Random Gaming Thoughts

[RCBH928]

I stumbled upon an "antique" seller on instagram and he was offering a Nintendo Wii as part of his items

[Ziggy]

I stumbled upon an "antique" seller on instagram and he was offering a Nintendo Wii as part of his items

A lot of second hand merchants use "antique" to sound fancy. There's a lot of "antique shops" on the East End of Long Island, but a lot of them are more or less just thrift stores.

[Anapan]

Damn. I'm planning to make up a Wii, OG Xbox or possibly a 360 for the next charity auction. I don't know which might get the most attention, tho there are some of each.

[Ziggy]

Damn. I'm planning to make up a Wii, OG Xbox or possibly a 360 for the next charity auction. I don't know which might get the most attention, tho there are some of each.

I'd recommend doing one of the Xboxes. Wiis are plentiful and cheap, and super easy to mod. Xbox, not so much. You might get more bids, or at least bids for higher amounts, for either Xbox compared to the Wii.

[RCBH928]

Wiis are plentiful and cheap, and super easy to mod. Xbox, not so much. You might get more bids, or at least bids for higher amounts, for either Xbox compared to the Wii.

hah..I remember there used to be websites to show you which stores had new stock since they were so hard to get due to high demand.

[RCBH928]

Its not worth opening a thread over this, but was there anything special about the Amiga games? I looked up some videos and looks like its just a shared library with DOS. I am not sure why the Amiga was popular in the first place, I think maybe the GUI OS and the chips were faster at time of release.

[Ziggy]

I would take a look at the Amiga 101 article on the main site for starters...

https://www.racketboy.com/retro/commodo ... ners-guide

[MrPopo]

A thing that a lot of people are unaware of is just how underpowered IBM Compatibles were for a long time compared to the Apple II, Amiga, and other PCs. Business was the target market, so you had either the monochrome Hercules card or the 4 color CGA card with its awful color palettes. EGA brought things to the level of tolerable with its 16 colors, but it wasn't until VGA came out (not to mention Adlib and Soundblaster finally replacing the PC Speaker) that DOS started to become a premier gaming platform.

[RCBH928]

A thing that a lot of people are unaware of is just how underpowered IBM Compatibles were for a long time compared to the Apple II, Amiga, and other PCs. Business was the target market, so you had either the monochrome Hercules card or the 4 color CGA card with its awful color palettes. .

Yeah I always wondered whats with the aweful color palletes of computer like this

EGA brought things to the level of tolerable with its 16 colors, but it wasn't until VGA came out (not to mention Adlib and Soundblaster finally replacing the PC Speaker) that DOS started to become a premier gaming platform.

yeah but in the after math, does it matter today? Like PSX and N64 game library is vastly different and games like Aladdin between SNES and GENESIS are different, just wondering if there is such a difference between amiga and DOS today . I am sure there is a bit of exclusives on each side.

I would take a look at the Amiga 101 article on the main site for starters...

https://www.racketboy.com/retro/commodo ... ners-guide

I totally missed that. great guide.

I love the internet, people work, collect, and give info for free. They even pay for hosting!

[Ziggy]

I'm really not a fan of the cyan/magenta CGA graphics.

I'm sure there's many Amiga exclusives that are worth your time. And probably some titles that are best on the Amiga compared to other ports.

There's also this great Amiga shmup guide, that was published earlier this year: https://www.racketboy.com/retro/the-com ... essentials

I love the internet, people work, collect, and give info for free. They even pay for hosting!

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