Favourite Amiga Games?

[amancalledrob]

Oh man I loved my Amiga 600, except it didn't have a numeric keypad like the 500, 500+ and 1200 so couldn't use a lot of the features on the paint program it came with. Loved Silly Putty, Gunship 2000, Desert Strike, Street Fighter 2, many others I've forgotten.

Also enjoyed programming in AMOS and I'm fairly sure Workbench (the file system and GUI) pre-empted Windows although I could be wrong

[Beati Dogu]

My housemate at the time had an Amiga 1200 set up in the living room, so I sold my 500+ as there wasn't room for it anyway.

I bought an add on board for the 1200 that added a more memory & a maths co-processor, so I could play around with 3D software like Imagine 3D and Vista Pro.

Even with PCs, you usually got an empty socket on the motherboard to add a maths co-processor to them, for use with the likes of Autocad. They weren't included in the CPU on the PC until the Intel 486DX.

[OllieC]

Beati Dogu said:

My housemate at the time had an Amiga 1200 set up in the living room, so I sold my 500+ as there wasn't room for it anyway.

I bought an add on board for the 1200 that added a more memory & a maths co-processor, so I could play around with 3D software like Imagine 3D and Vista Pro.

Even with PCs, you usually got an empty socket on the motherboard to add a maths co-processor to them, for use with the likes of Autocad. They weren't included in the CPU on the PC until the Intel 486DX.

what made the Amiga so good compared with IBM clones is that it had onboard chips for graphics and sound processing, something PC's lacked until much later (and even now decent graphics on the PC platform requires a separate add on card - onboard gfx don't cut it)

this meant even with a 7mhz (!?) 68000 it was capable of much better visuals and sounds than a typical PC with a more powerful CPU, which would have also cost more...

Workbench was a genuine multitasking OS, windows didn't get there till much later !

I'm not an Amiga zealot, but its downfall is depressing looking back, a marketing and strategic failure perhaps...?

[rufusruffcutt]

I lost months to this, absolutely superb.

[plasticpig]

OllieC said:

what made the Amiga so good compared with IBM clones is that it had onboard chips for graphics and sound processing, something PC's lacked until much later (and even now decent graphics on the PC platform requires a separate add on card - onboard gfx don't cut it)

this meant even with a 7mhz (!?) 68000 it was capable of much better visuals and sounds than a typical PC with a more powerful CPU, which would have also cost more...

Workbench was a genuine multitasking OS, windows didn't get there till much later !

I'm not an Amiga zealot, but its downfall is depressing looking back, a marketing and strategic failure perhaps...?

[geek mode on]

Workbench is not an OS; it's a GUI for an OS. The Amiga OS was called (funnily enough) AmigaOS.

[/geek mode off]


Also the Amiga is not dead you can buy a brand new Power PC based Amiga running Amiga OS 4.1

[-crookedtail-]

Games were much harder back then weren't they, either that or I was much younger

Not too sure if it was available on the Amiga, as I had an Atari ST but did anyone play hook, bloody hard for my young mind, never did work the game out!

Anyway my best mate had a load of copied games given to him on the Amiga, played sensible soccer for hours and hours!

[J4CKO]

Test Drive
Nebulous
F18 Interceptor
Lombard RAC Rally
Super Hang On
Buggy Boy
Outrun
Mortville Manor
Starglider 2
Honda RVF
Indy 500
Grand Prix
Stunt Car Racer
Supercars
Lotus Challenge
Rick Dangerous
North and South
Space Harrier
Addams Family
Xenon 2
Speedball 2
Barbarian
Battle Chess
Shufflepuck Cafe
Chase HQ
Chaos Engine
Encounter
Virus
Hard Drivin
Outrun

[jammy_basturd]

jammy_basturd said:

Zool
Pinball Dreams
Super Skidmarks
Micro Machines
Pang
Cannon Fodder
Gunship 2000
Sensible Soccer
Worms!!
Theme Park
Striker

Prince of Persia was half decent too.

+ Bomberman.

[DKS]

For something like £25 you can buy both C64 and Amiga Forever which is a package that will run the D64 and ADF files that the games come in on the internet. It's pretty awesome.
Also I have an Open Pandora on which I just completed Fire and Ice on the other day!
Stuck in the past, me.

Banshee was an utterly superb vertical scrolling shooter in the 1942/3 vain. Had the stupidest story ever. Inavading alien race murders Sven Svardnvart's dad for refusing to invent the microwave oven.
Only in the '90s!

[gaz1234]

DKS said:

For something like £25 you can buy both C64 and Amiga Forever which is a package that will run the D64 and ADF files that the games come in on the internet. It's pretty awesome.
Also I have an Open Pandora on which I just completed Fire and Ice on the other day!
Stuck in the past, me.

Banshee was an utterly superb vertical scrolling shooter in the 1942/3 vain. Had the stupidest story ever. Inavading alien race murders Sven Svardnvart's dad for refusing to invent the microwave oven.
Only in the '90s!

Eh? Link...

[DKS]

http://www.amigaforever.com/

[moustachebandit]

rufusruffcutt said:

I lost months to this, absolutely superb.

Played that to death. I loved the flight sims and desperately wanted to be a pilot in the RAF until my parents went out of their way to shatter my dreams!

My best stunt on that game was launching from the carrier, doing a big loop the loop and landing straight back onto the carrier!

[moustachebandit]

Here's a few random ones -

Shuffle puck cafe
Grand monster slam
No second prize

[andrew_huxtable]

moustachebandit said:

Shuffle puck cafe

Oft memory flashback of the glass breaking

[mp3manager]

OpulentBob said:

Browsing the Bay.

Were I to buy an Amiga now, would I be able to plug it in to a flatscreen TV?

I have a stock A1200 working on my Kuro plasma.



But I also have an emulated setup on my PC, using Amikit and OS3.9, as I have the OS CD's, and I have the AMiGA DE SDK too, when I feel like coding.

http://www.amikit.amiga.sk/



As for games, Llamatron by Jeff Minter, has to be my all time favourite.

Edited by mp3manager on Thursday 21st August 03:38

[westhamtim]

Many of the above plus:

Nuclear war
Moonstone
Toobin
How has nobody mentioned Geoff crammonds formula one?

Was looking at a USB competition pro extra to go with sensible soccer on an emulator recently. £20 on eBay.

[scorp]

OllieC said:

what made the Amiga so good compared with IBM clones is that it had onboard chips for graphics and sound processing, something PC's lacked until much later (and even now decent graphics on the PC platform requires a separate add on card - onboard gfx don't cut it)

this meant even with a 7mhz (!?) 68000 it was capable of much better visuals and sounds than a typical PC with a more powerful CPU, which would have also cost more...

Workbench was a genuine multitasking OS, windows didn't get there till much later !

I'm not an Amiga zealot, but its downfall is depressing looking back, a marketing and strategic failure perhaps...?

It's not to say it was better in every way, the Amigas CPU lacked an MMU, so when something crashed it usually took the whole system down with it (Guru meditation, etc).

Apart from that the OS was ahead of its time. Earlier Windows could have done pre-emptive multitasking, there was no reason PCs back then couldn't.

I guess the Amiga died through Commodores marketing incompetence and rampant piracy.

Best amiga games?

Turrican (and II)
Elite 2 Frontier
Damocles
Settlers
Flood
Syndicate
Battle squadron
Stunt car racer
F18 interceptor (bundled with my first OCS A500)

Edited by scorp on Thursday 21st August 08:12

[blueST]

I bought a second had A500 then upgraded A1200. I don't recall many good games actually taking advantage of the A1200 though.

And Beneath a Steel Sky was awesome. Just played it again on my iPhone.

[anonymous-user]

scorp said:

Settlers

Good call.

[OllieC]

Oh yes, How did I forget Syndicate and Frontier - Elite II

Fantastic stuff, pumping your agents full of mind altering drugs and watching them go berserk with the mini gun, happy days.