Runs on an OCS Amiga with meager 7MHz and 1MB of RAM. Still gives me goose bumps.

Yes I was in total amazement why anyone EVER had a PC back then. They were WAY more expensive and utterly horrible in every aspect compared to an Amiga. Same goes for Macs, they were totally worthless. It's insane how they both managed to be so successful. Proves that marketing and money can convince people to buy any old shit for 10 times the cost. Depressing reallyKojack wrote:Of course while pc users were using TSRs, amiga owners had true pre-emptive multitasking.
Haha, same here. Either Pong or Space Invaders. The former was one of those lounge table versions at a Chinese restaurant nearby where I lived and Space Invaders I played for the first time at some Spanish road restaurant while we were on holiday.mkultra333 wrote:I think it was Space Invaders, but it might have been Pong. I was about 9 and it would have been in a pub or pub/restaurant.
My dad did funnily enough; He used to get the sheets of music to Jean-Michel Jarre and copy them into OctoMed and change them around.nikki wrote:Do/did you make OctaMED music?Zach Griffin wrote:edit: woops I'm Octamed, not Zac, forgot to log out
I make DnB-style music with Renoise (a tracker too) once in a while. I'm a Venetian Snares fan, and somewhere I read he used to use OctaMED on the Amiga, that's how I heard about it.betajaen wrote:My dad did funnily enough; He used to get the sheets of music to Jean-Michel Jarre and copy them into OctoMed and change them around.nikki wrote:Do/did you make OctaMED music?Zach Griffin wrote:edit: woops I'm Octamed, not Zac, forgot to log out![]()
I think we need a dedicated "I love the Amiga" thread, as there are secret Amigans everywhere it seems.
Yeah, actually I'm 'Vectrex' here, but I use Octamed elsewhere. I used octamed on the Amiga for years. These days I use Buzz which is basically a more powerful version of it (not as fun as octamed thoughnikki wrote:Do/did you make OctaMED music?
I make DnB-style music with Renoise (a tracker too) once in a while. I'm a Venetian Snares fan, and somewhere I read he used to use OctaMED on the Amiga, that's how I heard about it.
Cool, you should try Renoise. It's a great modern tracker, with all new stuff like Vsts and stuff, and VS uses it for his current work. It runs on Linux too natively.Vectrex wrote:Yeah, actually I'm 'Vectrex' here, but I use Octamed elsewhere. I used octamed on the Amiga for years. These days I use Buzz which is basically a more powerful version of it (not as fun as octamed though)
Tried it, it's very nice, but once you go modular you can't go backnikki wrote:Cool, you should try Renoise. It's a great modern tracker, with all new stuff like Vsts and stuff, and VS uses it for his current work. It runs on Linux too natively.Vectrex wrote:Yeah, actually I'm 'Vectrex' here, but I use Octamed elsewhere. I used octamed on the Amiga for years. These days I use Buzz which is basically a more powerful version of it (not as fun as octamed though)
Pong, on the Telstar:nikki wrote:What was the first video/computer game you ever played, and (on betajaen's request) what's your first favourite game?
Depends on whether or not the Amiga had a Video Toaster or not...in which case, a lot of those movies you watched in the 00s were made using one (many, really)JustBoo wrote: Shall we examine how much money I made from PCs during that era and ALL the money you have made from the Amiga during your entire lifetime?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_ToasterThe Toaster was released as a commercial product in October 1990 for the Commodore Amiga 2000 computer system, taking advantage of the video-friendly aspects of that system's hardware to deliver the product at an unusually low cost ($1499).
Oh I know they made loads of money for everyone. That doesn't mean they were *good*JustBoo wrote:Shall we examine how much money I made from PCs during that era and ALL the money you have made from the Amiga during your entire lifetime?
The reason for that was that VHS was open (and therefore free to use) while Beta cost money -- porn is for making money, so no point in spending more than you need toVectrex wrote:It's like VHS vs BETA. BETA was much technically superior but they got people using VHS first (porn)
Your theory is sadly true;hpesoj wrote:there are kids out there today whose first experience of a computer game will be (or rather, was) Halo 3 on the XBox 360
Hex!merlinblack wrote:First game ever for me was Frogger, on a friends BBC Acorn Electron. We could never figure out why when it loaded, it counted from 0-9 and then for some strange reason A-F and then 10 and so on up to FF.![]()
Lol i would have loved to have had a 200mb drive as my first, but i was stuck with a 20mb drive and 13mhz cpu ( wooo gotta love those 286's ).betajaen wrote:Our first hard-drive was a 200mb one, that fitted inside the A1200. If I remember correctly it was a birthday present. My dad partitioned it into four, and I was allowed a generous 100 megs. I even managed to install Workbench on two of the partitions so; We could both have our own OS/Desktop stuff without interfering with each other. Playing Monkey Island 2 on the hard-drive for the first time was pretty awesome, no more swapping 12 discs to play!reptor wrote:I remember I had a 120 MB hard disk drive. As some time passed and the games I had got bigger, I had to wipe out almost everything else to install just one game! Oh how funny it is to think about that now.
Now I have two hard drives each 5,000 times bigger than that!