Old skool user facing mid-gaming crisis, need to feel young again

[rickideeuk]

Hi there,

A few weeks ago, me and my mates were down the pub reminiscing about the old days and how Amigas were far and away the best games platform ever. This led to a chain of events that has led me to your v cool website to ask some pretty mundane questions. Hopefully someone can help...

Event 1. Get my old Amiga 1200 down from the attic.

Event 2. Remember that I sold all my old games a few years back.

Question 1. Where is the best place to buy old games from? Ebay or is there websites (in the UK) that sell them at set prices (rarther than bidding on ebay)?

Event 3. I borrow kick Off 2 (my favourite of all time) off my mate, this dosn't work on my 1200, I just get a red screen??? my mate swears it does work on his 500 though???

Question 2. Is this a known problem, with older games? Is there a way around this to get it working on my 1200?

Event 4. After a bit of research I also decide to try an Amiga emulator, I currently use Apple Mac OSX Panther 10.3.3 and after being sent on a wild goose chase from dodgy website to dodgy website i eventually found an emulator that says it works with OS X - only it dosn't  :-? I don't know if this is because i use Panther???

Question 3. Anybody got any suggestions, tips, links in how to get Amiga emulators working on OSX Panther???

Event 5. I find myself at your site, which has only made me more determind to get things sorted and relieve me of my sony/nintendo/xbox boredom.

Question 4. Reading some of your forums aobut old games got me thinking about an old game I borrowed of a school friend years ago. it was quite simple but I spent weeks and weeks playing nothing else... It was a 2d side scroller where you controlled a helicoptor and the second player/computer controlled another. The aim was you had to pick up bits of a bomb and take it to your cave/base. The other guy tried to shoot you down and steel your bits to make the bomb themselves. V simple but V addictive, anyone remember what it was called? I think it was something like Protector?

Sorry to go on and on, just far too many questions. thanks in advance. :-)

[Jose]

Hey. The A1200 has a better chipset and a newer Rom version for the operating system (AmigaOS). Some old stuff doesn't work. You can go to Aminet, wich is the largest deposit of share/freeware stuff for the Amiga and get a downgrader, wich is a program that will make the A1200 "behave" like olders models.
Alternatively you can get WHDLoad wich is a program to install old games on harddisk. There a few stuff to read but should be fast and easy if you read the docs!
For old games there are some sites around that have thousands of old ones for download (they requested permission from original company/authors). If you use a PC for download you'll need to somwhow transfer the files after that. You can use a serial cable or a PC formated disk wich the Amiga can read (not the other way though, PCs can't read Amiga disks). There are various ways, and again do some search, read the docs and should be straightforward. After that, use WHDLoad to install the game on the Amiga's harddisk or simply save it to floppies (transdisk is the program I use).
Sorry if I say read the docs a few times, but it's just too much stuff to write, specially since it's the kind of question that pops up in here many times. Maybe someonw will have more patiente than me  :-)
One obvious cool thing to do, would be to upgrade your Amiga and get it on the net directly.

Cheers

[jaseinblack]

Re: Kick off - You might not need the degrader in order to get it to work

Try disabling the CPU caches first.

Turn on the 1200 whilst holding both mouse buttons down to get into the Early Startup menu - IIRC the option to turn off the caches is in the boot menu.

You could also change the chipset to OCS.

Hope this helps

Jase

[MAD]

Hoya!

Welcome back!

0ld sk00l !5 d4 r0Ol!!! 3D sucks, especially xbhoax...

Be funky

M A D

[rickideeuk]

Thanks for the help, I'll give it a try.
I left the mouse at my Mum + Dads house, so it'll be a few days before I get time to go and get it.
i'll let you know how I get on.

[Fats]

rickideeuk wrote:
Hi there,

Question 1. Where is the best place to buy old games from? Ebay or is there websites (in the UK) that sell them at set prices (rarther than bidding on ebay)?

Some games are available for a free download from Back to the Roots.

Staf.

[rickideeuk]

Cheers Jase

I disabled the caches and it worked :-D

Just spent the whole weekend playing Kick Off  :-D

[lempkee]

http://hol.abime.net/?id=3679

yes its protecor my friend, welcome btw..

this game has lost abit of its glory but its decent enough still..

try out desert strike, thats a nice game :-)

anyway the link above is a near full catalouge of all games on amiga, some is missing still but its beeing builded at as we speak..

to buy games... go here:

Ebay.co.uk
Forematt.co.uk   (check retro div) (best shop in the uk imho)

Stay away from shops like Amigagames.co.uk and amigastuff.co.uk etc  ..


enjoy yer retro time, i'm still in mine and i have been on amiga since 1986 and i still ONLY use amiga...

[Hyperspeed]

I think you should change your picture to this, lempkee:
http://cameltoe.org/images/squirrel.jpg

:-D :-D :-D

Now THAT is what I call Mister Nuts!

:-o