Amiga Vs PC Games YouTube

[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.

[save2600]

Some of those XBox games designed to take advantage of analogue buttons work really well. Driving games come to mind. In the case of a Space Invaders type game, you either have to press the spongy analogue button all they way in or the game might be programmed well enough to accept a full detent with any old value. Pinball games on the GameCube were particularly annoying using their spongy UL & UR buttons as flippers. Had to press them in so far until they 'clicked' before the flipper would flip. And you can't always re-assign button configs. Weak.

[Speelgoedmannetje]

*sigh*
Ppl! good old Amiga vs. PC thread! Hello!

[Seiya]

here:

http://www.amigapage.it/index.php?pl=intro

many games (more intro than games, however), DOS vs Amiga
and many more.
AtariST, C64, MSX ecc.

now, i'm making a new set videos on DOS, but it's a great work.
i have problem, becasus i use dosbox and zmbv codec is not supported by program to create stream video onverstion..
so..
i think to the end, many GB of videos..

[persia]

I guess I fail to see the point in comparing games that are so horribly out of date.  I mean this isn't 1989, it's 2009, what's the point?

[taunusand]

persia wrote:
I guess I fail to see the point in comparing games that are so horribly out of date.  I mean this isn't 1989, it's 2009, what's the point?

Because it's fun and some of us like it :-)

And.. I think that I'm a bit out of date too ;-)

[Speelgoedmannetje]

persia wrote:
I guess I fail to see the point in comparing games that are so horribly out of date.  I mean this isn't 1989, it's 2009, what's the point?

Games are games, and cannot be horribly out of date.
Thereby, old computers have this 'soul'; the soul of people who put effort in writing software for these machines, the effort in building these machines. I just love the scent of an old computer in home, kinda comparable with old books.