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What about calculator... or oscilloscope?
I think there's Doom versions for that too. |
12 January 2021, 16:36 | #43 |
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No. I betrayed the Amiga by not having mine repaired when it broke and simply moseying on to a PC, tossing the Amiga away. Regretful, but Toni gifted us WinUAE to soften the blow I felt a good decade later when the nostalgia bug started to bite me really hard.
A PC on which yes, I played games like the 7th Guest and Doom and Warcraft 2 and X-Wing and Sam & Max and a flipping huge list of games that never made it to the Amiga platform, at least not in any official capacity. |
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Streetfighter 2 killed the Amiga. I think it was 16 bit consoles that started it. Commodore underestimated the fact that the Amiga was the machine where you had the best-looking games. Once that changed with the SNES and MD. Users started to migrate to consoles. Sure the Amiga had a lot of productviity users too - but once you lose the mainstream that reduces the user-base and developers jump ship to the more lucrative waters. I was there at the time and read the interviews - with the developers saying things like "we are moving to consoles this will be our last Amiga game" and also how the Amiga was often no longer the lead format - like it had been in the past.
That's why I always say AGA was good but it wasn't good enough to get people to stay with the Amiga for the games. Even on the AGA machines there was nothing that looked and played as good as F-Zero for example. Even now that game looks good! Commodore needed to make more game specific hardware BTW I have never played Doom on an Amiga so I am now consider myself a loyalist |
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Sinclair made the same mistake as Commodore - they underestimated the importance of games to the Spectrum's appeal and thought it was all about low cost. The follow-up machines were business orientated and under powered and no-one wanted them. End of Sinclair... |
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That is why we have the ZX Spectrum Next https://www.specnext.com The Kickerstarter for issue 2 has recently raised £1,847,106 from 5236 backers https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...m-next-issue-2 Now imagine a Kickstarter for an Amiga Next kitted out with switchable FPGA cores for OCS, ECS, AGA, AAA and Hombre. How many backers would that attract? Last edited by Pierre; 13 January 2021 at 03:42. |
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For myself it's the exact opposite as in 1995 I played DOOM on an Amiga 3000 with CyberVision, emulating a mac
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Amstrad tried it , and gave it a fairly decent stab hardware wise with the CPC+ , but 16 bits were king by then |
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Well, SAGA is real, for one.
But both SAGA and AAA have zero games that support them. :P There is also a cool new 3D feature that will feature in the next core update. Here are the SAGA specs from apollo's wiki: https://wiki.apollo-accelerators.com...php/saga:video |
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Of course one can choose to stay OCS, it's the same as in the Spectrum world. Personally, I love my A500 and it offers a different Amiga enjoyment from the one the Vampire does, but I would not say that I would choose one over the other.
I am just answering about your comment on the existence of an Amiga Next. It's available, for those who want such a thing and it's pretty sweet. |
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I guess the Sam Coupe was halfway between the 8 bits and 16 bit but it was far too expensive to succeed. Everyone paid just a little bit extra and got an Amiga instead |
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Well, I have to disagree with most of your points here.
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Overpriced? Oh, you should check out the prices on X1000 etc Amigas. Understocked? V4 has increased production and now you can get one within days from your preorder. Quote:
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Well, compatibility improves all the time. I just flashed the new core yesterday and there has been a marked improvement in compatibility in classic Amiga games. And these cores are improved all the time. I don't think 040-060 are ABSOLUTELY compatible either and they had decades to improve, but don't quote me on that. Last edited by manossg; 13 January 2021 at 19:27. |
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