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 Post subject: Re: Amiga!
PostPosted: Fri Jan 12, 2018 14:34 
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It was just going to decay in my loft. The guy who bought it is a collector of retro things.

Although he's just rung me and said it's not working. The first thing he did was open it up and pull out the accelerator. :facepalm:


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 Post subject: Re: Amiga!
PostPosted: Fri Jan 12, 2018 21:26 
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RuySan wrote:
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I've just sold my amiga.

I have mixed feelings.


Read my blog to ease the pain:

http://amigamemoirs.blogspot.com/


Will do. Ta.


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 Post subject: Re: Amiga!
PostPosted: Wed Apr 25, 2018 14:05 
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:attitude: celebrated 27(8?) years of amiga power by uploading most scans/ adding to the amiga magazine rack scans http://wosland.podgamer.com/28-years-later/#more-15201

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 Post subject: Re: Amiga!
PostPosted: Wed Apr 25, 2018 18:42 
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Excellent stuff. The AP Archives are saved, finally!


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 Post subject: Re: Amiga!
PostPosted: Thu Apr 26, 2018 1:16 
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What-ho, chaps!

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I never understood why AMR doesn't archive every single page, every single advert, and every single Special Reserve catalogue index. Why have the capacity for completion and perfection in your grasp and deliberately ignore it?

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 Post subject: Re: Amiga!
PostPosted: Thu Apr 26, 2018 8:44 
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MrD wrote:
I never understood why AMR doesn't archive every single page, every single advert, and every single Special Reserve catalogue index. Why have the capacity for completion and perfection in your grasp and deliberately ignore it?


Back when they were published, we would have skipped through the adverts to get to the content. These days, the adverts are one of the main things I want to see, as an illustration of life and prices in an era long since past.


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 Post subject: Re: Amiga!
PostPosted: Thu Apr 26, 2018 9:18 
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Kern wrote:
MrD wrote:
I never understood why AMR doesn't archive every single page, every single advert, and every single Special Reserve catalogue index. Why have the capacity for completion and perfection in your grasp and deliberately ignore it?


Back when they were published, we would have skipped through the adverts to get to the content. These days, the adverts are one of the main things I want to see, as an illustration of life and prices in an era long since past.


:this:
I had a few speccy games delivered yesterday, and although it was nice to own stuff like Death Chase and Pyjamarama again, this little ad inside one of the games caught my eye the most -

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Affordable recruitment - just stick a little bit of paper inside your game. :)


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 Post subject: Re: Amiga!
PostPosted: Fri Apr 27, 2018 2:08 
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No email, no website, just an address and a telephone with the 01 prefix. For some reason, I always enjoy seeing an old sign or note that still has 01 as the dialling code for London.

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 Post subject: Re: Amiga!
PostPosted: Fri Apr 27, 2018 3:46 
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I recently watched a 30 minute video of someone tinkering with their A500 (albeit accelerated, but it would apparently still work without) to send and receive emails.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tztA6g7 ... e=youtu.be

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 Post subject: Re: Amiga!
PostPosted: Sun Jan 20, 2019 17:19 
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Did I have an aneurysm or was there a secret release of the Bitmap Brothers Amiga game GODS currently floating around on the Xbox store?

Remember GODS? I thought it was decent back in days of yore. Better than Magic Fucking Pockets that’s for sure.

Turns out, I was completely lucid!

Here’s the trailer!



It has NEW graphics and OLD graphics. Frankly I’d rather have The Hulk tug me off aggressively than play this.

And the price? £16.49.

Go. Fuck. Yourselves.


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 Post subject: Re: Amiga!
PostPosted: Sun Jan 20, 2019 17:49 
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How has anyone looked at the new graphics on the main character and thought that they've done a better job than the original?


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 Post subject: Re: Amiga!
PostPosted: Sun Jan 20, 2019 17:53 
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I never rated the original game back in the day, very much style over substance. Was clunky as fuck and very frustrating to play.


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 Post subject: Re: Amiga!
PostPosted: Sun Jan 20, 2019 19:24 
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Gods was awful, terrbly slow shite.

The remake looks super-budget game tripe.


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 Post subject: Re: Amiga!
PostPosted: Sun Jan 20, 2019 22:51 
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Was Gods one of the games that viewers could play on Saturday morning TV shows by calling in and mashing their touch tone (surry, pulse diallers) phone keys?

I remember Magic Pockets was one, but there were others too. And it looked like an incredibly frustrating, crap way to play - even in the 90s, when crap was more acceptable/tolerable.

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 Post subject: Re: Amiga!
PostPosted: Sun Jan 20, 2019 22:54 
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Sir Taxalot wrote:
Was Gods one of the games that viewers could play on Saturday morning TV shows by calling in and mashing their touch tone (surry, pulse diallers) phone keys?

I remember Magic Pockets was one, but there were others too. And it looked like an incredibly frustrating, crap way to play - even in the 90s, when crap was more acceptable/tolerable.


Weird Dreams was another of those.

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 Post subject: Re: Amiga!
PostPosted: Sun Jan 20, 2019 23:16 
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I remember when there were some phone-ins where the caller would yell "up, left no..left, LEFT, I mean right, argh" and I assumed there was some unlucky sap holding the joystick and trying not to stuff it up.

But then, with the touch-tone version, I assumed in my naive young innocence that there was some sort of technological interface used to control it.... but was there? Either way, it was still a bit janky...

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 Post subject: Re: Amiga!
PostPosted: Mon Jan 21, 2019 10:32 
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No, from what I remember there was basically a guy behind the "screen" on the TV holding a joystick plugged in to the computer that was running the game, listening to the instructions being given.


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 Post subject: Re: Amiga!
PostPosted: Tue Jan 22, 2019 13:02 
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yeah! we were a bit afraid, but luckily there will be a sensidays 2019.... in fulda (germany) 28/29 july .. so grab that cheap flight and enter the european union guys....

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 Post subject: Re: Amiga!
PostPosted: Tue Sep 08, 2020 12:34 
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Cam Winstanley's wrut aboot Dune 2 for ROM:

https://readonlymemory.vg/the-making-of-dune-ii/

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 Post subject: Re: Amiga!
PostPosted: Tue Sep 08, 2020 16:11 
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Never seen that site before. Bloody love its art direction.


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 Post subject: Re: Amiga!
PostPosted: Tue Sep 08, 2020 16:19 
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Findus Fop wrote:
Never seen that site before. Bloody love its art direction.


Their books are supreme.

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 Post subject: Re: Amiga!
PostPosted: Tue Sep 08, 2020 18:29 
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Dimrill wrote:
Cam Winstanley's wrut aboot Dune 2 for ROM:

https://readonlymemory.vg/the-making-of-dune-ii/


Good timing with herzog zwei getting a nice release on the switch and c and c remastered

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 Post subject: Re: Amiga!
PostPosted: Sun Nov 15, 2020 12:10 
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https://zxrenew.co.uk/*Pre-Order*-Arcad ... p230126529

9 pin Amiga compatible joystick made with genuine sanwa arcade parts. Bit spendy for me, but some of you might be interested


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 Post subject: Re: Amiga!
PostPosted: Sun Nov 15, 2020 13:37 
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romanista wrote:
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Cam Winstanley's wrut aboot Dune 2 for ROM:

https://readonlymemory.vg/the-making-of-dune-ii/


Good timing with herzog zwei getting a nice release on the switch and c and c remastered

There's an Android remake in early access.

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Anyone want to buy an A600hd before I eBay it?


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 Post subject: Re: Amiga!
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PM me some more details, Dr Zoidberg :)


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