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Old 06 December 2022, 18:22   #8
ImmortalA1000
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I bought a 486 PC around the same time I got my launch day A1200 but that was really for my university course. Obviously I had friends who were even more prolific PC pirates than any Amiga owner lol so you name it I played it, including stuff like Gauntlet II for DOS etc. I later sold that 486 and got a Pentium PC for my final year. Once my course was over in 1996 I had no use for Windows so I sold it and only had Amigas (stock A1200, A2000 with 48mb HDD and 5mb RAM) until the whole internet thing happened around 2000/2001. I got Windows XP with my next PC anyway and it was an Athlon XP2000 CPU I think.

As there wasn't much support for accelerated games, Frontier for Amiga doesn't have the texture map mode at all like the PC DOS release for example and I think F1GP is frame locked without modding, I always held back on getting one. I did want the HDD equipped A1200 but none were available in the stores (was a massive problem back then early on IIRC, 95% of A1200s shipped were not HDD equipped but stores wanted them and so did customers).

The Blizzard 1220/4 was a bargain though for the price. An A1200 with 28mhz 020 and Fast RAM would run Dredd really nice I bet. Unlike PC owners back then with their little SVGA monitors you could have played an Amiga FPS on a huge 28" CRT TV with decent speakers
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