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Re: What were the worst games to come out on the Amiga?!
« on: October 17, 2003, 06:51:34 PM »
Worst games without a doubt are those I blame for helping kill the Amiga...

Ultima VI
Wing Commander
Kings Quest 5

Ultima VI was programmed from the ground up on an IBM/Clone development platform and after Origins' abysmal failure with Ultima V (remember the 1 track soundtrack anyone?) they had an opportunity to redeem themselves...this wasn't it...slow as molasses on a 68000 because it uses custom IBM/Clone CPU blitting routines.

Wing Commander was probably the most disgraceful port ever...the 68000 could have handled the blitting for the ships with its eyes closed but instead we had to suffer through brutal CPU driven blitting calculations that brought our 68000s to a standstill...utterly, utterly disgraceful.

Kings Quest 5 could (with my limited Amiga hardware knowledge) have been programmed in Extra Half bright mode which would have allowed for a much more colourful palette of 64 colours as opposed to 32. Can someone explain to me why your main character moving alone over a static bitmap brought the mighty Amiga to its knees...

answer:  not only did this terrible port use custom CPU blitting routines that didn't take advantage of the Amiga's hardware it also was built using an interpretive engine which created yet more work for the Amiga...thumbs down to the lazy buggers at Sierra. Should have been more colourful with a ripping soundtrack but alas...it wasn't.

These three games as mentioned in the Amiga downfall thread in the Hardware section are what I blame for many things...utterly disgraceful and abysmal...shame on Origina and Sierra.
 

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Re: What were the worst games to come out on the Amiga?!
« Reply #1 on: October 17, 2003, 07:12:35 PM »
Kings Quest 5 was 1990 or 1991 on the IBM...and the port for the Amiga came out in 1991 so definately for ECS capable machines...

Not sure what machines had it or not...I could swear I remember Delux paint allowing me to use that mode on my Amiga 500 though.

UPDATE: Researching this it looks like the only machines that couldn't do EHB were some earlier Amiga 1000s that lacked the revised Denise...later 1000s and all Amiga 500 and up could do this mode.