Commodore Amiga

JupiterKid

Following on from the Commodore 64 thread, were any boardsies of a certain age the proud owner of a Commodre Amiga?

I got an Amiga 500 for my 15th birthday in 1990 and I loved that computer with all my heart. It had fantastic games - like Lotus Challenge, Test Drive, Kick Off II, Lemmings, F1500 Interceptor, The Legend of Monkey Island, Sim City and so many, many more.:)

I spent so much time on the Amiga. It was such a step above the C64 and what had gone before. It also had a word processor and spreadsheet package and Deluxe Paint III as well. It was brilliant!

Share your memories here.:cool:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c3/Amiga500_system.jpg

Chancer3001

Used to play settlers and gods all the time on it.

But sensible world of soccer was so far ahead of its time in terms of database. It was insane

The Backwards Man

We only ever got an Atari 2600 from Santa.


The following year he gave us a game for it

Drumpot

I was never lucky enough to get the fancy schmancy amiga or the Commodore 64. I got the zx spectrum and then the Amstrad cpc464!

By coincidence I took home my old Amstrad today (mum is moving so I went through my stuff in attic). I checked and it works so I'm gonna try and hook it up for my young lads tomorrow. Given their love of Minecraft I will be interested to see if they don't mind the graphics!

kfallon

3 little words.......Kick Off 2

mikeecho

Can we have a poll


I vote: Atari Jaguar

Atlantic Dawn

Dune 2, Cannon Fodder and Sensible World Of Soccer, pretty much could do an all day binge on either.

rockatansky

kfallon wrote: »

3 little words.......Kick Off 2

I think you will find it's 2 little words..... Golden Axe!

kfallon

Supercars 2 was the shít also!
Secret of Monkey Island needs to be mentioned also

Slydice

RoboCod!

Thread. Done!

kowloon

Syndicate.

DrGreenthumb

The Backwards Man wrote: »

We only ever got an Atari 2600 from Santa.


The following year he gave us a game for it

I'm guessing the next year after that you got a tv to play it on

AllGunsBlazing

Never had one, but bloody hell did I ever want one!

darkpagandeath

westwood studios rocked.

DrGreenthumb

darkpagandeath wrote: »

westwood studios rocked.

Affirmative.

drunkmonkey

Still got my Rocket Ranger mpg to the moon calculator.

wyrn

DrGreenthumb wrote: »

Affirmative.

Our clan is strong

wyrn

Had an Amiga 500. Used to spend hours playing Lemmings. I can tell which level I was on by the corresponding classical music. Even now if I heard something Rondo Alla Turca, I get a flash back to Lemmings.

I also had The Simpsons & Captain Planet. Both of those were so hard to play. Didn't get very far in either

lmimmfn

Had an A500, A2000 with multisync monitor, and still have my accelerated 10meg 030 50Mhz A1200, which I recently updated with a 4gig flashcard as a harddrive replacement, WiFi card and adapter so I can connect it to the TV with Hdmi with decent resolutions

Fantastic computer back in the day, used to do everything on it, 3d modelling, paint and animation, programming and of course gaming.
I downloaded over 2000 games for it recently and put the on the flashcard, its great playing the games I missed back in the day due to no funds.

Great memories and my old beast is still going strong, needs to be recapped mind

Chain Smoker

back when I had terrible dialup, it was much easier to download amiga versions than the PC versions (more parts), so I got a bunch of lucas games that way.

****ing bitch to emulate iirc, switching disks the whole time or some ****.

JupiterKid

The games for the Amiga were on floppy disks so they were pretty easy to copy. The game developers sometimes had "code cards" to prevent illegal copying but these could be copied as well. I wasn't in a position to afford to buy that many games from new so I copied the vast majority of my games in my collection.

And what great games they were! I spent hours and hours playing those games.

Canis Lupus

I went from a C64 to a SNES but I had that C64 well past it's sell by date. We weren't the richest family. I longed for an Amiga, it looks like it had such cool games.

Ursus Horribilis

I wrote essays and my thesis on one which sounds horrifying to my ears now. We didn't have a monitor but a portable TV. This was back in the days when laptops were prohibitively expensive and there were only so many computers to go around in the college.

It was the first time I used a mouse. It also had Workbench which was my first encounter with a version of Windows. We used to type rude words into the speech synthesizer just to hear the Stephen Hawking voice say them out loud.

It wasn't all work. I enjoyed playing Lemmings, Lotus 2 & 3, the Team 17 games, Speedball 2, Batman, Cannon Fodder and Sensible Soccer. The Amiga magazines used to come with cover disks and there were some superb public domain games on those.

At the time it was a fantastic computer and arguably better than PCs at the time. It had superb sound and graphics, was easy to use and was quite a step up from the ZX Spectrum we'd had before that. Piracy killed it though. That and the emergence of the easier to use Nintendo SNES and Sega Megadrive.

Saddo that I am, I still play the games from time to time on an emulator.

seamus

My brother got the one with the movie pack (Shadow of the Best, BTTF, Nightbreed & Days of Thunder) and we used it for years. He had just started in college, so got the RAM upgrade and tonnes of pirated games. We never had a console, there was always enough gameplaying in the Amiga.

Same as Ursus, we used a portable TV for it. On the odd special occasion (like if there was a new game at Xmas), it was allowed to be plugged into the "big" 20" TV in the sitting room.

My brother-in-law gave us his one; mint condition with like 50 legit games in original boxes. The intention was to sell it, but they actually don't seem to fetch that much. I'd be more inclined to hold onto it for nostalgia purposes.

AndyBoBandy

We had an Amiga 500, that came with F/A 18 Interceptor & Batman, both great games, with Interceptor having that stupid code card that if you didn't have it, couldn't play the game!

CINCLANTFLT

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

We had an Amiga 500, that came with F/A 18 Interceptor & Batman, both great games, with Interceptor having that stupid code card that if you didn't have it, couldn't play the game!

That sounds like the Amiga 500 that came out about a year before the 500 plus... my friends had that version and we played F/A18 for hours, flying under bridges in SF bay etc. I finally got my Amiga about a year later.., a 500 Plus with an extra meg of RAM for a total of 1 meg!!! It came with Captain Planet etc.

For Forks Sake

mikeecho wrote: »

Can we have a poll


I vote: Atari Jaguar

You're doing it wrong, Atari ST would be the correct answer in this instance

ArthurG

I asked for one for years and years...... I finally got one when my granddad died and he left my mother a few quid...... I'd say I spent a vast amount of my 12 - 16 years on the thing (quite a while ago now....), and still remember it fondly. There's a dude on YouTube called Dan Wood who does lost of Amiga coverage and is entertaining to watch - also supercharged an A1200 like a poster above. Happy memories. If I ever get the time I'll set up an emulator and play Populous II again.....

CalamariFritti

Had Atari ST instead. The fact it was technically the better machine was lost on me. Always envied the Amiga crowd for their crazy amount of great games. Amiga was the business. The only thing that made the Atari ST bearable was it had Kick Off2 and Player Manager, too.

CINCLANTFLT

CalamariFritti wrote: »

Had Atari ST instead. The fact it was technically the better machine was lost on me. Always envied the Amiga crowd for their crazy amount of great games. Amiga was the business. The only thing that made the Atari ST bearable was it had Kick Off2 and Player Manager, too.

I had considered the ST but we had a C64 before the Amiga and we followed that path...

CalamariFritti

CINCLANTFLT wrote: »

I had considered the ST but we had a C64 before the Amiga and we followed that path...

Ye my dad thought there should be more than just games. You know learning computers and stuff. So he was told the Atari was the more serious machine and thats what I got. Don't get me wrong I was over the moon but really I wanted an Amiga, too. Thank fk all my friends had one.

Ah the endless hours of player manager, battle isle, speed ball 2 and what was that awesome formula 1 game called that came on 10! disks?

omb0wyn5ehpij9

I had an Amiga 1200. Got it for Christmas one year and spent a huge amount of time over the next couple of years playing it! I actually got it back recently (it was in storage in my sisters house), but I haven't turned it on.

Ursus Horribilis

I'm tempted to try this https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bHFcM8Ka3Sg

CINCLANTFLT

I'm not sure what happened to my one... I guess thrown out while I was in Uni... what's the best emulator and source for games?

Giblet

seamus wrote: »

My brother got the one with the movie pack (Shadow of the Best, BTTF, Nightbreed & Days of Thunder) and we used it for years. He had just started in college, so got the RAM upgrade and tonnes of pirated games. We never had a console, there was always enough gameplaying in the Amiga.

Same as Ursus, we used a portable TV for it. On the odd special occasion (like if there was a new game at Xmas), it was allowed to be plugged into the "big" 20" TV in the sitting room.

My brother-in-law gave us his one; mint condition with like 50 legit games in original boxes. The intention was to sell it, but they actually don't seem to fetch that much. I'd be more inclined to hold onto it for nostalgia purposes.

Hah, I had the exact same one. Man we used to pirate so many games. Nightbreed I remember just being really difficult, what was with the driving section in that?

F/A-18 Interceptor was another favourite of mine.

bop1977

I had an amiga cd. It had an infra red remote controller. I spent ages playing sensible soccer and my favourite game of all time the chaos engine.

Riddle101

My dad had one when I was a kid. It's been a long time but I remember the games we used to play. Settlers, Dune, Civilization, Lords of the Realm, Dungeon Master. I used to play a football game called Gazza, and Battle Chess.

_Kaiser_

Had the 500 and then a 1200. They're both still around at home I think. Must dig them out some day. Fantastic machines in their day

Mint Sauce

CalamariFritti wrote: »

Ye my dad thought there should be more than just games. You know learning computers and stuff. So he was told the Atari was the more serious machine and thats what I got. Don't get me wrong I was over the moon but really I wanted an Amiga, too. Thank fk all my friends had one.

Ah the endless hours of player manager, battle isle, speed ball 2 and what was that awesome formula 1 game called that came on 10! disks?

Got the loan of that a (F1) couple of times. Absolutely awesome game and graphics, was blown away by it.

Was that the one as well, were you have to turn to a certain page, then paragraph, and enter the 5th word, think it was to avoid piracy at the time.

PauloConn

Dungeon Master was epic, never finished me, still haunts my dreams.
And all the others, Syndicate, Golden Axe, Rick Dangerous

faceman

I never had an Amiga but was super jealous of my friend who had one. In the end consoles took over but I must look up an emulator for the Mac.

Ursus Horribilis

CINCLANTFLT wrote: »

I'm not sure what happened to my one... I guess thrown out while I was in Uni... what's the best emulator and source for games?

I use Amiga Forever which is a paid one. There are others which aren't as user friendly (or at least weren't when I was looking around for them). I have also used UAE and Fellow. You're then getting into a grey area when it comes to getting your hands on the Kickstart roms needed to play the games.

kfallon

CalamariFritti wrote: »

Ah the endless hours of player manager

Alex Reeves playing til he was 86 (throw him in as full back :pac:) just so you could continue playing the games yourself

CalamariFritti

Mint Sauce wrote: »

Got the loan of that a (F1) couple of times. Absolutely awesome game and graphics, was blown away by it.

Was that the one as well, were you have to turn to a certain page, then paragraph, and enter the 5th word, think it was to avoid piracy at the time.

Yes it was supposed to make sure you had the printed booklet. We had a copy of that.

Chancer3001

Any emulators??

Reeeeeeallly wanna play settlets now!!

MisterDrak

I got a commodore VIC 20 back in 1981. I think it was one of the first machines in the country at that time. My dad bought it in the music shop McCullough Piggots (which is now Avoca on Suffock St), which from memory back them sold Pianos and wind Instruments, and Vic20's on the 2nd floor !

We used it mostly for playing games, (all in 3.5K) although any type of games were in very short supply back then, and mostly in the cartage verity.

Computer and Video games (C&VG) magazine used to publish actual listing of games every month. Typically these would by 200- 300 lines of basic code. Myself and my friends would spend 2-3 hours typing these in, then debugging the code. Playing the game for hours. We had no way of saving the code, so would have to re-type the whole program the next day to play the game again...

I remember buying a data cassette tape backup unit some time after, whole made the whole thing much easier.

When funds allowed I bought a few games on cassette, Pac man and Galaxias from memory.

I upgraded to a C64 around 84 and had that for a few years, but skipped the whole Amiga thing as I started work in 89 and we then had proper PC's in the bank.

That's whole Vic20 thing 35 odd years ago now :eek::eek::eek::eek:

Mint Sauce

CalamariFritti wrote: »

Yes it was supposed to make sure you had the printed booklet. We had a copy of that.

Although a mate did offer to copy it for me, did ask would I not need a copy of the book. Was told a copied/pirated version missed out the security question.



It was quite a big book though if I remember.

Ursus Horribilis

Chancer3001 wrote: »

Any emulators??

Reeeeeeallly wanna play settlets now!!

http://www.dosgamers.com/amiga/amiga-emulator-winuae

DublinWriter

Fantastic. Worked over Christmas and Stephen's days 1989 on a mega 36-hour shift to buy the A500.

Had a speccy before, but the sound and graphics on the Amiga were breathtaking (for the time!).

Friend of a friend had an A2000 and was the go-to guy in Dublin for the Amiga.

Chancer3001

Ursus Horribilis wrote: »

http://www.dosgamers.com/amiga/amiga-emulator-winuae

That seems a biter complicated.

Is there nowhere to click and play!??

Ursus Horribilis

I think you can play some in browsers