Forum: Amiga scene
19 April 2024, 12:07
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Replies: 64
Views: 2,178
No constant disk access or random processes...
No constant disk access or random processes spontaneously going 100%. WB would just do stuff when I told it to. If not, there was probably a virus. Nowadays there's no way to tell.
Lack of...
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Forum: Amiga scene
19 April 2024, 03:32
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Replies: 3,784
Views: 506,197
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Forum: Retrogaming General Discussion
17 April 2024, 10:49
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Replies: 100
Views: 4,584
While I grew up with the C64 and have a lot of...
While I grew up with the C64 and have a lot of fond memories of it, I barely use it nowadays (unlike the Amiga), and I'm having trouble thinking of iconic on-going game franchises and characters from...
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Forum: Amiga scene
15 March 2024, 21:39
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Replies: 160
Views: 10,104
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Forum: Amiga scene
14 March 2024, 23:31
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Replies: 160
Views: 10,104
This is a tough question... I liked my A500 but...
This is a tough question... I liked my A500 but in retrospect it felt slow and clumsy and WB1.3 wasn't well featured (still, I prefer its looks). My A1200 was very nice, but I didn't really get to...
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Forum: Retrogaming General Discussion
06 March 2024, 15:54
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Replies: 21
Views: 1,025
The Playstation 1 version (spritesheet) is 16...
The Playstation 1 version (spritesheet) is 16 (-1) colours. Arcade might be a few more.
Perhaps the background starfield could be made using a single three colour screen-high sprite that's sheared...
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Forum: Retrogaming General Discussion
21 February 2024, 22:20
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Replies: 26
Views: 1,532
As a strategy and chill-game person.. perhaps a...
As a strategy and chill-game person.. perhaps a "persistence/progression" type game, i.e. something in the spirit of Dwarf Fortress, Rim World, Stardew Valley (obviously greatly simplified to run on...
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Forum: Coders. AMOS
21 February 2024, 00:55
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,254
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Forum: Nostalgia & memories
19 February 2024, 15:45
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Replies: 1,335
Views: 156,862
Hmm? Isn't Adventure, Novel, Strategy and (2D)...
Hmm? Isn't Adventure, Novel, Strategy and (2D) Sim games an area where the Amiga still had a chance to shine? Pretty, slow updating games controlled by mouse and keyboard. I think platform and...
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Forum: Nostalgia & memories
18 February 2024, 16:57
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Replies: 1,335
Views: 156,862
Yeah, it's neat when ports just go and do their...
Yeah, it's neat when ports just go and do their own thing and become exclusive, like Rygar on the NES. Archimedes Elite? Sadly the Amiga rarely got to shine and show off, due to the nature and budget...
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Forum: Nostalgia & memories
18 February 2024, 01:58
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Replies: 1,335
Views: 156,862
Mine should be 16 with the copper sky gradient...
Mine should be 16 with the copper sky gradient counting as a single colour.
32 colours opens up a lot of possibilities and is quite sufficient for most games I feel* (some indices can be reserved...
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Forum: Nostalgia & memories
15 February 2024, 18:06
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Replies: 1,335
Views: 156,862
Joe and Mac quick test, Amiga/ST 16 colours vs...
Joe and Mac quick test, Amiga/ST 16 colours vs Arcade 110 colours (256x240 pixels). I suppose with 16 more colours one could preserve the hues a bit better for the foreground rocks, cloud blues, and...
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Forum: Nostalgia & memories
14 February 2024, 22:22
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Replies: 1,335
Views: 156,862
That Joe and Mac dino Amiga screen might have...
That Joe and Mac dino Amiga screen might have looked very slightly better on a TV with a different gamma. A lof of older games (MAME stuff especially) have issues with the jump from black to the next...
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Forum: Nostalgia & memories
11 February 2024, 16:44
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Replies: 1,335
Views: 156,862
I did a Laser Squad 32 colour Amiga PAL mockup...
I did a Laser Squad 32 colour Amiga PAL mockup just to see how it'd look. NTSC/13H is kinda claustrophobic for strategy games and the scant framerate increase is inconsequential. The extra PAL...
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Forum: Coders. AMOS
09 February 2024, 11:55
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Replies: 4
Views: 747
It's possible to use the...uh, whatsitcalled,...
It's possible to use the...uh, whatsitcalled, direct mode console thingy and do a little of the work from there, such as saving banks and listing banks, or clearing, or even test drawing specific...
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Forum: Retrogaming General Discussion
07 February 2024, 13:05
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Replies: 127
Views: 8,296
Lemmings does seem like an obvious pick. It...
Lemmings does seem like an obvious pick. It worked especially well on the Amiga (compared to the rather forced mouse-less console ports).
If not Lemmings, then I'd pick another mouse game. Utopia,...
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Forum: Amiga scene
04 February 2024, 16:39
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Replies: 12
Views: 679
Things could be worse – in a darker timeline...
Things could be worse – in a darker timeline we're all really angry at Commodore's "Amiga Web Services" right now. Remember Windows 3.1? What Microsoft had survived and made a Windows 94? What if...
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Forum: Amiga scene
29 January 2024, 22:28
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Replies: 871
Views: 66,371
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Forum: Amiga scene
28 January 2024, 01:07
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Replies: 871
Views: 66,371
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Forum: Amiga scene
16 February 2023, 03:55
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Replies: 64
Views: 7,078
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Forum: Amiga scene
15 February 2023, 00:36
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Replies: 64
Views: 7,078
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Forum: Amiga scene
08 February 2023, 23:44
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Replies: 95
Views: 10,859
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Forum: Retrogaming General Discussion
11 January 2023, 03:38
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Replies: 52
Views: 4,914
For me, top 10 would probably be all Arcade...
For me, top 10 would probably be all Arcade games. There are a ton of high quality titles, though same came out a bit later. Some of the console stuff is very functional, and looks nice enough, but...
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Forum: Retrogaming General Discussion
10 January 2023, 02:52
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Replies: 136
Views: 11,414
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Forum: Nostalgia & memories
02 January 2023, 21:26
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Replies: 21
Views: 1,713
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Forum: Amiga scene
31 December 2022, 03:58
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Replies: 3,784
Views: 506,197
Practically I don't think MSX sold much past...
Practically I don't think MSX sold much past 1990, but technically, I suppose in some countries certain platforms lingered past their prime, and a few have been sporadically resurrected...
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Forum: Retrogaming General Discussion
29 December 2022, 00:06
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Replies: 34
Views: 2,484
I probably bought one dev program and one game...
I probably bought one dev program and one game per year (or a little more.. but I was kinda poor & I spent what I had). The games I remember were: Sim Life, Wargame Construction Set, Plan 9 From...
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Forum: Nostalgia & memories
24 December 2022, 04:30
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Replies: 23
Views: 2,984
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Forum: Amiga scene
20 December 2022, 21:53
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Replies: 34
Views: 3,116
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Forum: Amiga scene
20 December 2022, 01:11
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Replies: 34
Views: 3,116
Nibblecopy saved more than a few project disks...
Nibblecopy saved more than a few project disks for me. Sometimes useful on legitimate backups of originals. It was good to have a few other copy techniques to try on troublesome disks. I used WB's...
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Forum: Nostalgia & memories
18 December 2022, 17:52
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Replies: 142
Views: 19,655
After the Amiga I moved onto Mac for a while to...
After the Amiga I moved onto Mac for a while to learn some DTP. It was an old LC II pizzabox with a Stylewriter printer, and later some other model I inherited. Never had an MS-DOS machine. I still...
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Forum: Nostalgia & memories
18 December 2022, 16:47
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Replies: 35
Views: 3,106
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Forum: Nostalgia & memories
18 December 2022, 04:52
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Replies: 35
Views: 3,106
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Forum: Amiga scene
17 December 2022, 14:40
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Replies: 29
Views: 5,563
I've made a page for some of my recent Amiga...
I've made a page for some of my recent Amiga pixel stuff:
https://androidarts.com/Amiga/Pixel-overs.htm
e.g.
Altered Beast.
https://androidarts.com/Amiga/AlteredCrypt2xb.png
Puzznic, kinda...
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Forum: Nostalgia & memories
16 December 2022, 03:13
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Replies: 35
Views: 3,106
I used my neighbour's C128 so they were...
I used my neighbour's C128 so they were definitely out there. I think we played that game where you drive along a mountainside... maybe it benefitted from the speed increase?
At the time an Amiga...
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Forum: Nostalgia & memories
16 December 2022, 02:25
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Replies: 18
Views: 1,798
My Amiga 500 came with the two WB1.3 disks...
My Amiga 500 came with the two WB1.3 disks (©1988), but also two "Lär Dig Själv" Amiga 500 specific WB tutorial disks, aka Primi Passi / First Steps slideshows on how to use the mouse and do window...
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Forum: Retrogaming General Discussion
11 December 2022, 23:29
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Replies: 29
Views: 2,381
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Forum: Nostalgia & memories
10 November 2022, 21:34
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Replies: 30
Views: 3,447
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Forum: Retrogaming General Discussion
08 November 2022, 22:01
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Replies: 50
Views: 5,831
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Forum: Amiga scene
25 June 2022, 12:26
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Replies: 29
Views: 5,563
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