Amiga Appreciation Thread

[Lorfarius]

 

[Protocol Penguin]

Did anyone ever play Zeewolf (the game that was Zarch/Virus meets Desert Strike) back in the olden days?

[MikeJ]

4 hours ago, Protocol Penguin said:

Did anyone ever play Zeewolf (the game that was Zarch/Virus meets Desert Strike) back in the olden days?

 

I did and enjoyed it. I've been playing the sequel a bit on my A2000 (with accelerator) and it's still pretty good fun, and I can actually play it without smashing into the ground and exploding every 10 seconds unlike Zarch.

[AK Bell]

I rinsed the demo of Zeewolf. I couldn't seem to find it in shops or the playground.

[WibbleWorldGiddy]

I'll have to dig out the Zeewolf demo. Amiga Power claimed it was an AP exclusive level on the AP44 cover.

 

Zeewolf 1 and 2 were both excellent games for the mid 90s, though a little slow on a standard A1200. I've always been intrigued by the Megadrive port that was in development. I wonder if the developers were able to get it running at a reasonable speed.

[Protocol Penguin]

Seems very on-brand for Amiga owners to pirate something to the point of threatening its commercial viability. 

[gunrock]

Pretty sad TBH, but like you say, Amiga owners all over, really. Pay for hardware, expect free software.

[ulala]

xcopy and paste the pdf

[Vimster]

It's the fact people are reselling it that makes me the most mad. In any field that's really beyond the pail behaviour. 

[electricmastro]

I've always liked this game for how quirky and in-depth it can get. Nowadays I imagine some people would get turned away by the business statistics side of it, but I still find it charming enough to keep back going to.

 

[MikeJ]

I bought Theme Park for my A1200 when it came out and played it to death, even though your game was 100% likely to corrupt when your park reached an arbitrary level of "too complex" and it was slow as hell.

[Uncle Mike]

Amiga will never die. Being used here as an illustration of what a floppy disk is:

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/01/japan-digital-minister-declares-war-on-floppy-discs

[Rex Grossman]

17 minutes ago, Uncle Mike said:

Amiga will never die. Being used here as an illustration of what a floppy disk is:

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/01/japan-digital-minister-declares-war-on-floppy-discs

 

Couldn't believe it when I saw that this morning. Is that really the most obvious floppy pic they could find. Just shows how the Amiga is the only true great computer in history.

[DarhkFox]

Downloaded some old software i made off aminet but i'm struggling to put into onto UAE, let alone even extract it. Any ideas?

[Anne Summers]

Does anyone know a reputable person for getting Amigas recapped? Specifically an A1200? 
Going to have a look around some of the Amiga FB groups I'm a member of but thought I would ask here first just in case. 

[SeanR]

2 hours ago, Anne Summers said:

Does anyone know a reputable person for getting Amigas recapped? Specifically an A1200? 
Going to have a look around some of the Amiga FB groups I'm a member of but thought I would ask here first just in case. 

mutant caterpillar would be my go to suggestion 

 

https://www.mutant-caterpillar.co.uk/shop/index.php?cPath=39&osCsid=k3jjpsiht6b4uriadp8agp61e7

[BoggyB]

Seconded on mutant caterpillar. I had an A500 and A1200 done through them at the same time and it was a very clean job.

[Nathan Wind]

There’s also Jays. He fully refurbished and upgraded a 1040STE for me a few years ago and did a brilliant job for a good bit cheaper than Mutant Caterpillar quoted me.  
 

https://www.ataristsales.co.uk/

 

Specialises in ST but sells some Amiga stuff too so it might be worth an ask, just to get a couple of quotes to compare if he does.

[Lorfarius]

17 hours ago, Anne Summers said:

Does anyone know a reputable person for getting Amigas recapped? Specifically an A1200? 
Going to have a look around some of the Amiga FB groups I'm a member of but thought I would ask here first just in case. 

 

RetroPassion

 

Have had a few Amiga's done by him over the years and done a great job each time. Pretty good price too. With the price of the system these days I wouldn't risk it to some random bloke off Facebook unless you are prepared to lose it.

[Anne Summers]

Just had a chat with Ian at Mutant Caterpillar, seems the reason his service is a good bit pricier than the others (eg Retro Passion)  is that he also re-caps the floppy drive ... It's like £80 instead of £40 or so advertised elsewhere. Anyone know how important this is?

[MikeJ]

I wouldn't bother recapping the floppy drive, the Amiga ones don't seem to suffer from cap related issues in my experience and it will cost a lot less than £40 to buy another one if it's broken.

 

re Retro Passion - their communication once they have your money is terrible and it can take a very long time to get your stuff back. They did do a decent job of the recap on my A1200 however.

[Anne Summers]

What was the first Amiga game with filled 3D vector graphics?

 

Just flicking through an issue of Ace from October 1987 which mentions that none existed by that point. Which made me wonder what the first one was.

[Clipper]

Boringly is it Elite on the Amiga which was 88

 

edit - this is quite the rabbit hole - Sentinel was in 1987 but obviously it wasn't moving that much and there was anAMiga version of Driller in 1987 as well (actually a double check indicates the ports of both of those was 1988

 

FA/18 interceptor was also 88

 

[Rex Grossman]

I know it wasn’t the first but the first that looked impressive to me was Powerdrome. And that was a 1989 port of an ST game!

[Clipper]

cheating by digging deeper into a website instead of my own brain... Sentinel and FA/18 Interceptor were both reviewed AUg 88 all the others I mentioned are later that year.

[Nathan Wind]

I was fascinated by those early 3D games. Hours and hours spent playing Driller and Total Eclipse, only to get absolutely nowhere because they were utterly impenetrable to my 10 year old brain. 

 

[Clipper]

the slow nature of driller and other freescape games (on the c64) drove me mad, I couldn't understand why they couldn't just do wireframe like mercenary(c64) which was super fast by comparison (mainly because it didn't have much to draw ) and only do solid 3d when they were fast enough.

[Protocol Penguin]

15 hours ago, Anne Summers said:

What was the first Amiga game with filled 3D vector graphics?

 

Just flicking through an issue of Ace from October 1987 which mentions that none existed by that point. Which made me wonder what the first one was.

Almost certainly it was Flight Simulator II, released in 1986.

 

http://hol.abime.net/574/

[Anne Summers]

26 minutes ago, Protocol Penguin said:

Almost certainly it was Flight Simulator II, released in 1986.

 

http://hol.abime.net/574/

Must be! I guess the Ace reviewer might not have seen that in 1987, as it's a MS game and might not have got a wide release over here. Or it might not have made it here until later. 

[K]

Arcticfox seems to have filled polygons - at about 2fps - and I think that came out in 1986.

 

It's surprisingly hard to tell when games were released, if you're looking at anything that came out before around 1990.