Amiga suggestions

One Amiga can't do everything. You'll need an Amiga from each chipset or forget about some particular games. If you want an Amiga for a working system besides gaming, perhaps you should go with a A1200 with an accelerator or A4000 since AGA sucks the least. Unless you get really into it and invest in stuff to use PCI videocards, you're not going to get natural VGA. There are plenty of "scan-doublers" that will do what the name suggests but they rather suck and may need a "flickerfixer" which also does what the name suggests. Most Amiga have hard drives, but depending on the package, they're between 20 and 200mb, of course not enough to hold the TOSEC Amiga set... Some Googling will bring you to many different Amiga upgrade/hardware sites if you care to look into larger drives. Nearly everything will require numerous third party drivers and patches and fixes to get things working smoothly together. Everything would be a lot easier if you just want to play games from floppy disks with no frills, to play most them you could just get a stock A600 and A1200. I suggest trying WinUAE before you buy an Amiga and actually play the shitty games because I found that after getting an Amiga, they weren't up to my expectations. This is how I see it: a free Amiga is a good Amiga.

 

Kyuusaku: we have been that place before (i am talking about when you were trashing the C64 mate)
but i would recommend an Amiga 2000(with HD and etc.) and an Amiga 1200 (or 4000 if you want a "highend" amiga)

and second check this forum out

amiga.dk - Nyheder

http://amiga.amigadk.dk/modules/news/


(it is a danish forum but i think babble fish can translate most of it plus you can translate words with this site

http://www.ordbogen.com/ (the danish/english english/danish online dictionary)


or you could get a CDTV (the amiga 500 with 1 MB additional ram and a CD drive.)

but it is all up to you

and of what i have read on the "little" danish amiga forum they are quite helpfull and quite friendly too.

 

I had a CD-32 and an SX-1 addon with a 2.5"hdd inside it, I think you could've put VGA on it but I'm not sure.

It would play all CD-32 games, install some, and was faster than a standard A1200, would play all A500, A600 and A1200 games.

Note that you needed an external floppy drive, though.

Alternatively you can get an A1200 with a cd rom drive, you can get a proper graphics card for that so it'll play decent resolutions but you won't be able to play *all* cd-32 games.

Make sure you get Tower Assault and Superfrog for the amiga aswell as Pinball Fantasies and Monkey Island I, 4 of the best games on Amiga. Diggers is also fun for a while, one of my personal favourites although I couldn't play it for long periods of time.

I used to have an A500 w/hdd (infact, 2 of them), A600, A1200 w/hdd, CD32 & SX-1 w/hdd, 2 external disk drives, a few pads, about 10 games, couple mice and loads of demo discs.
Don't have any Amiga consoles anymore, I switched the BIOS of the A1200 and CD32 and blew them both up.
If you want me to buy you some stuff from UK E-bay and ship them off to you, I can do that for you as I'm not sure how much stuff you'll find in 'states.

 

Just a few more game suggestions :-

Turrican 2, Sensible Soccer, Moonstone, Project X, Speedball 2, Pinball Dreams(prequel to pinball fantasies), Skidmarks.

Can`t even remember what games I used to play now Got loads of games in storage.

 

surely you mean turrican and NOT turrican 2
and sensible world of soccer.... you also forgot all scumm vm games like day of the tentacle and so on...

actually amiga had lots of great games

 

all the SSI RPG´s are great Moonstone rocks on Amiga too so Kyuusaku, what is with you and the "hate" to the Comodore machines ? since the pc versions of the games at the time were the worst so i don´t get it why you always gets down and trashes some machines (not all offcourse) since is it the piracy thing as usual ? since you got an issue i must say, about some things, come on Kyuusaku cut the anger off or "hate" of some of things, since if i remember right you are one of the most hardcore collectors of copiers , and what is it with the C64 and Amiga and with you ?

since it is not an offence at all just a wondering as usual

 

Turrican 2 rocked in my opinion better than the original but

Theres a Games That Wernt Amiga coming out soon can`t wait to read that

Sensible Soccer took up far far far too much of my time, twas great

Don`t think DOTT was released on the Amiga but I may well be wrong, the other scumm games were awesome though

 

I've considered getting into Amiga (some friends have them, and theres a few playable games if you don't mind hundreds of floppy disk swaps) but I could never bring myself to do it. I'd have to find a mega cheap Amiga along with a boatload of software in order for me to take the plunge. Bottom line is, that my friends Amigas are all wearing out (keyboards barely work, floppies barely read) and I don't trust floppy disks. They wear out and die pretty easily.

So, though I do want to get into classic computers, I'm going to try either Commodore 64 or an Atari 8 bit. They seem really neat. I've never used one, and they both seem to have pretty large cartridge libraries...and I feel safe with cartridges.

 

you could go with a model with internal HD....

 

Spacecrusade ruled on Amiga and so did Spacehulk

people what about Speedball ? hmmmm i think i should save some money up to buy an amiga 2000 again

 

DK, I like some games, but I have encountered many that shouldn't even be called "games" lol, in fact most I think fall into that category. I've had some silly expectations over the years that Amiga should please me as much as 16bit consoles. I clearly was disappointed, I'm only stating my opinion. I realize that there are some gems if you're into computer games but honest I'm not for the most part though there are some exceptions. I do realize that Amiga was far superior to PC/XT hardware, PC/XT game would be gaming hell to me. I must say, (and I think MOST people would agree) that the gem:crap ratio is far lower with the Amiga library than console games. To me, some of the best Amiga games would make out to be mediocre console games. Also many of my favorite Amiga games were ported to game consoles with various enhancements like Another World and Shadow of the Beast anyways. Additionally, many of the blockbuster console games were ported pathetically to the Amiga. I see the Amiga as a computer first (a great one for it’s time), and a console second. I don’t hate Commodore products for what they are; I’m disappointed in them for what they aren’t.

BTW, why would you get a ECS Amiga A2000 and not an AGA system?

 

Kyuusaku: well if we compare the SNES version vs some of the Amiga Versions i would say yes but vs many other things it is better than others

but SNES vs Amiga in buttons SNES wins with ease since it has 6 buttons where the joysticks on the amiga had only two buttons.

and graphic vise the Amiga could not cope with many things like the SNES could but i don´t compare SNES vs Amiga since i compare them with other consoles like Sega Master System (i love the SMS) and megadrive since the Amiga was better than them (i mean it and i am not kidding) and the best version i know of Cannon Fodder is really the Amiga Versions since i don´t remember any of the other versions has the cool intro song.

Again OK SF2 on Amiga was not the best experience but i thought at the time it was an ok experience untill i got own SNES and was amazed.

but i won´t compare the Amiga with C64 since that is like a "taboo"(not a real taboo but a strange feeling) for me since they both had gems

IK+ was awesome on Amiga but i like IK 1 , 2 and + on C64 the same way.

but the Amiga should be compared to other consoles of the time and not the SNES

but at the time, the Amiga was the "PC" of its day with good games, good sound, and smashing great graphics and lots of expansions and yadda yadda (yeah ok i admit it i am a little Amiga fanboy )

but the Amiga 2000 thing is because i really like to play Amiga 500 games

 

I don't think Amiga games can hold a torch to Mega Drive or PC Engine either, to Master System yes surely, I'm not very fond of SMS myself IK+ in its self is blasphemous to me, in fact most of the "martial arts" games for C64/Amiga are down right offensive/scary lol. I guess I just don't "get" most European games, too bad more EU developers weren't like Rare.

 

just a couple to add: Killing Game Show, Blood Money, James Pond III : Robocod, Magic Pockets II, Lemmings, and Nuclear War.

and Speedball 2, which everyone else already mentioned.

caveat about the cd-32: a lot of the old amiga games incorporated hardware hacks based on the floppy's drivespeed and such, and while a lot of them have been patched to load and run on the cd32, it isn't 100%.

As far as small foorprint and overall compatibility with classic titles goes, I'd personally go with the A600, or if you've got the room for it, the A500+ .. and for the real experience, get yourself a 1084S monitor to go with it, as its PAL/NTSC switchable (and beyond that perhaps the best 13" tv ever made).

 

Kyuusaku: i would prefer Golden Axe on the Amiga over the megadrive version, but ok i think it is because you don´t get the european games of the time(not an offence ) . And i admit i am not fond of the Megadrive , but i can always dream of somebody one day will make a poweredup version of Final Fight(or should i say remake with the good music and graphics/colours ?) on mega CD with help from the 32X expansion , but still the Megadrive is not on top of my wishlist although i don´t hate it.

 

I have an Amiga 500 and an Amiga 3000, and I have not run into any trouble with running any software. I mostly use the 3000.

 

abionic: on a little side correction Robocod = James Pond 2 but there IS a number 3 (on SNES) and it is not, the funny Aqualympics. but what about Oscar and Arabian Nights and lots of others ? damn there ARE many cool and good Amiga Games. and even MK1 and 2 are good even with the lack of extra buttons.

or Full Contact ?

 

I believe you've gotta play games at their best. For MK1/2, only arcade/32bit versions are acceptible

 

Kyuusaku: i believe in gameplay (if you don´t go into religion then i believe in God) but let us stay to the topic.