13 March 2009, 11:05 | #1 |
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Things you thought the amiga was never capable of
After seein the commodor 64 doing interlaced and more than 16 colours on screen it got me wondering about the amiga. So what I want to know has the basic amiga 500,1200,3000,4000 been pushed beond its original specifcation in any way ie more bobs on screen than was origanly intended
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13 March 2009, 11:24 | #2 |
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I pushed my 600 to the limits by running workbench in 16colours
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13 March 2009, 11:27 | #3 |
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- textured cubes in Obsession pinball (selection screen)
- 3D tunnel with textures in Arte demo (it's demo for A500) |
13 March 2009, 11:44 | #4 |
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1024 Bobs by Avoid
Maybe Sting can explain us how they 'faked' it |
13 March 2009, 11:53 | #5 |
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You can find lots of technically impressive effects on http://ada.untergrund.net/
Most effects are clever programming, as opposed to actually pushing any intended limits or functionality of the hardware. The C64 with its VIC was a lot more susceptible to hardware tricks, and the only trick for the Amiga that I can think of right off the bat is the "$102 trick" which is horizontal shrinking of the bitmap done by changing the fine scroll value rapidly across the scanline. If you've ever played Brian the Lion you will see a good example of this effect in the valved background graphics in some places. |
13 March 2009, 11:54 | #6 |
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I never thought the Amiga was capable of bringing together such a bunch of rejects like we have on EAB
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13 March 2009, 11:55 | #7 |
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13 March 2009, 11:56 | #8 |
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13 March 2009, 11:59 | #9 |
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Copying 1Gyte of files from a Compact Flash faster than my PC!
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13 March 2009, 12:04 | #10 |
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A few years ago now, an A1200 was the first computer I had connected to the internet - I remember being amazed that I was able to browse the web, send email and use ftp - absolutely none of my friends had access to the internet at the time...
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13 March 2009, 12:13 | #11 |
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Burning CD's at 8x speed on standard IDE.
Using USB 2.0 and be good at it. |
13 March 2009, 12:25 | #12 |
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Thanks Leffmann thats the kind of info I`m after, to others the ami is just capable of these feats with out pushing the hardware
and yep what a wonderful lot of retr0bates we all are |
13 March 2009, 12:47 | #13 |
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making me considering of buying Amiga in 2009.
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13 March 2009, 13:16 | #14 |
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During the 1993-1998 years I did read a lot about Amy's capabilities, but never actually cared or even dreamed about getting all that software and hardware.
Then came the PSX and the PC later and I forgot all about my Amy... Around 2001, I had a few nostalgic moments, but it appeared my Floppy has died... I lost hope in bringing my Amy back, due to no info on what's going on with it, or if anyone in the world still uses it... and then I found PPA & EAB. Anyways, here's the complete list starting from my "medieval knowledge about Amiga" and now: 1. internet 2. mp3's 3. big hd's 4. ps2 mouses 5. fmv's 6. cf cards |
13 March 2009, 13:38 | #15 |
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nice 1 shoony but i`m after info on the original hardware not addons or normal sofware programing
I`m after info on hidden things, things that the original hardware was thought incapable of doing. The obvious 1 that got incorporated into the hardware are the HAM modes, just a little software trick the yields incredible results. on a different note i remember watching the spaceballs demo for the first time and after gettin my jaw back up off the floor thinkin that they did all that on an a500 |
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13 March 2009, 14:16 | #19 |
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Yeah, those incredible two demos from SpaceBalls are so great that I even got a non-Amiga-using friend into thinking this is a real commercial music video
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13 March 2009, 14:20 | #20 |
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