amigo, tell me about amiga...

[Sebastian]

just wondering....i know nothing about that system. Some good sites would be helpfull too.

[icbrkr]

Might want to ask exactly what you want to know?

http://amiga.org
http://www.amigaworld.net
http://amiga.com

Those might help you out somewhat.

[Sebastian]

Might want to ask exactly what you want to know?

Basically all the gaming quesions...

- how good are the games
- what games u guys recomend
- how powerfull is it (what does it compare to)
- whats good
- whats bad
- whats the price
- is it worth the price?
- and so on LOL

EDIT

Oh...and emulation

what is the best emulator runing under XP...where to get roms?

[Phosphor Dot Fossils]

How powerful is it? I used an Amiga to do 3D animation, editing, and effects for a TV station for four years. Not a terribly powerful Amiga either, just one that happened to have the Video Toaster package.

In the end, it was a cranky old thing, but sometimes I miss it terribly. It turned out some great-looking stuff.

[Sebastian]

was it really expensive when it first came out then?

[Jorpho]

Pretty much the only name in town when it comes to Amiga emulation is WinUAE. I never had a terribly easy time configuring it and getting it to run, however, and I've never heard of anyone who did. Amiga in a Box (http://aiab.emuunlim.com/) or the commercial Amiga Forever (http://www.amigaforever.com/) (which is also the only legal method of Amiga emulation if you don't have a real Amiga on hand) is probably the best way of doing things.

[le geek]

The games compare roughly to SNES/Genny but in nice RGB (with a monitor) and way better music...

Lazy that I am here are some amiga links on my site...
http://www.abscape.org/legeek/re_amiga.htm

It was cheap for a nice computer (i.e. cheaper that a Mac II at the time) but expensive compared to a console...

a good starter set of games to try:
Cannon Fodder
Chaos Engine
Leander
Lemmings
Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge
Pinball Dreams
Rocket Ranger
Shadow of the Beast
Wings
Wizkid

Cheers,
Ben

[Raedon]

I sold my loaded C64 for $500 for some of the $800 the Amiga 1000 cost me. It's an amazing computer. Even to this day. I got it in 87? While kids were getting NES I was playing Defender of the Crown in 4 channel digital stereo along with games that even the SNES/GEN didn't touch. "The Pawn" was one of the last Text/graphic advintures I ever played and it was the last I finished. I never could finish Guild of Thieves and Tass Times was not that hard.

Some of the best versions of a game were found on the Amiga - Bard's Tale, Test Drive and pretty much any game you can think of that was ported around found it's best home on the Amiga.

There are games that came out at the same time as Zelda that just made the Consoles look like crap. S.D.I., DOTC, Firepower, Skyfox even the best pre-CD conversions of Dragon's Lair and Space Ace made it to Amiga on 4 floppies.

[icbrkr]

Might want to ask exactly what you want to know?

Basically all the gaming quesions...

- how good are the games
- what games u guys recomend
- how powerfull is it (what does it compare to)
- whats good
- whats bad
- whats the price
- is it worth the price?
- and so on LOL

EDIT

Oh...and emulation

what is the best emulator runing under XP...where to get roms?

The games are excellent, absolutely jaw dropping at the time (when I first saw a side scrolling shootem up running in 1988, I was amazed - the arcade experience at home! Amigas that came out in 1993/1994 were considerably more powerful than the SNES/Genesis at the time (68020/30/40, up to 262,000 colors out of 16.8 million on screen, etc).

Game wise, my faves: Dune 2, Syndicate, Cannon Fodder, Super Stardust, Chaos Engine, Zool 1/2, Road Rash, North and South, Lemmings. I used it alot as a computer since it is.. multitasking in as little as 512K kicked ass.

Bad? Compatibility between older models and newer models. It's a pain to get some older Amiga 500/1000/2000/3000 games to work on the Amiga 1200/4000.

Price can be anywhere from $50 to $500 - depending on what you want. Do a search for Amiga in this messageboard, I posted an explanation on the differences.

I think it's worth it.

However, it's a computer, so there's no "R0mz" - just disk images (unless you're talking about the built in Kickstart ROM). You can use them in an emulator but to me, it's better to make real disks from them and use them. I wrote how to do this in the same post as well.

[SoulBlazer]

What if you missed the Amiga back in the day and would like to check it out in a emulator, as I do? What games are unqiue or have the best version for the system and which Amiga OS is suggested?

[Jorpho]

It seems there are a lot of games for the PC, SNES, and Genesis that are really just ports of games that were much better on the Amiga. Or so I've been told.

As far as I can tell, you really don't need an OS most of the time with WinUAE; most of the disk images available are "bootable". If you really want to use the Amiga OS, the aforementioned Amiga in a Box package would probably be suitable, although you still need to find a Workbench 3.1 floppy image for it.

Incidently, there's a big archive of legal Amiga downloads at http://old-skool.net/home.php3 and http://www.back2roots.org/. (Last time I checked, the latter even included a few of the old Sierra adventures.)

[BigGeorgeJohnson]

What if you missed the Amiga back in the day and would like to check it out in a emulator, as I do? What games are unqiue or have the best version for the system and which Amiga OS is suggested?


I just download a emu and found a few games and got it all working within the last 15 minutes. It's not that difficult especially if you have emulated a other computer, like mac for example. Good Luck You don't need a OS by the way. You do need a boot rom though.

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