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All the Turrican games on the Amiga, great graphics and some of the best music produced for a home computer pre PC. I don't think you'll get better versions. Unlike other games where the sequels either did more of the same or just got stale, this series didn't and Turrican 3, was every bit as good if not better than the first. Can't remember which one had it in it, either 2 or 3 or possibly both, but there was a part where you left the Turrican suit and got in a aircraft for a level or part of it, I remember the music and action was particularly exhilarating for the time. I've tried to play them emulated, but it's one of those games, where you do need your Amiga type joystick to play them, trying to play with an Xbox pad or similar, just doesn't cut the mustard, or I might just be shite at games, I was once good at. I have got the competition pro C64 stick now, they bought out a while back, so might give them a go again.

I was blown away by Shadow Of The Beast on the Amiga, back in the day. But it had very shallow and quite annoying gameplay underneath all the stunning graphics and sounds. The way enemies approached and the way you specifically had to kill them, didn't help. It came on multiple discs which you had to swap at game over IIRC and game over came very quickly after game start for me lol. I loaded it up to play more than the gameplay deserve, but I could resist loading it to marvel at the graphics and sound, just hoping, I would actually get good at the game. Ghouls and Ghosts I never played on the Amiga, but Ghosts and Goblins, I did and it was a very good conversion, I completed that game on the C64.

Some 15 year old chat about Mousetrap from yourself amongst others. https://www.fruitemu.co.uk/ib/index.php?app=forums&module=forums&controller=topic&id=879&tab=comments#comment-9117

I remember first seeing the arcade, it was a wow moment, Paperboy had a great cabinet. Home conversions on 8 bit computers weren't great, think the Amiga one was OK, but by then the arcade game was quite old. I remember buying Skate or Die but don't remember playing it much. It must have been an alternative to the official 720 conversion.

As I said it doesn't appear he is banned, so can anyone confirm either way. Also Reg intended to rescind the ban, so he may have done, without making a song and dance about it lol.

I don't believe this member is banned anymore, so they could just try logging in again. They did have a big red banned or closed account marker, under their username but that has gone now. I know it was Reg's intention to unban them from a conversation I had with him.

I worked a 12 hour shift on Saturday, spent most of yesterday, playing some gaming. As mentioned got a new gaming PC and trying to spend time actually playing games on it, so a long session on Dirt 4 (yes 4 not 5) and an even longer session on Watchdogs Legion. But now back in work, working 13 days before my next day off. Haven't played MAME for ages and not done much MFME for the past month either.

His family said they played Pinball Wizard at his funeral, so perhaps he was a massive pinball player back in the day.

Very nice. I agree touchscreen would be uncomfortable standing. I think I'd have to be sat down on a stall rather than standing to play it. But still a nice edition to your Pinballs and arcade cabinet. Loving the Pinballs as well. Played around with emulators for it a few times, I'm not a massive fan of pinball, but they do look great in those table cabinets. Takes emulation to another level.

I really like this machine, would be great to see a modern FME makeover for it.

That looks great, quite a simple looking design.

I always had a real interest in machines before the speccy simulators. I could get quite addicted to playing the C64 one, even though it was shite. I liked Crash and bought it, but YS was always first choice. Magazines were so big, particularly the Xmas editions. Exciting times, waiting for the new magazines and to see the reviews. The Internet has made so much redundant and smartphones too. But I'd like to perhaps go back to the 70s, 80s and 90s for a week each and experience when life wasn't controlled by gadgets. But admittedly it would be very frustrating getting things organised and done, we can do with a quick text or search nowadays.

Yes I remember Tandy, but I don't remember one being near me. WHsmiths and a market stall were my regular places to get games for the 8 bit computers. The Spectrum had some quite good fruit machine games, by Codemasters. One was based on Cash Connect as was a very good representation of it. The C64 had one I remember that had good reel graphics, but not a lot going on. It had yellow arrows along the top which lit from left to right and then onto 2 Nudges then 4 up to 16 iirc. You could gamble the nudges. BUT IIRC, I'm sure the arrows didn't do a trail held and no holds on the reels or it rarely held reels or the trail and there were no features at all.

I agree I don't think there should be any more versions of MFME. I think here we are talking about not hacking MFME but improving it with the code legitimately gained and in someone's hand who could possibly do that. But I don't believe Wizard would want that. Things that work with it like game managers or tools that work to improve layout design outside MFME tools fair enough. It's actually a shame Wizard, won't get to see that stuff, being done to work in conjunction with MFME.

You would have been a very rare breed, owning a Dragon. Never ever used one myself, not even sure I have ever played a Dragon emulator. Nearly everyone in my school during the 8 bit era, had a Spectrum or C64, a couple of people had Vic 20's and BBC's At it was always about games back then, if you didn't have a Spectrum or C64, you were considered unlucky to have anything but one of those. In the case of anyone with a BBC, it was assumed, it was more a family computer than their own and that the kids could only use it for homework.

Great stuff. We've had similar discussions in the past, but I've kept some of the first/last edition of magazines. Although I bought most mags back in the day, Your Sinclair was my Spectrum favourite, Zzap for the C64, Amiga Power for the Amiga and then PC Zone for the PC. Your Sinclair was my favourite of them all though, particularly during the Teresa Maughan years. I had stopped using my Spectrum as much from about 1985/6 when I got a C64 and I'd completely stopped using it from 1988/1989 time, when I got my Amiga. But I still bought the magazine certainly until 1988 time. I saw the final issue on the shelf when looking for my Amiga magazines, so bought it and I still have it.

There's no need for apologies, it was just a general vibe I was getting from this thread. Geddy has been around for far too long, just to leave FME and the people behind. But it must have been like having an unpaid second job and one that possibly more time consuming then an actual full time paid job. I don't blame him, for saying enough is enough. Several members have archived FME from day 1 on their own hard drive. The main job, was to make that archive freely available at the click of a mouse. Geddy as far as I can see, has achieved that massive feat. So if you want a layout released in 2002 you've got it. You've got the roms for it and you've got a picture of the layout and it works in the newer versions of MFME. That's incredible when you think about it. From this point onwards, we go back to having people having the full archive on their hard drives. We know there are no more versions of MFME, so we know that anything released now, will work in the newer emulators. But the main thing is, we also know that out there on people's hard drives are a full archive of FME goodness.