Top 5 Amiga Games Of 2002

[AF]

Voting closed at 12pm on Saturday with the results counted it is now possible to present the Top 5 Amiga Games Of 2002.  I wish to thank everyone who participated in the vote and for some of the comments you included when you voted.

There are a number of news items on Amiga Flame this week including such news as Anime Development's plans for their 3D Engine.  Will they produce a Silent Hill similar horror game or a Grand Theft Auto 3 clone its up to you.

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[Calen]

2003 - The year of the Rebirth is a nice little read.

[Herewegoagain]

Yep, I went back through the list of upcoming AmigaOne games, and just wonder where some of this info comes from?  Westwood studios is doing C&C, Rockstar/DMA Design doing GTA, and Squaresoft doing FF5???  Those are a bit far fetched to me.  Maybe they do have some inside info, but I don't know.

[JoannaK]

I think those names are lifted from Old Amiga.inc's site that actually has fictive list of upcoming AmigaDE games.  :-P

[Troels_E]

The list of upcoming games are very outdated, lots of links are broken. Hope it will be updated at some point,  AmigaFlame is  a very nice site.

[AF]

The future game sections of Amiga Flame are going through reorganisation and you will be pleased to hear revision to ensure that the lists are as accurate as I can get them.

If people know of any games that should be included then please contact me at the usual address.

@Herewegoagain
I wouldn't expect the original developers behind those games to do the conversions themelves.  I attempted to find out who was doing the conversions of those specific titles sometime ago but most developers are reluctant to reveal what they are working on.

[JoannaK]

Makes me wonder was this vote biased by peoples wish to show support to Hyperion or is that years-old PC-game (nowdays GPL:ed) really best there is for Amiga in entre year 2002? I don't have machine nor have I seen those other games but even idea of Amiga gone so low makes e feel sad  :-(

[odin]

@JoannaK

AFAIK only the exe's are GPLed. Not the actual PAK/datafiles which contains the maps/sounds/gfx/junk.

[Seehund]

Calen wrote:
2003 - The year of the Rebirth is a nice little read.

Is that sarcasm without a smiley?

I don't know how well the author Philip Cosby has followed Amiga related news, but there are some glaring errors and strange wordings that I don't think many who have followed the proceedings would have made. Frankly, this article would be very confusing for anyone from "the outside" reading it, especially the stuff about hardware.

Just look at the very first sentence of the article.

2003 is a year of historical significance for Amiga users as this year new hardware and a new Amiga Operating System will make their debut.

There will be no new Amiga hardware.
"AmigaOne" is a trademark that can be licensed to third party hardware vendors. Unfortunately, the only company that has such a license is Eyetech, which is mentioned, who will be among the companies distributing Teron motherboards from Mai Logic.

The hardware to be sold under the "AmigaOne" trademark is not "new". The Teron CX made its debut in 2001, built around the ArticiaS northbridge controller released the same year. The Teron PX is essentially the same board design, but with a connector for a CPU module. They're both based on the POP reference architecture, released for free use in 1999.

In contrast to the A1200 which had a 020 processor, the AmigaOne has a 800Mhz G4 PowerPC processor. According to Alan Redhouse, CEO of Eyetech, “some PPC experts reckon it is likely to deliver several hundred times the performance of an 030/50 with many applications”.

Comparing a reasonably modern "generic" motherboard to an Amiga is ludicrous. The A1200 is ONE DECADE old technology! It was also a proprietary custom hardware platform. An Amiga.

I have no idea why one of the Teron board vendors would want to compare an 800 MHz PPC7451 CPU from 2001 to a totally different and absolutely irrelevant 50 MHz 68030 from 1989. I assume and sincerely hope that - if he really ever said this - he must have been joking ("some PPC experts..." - for crying out loud!) but I don't think this should have been quoted out of its original context in the article. That single quote could make readers believe that the quoted vendor hasn't got a clue about the stuff he's selling or hoping that potential customers are clueless, or that a Teron board is so worthless that it can't stand a comparison to anything but an ancient Amiga. Which is not the case, of course.

In addition it will have all the features of any modern computer system with lots of Ram, hard drive space, a CD-Rom Drive/ Writer and even a DVD Drive if you like.

Yeah, well, after all a Teron mobo is "any modern computer system", and of course it's got an IDE interface and DIMM slots (even though these are not really modern, but of year 2000 (UATA100) and 1999 (PC133) specs).



Soldier of Fortune is mentioned among the "new" games. I thought that was put on ice / scrapped? I'll be happy to have my suspicions proven wrong. OTOH, after reading the strange list in "Future AmigaOne Game Releases" (I assume this is supposed to be "AmigaOS 4 game releases") I'm not sure how credible the info on the rest of the site is. I get the impression that this is more of a "general" Rah-Rah Amiga Roolz Fan Site, than a news/reviews site about Amiga gaming.

[JoannaK]

@odin

Well. actually it's status was not my point.. More to point is fact that it's over 5 years old game. Makes me ask question:  How many years behind are those Amiga Native games then? :-o  :-o

I have had no working amiga to many years, but when I did Amiga had the Best games and usually well before PC:s and other systems.

[Wilse]

@Seehund:

There will be no new Amiga hardware.

 :roflmao: You never give up, do you?

[L8-X]

@Seehund.

There will be no new Amiga hardware.

Agreed at least not in the classic sense anyway, but this is a good thing as far as I am concerned.

 :-D  :-D  :-D

[Seehund]

@ L8-X:

As far as I'm concerned too, if that was unclear.

Well, under the current and real circumstances at least. I wouldn't say no if someone out there would come up with something that kicked nVidia/ATI/whatever ass, was cheaper than everything else and could manage to keep up with and preferrably stay ahead of the competition. But that's not going to happen.

[NihilVor]

>Will they produce a Silent Hill similar horror >game or a Grand Theft Auto 3 clone its up to you.

I would rather have their third option, an RPG.  It is about time we had a really good one.

[Rob]

`But that's not going to happen'

Then get over it Sehund.

Things have changed in the Amiga market and the main focus is no
longer the hardware.
If you don't like what is happening with the A1 and presumably the
Pegasos then maybe you should look elsewhere.  Although I doubt that
any personal computer manufacturer is going to risk tying their OS to
one particular Graphics/Sound chip.