R there any amiga heads in melbourne oz here that can hook us up with some software?

[eniac]

When i was 16 I had like 2000 disks of software, and i remember chuckin em goin "ahh stuff it, ill never need em again" Im itchin to play speedball 2 and super cars 2 and so so many of my ol faves, and dont tell me to get UAE coz you cant get all the games to run and they dont run the same...

i just read here the how to pass mission 6 on FA/18....i hadnt even thought of that game in years but i had an instant flashback to spending hours trying to blow that sub up...

and what was that game where you towed caravans around the track? like RC pro am...

ive got like 10 games, the best being alien breed 1 and 2  but if someone could hook me up speedball 2 alone man id be stoked....dont make me buy a megadrive/genesis to play that game...haha, soon i plan to buy an a1200, not a sega...

[motorollin]

eniac wrote:
and what was that game where you towed caravans around the track?

Skidmarks.

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moto

[whiteb]

eniac wrote:
When i was 16 I had like 2000 disks of software, and i remember chuckin em goin "ahh stuff it, ill never need em again" Im itchin to play speedball 2 and super cars 2 and so so many of my ol faves, and dont tell me to get UAE coz you cant get all the games to run and they dont run the same...

i just read here the how to pass mission 6 on FA/18....i hadnt even thought of that game in years but i had an instant flashback to spending hours trying to blow that sub up...

and what was that game where you towed caravans around the track? like RC pro am...

ive got like 10 games, the best being alien breed 1 and 2  but if someone could hook me up speedball 2 alone man id be stoked....dont make me buy a megadrive/genesis to play that game...haha, soon i plan to buy an a1200, not a sega...

I am in Melton, but you are probably Eastern Suburbs.

[Cammy]

I can't help you much with disk games, sorry, but once you get your A1200 it's going to be a piece of cake downloading all your favourites and playing them. It's so easy these days because of these wonderful little PCMCIA-Compact Flash adapters. Harvey Norman has them for $15, and you can get CF cards just about anywhere, and they're cheap. I think I paid $12 for a 1GB CF card. Then you just get a USB card reader for $5-10, download all the WHDLoad games you want and extract them onto the CF card from the PC, then slot it into the side of your A1200 (or A600 if you have one of those), make sure the CF driver is installed (not hard to do), as well as WHDLoad (also not hard to do, but I recommend registering it), and you'll have years of endless gaming at your fingertips.

This is what I've done with my old A1200, and it's really brought it back to life. Plus there are still new games being made for the Amiga (I'm making one myself) so you can always look forward to those too. I'm in Northern NSW, so I can't show you how to do it, but if you can get to Ballarat in December you could go to the Retro Gaming convention and there will be a few Amiga tech guys there who'd love to help out a born-again Amigan.

[bobsmith20]

but if you can get to Ballarat in December you could go to the Retro Gaming convention and there will be a few Amiga tech guys there who'd love to help out a born-again Amigan.

Sorry to be off topic,  but where can I find out more about this,  have just started to get back into Amiga's myself.

Thanks

[whiteb]

bobsmith20 wrote:

but if you can get to Ballarat in December you could go to the Retro Gaming convention and there will be a few Amiga tech guys there who'd love to help out a born-again Amigan.

Sorry to be off topic,  but where can I find out more about this,  have just started to get back into Amiga's myself.

Thanks

http://www.retrobrad.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=217

I am arranging a carpool from Melton out to ballarat, I have a minibus so it will help with Fuel.

[weirdami]

@Cammy

it's going to be a piece of cake downloading all your favourites

Surely you meant all the ones that have been officially released to the public domain, right? I'm sure that's what you meant.

[Cammy]

Oh, yes of course. I meant any freeware, public domain, abandonware games as well as downloadable "backups" of any games that you already own. It's okay to download a pre-installed WHDLoad game if you already own the original, as well as install it for no more than 24hours if you have rented it overnight from a games rental store.