for shareing

[pubzombie]

i am writing a presentation on Lan Parties and their history may I use the top picture on a slide please DDNI ?
I remember playing Stunt car racer like this it was my forst experience of multimachine multiplayer
PZ

[DDNI]

No problem with that

[pubzombie]

Thanx buddy -
just a quick question
when was everybodies first experience of lan gaming and what game was it
Mine was pretty much identical to DDNI's setup shown here apart from we had to use an old Bush TV in a wooden box
cheers for these pics - reminds me of happy days

[rockersuke]

Nice! I also played Stunt Car Racer at home with some friends linking an accelerated A1200 and my (then) unexpanded A600. Next time I have visitors at home I wanna try some WWI dogfighting with Knights Of The Sky.

Now that my A600 has his ACA630 thing working and is connected to the LAN through his own WIFI card I'm going to explore the Amiga On-line Games page in search of TCP-IP games which don't demmand a highly expanded Amiga setup. I think I read Cammy once mentioning DynAMIte as the one to go.

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[pubzombie]

Originally Posted by rockersuke

Nice! I also played Stunt Car Racer at home with some friends linking an accelerated A1200 and my (then) unexpanded A600. Next time I have visitors at home I wanna try some WWI dogfighting with Knights Of The Sky.

Now that my A600 has his ACA630 thing working and is connected to the LAN through his own WIFI card I'm going to explore the Amiga On-line Games page in search of TCP-IP games which don't demmand a highly expanded Amiga setup. I think I read Cammy once mentioning DynAMIte as the one to go.

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OMG how could I forget KoTS!!!!! It was just so awesome to shoot at each other back then. Although I multiplayer all the time on flight sims and fps games its never as much fun as being in the same room with friends and playing.
My non yellow blizzard 1200 is packed away ready for our house move atm, I only have access to my old rig. I would love to meet up for a good session of gaming in the future some time.
also when weve moved I want to get my new 1200 on my network and the internet

[Retro1234]

Looks like good fun, You wernt included in the finals

Give Lotus II a try

[deicidal]

Originally Posted by pubzombie

Thanx buddy -
just a quick question
when was everybodies first experience of lan gaming and what game was it
Mine was pretty much identical to DDNI's setup shown here apart from we had to use an old Bush TV in a wooden box
cheers for these pics - reminds me of happy days

Yet again the mighty stunt car racer on a couple of a500's, great fun

[FOL]

Pretty much the same for me,

Stunt Car Racer, KOTS, Lotus2 and one of my favs Armaggedon, .

We had something like a 10 to 20M lead, stretching from downstairs to upstairs, .
This was needed to stop cheating, lol.

[seuden]

Awesome pictures DDNI, nice to see the young ones enjoying the Amiga. You've got a nice set up there too, congrats!

[fitzsteve]

Hey DDNI, great way to spend that day

Thanks for sharing.

Steve.

[Dreedo]

Looks cool, wish i grew up with 2 Amiga's, we barely had 1.

My first LAN experience was on the PC, playing Transport Tycoon on 2 player, as that was the max player limit. xD Was about 1997 i think.

[deicidal]

Originally Posted by FOL

This was needed to stop cheating, lol.

Dunno I sometimes found the cheating was the best part, we'd resort to singing and all sorts in attempt to put the other person off. fond memories

[Dreedo]

Hehe always better to play in the same room, my old house had ethernet cables everywhere, 3 going from the router downstairs to my bedroom upstairs, 1 from my bedroom to my brothers. 2 downstairs for PC and laptop. Never had an Amiga on a network though...

[DDNI]

Originally Posted by Dreedo

Looks cool, wish i grew up with 2 Amiga's, we barely had 1.

My wife would be happy with just one!
Last count, I have three fully configured A1200s (see sig), seven spare A1200s, 3 A600s, two A500s and one A500+.

This is not mentioning the boxes and boxes of games, apps, floppies, cables, PSUs, scanners, drives, goggles, 512k RAM boards, monitors and other miggy gear that hide in every storage space of my house.

One day I will unpack EVERYTHING and take a look.... one day.

[Dreedo]

Ha, thats crazy. Although I'm guessing most people on here are.

A1200 is selling at over £200 on ebay at the moment, but it does have a 4gb SSD and a pretty deep WHDLOAD setup. And it looks almost new.

My Amiga Gear:

PCMCIA CF 256mb
A600 with PSU and Tank Mouse, 37.300 2.05 ROM or something like that. 2.05 Workbench with faulty fonts floppy. :P
About 15 floppies that i write games to and play with my friend... only 1 friend...
A520 modulator or whatever its called, didn't realize when i bought my A600 it had RCA ports in the back. -_-
Sega Megadrive Pad, really useful to have.
My mate has an Atari 2600 Joystick that we can use for multiplayer games too.

Usually wired up to my 22" LCD HDTV, which seems to work well with it. But at the moment is stored in a box next to my bed in my nans house, due to moving.

That's it.

[FOL]

Originally Posted by deicidal

Dunno I sometimes found the cheating was the best part, we'd resort to singing and all sorts in attempt to put the other person off. fond memories

If playing lotus, my brother would watch my screen to block me, grrrrrrr.

[Dreedo]

Oh yeah i used to do that a lot on Top Gear 2 on the SNES, split-screen ftw!

[Cammy]

That's adorable, how lovely to see the kids having fun on the Amigas just like us.