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03 February 2019, 18:48
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Location: UK
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"Multi-tasking ready" games.
Hi,
What are your favorite games that run in an a workbench window, so you can casually flip between the game and (e.g.) a terminal emulator? Cheers! |
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03 February 2019, 19:27
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Total Chaos forever!
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Waterville, MN, USA
Age: 49
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Total Chaos AGA can multitask if you've got more than 24 megs of Fast RAM. Just use the invisible screen flipper in the upper right corner of the screen.
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03 February 2019, 19:44
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Guru Meditating
Join Date: Jun 2014
Location: England
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Civilization, and Colonization
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03 February 2019, 20:45
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Location: UK
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I tried Colonization, and while it has the button to background the process, it doesn't do anything.
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03 February 2019, 22:04
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Puttymoon inhabitant
Join Date: Mar 2007
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Nuclear War and Gunship 2000.
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04 February 2019, 03:16
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Location: Toronto
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Gloom Deluxe with window patch.
Dune 2, flip with keyboard. |
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04 February 2019, 07:52
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Location: Poland
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Because it close WB when You have not enough RAM. Colonization have also ability to run on Workbench screen when You use WORKBENCH parameter and have enough colors. Also Westwood games (e.g. Dune II and both Eye of the Beholder games) have multitasking if You have enough RAM. |
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04 February 2019, 08:43
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son of 68k
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Lyon / France
Age: 51
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All my Atari ST game ports support screen flipping with Amiga-M
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04 February 2019, 11:11
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Total Chaos forever!
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Waterville, MN, USA
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Megaball3 lets you flip screens when you pause.
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04 February 2019, 13:27
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Location: Paris/France
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Thexder multitask on WB
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04 February 2019, 13:52
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Amiga user
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Location: Sofia / Bulgaria
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I did several multitasking games back in the early 2000-ies. Hardest part was doing smooth scroll and fixing the music replayer routines to be clean of any enforcer hits. I avoided the Workbench color limitations by opening own screen. Later that multitasking aware coding made it very easy to port the games to SDL and then make them possible on other platforms with almost no additional effort.
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22 February 2019, 16:43
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Location: Poland
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These are games I played most:
BattleDuel WBArmy SameGame CatTrap HBMonopoly MahjonggTiles CardGames Deluxe Last edited by Ami; 15 May 2019 at 17:32. |
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24 February 2019, 02:15
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06 April 2019, 15:36
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And it looks like this. 
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06 April 2019, 18:10
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Location: Stockholm
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Yes, the real problem is that you still can't size your main window larger than 320x256.
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06 April 2019, 18:28
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Amigaholic
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: UK
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Brian Clough's Football Fortunes supports Multi Tasking!
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14 May 2019, 22:25
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Location: England
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I seem to remember UFO Enemy Unknown happily multitasking on its own screen. Screens are far better than windoze that get in the way
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15 May 2019, 09:25
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Location: Helsinki / Finland
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I multitasked these quite often:
Activision Shanghai Mean 18 Golf Poing Shanghai and Mean 18 will not allow you to screen flip under 1.x, but they will under 2.x onwards. :-) |
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15 May 2019, 09:30
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Location: Skarabörg, Sweden
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Dune 2 and Sim City.
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15 May 2019, 09:52
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