Amiga - Happy 30th birthday

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Doesn't time fly.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/07/the-amiga-t...

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ash73 said:

smashie said:

Far better than anything else out at the time in my opinion.

Archie was better

I bought my Amiga 500+ in 1991 or 1992 for £399

In 1992 the Acorn Achimedes was £525 for the A3000, £799 for the A3010, £999 for the A4000 and up to £1599 for the A5000. So if it wasn't better...........

Acorn prices - http://www.apdl.org.uk/riscworld/volumes/volume9/i...

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For me I think the first things I saw were Speedball and Shadow of the Beast something that the PS4 has only just caught up with - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YETncRA7fb0

Amiga original - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6Osnolfxqw

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It's 90s again

Frontier - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzEj4Gq7fT4
Another World - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACNPxKhxAjM <--- I always thought the car was a De Tomaso Pantera

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SKID MARKS !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDR8osIbqVI

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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.

If you get D-Fend Reloaded - http://dfendreloaded.sourceforge.net/ you can download the PC versions and play them.

One of the Abandonware Games sites - http://www.myabandonware.com/

Forgot the screen cap

Edited by FourWheelDrift on Wednesday 5th August 13:46

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

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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

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I started off with one of these


Then one of these


Then the analogue one for flying and driving sims.

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I had one of these as well