Amiga 3D Games - The Videos...

[runequester]

Thanks for posting these. I'm getting jazzed up to get an 030 A1200 again. I just ordered one of the new ACA 1230/28 Accelerators from Amikit. I dont know if any of these will be playable with that though?. Maybe in a smaller window.

My old 030/25 played AB3D very well. Fears and Gloom will run but you have to reduce the screen size slightly.
Breathless you'd have to REALLY lower it.

Although maybe the SD RAM will give a performance boost over the old style cards.

You'll be able to play some of them for sure though.


One I keep meaning to check out is Citadel.

[runequester]

I owned several of these games and I loved them, especially Genetic Species.  Could only get to level two though.  Dang Dr. FREEZE wanna-bes would kill me in seconds with the grenade launchers...
 
The reason they killed me so fast was also the reason I stoped playing FPS on my Amiga1200.  Some brainiac thought they could save $$$ if they built it so it only reconizes one key press at a time!
 
In FPS it is essential to be able to side-step while walking backwards and such.  Without these abilities, the game seems really clunky in comparison...
 
Can't wait to build up my A4000T and play these games... YES! I still own them:)

I dont know if this is just me not understanding, but at least in Doomattack, Im perfectly able to strafe backwards (moving diagonally backwards in effect).

[runequester]

Awesome, love it.  I'm gonna have to pull out my CD32 and throw AB-3D in now.  I haven't played the others you have, but they look sweet.  Another one of my favorites is Genetic Species, loved it!  One game I have been looking for that I used to own was Trapped 2, it was one of my favorites and if anyone has another copy (original please no "copies") I would be very happy to buy it from you.  Happy New Years all!

The next time someone kwetches about Doom being awesome, I'll show them the intro to GS

[runequester]

Well played sir

[runequester]

Are you playing on an A1200 or a different Amiga?  I could be wrong, but  I remember that being a problem across the board and talking to others about it to make sure I didn't have a faulty system.
 
Anywho, GREAT GAMES!  totaly under rated by too many people and should be put back into print:quickdraw:
 
AND! doomisawesome...

plain 1200. I think the arrow keys are excepted,since it does seem you sometimes have to let go of the strafe button to shoot.

[runequester]

hm, not sure about fast ram added. AB3D at least is pretty playable on a stock 1200, as is Fears if you reduce the screen size some.

I imagine a bit of fast ram would probably help nicely

[runequester]

Without additional Fast RAM, only the first few levels of AB3D are comfortably playable. I did complete the game on a chip ram only machine but everything after level 4 ended up being played more than once and relying on memory more than fluid game play.
 
With additional fast ram, however, the game performs a lot better and with even a modest accelerator card, it's smooth.
 
Pity the same can't be said about it's sequel, though I think it was rather rushed through. I'm sure if he were given more time, the erstwhile Mr Clitheroe would have been able to optimise his engine a bit.

Yeah, I imagine some of the more complex levels would grind down quite a bit. Even on my old 030/25 with 8 megs of RAM, it ran very good though.
 
Agree on Killing Grounds. I really think it could have been a gem in the amiga library if the thing had actually run on any realistic amigas at the time.

[runequester]

Cytadela was only one fps that is playable with stock a500

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWpJ6YvwcIM

I've allso problem with keyboard adabter, I can use only one key at time

Citadel seems pretty cool, but none of the versions I've been able to find will actually let me install it to hard drive.

[runequester]

Blizzard and their two billion dollars a year of profit disagree with you.  Or if you like, you can take your argument up with the hundreds of thousands of people who play TF2, Left 4 Dead (and L4D2), and on and on and on...

IOW,

Problem?

well, as far as MMOs goes, pretty much the entire point of the game is to be repetitive.

It's a good job you stick to your old machines then as you'd be lucky to last 2 seconds in any modern FPS game, be it against other people or just against enemy AI if that's how you play: Spawn. Bang. Hit once, non critical. Turn only using keyboard while looking for your attacker, but they've already taken cover. Boom. Hit again, this time in the head. Respawn...

Do you think I will need more than 2 megs of RAM to run Quake 4 on my amiga?

[runequester]

Well, there's something to it. I know plenty of people that have lives that pretty much revolve around world of warcraft, to the extent where it interferes with their families, jobs etc.

But they'd probably be wasting their lives doing something else instead, if they didn't have WOW so eh.


This discussion has drifted pretty heavily off topic though

[runequester]

everything goes in circles

Playing games at least is better than social sniping on facebook.


A while ago, we went to a friends birthday party... and the first 2 hours was a big pile of early 20somethings discussing ... what happened on facebook.

[runequester]

You are made of stronger stuff than me. I would have been looking for vallium, razor blades or rope after just 30 mins...

The solution has traditionally been drinking heavily and dominating the CD player