You have 50 OFS disks....what do you fill them with?
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? |
I'd get as far as copying The Settlers then spend the rest of the month waiting for the guard huts to build.
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Not a bad way to spend the whole of lockdown...and any others that might occur!
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I remember the juggler, and lots of Fish disks... and being frustrated that I didn't have 1 MB RAM. Sorry, been too long... |
I would fill them with a lot of exes ..... mainly demos, but also some single filed games :D
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- 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 |
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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. |
Mold? :-P
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Nice :D
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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 :-) |
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. |
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. |
Hunter.
Oh, and X-Copy III :-) |
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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. |
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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. |
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.
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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. |
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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* |
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. |
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