The Amiga Dictionary - Page 6

Zetr0 · 18 March 2008, 23:08

L is for Locale

A disk unlike the rest of them, that knows where you are..... doo deee doo doo.... spooky....

Graham Humphrey · 18 March 2008, 23:19

M is for Marble Madness

Great early arcade conversion.

smoorke · 18 March 2008, 23:32

N is for Newicons introducing icons with individual palettes as opposed to using the screen palette

Zetr0 · 18 March 2008, 23:34

O is for Opus Magellan

not the best.... but certainly not the worst!

beats the crap outa explora!

meega · 18 March 2008, 23:41

P is for Parnet.

DDNI · 18 March 2008, 23:57

Q is for Quarterback tools. A most useful suite of drive tools

AND (because I didn't wanna miss R again!!!

)

R is for Rock Lobster. A B52 track immortalised on the A500 motherboard...

Zetr0 · 19 March 2008, 00:13

S is for Super Denise

found in Revision 8 of the A500

NLS · 19 March 2008, 00:29

have to jump letters and dedicate A and C to Arthur C Clarke...

Graham Humphrey · 19 March 2008, 00:30

T is for T-Zer0

A late commercially-released horizontally-scrolling shooter.

JDunlap · 19 March 2008, 02:52

U is for Underground

Where hackers and crackers dwell.

vodley · 19 March 2008, 03:30

V is for Video. The Amiga was to Desktop Video and video games what Macintosh was to (yawn

) Desk Top Publishing.

vodley · 19 March 2008, 03:40

W is for Windows, an environment for running Amiga emulations under WinUAE.

NLS · 19 March 2008, 09:08

X for Xenon and Xenon-II

(why do we keep mentioning games?... ok maybe the ones I mentioned are well known, but I read some really obscure "wanted-to-write-something-but-didn't-have-something-important" titles that really don't add to the dictionary...)

vodley · 19 March 2008, 09:54

Y is for Yamaha, a maker of MIDI enabled sound equipment used by some Amiga musicians.

smoorke · 19 March 2008, 10:17

Z is for Zool
a game which i have never played

Graham Humphrey · 19 March 2008, 10:35

A is for A1200

The last "proper" Amiga computer and probably the best (IMO of course).

meega · 19 March 2008, 11:16

B is for BindDrivers, which has no use at all.

cane · 19 March 2008, 11:40

C is for CD32

A console based on A1200.

DDNI · 19 March 2008, 11:48

D is for Damocles !!! arguably the Amigas finest game....

smoorke · 19 March 2008, 12:40

E is for file Extensions
Things which are barely used on Amigas and mostly serve a cosmetic purpose. With the exception of icons(.info) and some others (.library and .device are commonly used but not mandatory)

19 March 2008, 03:30	#111
vodley Zone Friend Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: homer AK usa Age: 59 Posts: 82	V is for Video. The Amiga was to Desktop Video and video games what Macintosh was to (yawn) Desk Top Publishing.

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smoorke Registered User Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Ghent/Belgium Age: 43 Posts: 247	E is for file Extensions Things which are barely used on Amigas and mostly serve a cosmetic purpose. With the exception of icons(.info) and some others (.library and .device are commonly used but not mandatory) Last edited by smoorke; 19 March 2008 at 12:51.

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