Amiga


Isn't the amiga technically a computer, not a console?

Someone mentioned the Amiga today though, I dont remember what was said but I do recall the impression that it'd be hard to emulate.
 
I dont know,I dont know anything about the amiga except it plays floppies, The a500 i hear has low specs but i think it would be a great addition esecially to the olde fans :p
 
Alpha2 posted on Feb 22 2004 at 06:12 AM said:
Isn't the amiga technically a computer, not a console?

Someone mentioned the Amiga today though, I dont remember what was said but I do recall the impression that it'd be hard to emulate.
My brother has a Amiga CD32 Console that runs anything a Amiga 500 can, but most Amiga's are home computers. Emulating this thing on gp32 is gonna be hard. Use the search and you'll find a couple of topics that explain why.
 
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The Amiga is a superb computer. I don't think we'll ever see it emulated so go buy one on ebay now!! My favourite games were Sensible World Of Soccer, Liberation (although this was on A1200, CD32 version was better as it was talkie if I recall), Hired Guns, Speedball 2, Moonstone, Frontier (sequal to Elite - buggy as hell but still awesome) ... I'm sure there was many more but my minds gone blank - I'll have to dig it out and browse through my collection. :)
 
Moons tone rocked :p

Actaully didn't that come out for the st as well....must have a check later..

Amiga was not a console twas a fully fledged home computer.

As for being low specced at the time it blew the PC away in terms and of sound and graphics, and was superior to the Atari St
The amigas were also pretty upgradeable too external video hardware was released and many studios used them for effects and post production. Eg all the space sequences in the scifi series babylon 5 were produced using Lightwave..Lightwave a 3d program that is amost as popular as Maya and 3D studio MAx started its life on an amiga.

i remember as a kid spending a fair bit on my A500 a 512k upgrade thats 1/2 meg cost 100quid! think it was a second external floopy was around 80 quid at the time. And a 20meg external harddrive was around 200 quid! over 200 quid for 20 meg lol!

Howver it is very hard to emulate due to it having quite a complex custom chipset. So the chances of it being playable are a big fat zero.
 
actually there *are* some very good amiga emulators around, and as far as I know they are opensource so could ported. The best one I know is UAE, that runs most things fine on a PC. What I would worry about is if the GP32 has enough CPU oomph for it, reason being that compared to the Atari ST which is basically doing everything using the CPU, an Amiga would have the same CPU + custom chips, and the blitter on its own can do 15Million operations/second, so is surely going to need some CPU power to get there. It might be on the limits of doable, I had Amiga stuff working pretty well on a 400MHz PII PC, and that's not terribly more powerful than a GP32. Time will tell :) On the other hand, once there is a perfectly good Atari ST emulator around, most games were released on both formats, the advantage of Amiga games coming when those actually used the hardware features. Most games would play identically, except for Amiga having better sound. As an aside, Amiga sound should be very easy to emulate because it was basically playing samples which the GP32 is pretty good at.
 
He-He! I own an Amiga, it is an excellent computer even now. I have a fairly beefed up one (as i mentioned in another thread). I think the GP32 has next to no chance of (properly) emulating an Amiga, as it is only recently really that it is being emulated by a PC/MAC, the poor old GP32 just don't have the va va voom to perform such a task. The only way i could think of possibly speeding up the emulation is: frameskip, no sound or mono graphics. And this would also just be a bare bones A500 with 1/2 or 1 meg RAM. Don't expect miracles. Also as someone said before, the Atari ST had most of the games that came out on Amiga, juST not as good :p You can pick Amiga up for under a tenner.

Cheers,
 
I had A 500 a 1200 and a cd32 and my favourites games were liberation cannon fodder,SWOS and settlers.
Great systems my cd32 is still hooked up in my living room now and i have a gamecube! (love my GC though)
 
@Blipped4

If you really want to get into Amiga-emulation to experience what kind of home computer it was, "WinUAE" is the emulator go for... You will however need a Kickstart-ROM to get anything working (it is something similar to the TOS for the Atari ST)

And you will ofcause need some games... They come in ADF-files, which are floppy-images. There are a vast amount of games LEGALLY available at "Back To the Roots". I can recommend games like Project X (the best side-scrolling shooter EVER!!!), Superfrog, Lotus III, Pinball Dreams (you might know it from somewhere)... damn, there are just to many... And they are all available at that site... Just recently Team 17 gave them permission to have some of their games available for download.... Wonderfull!

If you are interrested in a impressing Amiga-emulation of the Amiga OS Workbench (something that differently won't be able to be emulated on a GP32), then try "Amiga In A Box"... It's a preset OS with lots of eye-candy and Windows-like navigation.

It does however require the Workbench OS which is copyrighted.

well... happy gaming ;)
 
ATR Racing, LIONHEART, TURRICAN 2-3, S.of Beast Trilogy, ...... 10 years ago..were my favourite games.
 
Maybe we should do a poll to see how many old Amiga fans are on here, seems to be a hell of a lot! BTW, for those wanting legal +(easy to find) amiga/CD32 demos/games/apps try: http://www.back2roots.org/
but most of you probobly know about that :) Blipped, if you want a legal copy of the roms/workbench Cloanto do a legal emulation with them included fot about £20 (then again you could buy an Amiga 1200 for about £15, which would mean you could legally download the ROMS/OS, because as we know, every Amiga1200 is entitled to a copy of WB 3.0 at least)
 
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