Games that were better on PC than on Amiga :-o

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okay, hereby I sentence myself to death, but I have to say.
Originally, I'm a pc guy. But I reckognise the superiority of the Amiga.
But...
Some old games are not really good playable on the Amiga, while it is on the PC. For instance, controls.
Now I ain't gonna moan about the fact that the PC had 256 colors while a standard Amiga still had just 32 in 1990, but I am gonna moan about for instance, Rampart. This remake was one of my favs on the PC. But on the Amiga, I can't get turn the blocks right on time.
There are more, but I dunno atm.

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any game,
I know Rampart was later ported to PC and was an enhanced version of the original. I wanted to mention the original on the PC (an option of the PC version of Rampart) and this is just better playable.
So is Stunts (4d racing or something alike it was called on the Amiga) and F29 Retalliator.

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amigamad wrote:

Now I ain't gonna moan about the fact that the PC had 256 colors while a standard Amiga still had just 32 in 1990

Amigas have a total of 4096 colors on early machines, it could only display 32.

Yeah, I know that and Amiga could also display all those 4096 colors
but it's not about that. I wanted to point out which games were more playable on the PC.

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T_Bone wrote:
Unreal.

The PC version was a graphically beautifull 3d shooter, stunning graphics, etc.

The Amiga version was something else completely!

(Yes, I cheated, completely different game :lol:)

oh man, that was the first time after the Amiga that I was impressed again. With my newly acquired pentium 2 + 3dfx, it was hallucinatory.
I expect the next Amiga to be that kind of impressive.

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T_Bone wrote:

Speelgoedmannetje wrote:

T_Bone wrote:
Unreal.

The PC version was a graphically beautifull 3d shooter, stunning graphics, etc.

The Amiga version was something else completely!

(Yes, I cheated, completely different game :lol:)

oh man, that was the first time after the Amiga that I was impressed again. With my newly acquired pentium 2 + 3dfx, it was hallucinatory.
I expect the next Amiga to be that kind of impressive.

Heh, when I first got the game, right when it first appeared, I had a pentium 166mmx, 16mb of ram, and an ATI 3d something or other (2mb video ram). Man did that suck!!

Took years before systems could catch up to that game! But it was cool as hell looking at the graphics even though it was slower than a play-by-mail game.

hm, I got Unreal when I already had my p2+3dfx for a while.

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256 colors is one thing, take also in account how much you had to pay for the system to display those 256 colors.

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mikeymike wrote:
unless you happen to like the PC speaker :-)

I grew up with it,
CGA(on a color monitor)+PC-speaker
PURPLE! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRGH my eyes.. MY EYES!!!
SQUEEK SCRATCH! DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRGH my ears.. MY EARS!!!!


but, what indeed what Blobrana said in another thread:
what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
Well, insanity can beseen as a strong propriety I think :-)

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purKKi wrote:

Monkey Island games...

mikeymike: Otherwise the graphics suck, they're horribly blocky (good ol' VGA)...

Hmmm.... yes blocky but Amiga OCS resolution 320x200 (32 colours) vs. PC VGA 320x280 (256 colours)?

There exist no VGA 320x280.
VGA is 320x200 (16 colours) and SVGA starts from 320x240 (256 colours).
And Amiga OCS (PAL) is 320x256 (32 colours)
Amiga OCS (NTSC) is 320x200 (32 colours).
IIRC that is.

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purKKi wrote:

VGA is 320x200 (16 colours)...

Yep, my mistake: 320x200. But that is EGA (16 colours).

no, also vga had just 16 colours.
But vga had a bigger palette than EGA.
from my experience of (pc) games:
CGA is alike the gfx of the ZX spectrum
EGA is alike the gfx of the Commodore64 (though higher resolution)
VGA is alike the gfx of the AtariST
SVGA is alike the gfx of the Amiga1200 (though SVGA has  higher resolutions)

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Well, games state 16 colours, and if you play for instance Prince of Persia, Xenon 2 or other games supporting vga, these are all in 16 colours.
But I have to admit it's a bit confusing, they're not clear about it (on purpose)
I got some magazines wich state that the Super VGA starts with a palette of 4096 colours (not mentioning the amount of colours displayed), where normal VGA has a palette of 512 colours. SVGA was there already in 1989 or so.
If I know it correctly, Commodore already had the technology to achieve the same gfx back then, but for some reason they did not come up with it.