Amiga Fans?how Many People Own Amiga.pandora Emulation Will Be Cool.

[Sugar_Kane]

I have an A500 still at my parents house. It's the colour of a prospector's tooth.

 

[Trip]

Isnt the question if an amiga can emulate the pandora

I can remember years ago that Amigas could emulate classic macs of the same processor speed and were actually faster than the macs very slightly because the Amigas custom hardware took care of some of the macs CPU responsibilities

Now that would have been a kick in the teeth to the Mac users at the time :lol:

There were loads of great games for the Amiga, but the one that still impresses me even these days is Microprose Grand Prix. The Handling of the cars was (and still is) superb, the 3D graphics looked nice and sharp and the main game still managed to fit onto one floppy disc . How the hell did they manage to do that??
If I could buy the source code and full rights for any game; this would be the one

 

[BaDToaD]

The Amiga was so far ahead of the competition it was amazing. In the Bruce Sterling book "The Hacker Crackdown" (now available as a free ebook at places like Project Gutenberg btw) he asks a "cyber" law enforcement officer what computer she has and what she'd like.

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"What kind of computer do you have?"
"A Compaq 286LE," she mutters.
"What kind do you WISH you had?"
At this question, the unmistakable light of true hackerdom flares in Gail Thackeray's eyes. She becomes tense, animated, the words pour out: "An Amiga 2000 with an IBM card and Mac emulation! The most common hacker machines are Amigas and Commodores. And Apples." If she had the Amiga, she enthuses, she could run a whole galaxy of seized computer- evidence disks on one convenient multifunctional machine. A cheap one, too. Not like the old Attorney General lab, where they had an ancient CP/M machine, assorted Amiga flavors and Apple flavors, a couple IBMS

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That says it all. Every semi serious user of the Amiga and even some gamer only amigans had this same passion for the machine. It was more than a computer. Even in this thread you can get a sense of the feelings that it generates.

I have an Amiga 1200 at home with 040/40 processor board and 32MB RAM. It has Spectrum, c64, GB, NES, SMS and Mame emulators on it amongst others. They are all very playable too. In the past I tinkered with PC emulation on it and ran DOS (ran ok for simple stuff) and windows 3.1 (which was slow but not completely unusable) I also tinkered with Mac emulation under Shapeshifter.

I was online in 1996 with the Amiga via a surf squirrel and USR sportster. The squirrel also had a 32x SCSI CD Rom attached

The Amiga is dead? Nah! Long live the Amiga!

My avatar, by the way is Eric Schwartz "Amiga Survivor"

 

[hobbyman II]

Eric is the same guy who did the Sabrina online strip in Amiga format and Amy the Squirrel, the unofficial Amiga mascot,you can read the whole Sabrina online cartoon strip series on his site, still worth a read imo, even now, probably not suitable for the very young though, it's a cartoon, but a bit adult (especially when Sabrina gets a job at the porn studio), I must be weirder than I thought, but I really got fond of ZigZag :unsure: (ZigZag was the porn star who ran the studio....we are talking furries here :rolleyes: )

 

[BaDToaD]

Eric is the same guy who did the Sabrina online strip in Amiga format and Amy the Squirrel, the unofficial Amiga mascot,you can read the whole Sabrina online cartoon strip series on his site, still worth a read imo, even now, probably not suitable for the very young though, it's a cartoon, but a bit adult (especially when Sabrina gets a job at the porn studio), I must be weirder than I thought, but I really got fond of ZigZag :unsure: (ZigZag was the porn star who ran the studio....we are talking furries here :rolleyes: )

Indeed it is that Eric. I got into him via his old Amiga cartoons. I have a good collection of the funniest on my Amiga HD. Flip the frog are my favourites but some of the very short ones are hilarious too. The Swiss Army F16 is one funny as is VTOL contest.


All the Eric Schwartz cartoons seem to be on youtube


Nowt wrong with thinking furries are cute. Hell Amy the Squirrel is mega sexy in some pics :blink:

I'm sure I downloaded many of the Sabrina Online cartoon strips years ago. No idea where they are now though.

 

[Zeno Arrow]

OMG, I was reading the minimig sites and watching the videos of it on youtube, after the death of my A1200 and using PC's for sooo many years, I had forgotten how godawefull slow a PC OS running on a dual core 2.8 Ghz cpu and Nvidia GFX was compared to an Amiga at 7mhz with Alice,Paula and Denise, that desktop was SOOO much better than anything I am currently using, Magic Workbench made things even slicker.

Curse you Magic Sam!, my wallet is getting an urge to disgorge it's contents :unsure: (again), is there no end to the wonderful gizmos available on the intertubes?

If you think the Minimig is good now, you should know that an AGA version is imminent, it won't run on the Minimig v1.1 hardware, but the Replay board (a.k.a. FPGA Arcade) is almost finished, and is effectively Minimig v2. Read more here:
http://www.fpgaarcade.com/
...and here:
http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=39806

Beyond this, there are other interesting FPGA-based Amigas on their way, the two most prominent being Natami and CloneA. The aim of the CloneA is a cycle-exact recreation of an Amiga, so far there hasn't been much information about it, other than a public demonstration of the OCS core, and the developers admitting that HDL code from the ECS core was used in one of their latest products (a flickerfixer, Indivision ECS). It seems likely when AGA core is right that they'll be looking to release a C64DTV style product, time will tell.

The Natami is a very interesting project indeed, the goal is to not just emulate existing Amiga functionality, but to extend it by quite some margin, there are many parts being developed concurrently, including SuperAGA chipset, a new 68k CPU, a graphics accelerator possibly with OpenGLES functionality (Tami), and a new multi-threaded co-processor (Robin). You can read more here:
http://www.natami.net/index.htm

and remember that cover disk where they managed to compress 101 games on to it? Just looking though them was great fun.

Can you remember which magazine that cover disk was on? I think I had a dream about it once!

If I can get some of them floppies converted to images that run on the Pandora I'll probably die in ecstasy (Yep, floppies, 880k. A lot of them still work!). I'm glad to have lived those times and to (probably) re-live them through the Pandora even though I still have the original A500 that I can use.

Do you have a USB floppy disk drive? There are easy ways to create the disk images you need if you do.

I have an A500 still at my parents house. It's the colour of a prospector's tooth.

A way to fully restore the look of Amigas (and other yellowed plastic casing for that matter) was discovered fairly recently:
http://retr0bright.wikispaces.com/
Take a look at some of the results:
http://retr0bright.wikispaces.com/The+Gallery

Eric is the same guy who did the Sabrina online strip in Amiga format and Amy the Squirrel, the unofficial Amiga mascot,you can read the whole Sabrina online cartoon strip series on his site, still worth a read imo, even now, probably not suitable for the very young though, it's a cartoon, but a bit adult (especially when Sabrina gets a job at the porn studio), I must be weirder than I thought, but I really got fond of ZigZag :unsure: (ZigZag was the porn star who ran the studio....we are talking furries here :rolleyes: )

Eric Schwartz also created the logo for the open-source Amiga-like OS, AROS:
http://aros.sourceforge.net/
There are some really cool developments happening with AROS at the moment, for example in the past few days it's become possible to install it to a USB flash drive, once the WIP emulation layers are more complete it's going to be very tempting for Amiga fans to carry around AROS whereever they go methinks!

 

[edcowden]

I learned audio editing on the Amiga (Audio Suite II, still have it!) back when I was a tween, and in a very round-about-way ended up becoming a voiceover artist and audio engineer. Fond, fond memories of the Amiga 500 and 2500 I used to have.

Eye of the Beholder was great, as was...oh, was it Dungeon Master!? Can't recall, but it was a port of an existing Atari ST game. I remember hacking plant monsters up at one "infinite spawn" spot so I could stack up my food inventory.

Also, Psygnosis! My word. Shadow of the Beast when it first came out. They also made some amazing shooters. And Cinemaware, of course.

Can't wait to relive some of these!

 

[EmuGuy]

I learned audio editing on the Amiga (Audio Suite II, still have it!) back when I was a tween, and in a very round-about-way ended up becoming a voiceover artist and audio engineer. Fond, fond memories of the Amiga 500 and 2500 I used to have.

Me too! We had an Amiga 2000, and had borrowed some guy's home made sound sampler (which ended up frying itself, so then we bought a real one)...used Audio Master 3 software (I think?)...once I started playing with audio waveforms, I was hooked. And that's what I'm still doing today. I still have the old audio loops I used to make out of Guns n' Roses guitar licks. LOL...great way to learn about zero crossing though.

The Amiga was an amazing computer/brand/tool/teacher/world. Can't wait to have one in my pocket!!

 

[Sugar_Kane]

Eye of the Beholder was great, as was...oh, was it Dungeon Master!? Can't recall, but it was a port of an existing Atari ST game. I remember hacking plant monsters up at one "infinite spawn" spot so I could stack up my food inventory.

Also, Psygnosis! My word. Shadow of the Beast when it first came out. They also made some amazing shooters. And Cinemaware, of course.

Can't wait to relive some of these!

I remember the day that my brother bought Dungeon Master, he had to install more memory to play it. It was one of the most iconic games of my childhood (Shame they messed the sequel up so badly... ), along with Uninvited and It came from the dessert.

 

[Dunny]

I remember the day that my brother bought Dungeon Master, he had to install more memory to play it. It was one of the most iconic games of my childhood (Shame they messed the sequel up so badly... ), along with Uninvited and It came from the dessert.

hehe. That's one word you don't want to spell wrong in this context.

Also, for all you amiga-audiophiles out there... This should stir some memories:

D.

 

[john4p]

 

[Sugar_Kane]

It's right up there with Dessert Strike: urban sponge warfare

 

[hobbyman II]

I preferred Prune 2000, mining spice is where it's at..... :rolleyes:

 

[eeekubuntu]

My linkhttp://www.c64audio.com/productInfo.php?cat=IMM Just curious how many of us are amiga fans,or own amigas.Emulation on the pandora will be cool.Theres a link to immortal,amiga music cd.hope link works.

I have an Amiga 500, 1200 and a Minimig. Also i have a Sam440-ep 600 Running AmigaOS 4.1 Yes, i grew up with C64 and amiga

 

[trooper]

STEREO MASTER

Though not an audiophile, I did use that software quite a lot back in the day.

I found it one of the easiest sampling software`s to use, And it had a great
looking interface.

Trooper

 

[Dunny]

STEREO MASTER

Though not an audiophile, I did use that software quite a lot back in the day.

I found it one of the easiest sampling software`s to use, And it had a great
looking interface.

Yeah, only the Amiga had the coolest looking software - none of this uniform UI shite

And why is it that I could sample at 8khz and get awesome sound out of the miggy, but the PC needs 44.1KHz+ to sound good?

D.

 

[Pleng]

And why is it that I could sample at 8khz and get awesome sound out of the miggy, but the PC needs 44.1KHz+ to sound good?

D.

I think your memory might be playing tricks on you.

The Amiga only has 8-bit sound (with some tricks to get pseudo 12-14 bit). I doubt you'd have been able to hear anything meaningful at an 8bit sample with a rate of 8kHz

I think generally Amigas sampled in the 22-36kHz range

 

[Dunny]

And why is it that I could sample at 8khz and get awesome sound out of the miggy, but the PC needs 44.1KHz+ to sound good?

D.

I think your memory might be playing tricks on you.

The Amiga only has 8-bit sound (with some tricks to get pseudo 12-14 bit). I doubt you'd have been able to hear anything meaningful at an 8bit sample with a rate of 8kHz

I think generally Amigas sampled in the 22-36kHz range

You could be right. What rate were the samples in the original Soundtracker made at?

D.

 

[scyzor]

I still have A500 (overclocked) and 3x A1200 (two for sale )

 

[LeChuck87]

A500+ here... and still kickin'! did you ever notice the a+ build quality? 19 years of work and no repair at all!