Amiga Vs PC Games YouTube

[Managarm]

I just discovered this video on YouTube, I hope it's not something you've all seen a hundred times before.

The maddest one is the comparison between the two versions of Barbarian. Hope you all enjoy...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cETl8PhUy_E

[Hammer]

It’s days before DOOM...

[jrfjunior]

This is what I think: when 256 colors and SoundBlaster becomes a standard I thought that the mainly PC's adventure and strategy games becames better graphicaly than AMiga Games. Compare the PC's King QUest 5 or 6 with the Amiga version in a monitor. But I like the Amiga Games mainly because I remember the old days when I begin to use the first home computers. I had ZX-81(here in Brazil was CP-200), Zx Spectrum , MSX  so the Amiga was naturally the progression of this line of computers. PC was in the beggining more business oriented (Lotus 1-2-3, Word etc). Action games which is the kind of games that I like only becames accessible in PC hardware when the graphics accelerators becames more accesible (the first popular graphics cards here in Brazil had a cost of 500 dollars or more).

Managarm wrote:
I just discovered this video on YouTube, I hope it's not something you've all seen a hundred times before.

The maddest one is the comparison between the two versions of Barbarian. Hope you all enjoy...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cETl8PhUy_E

[taunusand]

I have seen it before. But it really shows how Amiga was ahead of the pc back in the day :-D

[Starrfoxx]

I've been reading articles about Microsoft shutting down their ACES studio and that Flight Simulator has possibly come to an end.

Although the new version blows away the Amiga version from SubLogic, I have very fond memories of flying with my Amiga 500 and Flight Simulator II.  I can't remember if I flew more with the Amiga or my parents' Commodore 64, lol.

[persia]

Have you played the flight simulator on the iPhone?  It blows away all the others in playability...

[Hammer]

X-Plane 9 on iPhone.

Bethesda works on producing iPhone Game

Apple seems to be entering the gaming market...

[Speelgoedmannetje]

Managarm wrote:
The maddest one is the comparison between the two versions of Barbarian. Hope you all enjoy...

It's a very good comparison, though.
At the time I had a PC (or, well, used the pc of my parents)
which was a whopping 386 with VGA, but games back then rarely took advantage of that hardware. One was lucky if EGA was supported
And sound cards were out of the question before 1994.

[persia]

I am really impressed with the iPhone.  I made a few apps and it's just too easy to do.  The iPhone provides a standard base, you know what is there and can use it,  It the Amiga ever entered the 21st Century it would be an iPhone...

Hammer wrote:
X-Plane 9 on iPhone.

Bethesda works on producing iPhone Game

Apple seems to be entering the gaming market...

[Speelgoedmannetje]

persia wrote:
I am really impressed with the iPhone.  I made a few apps and it's just too easy to do.  The iPhone provides a standard base, you know what is there and can use it,  It the Amiga ever entered the 21st Century it would be an iPhone...

Maybe, but it has nothing to do with this thread.

[persia]

How about comparing iPhone and Amiga games?  

[amigaksi]

>How about comparing iPhone and Amiga games?

You can better compare iPhone with PC games as both don't have good control on their games (digital joysticks) and both nowadays force you to go through API calls instead of directly to the hardware.

[Hammer]

amigaksi wrote:
>How about comparing iPhone and Amiga games?

You can better compare iPhone with PC games as both don't have good control on their games (digital joysticks)

Xbox 360 controller includes two analogue control sticks and two analogue pressure buttons. While playing console ported games(e.g. GRID Race Driver, Fallout 3 and 'etc'), I use Xbox 360 controller with my laptop PC.

and both nowadays force you to go through API calls instead of directly to the hardware.

To access the hardware, one can create a driver.

[Speelgoedmannetje]

persia wrote:
How about comparing iPhone and Amiga games?  

For as far as I understand it, it's about the comparison of vintage games on pc versus Amiga
so no Iphone involved :-)

[amigaksi]

>Xbox 360 controller includes two analogue control sticks and two analogue pressure buttons. While playing console ported games(e.g. GRID Race Driver, Fallout 3 and 'etc'), I use Xbox 360 controller with my laptop PC.

Never had a Xbox.  I thought analog directions were bad enough to program and use; now you have analog buttons as well.  I can just imagine Space Invaders for XBox stating a message: "Sorry you got killed.  Your shot only fired 30%-- not enough acceleration to shoot down your enemy."

>>and both nowadays force you to go through API calls instead of directly to the hardware.

>To access the hardware, one can create a driver.

If the hardware you are programming exists underneath and the existing driver lets you.  Older PCs had basically same standard hardware I/O ports so I find some of the older VGA/Sound-Blaster DOS games are still quite good when compared to modern games based on DirectX 16.44 (or whatever version they are up to) which probably only a few ATI cards support.