Amiga - Happy 30th birthday

[KaraK]

I loved my A600.... I had a PCMCIA hard drive, an external floppy drive that supported the high density disks (1760 KB per disk.... WOAH!)

Cannon Fodder, Lemmings 1&2, Frontier (Elite II), Chaos Engine, Bomberman, Monkey Island 1 & 2... I could go on!

[8bit]

Armour-Geddon I and II were ace. I never had much idea what to be doing really so I just built tanks, helicopters and fighters and tore about blowing stuff up. I really must fire up an emulator and get them again, now I'm a bit older and more patient.

Loved Carrier Command as well, bought the new PC rehash of it recently but it just doesn't get me interested the same way that the 8bit and 16bit versions did.

[Zoon]

8bit said:

Armour-Geddon I and II were ace. I never had much idea what to be doing really so I just built tanks, helicopters and fighters and tore about blowing stuff up. I really must fire up an emulator and get them again, now I'm a bit older and more patient.

Loved Carrier Command as well, bought the new PC rehash of it recently but it just doesn't get me interested the same way that the 8bit and 16bit versions did.

Carrier Command was brilliant, way ahead of it's time.

[rhinochopig]

GrizzlyBear said:

I still have a 1200 in the attic, still works fine.

The amount of time I must have spent playing Elite, then Frontier. Syndicate was great. Wish I could get them on my Laptop now.

Syndicate was free on the PC on origin a while ago.

I had a 1200 then the desktop version with the 030 processor - not the 040 with the maths-co pro - as we used them at uni for DTP and 3D stuff.

I always wanted a video toaster but sadly student funds did not allow.

Superb machines even if HAM colour was a bit of a swizz.

[KaraK]

Oh god.. more keep flooding back to me!

The original Settlers, Pinball Dreams (etc), Beneath a Steel Sky (how many floppy disks!?!?), Worms, and of course the utterly brilliant Syndicate - argh.. I might have to have a play with getting an Amiga emulator up and running over the weekend!

[qube_TA]

Probably one of my top 5 games ever!

[FourWheelDrift]

Xenon 2 Megablast - https://youtu.be/y0cACVRFguk?t=315

[Quickmoose]

I recall waking up excited after letting the thing run all night, just to see what a hi-re chrome ball looked like floating above a checkered floor... I put it there and I decided where the light source was. I was a graphics god!

[wiggy001]

'A bit more loft sorting today...

My weapon of choice:


And no-one was beating me in a Lotus with these bad boys:

[FourWheelDrift]

I still remember playing Geoff Crammonds Formula One Grand Prix as soon as it came out 1992, based on the 1991 season because it had Pedro Chaves who we never saw on the BBC because he never qualified for a race. And loving the PC Format (I think it was) cover disk with the F1GL editor and creating different seasons cars and drivers including the liveries, as the basic editing would allow. And racing against the AI which I had speeded up and I raced with maximum drag no aids and still beat them over race distances

All with a digital joystick first and then an analogue joystick.

It looked so much better in 1992 than this, I think this is a fake - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY20Vb2b9KQ

[TurricanII]

qube_TA said:

Probably one of my top 5 games ever!

Agreed!

[mp3manager]

wiggy001 said:

'A bit more loft sorting today...

My weapon of choice:

I had one of those, ISTR it not lasting very long.

However, my Konix Speedking is still going strong today, after all many, many hours of playing Rainbow Islands.

[qube_TA]

TurricanII said:

qube_TA said:

Probably one of my top 5 games ever!

Agreed!

Tangent:

There was a PC version which was exactly the same but had 256 colours and ran faster, was great.
Remember back in the days on Windows 3x & 9x when some software wouldn't run under anything, you had to boot the computer from from it, no himem.sys and all that stuff, no MSDOS to get it to run, this was one of those, I've never been able to find a PC emulator that will run it, it's a pity as the VGA graphics and 16-bit sound were just fantastic, way better than the original Amiga version.

[dxg]

mp3manager said:

wiggy001 said:

'A bit more loft sorting today...

My weapon of choice:

I had one of those, ISTR it not lasting very long.

However, my Konix Speedking is still going strong today, after all many, many hours of playing Rainbow Islands.

Ah, autofire. That takes me back. R-type, jumpers for goalposts, Xenon...

[8bit]

mp3manager said:

However, my Konix Speedking is still going strong today, after all many, many hours of playing Rainbow Islands.

I had one of those, great 'stick. Also had their other model of the time, the Navigator:

[FourWheelDrift]

I started off with one of these


Then one of these


Then the analogue one for flying and driving sims.

[rhinochopig]

FourWheelDrift said:

I started off with one of these


Then one of these


Then the analogue one for flying and driving sims.

I would one of those - middle one - and it was crap. Felt nice but it was not very strong.

The kiddie was this bad-boy which was indestructible and used industrial grade micro switches.

[FourWheelDrift]

I had one of these as well

[triggerh4ppy]

rhinochopig said:

I would one of those - middle one - and it was crap. Felt nice but it was not very strong.

The kiddie was this bad-boy which was indestructible and used industrial grade micro switches.

OMG I still had one of these lying around the house. Was thrown in toyboxs for my nephew nieces and its still in perfect condition. I miss speedball.... and James pond..

The loading screen has been permanently burnt into my brain

[wiggy001]

FourWheelDrift said:

I started off with one of these


Then one of these


Then the analogue one for flying and driving sims.

They all look familiar as joysticks I either owned or friends had.

I also remember loving this whilst it lasted: