Amiga Emulator question

i just have so many old disks and want to play them. the actual emulator is crap and buggy and there are hardly any games available for it.

it doesn't sound hopeful though does it. most of my disks will have a copy protection on them anyway, so that's that shot.

Moonstone
No Second Prize
Future Wars
Operation Stealth
Gravity Power
Alien Breed
Base Jumpers
Chaos Engine
Speedball 2
Jetstrike,
Settlers
Wizkid

I spent many a day with my amiga connected via a 30ft Serial cable to my next door neighbour playing

Lotus Turbo Challange
Skidmarks
Stunt car racer
Knights of the Sky

whilst chatting over a his younger brothers teenage mutant ninja turtle walkie talkies

Someone is trying to remake carrier command

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/martingbell/projects/

Xenon 2
Powerdrome
Cadaver
Shadow of the Beast (ropey game but I seem to remember the music being AWESOME)
The Killing Game Show

cool about the carrier command remake, i hope the guy finishes it.
But if he hasn't got the physics and general control feel the same i could be disappointed.

seconded:
Syndicate, Chaos Engine, Cannon Fodder, Sensible Soccer, Settlers, The Killing Game Show, Wings, Hired Guns

loads of movie clips to download showing run-thrus of games inc. many in their entirety. a real joy to see games like Turrican, Flashback and The Chaos Engine in action again.

yes to mullet.

battering my amiga emu lately.

played kick off 2 last night, and almost hit the roof when I finally scored past the super-goalkeeper.

Then i scored again, it was 2-0 at half time. too much pressure, lots of missed chances, and i ended up losing 3-2. gah!

are amiga emulators any better these days? i bet copyright laws wouldn't allow it but a bumper pack of the best amiga games + supereasy 'grandma-friendly' amiga emulator program would surely make big bucks and make many people happy.

just a quick flick through this thread brought back a whole host of memories: syndicate! silly putty! wizkid! pinball dreams! but i've been through the nightmare of winuae before and fucked if i'm doing that again

also this:
I spent many a day with my amiga connected via a 30ft Serial cable to my next door neighbour playing Lotus Turbo Challange, Skidmarks, Stunt car racer, Knights of the Sky whilst chatting over a his younger brothers teenage mutant ninja turtle walkie talkies
= amazing

the latest winuae i got from torrentz, came with all the correct rom files and a decent set of games. it seems pretty friendly to me compared to how i remember the first versions, and i've not had any problems with any of the games so far.

i have one for xbox too which is obv far more easy to use.

remind us of some more classic games, ste! screenshots and the like. i just yesterday started playing fallout3 so this is gonna take up all my time for months but when im done and fancy something more basic i may well get the latest winuae

i always remember exile (as mentioned above) being the most incredible game, it was kinda free-roaming wasn't it? wonder if it'd stand up these days, same with elite ii

also, why does the second disk drive never work with these emulators? it would save a lot of hassle with these multi disk games

i never played exile, was a click away from loading it last night so i'll go back and see.

i couldn't figure out how to do shit-all in exile.

i was gonna play a cadaver add-on episode thing that i'd never done before, but it stopped working after the first go.

so in exile, if i've accidentally blown up all three available grenades (due to not knowing the controls) I'm going to have to restart ?

Played Kick Off 2 Final Whistle last night, because I'm a masochist, and decided to play it in player cam mode rather than nearest-to-ball nonsense.

Hard. Played as a forward of course. On the rare occasion somebody passed me the ball it was really weak and I'd just mess it up anyway.

Struggling to understand what the hell I saw in this game, I remember playing it for ever, it's just torture.

I've just tried it! INFURIATING! So I'm strolling along and I see a well with a giant red flashing IN sign. So I go in, and wait for a tedious cutscene message, then descend a ladder. But at the bottom, I can't seem to get off the ladder, let alone go through the door at the bottom. Now of course I'm not quite sure if the controller is mapping everything properly so I spend a few minutes hitting every controller button, mouse button, and key on the keyboard, several times over, all to no avail. Eventually I give up and ascend the ladder, to be greeted at the top by another tedious cutscene message saying "perhaps a key would have been helpful". THANKS A BUNCH.

Then I died shortly after. Still, great music, lovely parallax scrolling (ah those were the days), perhaps I'll give it another go.
― ledge, Thursday, 15 March 2007 19:14 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Haha that's funny because I just watched this video yesterday of someone having exactly the same problem with the well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLmfoQk9YLI&list=UU5k1WRl47Vty4DboCiWt1pg

Ever since I read this post about Amiga Disk Format firmware for a USB/Floppy emulator, I've been thinking about getting an Amiga and giving it a shot. Well, I made a reckless eBay purchase yesterday, and will soon have an Amiga 1200 (which I coveted so much when I had an Amiga 600 as a youngster).

I watched the Viva Amiga documentary. A bit disappointing, it covered the rise and fall and the mismanagement by commodore, focussing on the failure to sell it as a business machine in the US. It scarcely mentioned games (there were head shots of engineers saying "we were building a games machine!" but just a couple of screenshots, no mention or discussion of actual games), didn't cover the demo or shareware scene. There was lots of talk about the music and graphical capabilities (it felt like there were over half a dozen shots of people saying "this machine was like nothing anyone had ever seen before!") it mentioned deluxe paint, didn't talk about any actual music software but spoke to some musicians in the present day underground diy revivalist scene.

Yeah I watched that too, I did enjoy the crazy chip tune music scene footage

yeah they were definitely having a good time!

my 1200 developed a floppy drive problem and you needed the floppy to boot the massive 420MB hard drive. in 2024 you can probably replace all that with an sd card that's 10x the size.

Whenever I fire up the emulator I usually end up on Dpaint drawing knobs etc

If you like Dpaint, there's a pretty neat paint program that uses similar interface for pc called grafx2

https://content.pouet.net/files/screenshots/00017/00017248.gif

At the time anyone serious about music would turn their noses up at the Amiga, because the Atari ST had built in MIDI ports and was therefore the goto for anything music related. But obviously the Amiga demoscene evolved in parallel with the rise of trackers, which were essentially music software for coders instead of musicians, and ended up being amazing in their own way. Good video on that history here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roBkg-iPrbw

The "Red Sector" tune at 8.43, from the bootlegged version of Great Giana Sisters, is such a classic

At the time anyone serious about music would turn their noses up at the Amiga, because the Atari ST had built in MIDI ports and was therefore the goto for anything music related. But obviously the Amiga demoscene evolved in parallel with the rise of trackers, which were essentially music software for coders instead of musicians, and ended up being amazing in their own way. Good video on that history here:

― JimD

this is my favorite thing about technology, the stuff that really gets its legs creatively is not the "serious" stuff. for instance, interactive fiction - you had plenty of "serious" people trying to do it back in the 80s. thomas m. disch, one of my favorite writers, tried to do an interactive fiction game called "amnesia" and it was a mess. as a writer, he didn't understand the medium.

https://www.filfre.net/2013/09/bookware/

similarly the amiga took off in large part, i think _because_ it wasn't hampered by MIDI's assumptions about music. also, it had a lineage going back to the C64... a lot of folks were doing SID music back in the day and just stuck with commodore.

that trackers video made me more nostalgic than the viva amiga doc, just seeing the demos/crackintros.