Any Amiga enthusiasts here?

x in the city

had an amiga 600, think i spent all my youth on it...:rolleyes:

http://www.reviewmylife.co.uk/blog/2010/07/06/commodore-amiga-mail-order-catalogue/


:rolleyes:

played some dominoes type game with a cartoon character mad for them quaver snacks, damn cant think of it again.

yrwhu8jxtni06a

x in the city wrote: »

played some dominoes type game with a cartoon character mad for them quaver snacks, damn cant think of it again.

Pushover,came with the wild,the weird,and the wicked A600 pack

Retr0gamer

Push Over, was a quality game.

Those Silica mail order ads used to rub it in my face in Commodore Format that I had a crappy C64 and not an amiga

opinion guy

There was nothing crappy about a C64!! Was awesome in its time!

Crowman

I have a modded Amiga A1200, Expansion card, CompactFlash drive, and a VGA output, it's a work of art really. Great machine, unfortunately I have it packed away in the Attic! I had to move a load of my precious retro consoles\computers out of the spare room due to the arrival of my new son...

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opinion guy

Isaac Unkempt Ferryboat wrote: »

Rainbow islands+golden axe

Ah I had forgotten golden axe! cheers for the reminder


What is this "caps" thing you all are talking about ?

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vixdname

tricky D wrote: »

Anyone remember the game they had in Rathmines Swan Centre. It had 2 Amigas in parallel powering a 3D VR simulator game with headset. And this was almost 20 years ago.:eek:

Hi Tricky, I'm not from Dublin but I was living up there many years ago and vaguely remember looking in the window of what i belive now to be an xtra vision video rental store and they had the VR set up in there, and I lived in Ranelagh, not a million miles from Rathmines and did frequent the Swan centre, was there an xtra vision store in the Swan centre back then ? If so maybe we're definitely talking about the same set up ?

opinion guy

Ah virtual reality! Remember when that was touted as the gaming of the future ???

LoGiE

opinion guy wrote: »

Ah virtual reality! Remember when that was touted as the gaming of the future ???

Funny they never mentioned the blinding headaches and motion sickness in a large number of people who tried it! While VR is dead I think we can look forward to Augmented reality. Now that could be seriouslyl freaky... I'm being chased by a giant pac-man and am I'm not on acid!

pickarooney

c - 13 wrote: »

Had an Amiga 600 back in the day. Fantastic machine, had a ton of games for it. Packed it away in the attic around the PS1 days - when I went looking for it later my mother informed me she's given it to a charity shop. Only recently begun to forgive her for that.

Mine did the same. Of course it was gone by the time I got to the shop to try buy it back. I've never really enjoyed computer games since.

mondeo

I have an A600 with games coming out of my ears.. Absolutely love it. I'd never sell it it's too precious to me.

oneillMan999

Shadow of the beast 2 on the A600...greatest game ever!! they dont make em like that anymore

opinion guy

oneillMan999 wrote: »

Shadow of the beast 2 on the A600...greatest game ever!! they dont make em like that anymore

Yeah that was awesome. Great graphics for its time

also The Secret of Monkey Island

murrayp4

Early teens wasted on an A600. Indiana Jones and the fate of Atlantis, desert strike, rainbow islands, settlers, cannon fodder and anything from team 17

opinion guy

Any Megalomania fans here ?

yrwhu8jxtni06a

Chaos engine+speedball 2

opinion guy

Speedball 2 was AWESOME

North and South.

Thou my all time favourite that I still play on occasion was Nuclear Wars. Great stuff. Maddening in its way.

sombaht

Still have my A500+ in the attic, will never part with it. Games like, Cannon Fodder, Sensi Soccer, Syndicate, James Pond, First Samurai and of course Xenon II. But what stole the show for me was the following demo, this is what convinced me to buy the Amig over the Atari ST . . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuesTvUYsSc

It still blows my mind today, nearly 20 years on, to think that came on a 1.44mb floppy and ran on a 7Mhz cpu!


So many many happy memories.

Cheers,
sombaht

yrwhu8jxtni06a

Hope you removed the battery inside the A500+,they where prone to leak!.

sombaht

Were the batteries on the actual mobo or within the trapdoor expansion cards?
Never thought about it until you mentioned it. Might try a power-up this weekend to see if its still alive.

Cheers,
sombaht

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If i remember right it was in the card itself,but its in a metal casing,so open it up,and if it has leaked,it should had only leaked within the metal casing,so if its broke you should be able to pick up replacement A500+ ram easy enough on ebay,on all my cards and old computers,i always removed the batteries,as most of them only served to save the time and date,there is batteries that dont leak like the coin/sealed ones,but i dont take a chance,i remove them.

o1s1n

Oh no! The guy I bought that Amiga from said hes having awful trouble with the RAM expansion. Opened it up and there was corrosion from the battery. Lucky he tested it again before sending it out.

He's after ordering a new one for me and should have it installed by next week.

Damn old hardware! Anyone know if that RAM will work without the battery? Is it for anything other than a system clock? If that's all it is it'll be coming out as soon as I get it.

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Board itself is powered by the amiga mb,battery most likely it only serve to save time and date*which you never need*,the A1200 board itself doesnt have a battery inside,most likely it probably be a coin type battery,if its stuck on board,you can get an electrical shears and snip it off.

opinion guy

Isaac Unkempt Ferryboat wrote: »

time and date*which you never need*

Pfft. Like who would ever need a four digit year in the computer memory ?? :rolleyes:

yrwhu8jxtni06a

Different era,not timemarked like nowadays when install software...

murrayp4

Oh...and Gunship 2000, Syndicate.

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A600 for sale here,dont wet yourselfs in excitement now lol

http://adverts.ie/287754

tricky D

+1 for SpeedBall 2. Used to have the version they ported to PC but it was very unreliable.

Also liked Ports of Call - nothing fancy about it but a great timewaster.