Amiga forever!
My second computer ever was an Amiga 500 (my first was a C64).
And as all of us Amiga owners know, we had the most superior machine by far back in those days. Just imagine - a 32 color, smooth parallax multidirectional scrolling, 22kz 4 channel stereo sound (the module format started on the Amiga, later expanded into XM and other formats with more channels), plug and play and fully multitasking machine released in 1987!
And to top it off, they were CHEAPER than PCs back then by quite a lot too.
It's such a shame that Commodore made such terrible business decisions that they went out of business spelling the doom for our beloved Amiga.
The Amiga wasn't only for games either - far from it. But since Commodore chose to market it as a toy, most people saw it as exactly that and businesses chose to use PCs like they'd always done (Amiga 2000 machines were used to render the CGI in the pilot episode of Babylon 5 though, pretty cool).
I have to admit though that I used my machine almost exclusively for games.. probably because I was about ten years old at the time. But the games back then were really awesome and a lot of them supported two or more players using only one machine and one TV - something almost no games have these days (a least not in the world of computers).
I was dumb enough to sell my Amiga eventually but thank God for emulators! I've been using emulators for years now, mainly the best Amiga emulator available - winUAE.
If you're interested in playing some of these great games yourself or if you're an old Amiga nut and for some reason haven't gotten into emulation, grab the emulator from here :
http://www.winuae.net/
You will also need the Amiga kickstart files in order to boot the Amiga and run the games, these are still sold and you can buy them from here :
http://www.amigaforever.com/
If you want to see if you're as brilliant as me at playing platformer games, try to finish the Amiga game by the name of "Shadow of the Beast 2" without cheating! It's very hard but also incredibly atmospheric and fun. Highly recommended game, it's a good display case for the excellent Amiga graphics too (and it runs on a 7 mhz CPU!).
There are a ton of other classics as well that everyone should play, and this page is a wonderful source of reviews, screenshots, intro animations, game posters and tons of cool stuff :
www.lemonamiga.com
Anyways, that's all for now.. I'm going back to play more Rick Dangerous (and hopefully finish it this time!) :)
And as all of us Amiga owners know, we had the most superior machine by far back in those days. Just imagine - a 32 color, smooth parallax multidirectional scrolling, 22kz 4 channel stereo sound (the module format started on the Amiga, later expanded into XM and other formats with more channels), plug and play and fully multitasking machine released in 1987!
And to top it off, they were CHEAPER than PCs back then by quite a lot too.
It's such a shame that Commodore made such terrible business decisions that they went out of business spelling the doom for our beloved Amiga.
The Amiga wasn't only for games either - far from it. But since Commodore chose to market it as a toy, most people saw it as exactly that and businesses chose to use PCs like they'd always done (Amiga 2000 machines were used to render the CGI in the pilot episode of Babylon 5 though, pretty cool).
I have to admit though that I used my machine almost exclusively for games.. probably because I was about ten years old at the time. But the games back then were really awesome and a lot of them supported two or more players using only one machine and one TV - something almost no games have these days (a least not in the world of computers).
I was dumb enough to sell my Amiga eventually but thank God for emulators! I've been using emulators for years now, mainly the best Amiga emulator available - winUAE.
If you're interested in playing some of these great games yourself or if you're an old Amiga nut and for some reason haven't gotten into emulation, grab the emulator from here :
http://www.winuae.net/
You will also need the Amiga kickstart files in order to boot the Amiga and run the games, these are still sold and you can buy them from here :
http://www.amigaforever.com/
If you want to see if you're as brilliant as me at playing platformer games, try to finish the Amiga game by the name of "Shadow of the Beast 2" without cheating! It's very hard but also incredibly atmospheric and fun. Highly recommended game, it's a good display case for the excellent Amiga graphics too (and it runs on a 7 mhz CPU!).
There are a ton of other classics as well that everyone should play, and this page is a wonderful source of reviews, screenshots, intro animations, game posters and tons of cool stuff :
www.lemonamiga.com
Anyways, that's all for now.. I'm going back to play more Rick Dangerous (and hopefully finish it this time!) :)
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