How to tell what ROM version on A3000

[Morax]

irishmike wrote:
well honestly I plan to play all my favorite Sierra Games on it right now, but I have other plans for a BBS (for preservation -- see post about my project in General Amiga) but I haven't decided if I may buy another A3000 for the BBS and use this one for the games... I really missed Kings Quest, Space Quest and Leisure Suit Larry :-)

So I just want those games to run smoothly, though on the PC side (back in the day) the more graphics ability and RAM you had, the better they performed :-D

But the AmigaOS is so much smaller than MS-DOS so it probably won't be as bad as that was.  But that was one reason for maxing out the Chip and Fast RAM.

I know what you mean, I played most of those Sierra Adventures too on the Amiga. But I'll have to admit, they're just (not even well-done, if you just look at other point&click adventure, like the LucasArts ones) ports of the PC-version, with a turned-down color-palette (for the "newer" ones, like KQ 5 and SQ 4). They don't really make advantage of the Amiga hardware, and since 1993 Sierra didn't even made Amiga-conversions anymore. I don't know why  :-( )

But I'm not saying you're better off with the PC versions, since then you'll need a DOS-emulator to get them working  :lol:

[Morax]

The sound was slightly better, although the music was mostly a direct port from the Yamaha OPL-2/3 MIDI-Synthesis (what most Soundblasters and clones used).

But if you'll ever need the PC-versions, maybe this site comes in usefull, unless you're after the original packages... (It also has LucasArts abandonware by the way):

EDIT:
Abandoned Games Room

By the look at that site again, it's too bad a lot of those didn't make it to the amiga, like Gabriel Knight...  :-(