I LOVE MY AMIGA !

[norecess]

Actually, you had 1 standardized format (.MOD files) and multi MOD players/trackers.

Problems are that players/trackers does manage sound FX the same way. Protracker should be kept as the reference here.

[Niode]

@ Ivo; I'm sure you could use more than one button on the Amiga. I had an Amiga joystick with 2 fire buttons.

I wish I had an Amiga monitor so I could make more use of my Amiga 600+HDD+RAM upgrade.

[Ivo]

@ Ivo; I'm sure you could use more than one button on the Amiga. I had an Amiga joystick with 2 fire buttons.

I wish I had an Amiga monitor so I could make more use of my Amiga 600+HDD+RAM upgrade.

I had many joysticks with more than one button, in fact I would say that most of the hardware had at least 2, a bunch had 3. But I don't remember playing any games that used them for different functions (I think I read somewhere there are some that do that, and all it takes is one to prove it is not a strict hardware limitation). Certainly the mice had two buttons and were recognised as different inputs.

I don't know if it was laziness of the coders or just coding to keep everyone "included" because many of the joysticks only had one button.
Regardless it was widespread and IMO a big issue when porting arcade games that used more than one button (in many cases the "jump" button could be well replaced by the up in the joystick, something that isn't good to do in gamepads but that is ok in joysticks IMO). In many games you had to use a direction+fire to do something that otherwise would be input by a button (in good justice there were cases it was actually better to have the control "Amiga-style" than to make you use many buttons - IK+ is a good example)

[Niode]

Interesting, I remember using a 6 button Mega drive pad to play Street Fighter 2 on my Amiga back in the day... Unless I'm recalling incorrectly.

[Ivo]

Interesting, I remember using a 6 button Mega drive pad to play Street Fighter 2 on my Amiga back in the day... Unless I'm recalling incorrectly.

I remember playing the Amiga port of SF2 with the keyboard so I could have punch separate from kick - I don't think I had more inputs than that even on the keys.

Ivo.

[Niode]

Man, I wish I had my Amiga up here to test this...

[Pulsar_t]

Immortal is a rather decent tribute album to Amiga classics.

[saimo]

First off, I'm new here so... hi all!

Is there someone else here in love with Amiga gaming?

Me, and not just for the gaming... in fact, I'm posting this from AmigaOS (4.1, which you probably already know about since you even have a MiniMig)

For lovers of Amiga music:
* http://amp.dascene.net/home.php;
* http://www.amiworx.de/AMP.html.

(Heh, curious... same acronym )

[saimo]

OK, guys... after that first post of mine, I felt a urge to quickly comment on other points in this thread...


@Krooner

It's something I'vew always wanted to try but the elitism of the scene scares me off, it's not Neo-Geo bad but it was bad in the nineties/early naughties.

Well, if you're still interested, don't care about anything but the games themselves - and, anyway, keep in mind that today's Amiga community would warmly welcome you anytime


@pepharytheworm

Anybody have a complete list of Amiga exclusives.

That would be just too huge, I guess.


@Hatta

Seems like the CD32 with the CD images of floppy disk conversions would be the best all around gaming machine, but I'm not sure.

First of all, keep in mind that there is no single real Amiga that is able to play all the Amiga games.
That said...
"CD images of floppy disk conversions": what do you mean? If you refer to floppy images stored on CD, well, they don't work because the games were hard-coded to work from floppies; if you you refer to CD versions of games, there are only few games that have been converted for the CD32. However, there is a tool called WHDLoad which allows to run "hand-installed" copies of the game from HD (so, I guess, it should work also from CD, except that savegames wouldn't be possible). Honestly, I never heard of anybody using it on the CD32, but I can't see why it shouldn't work. Otherwise, the best machine has to be the A1200 because it allows to play both AGA and OCS/ECS games.


@arion

Pinball dreams is still awesome and the later ones are great too.

Pinball Dreams, Pinball Fantasies and Pinball Illusions were all nice pinball games, but please let me mention a game that is so much better but, unfortunately, not as famous: Slam Tilt. Just to have a taste of it, have a look at this video:


@CRTGAMER

If I'm not mistaken isn't this the machine that LEMMINGS debuted on.

It think it's correct.


@norecess

Actually, you had 1 standardized format (.MOD files) and multi MOD players/trackers.

Sorry, but that's wrong: although they shared the same roots/concepts, there was a variety of "engines".

[pepharytheworm]

OK, guys... after that first post of mine, I felt a urge to quickly comment on other points in this thread...

@pepharytheworm

Anybody have a complete list of Amiga exclusives.

That would be just too huge, I guess.

After I did more research I couldn't find anymore amiga exclusives. Can you even name 10 more not listed in my list? I would appreciate it.

I tihink Hatta was talking about the compilation disc to play amiga 500/600 games on an Amiga CD32. You can burn it from several sources.