Happy birthday Amiga

Firefox · **Joined:** 20th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 261

The Hosepipe Demo!

GazChap · **Posted:** Thu Jul 23, 2015 11:14

Holy shit, someone has actually uploaded a video of Alien Pong Trilogy 2 to YouTube. I've had to apologise in the comments section.

Malc · **Posted:** Thu Jul 23, 2015 11:15

Shadow of the Beast
Lemmings
Secret of Monkey Island
Beneath a Steel Sky
Prince of Persia

Kern · **Posted:** Thu Jul 23, 2015 11:19

Firefox wrote:

The Hosepipe Demo!

The Bouncy Ball thing!

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14489

A stab at some Amiga games :

Lemmings
Speedball
Some type of Kick off
Pinball Fantasies
Shadow of the Beast (not that great but so impressive at the time)
Midwinter
Monkey Island
Rainbow Islands (for using the actual arcade graphics for the game)
Out of this world / Another World
Flashback
Prince of Persia
Dune II
Civ
Populous
Xcom
Syndicate
IK+
Super Stardust
Skidmarks
James Pond II
Stunt Car Racer

Kern · **Posted:** Thu Jul 23, 2015 11:25

This thread is giving me those bad 'I really should look on ebay for an A1200 to play these games in my mancave' thoughts again.
Might fire up 'Amiga Forever' this evening for some retro-Workbench fun.

TheVision · **Posted:** Thu Jul 23, 2015 11:29

The WinUAE emulator is surprisingly good these days. That's worth a look.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38460

TheVision wrote:

The WinUAE emulator is surprisingly good these days. That's worth a look.

You can even make it simulate the crunchy disc noise

Edit: disk, sorry

Kern · **Posted:** Thu Jul 23, 2015 11:39

DavPaz wrote:

TheVision wrote:

The WinUAE emulator is surprisingly good these days. That's worth a look.

You can even make it simulate the crunchy disc noise

Edit: disk, sorry

I'm still looking down at my PC expecting to see a disk drive whenever I load something and I hear the emulator's replicated drive-spinny noise.

TheVision · **Posted:** Thu Jul 23, 2015 11:43

I love that noise. It makes me happy. Anyway, the top ten list.

Here's the link to take a look yourselves. Zaphod named a few and there are a few more obvious ones on there but Warhead? I've never played that.

http://metro.co.uk/2015/07/23/the-amiga ... s-5308505/

Mr Russell · **Joined:** 6th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 12243

TheVision wrote:

I love that noise. It makes me happy. Anyway, the top ten list.

Here's the link to take a look yourselves. Zaphod named a few and there are a few more obvious ones on there but Warhead? I've never played that.

http://metro.co.uk/2015/07/23/the-amiga ... s-5308505/

I bet Warhead has.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38460

I wonder which ex-magazine staffer from the 90s wrote that.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38460

Heh, the Warhead video is of the ST version.

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu Jul 23, 2015 13:11

GazChap wrote:

Holy shit, someone has actually uploaded a video of Alien Pong Trilogy 2 to YouTube. I've had to apologise in the comments section.

What's the music that starts at 3:37 from? I recognise the shit out of it.

Findus Fop · **Joined:** 14th May, 2009 **Posts:** 4299

Grim... wrote:

GazChap wrote:

Holy shit, someone has actually uploaded a video of Alien Pong Trilogy 2 to YouTube. I've had to apologise in the comments section.

What's the music that starts at 3:37 from? I recognise the shit out of it.

Damn you. It's doing my head in now.

Kern · **Posted:** Thu Jul 23, 2015 14:57

GazChap wrote:

Holy shit, someone has actually uploaded a video of Alien Pong Trilogy 2 to YouTube. I've had to apologise in the comments section.

You appear to have made his day.

Satsuma · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14356

That's so funny! I love it.

JohnCoffey · **Posted:** Thu Jul 23, 2015 15:15

Happy Birthday my yellowing old chum. Unfortunately Mrs JC Senior could not afford you but you were better than the ST.

GazChap · **Posted:** Thu Jul 23, 2015 15:19

Grim... wrote:

GazChap wrote:

Holy shit, someone has actually uploaded a video of Alien Pong Trilogy 2 to YouTube. I've had to apologise in the comments section.

What's the music that starts at 3:37 from? I recognise the shit out of it.

Can't remember - have downloaded the archive from Aminet and inspected the mod file, no clues.

GazChap · **Posted:** Thu Jul 23, 2015 15:19

Here's another one, for Shoot Out.

myp · **Posted:** Thu Jul 23, 2015 15:37

Dr Zoidberg wrote:

I've seen the article so won't spoil it for people, but their choices weren't bad at all.

I remember *needing* an Amiga from the first time I saw an A1000 but didn't get mine till the A500 dropped to £399 in October 89.

Same. Well, my dad bought one. I was 7.

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu Jul 23, 2015 15:38

GazChap wrote:

Grim... wrote:

GazChap wrote:

Holy shit, someone has actually uploaded a video of Alien Pong Trilogy 2 to YouTube. I've had to apologise in the comments section.

What's the music that starts at 3:37 from? I recognise the shit out of it.

Can't remember - have downloaded the archive from Aminet and inspected the mod file, no clues.

Damnit!

Findus Fop · **Joined:** 14th May, 2009 **Posts:** 4299

I think maybe it's reminding me a bit of the theme tune to The Bill.

GazChap · **Posted:** Thu Jul 23, 2015 16:10

Only clue I've found is that the header of the protracker mod has "frac1" in the top of it.

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Thu Jul 23, 2015 16:17

GazChap wrote:

Holy shit, someone has actually uploaded a video of Alien Pong Trilogy 2 to YouTube. I've had to apologise in the comments section.

I can only assume that you were trying to give people seizures with the first (palette scrolling?) screen.

My poor eyes.

Bear or Bust · **Posted:** Thu Jul 23, 2015 16:21

Metro is actually quite good for gaming just steer clear of the clickbait guest article rubbish and concentrate on the reviews and letters.

I've read the list and sadly there's no Frontier on the list or Octamed either. What they have isn't bad though.

GazChap · **Posted:** Thu Jul 23, 2015 16:43

Mr Dave wrote:

GazChap wrote:

Holy shit, someone has actually uploaded a video of Alien Pong Trilogy 2 to YouTube. I've had to apologise in the comments section.

I can only assume that you were trying to give people seizures with the first (palette scrolling?) screen.

My poor eyes.

God only knows what I was intending to do. Certainly not "make a good game", anyway.

Hearthly · **Joined:** 11th May, 2008 **Posts:** 13382

Nice enough article here -

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2 ... s-industry

Even namechecks :attitude:

Quote:

I experienced the machine almost vicariously, through the brilliant magazines of the era, most importantly the anarchic Amiga Power, where irreverent writers like Stuart Campbell and Jonathan Davies helped create a new kind of games journalism.

RuySan · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 3542

Turrican 2
Rodland

And as for the emulator recommendations, FS-UAE is much much better than WinUAE.

TheVision · **Posted:** Thu Jul 23, 2015 18:48

FS UAE is the one I meant.. :facepalm:

Kern · **Posted:** Thu Jul 23, 2015 20:26

I obtained a ['remote online backup' - Ed.]of 'Hunter' and loaded it into the emulator.

Blimey, I'd forgotten how depressingly bleak that game is.

RuySan · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 3542

I still have no idea how that game fit in one disk

Curiosity · **Posted:** Thu Jul 23, 2015 21:55

No Supercars 2?

OMG WTF BBQ!

Achilles · **Joined:** 15th Nov, 2008 **Posts:** 484

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Morte · **Posted:** Fri Jul 24, 2015 7:16

I had to send my Amiga 500 back to my folks house for my final term at University, there was no way I was going to pass my finals if I had kept it in the flat.

Warhead · Noob as of 6/8/10

Mr Russell wrote:

TheVision wrote:

I love that noise. It makes me happy. Anyway, the top ten list.

Here's the link to take a look yourselves. Zaphod named a few and there are a few more obvious ones on there but Warhead? I've never played that.

http://metro.co.uk/2015/07/23/the-amiga ... s-5308505/

I bet Warhead has.

I can see why you might think that, but no, I didn't. I had an ST, not an Amiga. It's still up in the loft. I should get it down an challenge the kids to a Buggy Boy marathon.

Warhead · Noob as of 6/8/10

JohnCoffey wrote:

Happy Birthday my yellowing old chum. Unfortunately Mrs JC Senior could not afford you but you were better than the ST.

Wash your mouth out! :DD

Just kidding, but the old 'my Amiga is better than your ST,' argument will long be remembered.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38460

Tsk. The Amiga was objectively better than the ST, especially after the 1200 came out. Shouldn't matter to the ST owners though.

TheVision · **Posted:** Fri Jul 24, 2015 9:33

Kern wrote:

I obtained a ['remote online backup' - Ed.]of 'Hunter' and loaded it into the emulator.

Blimey, I'd forgotten how depressingly bleak that game is.

I had a quick go on this last night and you're right. I still didn't have a clue what I was doing though.

Warhead · Noob as of 6/8/10

DavPaz wrote:

Tsk. The Amiga was objectively better than the ST, especially after the 1200 came out. Shouldn't matter to the ST owners though.

Um, also, I couldn't afford an Amiga at the time.

romanista · **Posted:** Fri Jul 24, 2015 11:47

dusted my cd32 of a bit last night, and i'm going to a n amiga event next week (see other thread)

TheVision · **Posted:** Fri Jul 24, 2015 12:00

The CD32 is ace and mine is now a permanent fixture under my TV. I've been playing Deluxe Galaga on it a fair bit recently. It's good fun and the pad isn't as bad as everyone makes out.

Bobbyaro · **Joined:** 18th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 11843

Do we have all of them now, if not:
Streetfighter 2
Another World

Satsuma · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14356

Street Fighter 2? You cray cray.

MrD · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 2139

TheVision wrote:

Kern wrote:

I obtained a ['remote online backup' - Ed.]of 'Hunter' and loaded it into the emulator.

Blimey, I'd forgotten how depressingly bleak that game is.

I had a quick go on this last night and you're right. I still didn't have a clue what I was doing though.

Shuffle, Private Trigger Happy! Shuffle for all you're worth!!

RBR2 · **Posted:** Fri Jul 24, 2015 18:37

MrD · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 2139

I've never gotten up to the missile before. I didn't even know there was a missile until I saw a video of it online.

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