j1mb0b1 Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 Dusting off the old commordore amiga 500 for crimbo Just got it out of loft and is the first time I have played it in over 10 years , Wow brings back memories makes a change from the PS3 or PC. Think i'am going to get a few lads round this weekend and have a few games of Lotus challenge I used to be a pro at that. Anyone still got theres ? Get it out!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 Wouldn't it be easier to just download an emulator? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest SupraGTE Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 Wouldn't it be easier to just download an emulator? i would say thats destroying half the fun feeling is gone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snooze Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 One of the best computer games ever was only available on the Amiga....."Base Jumpers". 4-player platform game which would also drop into mini-games which were multiplayer versions of classic arcade games (eg. might get a quick game of Joust, where the winner gets a bonus life in the main game, etc.). Unfortunately, unless someone can find a copy of the manual, the downloadable game rip for the emulator can only be played to the end of the first level, then you hit the "enter word X, page Y from the manual" copy protection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pistonbroke Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 I still play amiga games on winUAE. Moonstone is a favourite 4 player romp along with pinball fantasies and pinball illusions. I played through Another World and flashback the other day and surprised myself at remembering every part of every level. Another world took 30 mins to finish on the first go Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garetheves Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 Wouldn't it be easier to just download an emulator? Do u know of any good ones by any chance? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 Do u know of any good ones by any chance? Winaue is probably the best. I have played many a game on the Amiga emulator. There really is no substitute for the real thing though. If my house wasn't upside down at the moment I would probably do the same now that you have planted the seed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j1mb0b1 Posted December 14, 2009 Author Share Posted December 14, 2009 Winaue is probably the best. I have played many a game on the Amiga emulator. There really is no substitute for the real thing though. If my house wasn't upside down at the moment I would probably do the same now that you have planted the seed. One thing the Amiga emulator dont do is the very loud loading noises Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adnanshah247 Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 dude i have the commordore 64 with the complete deck and everything. accept for a lil dis-colouring its mint and has all the extra's! havent played it in like 9 years! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j1mb0b1 Posted December 14, 2009 Author Share Posted December 14, 2009 Wouldn't it be easier to just download an emulator? There is nothing quite like the real thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j1mb0b1 Posted December 14, 2009 Author Share Posted December 14, 2009 dude i have the commordore 64 with the complete deck and everything. accept for a lil dis-colouring its mint and has all the extra's! havent played it in like 9 years! Was the 64 better then for 500 ? or other way round ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 Was the 64 better then for 500 ? or other way round ? You don't know your computers and should be ashamed to be part of this thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The-Plethora Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 I started out with an Amiga 600 years back but I just have an Amiga CD32 now. I would recommend getting hold of one as it's basically a 1200 without the keyboard and I have quite a lot of compilation CDs with old games on (not legal obviously), beats messing with floppy disks and you still get the genuine experience. I just played and finished Turrican 1 and 2 in the last 2 weeks, not aged a day. Some of the best games on the system and well worth checking out are... 1. Hired Guns 2. Turrican series 3. Simon the sorcerer (CD32 Version with talkie soundtrack) 4. Apidya 5. Gloom 6. Knights of the sky 7. Shadow of the beast 1 and 2 (Man points if you dont use cheats!) 8. Skidmarks (Oh the humor when Colin in year 8 said "I have skidmarks") 9. Jetstrike 10. Alien Breed 11. Another world 12. Hunter 13. Frontier Elite 2 - I blame this for my crappy GCSE results 14. Mercenary 1 and 2 15. Shufflepuck Cafe 16. R-Type 1 and 2 17. Xennon 2 megablast 18. Dragonspirit 19. Eye of the beholder 2 20. Newzealand story I scour ebay looking for a nice 1200 but they have all gone nasty and yellow now with age although you can buy tower systems, and I want one of those things that dumps amiga disk images to the PC. I just realised after typing this how amazingly geeky this all sounds Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorin Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 Some good games mentioned there. I still have my Amiga 1200 with 120MB (yes MB) hard disk. Loved Moonstone, but it would usually crash when you got to the last boss! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevie_b Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 Was the 64 better then for 500 ? or other way round ? You don't know your computers and should be ashamed to be part of this thread. Indeed! Amigas of any flavour were a few years after the Commodore 64, so called because it had 64 kilobytes of RAM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j1mb0b1 Posted December 15, 2009 Author Share Posted December 15, 2009 You don't know your computers and should be ashamed to be part of this thread. Indeed! Amigas of any flavour were a few years after the Commodore 64, so called because it had 64 kilobytes of RAM. [OOPS][/OOPS] Well i'am not the biggest Amiga fan I only had and still have the 500, Just have the floppy disks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexsum Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 We were an ST household - but it is good to see how format wars are a thing of the past Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pistonbroke Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 One thing the Amiga emulator dont do is the very loud loading noises Win UAE does the loud loading noises too You have the option to turn it off, also, you can increase the load speed by 800%. It still does the disk drive noises, just very very fast Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pistonbroke Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 Some good games mentioned there. I still have my Amiga 1200 with 120MB (yes MB) hard disk. Loved Moonstone, but it would usually crash when you got to the last boss! You should have bought the original then instead of the dreamlight cracked one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adnanshah247 Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 the commodore 64 ran on games that were on tapes, so you play a tape and let the thing load up! lol, ow my days it take forever to start! this is what mine looks like:- http://images.google.co.uk/url?source=imgres&ct=img&q=http://www.tietokonemuseo.net/koneita/commodore642.jpg&usg=AFQjCNFiDBqkRwfbnHekqOm-LpGL5Le9vA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pistonbroke Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 We were an ST household - but it is good to see how format wars are a thing of the past Ahhh, the atari ST......I had one of them too, I remember the massive borders around the screen, along with the poor sound chip. Though aesthetically, much better than the Amiga. bit like the 360 v ps3 today Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pistonbroke Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 the commodore 64 ran on games that were on tapes, so you play a tape and let the thing load up! lol, ow my days it take forever to start! 64 games could also be bought on disks......big 5 inch floppy jobbies. I had a 128D, bit like a 64, but looked more like a PC. it did everything the 64 did and, well, nothing more really Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adnanshah247 Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 64 games could also be bought on disks......big 5 inch floppy jobbies. I had a 128D, bit like a 64, but looked more like a PC. it did everything the 64 did and, well, nothing more really you were more advanced than me didnt have the floppys! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomgeer Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 I've still got a zx spectrum 128k (with the built in tape deck) in the loft, must be over 15 years since I tried it but it was working when it was put into storage, my favourite games were New Zealand Story and a rare little game called Log Flume, I almost forgot Horace goes skiing for a minute there too. I loved my amiga 500, did anyone else have blues brothers and fire and ice? I would love to have a game of those two now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest SupraGTE Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 aa the spectrum i had one but i did not have built in deck, cant remeber the game i liked ,but it was a game with Merlin that was running around in castles damn it is long time ago I've still got a zx spectrum 128k (with the built in tape deck) in the loft, must be over 15 years since I tried it but it was working when it was put into storage, my favourite games were New Zealand Story and a rare little game called Log Flume, I almost forgot Horace goes skiing for a minute there too. I loved my amiga 500, did anyone else have blues brothers and fire and ice? I would love to have a game of those two now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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