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What classic machines do you use ?
« on: March 19, 2011, 11:44:12 PM »
Being that I hope to pull my finger out and finally get around to making a few clasic amiga games this year I'd be interested to know what sort of classic machines people are using these days.

Ive structured the poll a little differently to try to get a broader feels of the actual hardware in use. It'll show the results a little unusually in terms of percentages, but will tell me what I want to know more accurately.
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Re: What classic machines do you use ?
« Reply #1 on: March 19, 2011, 11:58:01 PM »
The polls in recent times werent about the actual classic hardware in use, but rather what form of "amiga" a person uses. As for who cares, well me obviously or I wouldnt have made the poll. As I said already I want to get a feel of what hardware is in use so I know what to target.
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Re: What classic machines do you use ?
« Reply #2 on: March 19, 2011, 11:59:15 PM »
As for the poll, that was a bit weird, seems the thread was active before Id finished creating the poll. It's there now though.
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Re: What classic machines do you use ?
« Reply #3 on: March 20, 2011, 12:00:09 AM »
Cos I was busy creating it and responding  :) I'm doing it now.
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Re: What classic machines do you use ?
« Reply #4 on: March 20, 2011, 12:04:22 AM »
Quote from: Franko;623196
PS: I didn't mean "Who Cares" about your poll, I meant who cares about the other ones now, it's always good to have a new poll every now and then to see who's using what... :D


Ah, thanks for elaborating there. I must admit I did misinterperet what you meant with that. :)
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Re: What classic machines do you use ?
« Reply #5 on: March 20, 2011, 12:06:53 AM »
Quote from: Franko;623200
Ere Fishy... you can't class the MiniMig or UAE/Amithlon/AmigaXL/Fellow as Classic Machines that's a big No, No when it comes to the term and meaning of "Classic"... :(


Yeah, I had to think twice about them, but decided to include 'em 'cos theyre some peoples only options for 68k software. Still gives me an idea of what sorts of "amiga" speeds/resources are available to ppl though.
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Re: What classic machines do you use ?
« Reply #6 on: March 20, 2011, 12:38:52 AM »
I'd have liked to add a few other options as well, but the polls are restricted to only 10 options. I had to lump a few things on one for example with RTG/AHI + kitchen sink (shouldve been RTG/RTA really), which can be a little innacurate, but my current projects are custom chipset based, so it seemed the best one to compromise. Some sort of cd/dvd rom option is a bit of an oversight by me though as it's a medium Id like to use.
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Re: What classic machines do you use ?
« Reply #7 on: March 20, 2011, 09:56:39 PM »
Quote from: Tension;623330
040 and 060 should be seperate options.

that wud make for interesting reading


Sure, but as I said already the polls are limited to 10 options so I had to make some compromises.
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Re: What classic machines do you use ?
« Reply #8 on: March 22, 2011, 02:15:28 PM »
Personally Im quite pleased with these results. The 2 main game projects Im working on I intended to make for ecs/1meg/68000 with a few extra gfx and sounds for users with 2 meg chip ram, and one that I expect to be a bit heavier, targetting an '030 + fast ram, with a few extra effects for faster cpus, so these results where pleasantly surprising. Id actually expected there to be very little interest in lower spec systems, and also I expected the average AGA machine to be slightly lower spec, but it panned out a good match  :)
Now I just need to actually finish them  :)  (not sure if anyone read about me planning to release something at the end of the month, but Im still holding myself to it (dont expect too much though, it's just a quick "clear the cobwebs" type project for now:))
Near as I can tell this is where I write something under the guise of being innocuous, but really its a pot shot at another persons/peoples choice of Amiga based systems. Unfortunately only I cant see how transparent and petty it makes me look.