RE: Amiga users didn't upgrade

[Thorham]

Originally Posted by oscar_ates

Capital punishment graphics were good

The graphics are sexist garbage.

[hammer]

Originally Posted by Thorham

The graphics are sexist garbage.

Beautiful women are natural. Your basic biology 101 denialist is LOL.

[hammer]

Originally Posted by AestheticDebris

They almost certainly did, but they probably also saw the specs as.too little too late and even then would be weighing up the likelihood of A500 owners jumping ship to A1200 and realistically knowing only a small proportion ever would.


DOS/Windows was a weird beast, primarily because the platform as a whole was being kept alive by business software first and foremost. And businesses were much less likely to be running on pirate software (if you've ever been on the rough end of a software audit you'll know why!)

It meant there was a.much more significant base of customers who just might purchase a game or two. And coupled with its ever increasing base spec, made it a safer bet for releasing on even if it suffered similar levels of piracy as the Amiga.

Microsoft / SCO Xenix has the best-selling Unix in the 1980s and every 286/386 PC has MMU.

OS/2 was a distraction.

[hammer]

Originally Posted by Bruce Abbott

Now, 30 years later, the A500 is finally getting the development attention it deserves - with impressive new games coming out that show it didn't need upgrading after all. I thought about putting a high powered accelerator card in my A500, but I decided to keep it stock for compatibility - and because I would just end up doing things that are more suited to a modern PC.

My Amiga 500 would remain in storage without a low-cost accelerator being available for it.

For stock Amiga 500 with 1MB RAM, Grind /Dread game would be marginally competitive if it was released in the 1993 time period.

All Amiga OCS/ECS with full 32-bit CPU accelerators can't get involved with AGA gaming, hence knocking out all full 32-bit CPU accelerated A2000/A3000/A500s from the gaming market.

Amiga's 1992 RTG EGS with GVP graphics card was expensive and needed a big box Amiga. RTG with A500 doesn't exist without a Zorro II bus board.

GVP A530 wasn't designed with a common small SBC module (CPU+Fast RAM) that can be transferred to the adapter board for A1200's expansion bus.

For my situation, ditching A3000/030 @ 25 Mhz for A1200 + 3rd party A1230 accelerator wasn't cost-effective i.e. similar CPU performance with an expensive display card adapter upgrade.

A1200 with 68LC040 accelerator for about $1100-to-$1300 AUD from A1200 with Commodore's $400 USD A3640 card cost could help me stay with the Amiga platform in Xmas 1993. A1200 with 68LC040@ 25Mhz's 486SX-25 level performance and cost competitive price against 486SX-33 based PC clone would be nice in Xmas 1993.

With PiStorm/A500 to PiStorm32/A1200, PRi 3A+ SBC module was transferred over before the Pi 4B performance upgrade.

CGX arrive in 1995 and P96 arrive in 1996.

[Bruce Abbott]

Originally Posted by hammer

Beautiful women are natural. Your basic biology 101 denialist is LOL.

If by 'biology 101' you mean objectification of women's bodies with grossly distorted hyper-sexualized caricatures designed to appeal to the assumed basal instincts of teenage males, it's offensive to both women and men.

From what I can tell this game is another case of nice graphics shame about the game, with the added problem of being too embarrassing to show in public. And the 'woman' isn't beautiful either.

[AmigaHope]

Originally Posted by oscar_ates

Capital punishment graphics were good btw but gameplay was awful. You get three hits and you find yourself on a butchers hook

While the controls for Capital Punishment were awful, I actually really enjoyed the brutal sudden-death nature of the game. It intentionally tried to be cruel rather than sporting. I wish more games were like that.

[oscar_ates]

Same sexist issue was involved with the horrid game called Dangerous Streets. There was a hooker with as* and lorry driver has his pant's zip open, not good!

Dangerous streets was one of the CD32 bundle, who thought this great idea deserves a medal