Commodore Amiga reminiscence

ChillBill

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Guys,

Did anyone have a Commodore Amiga back in the day?

I don't think any of the games available for consoles nowadays match those for the Amiga.

There were a diverse range of games available and some were genuinely made for 'grown-ups' to play too.

Personally I loved the adventure genre, games like Cruise for a Corpse, Monkey Island, and Fascination were fantastic. Sometimes I go on some of the old abandonware sites to download and play them on the dos box emulator to relive my youth.

Does anyone else love the old Commodore Amigas?

Cheers
B
 
Yup! I had an A3000 first with AMIX installed. Amiga UNIX. The drive broke and I couldn't figure out how to bootstrap off tape to reload the OS onto a new drive, so went with the ported version of NetBSD for a short while. I then got an A1200 ... at the time, they were very expensive. The A3000 was beyond expensive, but I happened upon one by some means or other ...

My A1200 got modded ... fast!

I got a 68040 board installed into the daugher slot. The 68060 was insanely expensive. I then got a larger hard drive, powered off a new breed of equipment arriving in shops for the home made PC. I had a hacked PSU. Ultimately, the motherboard was removed from the case, mounted on a cork board and all manner of wires and ribbons came off onto custom hardware: drives, CDs, floppies and cartridge drives. I had a SCSI bus, too. Posh, eh? :D

Buy yeah, the games were awesome! The graphics fantasic! Demos were a lot of fun.

I recall rave music tracks inside 5Mb. Videos, cool animations and so on ...

The Amiga was a massive step up from anything available in its time (I also had an Atari STE) and stood there for a long time ... even as a PC contender for a while. Remember the Gateway years?

We moved the summer before last. When I retrieved everything from the loft, my Amiga box had roof felt, rain and slate in it from some storm damage. Actually, it was my classic computers box, which a C64 was ruined and my run of Sinclairs. The only good one left that wasn't rusted and knackered was a rubber key 48K. My first computer and it still worked ... fate. That's the only computer I've kept and it's right here in the bottom drawer of my desk.

I built up a "life" on my Amiga. If only I had the hard drive now ... what a set of fond memories I could bring back.
 
Now that's a blast from the past! I echo your sentiments for the first two games you mention but haven't heard of the third. For me, no football game anywhere, on any format has ever matched the sheer playability, speed and intensity of Sensible Soccer or Sensi as it was known. I also enjoyed the action adventure types such as Another World and Flashback and loved the WWI simulator-style, Wings. Ginger, old chap, bandits at three o'clock, what, what! I'm no lover of golf but enjoyed the golf games on the Amiga. PGA Tour Golf was pretty good but I preferred Microprose Golf. Speedball 2 was another cracker and another great adventure game that springs to mind was Beneath a Steel Sky. Ah, the glories of a misspent youth! My room smelt of beer, farts and warm plastic with an undertone of half-time fags!
 
The A3000, now that was a serious bit of kit! That's a shame the computer got ruined in the storm damage, especially as it was mod'ded to the hills. Those other games you mentioned were cool too Paul, I recently had another shot of Beneath a Steel Sky. It still rocks. If you haven't already done so, I would seriously recommend downloading the dos emulator and some of the old games. Even if it's to relive your teens for half an hour!

Graeme, what can I say? Sensi is the greatest football game easily. I only managed 6 years managing Celtic as the seasons were too long, I wanted to complete a career fast so I managed an American team (there wasn't any cup competitions!). After 20 years it automatically ended and I would like to think I had a successful time during my imaginary career lol.

I used to go to the Barras market in Glasgow and get tooled up with games £2 for a one disk game and an extra £1 for each disk thereafter.
There was some real entrepreneurship there and each of the inside stalls had their own specialities. Unlike today's generic stuff where games are bought in a soulless atmosphere.

I fooking love Amigas! Lol
 
Two words ... Deluxe ... and ... Galaga.

Alien Breed 3D scared the pants off me. I had the 68040, so fast processor. When I played Doom on the PC, it was nothing like. I liked mail order disks ... you picked from a printed list. It had a sort of mystique about it. As I said, I liked the "Demo" scene - your 'miggy was taken over, often at a hardware level and a psychedelic swirl of graphics and noise would ensue.

I do have an emulator ...

I got one for the Sinclair, too, which I still spend time playing Earthshaker ... probably the only type-in machine code game I ever got working. Years, decades later, I got to chat to the chap who wrote that game - he's a Maths Professor in Belfast now.
 
I remember my old boss buying his first PC, something with a 12" screen, 4 meg ram and about 512 meg HDD, he thought it was the nuts and so gave me his Amiga 500..

The day it arrived, I couldn't believe it. 4! External disk drives "daisy chained" with boxes and boxes of floppies, all indexed.....

I spent hours in front of that machine, golf, monkey island, Pool................

The whir of the disks, "borrowing" and copying games....

Ah, the memories! :)
 
I remember playing Elite on an Amiga 500 until i got to "Deadly" and found out you had to play for years extra to get full "Elite", so I sold that to shell out over £1000 on a secondhand 486 PC to play X-Wing which was only available on PCs at that time.
 
Yep, I had one too. Just an A500 with a RAM upgrade (a whole MB!) but it was a great gaming machine. Kick off 2, Sensi, Midwinter and Monkey Island are the games I remember playing most but we had a whole bunch of dodgy copies courtesy of the schoolboy network. Together with the associated viruses.

I also remember the Neighbours porn disk. Black and white animated GIFs with the heads from the likes of Harold and Mrs Mangle stuck over the top of the real 'actors'. I don't think I've ever recovered.
 
Oh man I remember my Amiga 500. Countless hours playing Stunt Car Racer, Monkey Island 1 & 2, Jaguar (best intro music ever). Had loads of other games but I think those were my favourites :)
 
Don't remember which my mum had but I remember playing monkey island. Dizzy. Cruise for a corps. Maniac mansion and my fav zak mckraken.Think we had adams family to hard game was only 4_6
 
I had an Atari... yes I know I should have got an Amiga but it was an ex-demo and dead cheap. I actually managed to upgrade to 1mg RAM (my only techie achievement) and used to spend hours playing Knights of the Sky.
 
I had an Atari ST and my mate had an Amiga 1200. He did some mods - I think he had a 75MHz processor although could be wrong. He just used to mess around making animations and playing Lemmings whereas I taught myself a bit of programming in Basic. I designed very basic point and click adventure games but never finished any as I just made them up as I went along.
 
Lost many hours playing Champ Manager but I wasn't so hot at Sensible World of Soccer. I preferred the earlier '92 version of Sensible Soccer v1.1 and the '94 World Cup Edition v1.2 when the wee ref in his black gear came on to hand out the yellow and red cards. I also loved Cannon Fodder, the crazy mental group shooter from Sensible Software. Knights of the Sky by Microprose (I think) was also incredibly atmospheric but it got a wee bit too hard for me in the later stages. Silent Service 2, the Pacific Theatre submarine warfare simulator could also lose me hours at a time, running from the Japanese fleet and occasionally popping up to periscope depth to try and torpedo their aircraft carrier or big battleship. I was much to illogical a teenager to be any good at Lemmings. Do any of you remember a game called Moonstone? Fighting mad mythical creatures to spooky tunes - t'was great fun!

I started out with an Commodore VIC20 then got an Amstrad CPC 464 (Ikari Warriors, Commando, Bombjack, World Class Leaderboard, Matchday II and the Renegade beat 'em ups were my favourites) graduated several years later to an Amiga A500 with second floppy disc drive then an A1200 to which I fitted an internal harddrive and external CD drive. Great fun!
 
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