05 February 2013, 12:51 | #1 |
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Real or virtual
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I have recently cleaned out stuff a tad... unfortunately one of the things i tossed out my Cloanto stuff, and all my games. Now, thinking of starting collecting these again from scratch, only this time round, i wanna do it right. So, before i take "The plunge", what do guy reckon ? Getting a Real Amiga, or just stick with the virtual emulation (e.g.. Cloanto, and grab all .adf's/.hd's images again.) Just to point out, i had am Amiga 500 back in 1992-94, and had Datel's Action Replay III, with that see-through joystick , alonk with the A570. Awesome stuff. I also agree, and now see why you guys continue to keep the hardware, coz its a treasure. However, i don't want to make a big mistake here. So, which way should I go ? * i'm willing to step up to an Amiga 1200 just for the hardware being available. And maybe, loose a bit of compatibility at the same time. |
05 February 2013, 13:09 | #2 |
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I'd say go for an A1200 with an accelerator and a flash HDD in it. Decent performance and yet you still get much 'old-school' Amiga in it. All depends on how much you're willing to pay.
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05 February 2013, 13:17 | #3 |
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For WHDLoad games and A500 demos, its enough to have A1200 with just 8MB expansion. And lastly also WHDLOAD registered
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05 February 2013, 13:18 | #4 |
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ok. thanks... i also forgot to mention, if it's possible at all i haven't got a CRT, so video/audio connection could be problematic to LCD.
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05 February 2013, 13:21 | #5 | |
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For the best experience grab yourself a 1230 Turbo board like one of the new ACA1232's or a Blizzard 1230(or similar) with 16mb+ It's really all you need for a total Amiga Gaming experience Emulation is fine, but Gaming on a real Amiga just seems better (to me) and an A1200 + WHDLoad will give you access to so many great Games you'll never be able to play the all! Another benefit of the 1230 is that you can play a few of the more demanding Games faster and smoother, you can also add a CDROM with a Squirrel SCSI (or Accelerator SCSi Kit) or even an IDE CDROM for access the CD32 Games and Amiga CD Games. Really the A1200 should be all you ever need |
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05 February 2013, 13:21 | #6 |
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LCD of yours have only DVI,VGA,HDMI input?
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05 February 2013, 13:23 | #7 |
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If it's about the games and demos and not the 'feel' I'd go with emulation again. You'll end up with spending quite a bit of money until you have a 'comfy' gaming A1200 and it might be worth to check if emulation suits your needs already. Just my 2 cent before the avalanche of 'Get an A1200 and an ACA1232 and a CF card!!!' posts kick it
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05 February 2013, 13:24 | #8 |
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There are several options such as the Indivision AGA or SVideo adapters and VGA upscalers that you can use to display on a modern LCD. If your TV has an RGB-Scart socket you can just grab an RGB-Scart cable and you're away
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05 February 2013, 14:05 | #9 |
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haha.. ok thanks..
I'm kinda "in-between" Its between the gaming/workbench discs, to the "feel" of swapping BASS (15 times) , to the drive motor sound, not to mention the look. Its the number #1 thing i head to that draws me to the advertisements of CU Amiga, or AF magazines i see PDF. On the other hand, it looks like i need a PCB board to VGA converter, and not to mention 300+ title games and or utilities i would want to get, most may not even be avail on floppies anymore (even though i could convert them,,, If I'm gonna do that, i may as well use emulation since i'd be there already) I think i made up my mind But I still miss the 'feel'... Unless i spend money on one, just to place it on my bookcase. like a collectable. 'People may even do that..' |
05 February 2013, 14:10 | #10 |
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real amiga hardware ftw.
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05 February 2013, 14:24 | #11 |
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If you decide to go for emulation, you can also get a quite good Amiga-feel by using a 50 Hz output mode. I think this should normally be possible when using HDMI. I have a PC connected to my TV with a DVI-HDMI cable running 1920x1080 at 50 Hz and this is very good with WinUAE with VSync. It can be a little tricky to get a proper picture with WinUAE if you haven't tried it before, otherwise I'm sure someone will attach a good preset in here if it's needed.
I'm hoping to see some proper shader support soon in WinUAE, like the recent screenshots from FS-UAE shows. Would be very cool to have a good CRT emulation. |
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