blipped4
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Just wondering why we havent seen such a classic console like the amiga around before ?
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Alpha2
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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.
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.
jcbnetwork
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what is your favorite amiga game, blipped4?
blipped4
T03
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 
mek
Still Fresh
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.Alpha2 posted on Feb 22 2004 at 06:12 AM said:
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Memnoch
Newbie
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.
skysnapper
sleep is for wimps
Moons tone rocked
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.
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.
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.CU_AMiGA
Member
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 You can pick Amiga up for under a tenner.
Cheers,
You can pick Amiga up for under a tenner.Cheers,
CU_AMiGA
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Speedball 2 rocks!
Ice cream!
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CU_AMiGA
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lol
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thebluenewt
wrrrr thrrr frrrrrrrrk?
Great machine, just got myself an A600 after my old A500+ kicked the bucket but my version of SWOS doesn't work...
Daz_Genetic
Certified Guru
I really want an Amiga emulator too, but luckily most of my favourite games came out on the ST aswell
Stuntcar Racer rocks!!
Stuntcar Racer rocks!!
Ringo
Member
@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
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
khephren
Active Member
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)
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)
