pbb Posted November 4, 2018 Report Share Posted November 4, 2018 So who had an Amiga, best 16bit computer/games console ever!! Used to play Rainbow Islands, Pinball Dreams/Fantasies some kind of fruit machine game, name escapes me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AK45 Posted November 4, 2018 Report Share Posted November 4, 2018 i started with an amiga A500 and not the awful plus version then moved onto the A1200 ,i too enjoyed rainbow islands and pinball dreams but there is so many great classics like "Lotus Turbo Challenge""alien breed tower assault""Lemmings""canon fodder""Turrican 2" i used to play quite a lot especially turrican 2 as the music was superb ! 1 For Fruit Machine Preview Video's https://www.youtube.com/@akfortyfive4574/playlists These video's created by me are solely to showcase the talent of the creators and all who helped in bringing these machines to life,they are in no way a guide on how to play the machine or show how to exploit it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
becks Posted November 4, 2018 Report Share Posted November 4, 2018 20 minutes ago, AK45 said: i started with an amiga A500 and not the awful plus version then moved onto the A1200 ,i too enjoyed rainbow islands and pinball dreams but there is so many great classics like "Lotus Turbo Challenge""alien breed tower assault""Lemmings""canon fodder""Turrican 2" i used to play quite a lot especially turrican 2 as the music was superb ! lotus , and turrican 2 had awsome tunes , the amiga had awsome sound , xenon 2 pushed music in games to another level , auto fire off to hear the music , the other 16 bitters were good good too , but the amiga sound , set it above the rest . 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timbo Posted November 4, 2018 Report Share Posted November 4, 2018 Amiga A500 was the best computer at the time. It's the only computer I ever regret getting rid off with games like defender of the crown, gods, wings. another world, speed ball 2, syndicate were better than any pc game at the time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reg Posted November 4, 2018 Report Share Posted November 4, 2018 18 hours ago, pbb said: So who had an Amiga, best 16bit computer/games console ever!! Used to play Rainbow Islands, Pinball Dreams/Fantasies some kind of fruit machine game, name escapes me. I started on the Atari ST for this generation - I had a choice literally when I went shopping for it. I would have been much happier if I had picked the Amiga box with hindsight. It took me about two years to have enough cash to fix that bloody problem. Was the Fruit Machine game Dirty Cash - that is one I used to enjoy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
becks Posted November 5, 2018 Report Share Posted November 5, 2018 On 04/11/2018 at 02:32, Timbo said: Amiga A500 was the best computer at the time. It's the only computer I ever regret getting rid off with games like defender of the crown, gods, wings. another world, speed ball 2, syndicate were better than any pc game at the time. Gods was awsome , good call , bitmap brothers made pure 16 bit gold 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AK45 Posted November 5, 2018 Report Share Posted November 5, 2018 1 hour ago, becks said: Amiga A500 was the best computer at the time. It's the only computer I ever regret getting rid off with games like defender of the crown, gods, wings. another world, speed ball 2, syndicate were better than any pc game at the time. Gods was a great game also magic pockets by the bitmap brothers with betty boo music, Speedball 2 was great also and always remembe the "ice cream" voice over the tanoy when you injured someone 1 For Fruit Machine Preview Video's https://www.youtube.com/@akfortyfive4574/playlists These video's created by me are solely to showcase the talent of the creators and all who helped in bringing these machines to life,they are in no way a guide on how to play the machine or show how to exploit it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timbo Posted November 6, 2018 Report Share Posted November 6, 2018 What was your best shoot 'em ups choices on the Amiga mine were desert strike , project X , R-type 2 , Swiv , Wings of fury it is a real shame that you can't get games of this calibre on the pc's today. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evo1 Posted November 6, 2018 Report Share Posted November 6, 2018 Still got mine up in the 500 in the loft with a try full of copied disks, sorry back up disks and a black bag full of ones that came in big boxes(dont know what that was about big box with small disk in??) cant even remember how i came by it, i think i swapped my c64 with loads of games for it? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AK45 Posted November 6, 2018 Report Share Posted November 6, 2018 (edited) i have all amiga games and have the emulator running through hyperspin so i can enjoy the games from yesteryear 21 hours ago, Timbo said: What was your best shoot 'em ups choices on the Amiga mine were desert strike , project X , R-type 2 , Swiv , Wings of fury it is a real shame that you can't get games of this calibre on the pc's today. i once saw a friend playing hybris and that confirmed to me it was time to go to the amiga from a console the Sega megaCD ... swiv, silkworm, Battle squadron, Z - Out to name a few great shooters Edited November 6, 2018 by AK45 spelling 1 1 For Fruit Machine Preview Video's https://www.youtube.com/@akfortyfive4574/playlists These video's created by me are solely to showcase the talent of the creators and all who helped in bringing these machines to life,they are in no way a guide on how to play the machine or show how to exploit it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wearecity Posted November 7, 2018 Report Share Posted November 7, 2018 The Amiga is the best ever home non PC computer. So many classic games on it, such as Rainbow Islands, Pinball Games, Railroad Tycoon, Turrican games. Quake shows what the Amiga was capable of. Just don't mention Outrun. I dip in and out of retro gaming, but I did buy the Amiga Forever package, to go semi legit I guess. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pbb Posted November 7, 2018 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2018 On 04/11/2018 at 18:12, Reg said: I started on the Atari ST for this generation - I had a choice literally when I went shopping for it. I would have been much happier if I had picked the Amiga box with hindsight. It took me about two years to have enough cash to fix that bloody problem. Was the Fruit Machine game Dirty Cash - that is one I used to enjoy. No wasnt that one Reg, the one i played was definetly 3 reals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pbb Posted November 7, 2018 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2018 actually just found it on youtube. The video says Atari ST, but was definetly also an a Amiga game. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reg Posted November 8, 2018 Report Share Posted November 8, 2018 Ah those were the days - what jumps out at me on that video is the Automation menu - I believe I have images of all those disks somewhere. Used to love getting given a new menu disk to put it in and see what magic we were then given. Always much better with the smaller games - but loved the packers and often wondered why commerical companies didn't go down that route when you could reduce some disk footprints. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
becks Posted November 9, 2018 Report Share Posted November 9, 2018 Just been playing leander on the amiga emu ( what else ? ) was a bugger to get going , well worth the 3 hours of ticking boxes and un ticking , cheated and ran it on a amiga cd , compilation disc image . Never had the joy of owning the cd32 but it looks pretty sweet . I recall , as a kid going with my mate to a massive amiga fest , think it was the launch of the cd , it was written on every bag , i bought lotus turbo 2 , sweet game , full screen , in 1 player . the magnetic fields logo and orchestral intro still give me the chills . Its wonderfull how a piece of music can peter pan you back to the pinneapple hubba bubba , and half penny chews . Must say , as much as my body has aged ( friggin badly lol) , mentally i still feel like a kid , and i have hours and hours for old crap , which crazily isnt actyally crap , the new stuff tricks us to think that .I used to daydream in class about getting home and getting bang on the amiga , what was there? 4 tv channels back then , fresh prince , star trek , then rick dangerous 2 , so glad other people enjoyed this great machine , sorry to go on , didnt have a girl friend at the time , and my mum let me watch the thing !!! , barelly slept after that , was well sure the cat was the thing , what a rush 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swanyofrug Posted November 19, 2018 Report Share Posted November 19, 2018 I used to have an A600, I would spend hours and hours playing games on it. Some of my favourites were Pinball dreams/fantasies. World championship boxing manager. Championship manager. Any fruit machine games, there used to be a public domain games creator who made some great fruit machines. I remember one was based on a £4.80 jackpot low tech and involved travelling round the world, I cannot remember the games name unfortunately of the creator but they had great music too. Speaking of music who loaded up games just to listen to some game music? One of the best game intro tunes was this in my opinion... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swanyofrug Posted November 19, 2018 Report Share Posted November 19, 2018 My all time favourite Amiga music was the high score tune from Pinball fantasies Stones and Bones. It's the first tune on this YouTube vid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
becks Posted November 22, 2018 Report Share Posted November 22, 2018 The amiga had some great tunes , Turrican 2 had a awsome music score , now this is going on memory but i think the amiga had 4 channel sound , and it rocked . Im going to have the turrican music in head all day now , good day 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bungle Posted November 24, 2018 Report Share Posted November 24, 2018 I started with the 500 then on to 600 and finally on to 1200,there was a great little serial sky type card with a red and green led on which plugged into the card slot on your primitive sky box,available to buy from ireland ,to open up all sky channels including adult :)this card was used with two programs one called safe sex and the other piece of software i cant remember for the life of me but they worked great for quite some time until sky changed something then it was gone.Anyone else had or remember this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wearecity Posted November 24, 2018 Report Share Posted November 24, 2018 Yes the Amiga had some great tunes, including some great demos with tunes on them. The Turrican game series, had some of the most memorable sound, right from the welcome to turrican speech. The music really helped spur you on, particularly some of the sections where you were in the air a lot. I seem to remember in some sections of levels on Turrican 2 or 3, it turned into a horizontal shoot em up. Interesting, to hear about the cards for TV. Think a lot of the dodgy sky stuff, still comes from Ireland. Been in a few pubs, that have some sort of satellite set up coming from Ireland (you can tell by the ads all being irish and prices in euros etc...) I never had TV on the computer, until those WINTV Hauppauge cards, came out for PC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
becks Posted November 25, 2018 Report Share Posted November 25, 2018 (edited) On 24/11/2018 at 15:49, wearecity said: Yes the Amiga had some great tunes, including some great demos with tunes on them. The Turrican game series, had some of the most memorable sound, right from the welcome to turrican speech. The music really helped spur you on, particularly some of the sections where you were in the air a lot. I seem to remember in some sections of levels on Turrican 2 or 3, it turned into a horizontal shoot em up. Interesting, to hear about the cards for TV. Think a lot of the dodgy sky stuff, still comes from Ireland. Been in a few pubs, that have some sort of satellite set up coming from Ireland (you can tell by the ads all being irish and prices in euros etc...) I never had TV on the computer, until those WINTV Hauppauge cards, came out for PC. The flying bit was awsome , too intense to fully appriciate the great tune , Never mentioned this before , but i was a guitarist , in a red hot chilli , tribute band in devon for 10 years , played birdmans , and all sorts but i want to say this , my whole life , good music has always been a need , it has a feel , a clairvoyance . I stongly believe , fools gold by the roses could make walking the green mile , seem cool . I think the amiga really pulled me in with its sound , especialy demo's , and the cracked games that had a thumping while it told you who cracked it , and what to press for infinte lives and start level . To me the amiga must,ave had an orchestra in it , we hear the echos in modern music of some of the great tunes from the past . Edited November 25, 2018 by becks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MPU_FIVE Posted December 9, 2018 Report Share Posted December 9, 2018 Had an Amiga A500 that would creak as my fan heater would heat my bedroom and cause the Amiga to crash loads! Annoying! Later got hold of an Amiga A1200 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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