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    Any Amiga fans in here?

    Just thinking about the years gone by and this fantastic computer..

    My spec:

    Amiga A1200
    Blizzard 040/40 with 16MB EDO Simm
    WD 1.6GB 3.5" HD
    Sony 4x CD-Rom

    Fave games:

    K240
    Dune II
    Settlers (with huge maps! - oh and 2 player with 2 mice, same screen - yay!)
    Alien Breed 3D
    Scorched Earth (PD game but tops with friends + beer!)

    It played MP3's (albiet with no cpu time left) with good quality, took 1 1/2 hours per track to encode tho....

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    i had an amiga a600 and i loved that little puter !!!
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    the chaos engine and championship manager italia were my faves
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    Re: Any Amiga fans in here?

    Originally posted by Rabs
    Just thinking about the years gone by and this fantastic computer..

    My spec:

    Amiga A1200
    Blizzard 040/40 with 16MB EDO Simm
    WD 1.6GB 3.5" HD
    Sony 4x CD-Rom

    Fave games:

    K240
    Dune II
    Settlers (with huge maps! - oh and 2 player with 2 mice, same screen - yay!)
    Alien Breed 3D
    Scorched Earth (PD game but tops with friends + beer!)

    It played MP3's (albiet with no cpu time left) with good quality, took 1 1/2 hours per track to encode tho....
    Wow you must have held on to the bitter end m8

    I miss the amiga it was simple to use no real incompatiblitys
    (except turning off extra floppy drives and extra ram sometimes)

    I liked all the games you listed by the way especially K240 played that for months..

    Settlers played with 2 people on separate mice..well that was very enjoyable and what a great idea why dont they do that on the PC??

    I had the A500 with 512K ram upgrade an external floppy drove. and later
    a A1200 with 1MB upgrade and 80MB HD and two external floppy drives.
    Sadly i bought the A1200 when Commodore went bust and all the games started disappearing off the shelves replaced with PC, Megadrive,SNES and MegaCD.

    Also had a CD32 for 2 days sent it back as i got conned out of money and had to threaten legal action to get it back, they took the Console back and refunded me all the money and then i realised it was the best thing that could have happened

    My list of games i enjoyed (wont say it was best, cant remember them all)

    WINGS, It Came From The Desert 1 & 2, Supercars 1 & 2
    K240 (as you have mentioned)
    Rocket ranger, Populous, Powermonger, Simcity
    Secret of monkey island 1 & 2 (with its excessive disk swapping)
    Indiana jones atlantis, Zool, Robocod/p

    Loads more but better stop there getting too long
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    Ravens Nest: you never played Scorched Earth mate? That was one fantastic game, looked crap but played mega...shame alot of games these days are the other way round...

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    Still have na Amiga 500+ 1mb of memory

    Fave game on the Amiga with out a doubt was Wings.

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    i thought cannon fodder was amazing when that first came out totally forgot about that one
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    Originally posted by Rabs
    Ravens Nest: you never played Scorched Earth mate? That was one fantastic game, looked crap but played mega...shame alot of games these days are the other way round...
    ah but thats where your wrong, i played it
    one tank vs another over a randomly generated field moving the turret to aim and then using different angles to hit the other tank.

    I think the man who made it went on to make Worms, might be wrong?

    Re: Monkey Island - I was spoilt and used a HD, needed especially with MI2 :/
    Snob

    Cannon fodder, yep amazingly hard and addictive, 'Sensible software' what are they doing now??
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    Still got my two amiga's in the loft

    Ye olde A500, and my old A1200

    A500 had 2 fdd's and 4 megs of ram etc

    A1200 had 500mb 2.5" HDD, Blizzard 030 @ 50MHz + FPU, 18 megs of ram, Squirrel SCSI II, SCSI 4x CDROM and it's own dedicated proper multiscan monitor

    Might dig it out later and slap linux on it for a giggle
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    I've still got my amiga 500 somewhere still (parents loft?). As you can see from my sig I did the nostalgic emulator run a while back. Top 10:

    Civilisation
    Monkey Island
    Stunt car racer
    Colonisation
    Formula 1 Grand Prix
    R Type
    Knights of the Sky
    Eye of the Beholder
    Megatraveler
    Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge

    Pretty much all my fav games were out on the PC. Hmmm... I think I still have a fairly comprehensive Amiga power magazine collection somewhere.

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    A500 with 4MB RAM Didn't think that was possible....

    Ah well, that was a long time ago. I had an Amiga 500+ with 1MB RAM.

    At the time my favourite games were the Lotus Turbo Challenge series (All 3), Dizzy's, Cannon Fodder, Lemmings (1&2), Pinball Fantasies and Skidmarks. Oh, anyone remember Mortal Kombat, just like the arcade version!!! Blood and everythng. That was fun, beating up my brother!

    Actually, so fond of it I have the emulator (WinUAE) and a collection of games. Brings back when I was small and had the power supply to warm my little toes in winter, just like the C64 did.

    Then my Dad came home one day with a PC and Commander Keen. I was pretty hooked, but liked the instant playability of my Amiga. Then Doom came along and the rest was history! Doom made me the PC nut I am today. You can't imagine how excited I'm getting over Doom3 (You REALLY can't).
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    Originally posted by siu99spj
    A500 with 4MB RAM Didn't think that was possible....
    512KB onboard, 512KB in the trapdoor (with the mod to make it 1MB chip ram - mmmsolder ) , and 3MB in an expansion thingy bolted onto the side expansion slot
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    Re: Any Amiga fans in here?

    Originally posted by Rabs
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    My spec:

    Amiga A1200
    Blizzard 040/40 with 16MB EDO Simm
    WD 1.6GB 3.5" HD
    Sony 4x CD-Rom
    god thats like my comp now

    Mm cookies

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    One of my mates is still into Amiga's and I am interested in them, they are ment to be working on some new stuff (hardware is out, OS on the way). He has just built what we reckon is one of the fastest A4000 in the UK. The system is based around a pro video editing card, card was used in TV studio. I will try and get the specs of him tomorrow. Fav game was K240, frontier was good, but best was all the PD stuff. Great thing about them is that you can fit just about every Amiga title on an 18gig drive with room to spare. Its incredible what you can fit inside a 4000 dektop case, The zorro cards cross the entire depth of the case but its still designed so that the airflow cools everthing. Pity they died out. I did go to a small Amiga show the other year, was very scary , they were looking for PC owners to stone to death with old Amiga mice, very rabid lot and slightly odd.
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