To hell with it.

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I realize I have been contributing to this mess myself, so I am going to withdraw from the CUSA gibbering and leave it alone.

I post on amiga.org for stuff regarding my classic miggy and the use thereof. I gave up on the next gen stuff as the red vs blue stuff is obnoxious, and AROS seems to insist on not working on my PC. I'll keep checking it every so often, and hopefully some day, it'll work
Life without the drama is life better enjoyed.

Nothing good is coming out of the CUSA threads. If they end up shipping a product, we'll see then. For now, I am unsubscribing the threads and I am out.


As a few people have said they enjoy the threads I start, I'll get back to some classic amiga stuff tomorrow. Not sure if it'll be games or something else.

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Ya, but you got to admit, it's been some great pointless fun!

Some of it has, but its time for me to leave it alone

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I had an idea to do a thread talking about the amiga FPS games since they fascinate me. I know you did videos recently, so I figured some text comparisons might be interesting.

We'll see. I've been playing Testament 2 a lot lately

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Testament 2. I've been meaning to get to those for so long, but currently I'm playing through Ultima VII on MorphOS.

Testament is very much a wolfenstein clone, but once you play it a bit, its really fun, and it runs super smooth even in full screen on my 030/50.

The second one is also bloody endless it seems. Im pretty sure Im 20 levels in, and no end in sight

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I remember Testament playing super smooth on my 1200 back in the day. I loved it, but never completed it as I wasn't as good at FPS as I am now a days.

 I really wish I could find a copy of Citadel that would work with my 1200. Seems like every processor I've thrown at it fails.

I can never get the HD install to actually...well...install.

The other one I'd love to play is Project Intercalaris but my Polish is not so much.

I guess Im a sucker for these games. I didn't even think Fears was all that bad

Where is the company called SpeccyUSA? We could flood the threads with news about them.

:roflmao:

*O#R*#_#_

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I prefered Gloom Deluxe & AB3D, reckon these two were the best of their kind on the miggie...

Alien Breed 3D is amazing and I finally finished Gloom

Big shout outs too, to Breathless and Genetic Species.

...and yet there's the 1000 pound Elephant in the corner of the room.  

Do you mean Doom you cheeky bastard?

I actually do occasionally play Doom on my 1200. My friends are amazed it runs better than it did back in the day on their 386's

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I first played it on a friends 386 and knew my beloved A500 was past its prime.

AB3D wasnt too bad on the A1200.

On my ACA 030/56 card, Doomattack runs really good. What made a lot of people give up on their miggy's for these sort of games was running them on unexpanded 1200s I think.
Nobody in the PC world expected a 286 to run Doom, but us amiga users were used to our humble little 7mhz machine pulling off miracles

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I like the way you started a thread about it saying you were not starting anymore threads about it  

hah, touche good sir

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Yeah, at least the Amiga was something you didnt have to upgrade every five minutes.  And the A500 was silly expensive to upgrade anyway.  That platform got milked for almost 10 years, something a lot of other platforms would be envious of.  But the advent of 3D gaming and fast 16M colour 2D had the A500 showing its age, sadly.

PC users were used to upgrading their machines often and fairly cheaply.  When I got an A1200 It opened up inexpensive upgrades.  I got a 030@40Mhz card with 64MB and 68882 and was satisfied with that for a long time, but the flow of software eventually slowed to a trickle and a PPC upgrade wasnt good value to me, hence I defected.  

I think a lot of it too was the original cost of the machine. Paying 500 dollars to upgrade a 600 dollar amiga seemed very steep, while 500 dollars to upgrade a 1300 dollar PC seemed pretty reasonable.

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alright guys, enough with the PC's
any requests for a thread topic before tonight?
 
otherwise its gonna be the FPS games

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Back on topic (sort of).
 
I left the Amiga scene around the time all the FPS's were made. Years later, after owning a PS1 and PC I bought an A1200 and played through a lot of the things I missed.
 
THB, most Amiga FPS seemed a bit clumsy/unsophisticated to me, either in the gfx or gameplay compared to what I'd played on those other platforms.
 
I think Breathless stood out as something on par with what the PS1 could do, this was pretty impressive as the PS1 was built for 3D and the Amiga wasnt. The A1200 probably should've had a 25-40Mhz '030 as standard.

Yeah, some of them are pretty cheesy
I have an unhealthy enjoyment of them though.
 
I'd actually say Breathless, at least graphically, looked nicer than Medal of Honor. Much bigger levels too.
 
 
In the end though, 15some years later, we can enjoy them on their own

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Like Bruce Campbell movies.  Cheesy but enjoyable.

Pretty much yeah

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I loved Bubba Ho-Tep 1. If you liked that, watch My Name is Bruce.

On your first point; the A500 being the target platform for 99% of games is a real problem if you have something with better specs.
 
I was a bit frustrated once I had a moderately upgraded A1200 to find very little (any?) AAA titles that used my hardware.  For games, it was really not much better than owning an A500 apart from the FPS stuff.

yeah, game developers were really to blame there.

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I guess there wasnt room on the OCS/ECS floppy for AGA enhanced code, and anyway it would've been more work for a fraction of the market.  Still, for an eye candy junky, like me it wouldve been nice to see more sprites, rotation, scaling, transparancy effects in games.

It seems better/more sound effects was more common, but that was more a function of more RAM than anything else.

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I dont remember costs being quite that cheap, but some of that depends on location too,I imagine. I grew up in Denmark, and our first PC was about 1300 US dollars, for a piece of crap in 98.

Your point stands though.


Apologies people for not starting a thread last night. Work kind of killed me