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Re: Common amiga knowledge that's wrong
« Reply #104 from previous page: March 13, 2010, 08:34:32 AM »
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Besides, most Amiga users were putting a trackloader game in DF0: and booting up, not playing with the OS

So true... Only when the lack of new disk games started people decided to play with the OS.
 

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Re: Common amiga knowledge that's wrong
« Reply #105 on: March 13, 2010, 08:47:35 AM »
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If we look at "games per day", we go from 1.3 at the height to 0.8 in 94 (doom is out, and no more amigas being built)

Your figures are meaningless without sales figures... That's the thing. Do you think there were as many sales in 91 as in 95 for example ? That would show where the market was... No matter how many games were released.
 

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Re: Common amiga knowledge that's wrong
« Reply #106 on: March 13, 2010, 04:57:53 PM »
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Common knowledge: A1200 should have come with a hard drive, and CBM should have made publishers use it...

And it's true.
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Um..  It did come with a HD.  Everyone I know who bought a 1200 got one with a HD.
Yes, you could buy one without.  You could buy a PC at the time without if you wanted.

Maybe overseas, it was different, but I didn't see an Amiga 1200 without a HD over here..

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Re: Common amiga knowledge that's wrong
« Reply #107 on: March 13, 2010, 05:43:48 PM »
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Your figures are meaningless without sales figures... That's the thing. Do you think there were as many sales in 91 as in 95 for example ? That would show where the market was... No matter how many games were released.


Sales figures from all these companies are going to be impossible to find unfortunately.
 

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Re: Common amiga knowledge that's wrong
« Reply #108 on: March 13, 2010, 05:45:23 PM »
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The fact that some (and only some) games supported multiple drives doesn't change the fact that you had to swap disks (since games came in 3+ disks), that it was slow, noisy, and unreliable when compared to HD.

WHDLoad didn't change anything since again it came way too late.

Common knowledge: A1200 should have come with a hard drive, and CBM should have made publishers use it...

And it's true.

But it was probably already too late by that time anyway.

You love the Amiga, fine. You're nostalgic, fine. But not admitting all these flaws: what's the point ?


The point of the thread is that a lot of the accepted flaws weren't in fact real. I've talked to people who griped that Fate of Atlantis came on 14 disks or whatever, and you had to swap constantly, completely ignorant of the fact that it was HD installable.
 

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Re: Common amiga knowledge that's wrong
« Reply #109 on: March 13, 2010, 11:57:21 PM »
Monkey Island is 11 disks! Just about shit myself when I opened that box. Haven't tried it yet but please god be installable.
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Re: Common amiga knowledge that's wrong
« Reply #110 on: March 14, 2010, 04:01:10 AM »
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So true... Only when the lack of new disk games started people decided to play with the OS.


The developers didn't want people playing games on workbench or to be HD installable because they wrongly perceived it would make piracy easier.  As it was, the Amiga at its height was the most pirated games platform of its day, anyway.  TBH thats why I bought an a500: for $400 Aus I got an A500, two joysticks, a 1084s and a ton of games-most pirated- and easy access to  whatever game I wanted for a few dollars.  Who could afford a SNES or Megadrive with the absurdly high price of cartridges, when such much was on offer for next to nothing?