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[ady]

I notice on the Fruit-Emu stats that there is One --- yep One Amiga user...Dunno about you lot, but this reminded me of my machine up-in-the-loft collecting dust (not that you would know my loft!!)..A Commadore A600--Top Spec at the time!!....I got it down and remembered how much fun I had with it..although the machine was 100% DOS...I cannot figure how you can get such good gaming from a mere floppy disc....I remember a mate having internet access from his....what a show-off we thought, this was the time when all he could connect to was grannies knitting circle--as that WAS the internet..........Really good to see someone using it still....................

[pash]

Now theres nowt wrong with the good old amiga ive still got my A500 with the half a meg upgrade up its arse so its a WHOLE 1mb of ram!!!

Dig it out now and again for the sheer hell of it and it brings back so many memories

[RB]

still use my 1500 psuedo pc amiga...
just for a quick round of alienbreed...all loaded from a 760kb floppy....
Followed by Magic pockets of my mega 10mb Hard drive card....
kickstart 1.3 workbench and 20 games installed and i still have 3mb free..


:twisted:

[tga]

heh, i got a copy of winuae and about 16000+ adf's
good old www.romshare.net

used to be www.emuchina.net till we got an english port,


theve even got every amiga coverdisk in adf format

top computers tbh.....

[ady]

...........Super Frog ................ that was the game I loved ............. Could be that it had the Fruit Machine gamble where you could risk points on the spin of the reels for extra lives .................

[nails]

oh my god! did u really spend £399 on the a590 20MEG hard drive?!?!

the last configuration i had, was the amiga in a tower, scsi Cd-writer, 32mb ram and the awesom apollo 060 70mhz card. on or about this time motorola announced that the 060 chip was to be dis-continued, which is why apple went power-pc chip based.

i ran a pirate board for years and kept all the cd`s if anybody interested.
super frog came in sever different flavours, the biggest had the anim-into by thay famous graphics guy schwatz whatever.

my bbs was one of the board that wasraided by FEAR-FACTORY, a group that hit many fine bbs`s and also is wanted by FBI/INTERPOL for an attack on aminet-germany.

[jay2]

the biggest had the anim-into by thay famous graphics guy schwatz whatever.


the great eric schwartz the master of animation on the amiga(grounbreaking too for the time).
and what about the most playable footy game of all time...........................SENSIBLE SOCCOR o the memories.
my sister in law borrowed my A1200 about 3 years ago broke a few keys aswell.BITCH

[hurtand165]

c64 : http://private.freep...hulze/frodo.zip

amiga 1200 try here : http://www.winuae.net/

hope that helps

[Pgamblin]

He he..

I dug out my old Commodore 64 the other day. still in very good nick and also my old VIC 20 with additional cassete drive. Still Boxed with Instructions.. What do you think it would be worth now ???

[Protocol]

I would keep it if i was u m8.....ive got a friend whos a die hard c64 fan hes got so many games, when u walk into his room its like going back to retro era again. lol

I used to have an Amiga too, and a big fan i was as well, still got quiet a few tunes in .sid form on my pc and yes i was the Amstrad CPC 464 user( but i don't know what happened to that thing)!! while everyone was the speccy or commodore user. I remember trying to decide wheather to buy the £2.99 magic knight games or a £1.99 bargin game back then on the Amstard lol....those were the days, the green goldfish bowl screen.

[Pgamblin]

Just to top it all of i was being dragged through a car boot the other day and i came accross a box full of amiga games for £5... unfortunatly i wasnt allowed to buy them as the other half already moans at the amount of Cd's i already have.........

Could of been good. i would love to play another game of Vanahalla... or even the great Giana Systers......... sob sob

Does anyone remember the game barbarian ? hold back down and press fire for the ultimate head chop.... used to play that game until my fingers were bleeding for so much button bashing.

[RB]

Old machines are becoming collectable...(valuable again)

I have sealed in cling film in the original boxes in my loft....

Oric Atmos, MemoTech 64, Mattel aquarius, Commodore c16+, Vic 20, Commodore 64, ZX80, ZX81, Spectrum 16k, Sinclair QL, Atari 400,800,XL
Atari 1024,ST, Mega ST, Amiga A500, Amiga 1200, Amstrad 6128, Amstrad megaPC( 386 with mega drive), and still hunting the boot sales for more...plus a boxfull of memory exspansions, microdrives, cartidges etc...

and out of all of them i probably think "jet set willy" on the spectrum 128 was the most addictive...at the time....closely followed by alienbreed on the amiga...

:twisted: RB

[Pgamblin]

Yeah.. Jet set willy was cool...

I never used to be able to get any further than 4 0r 5 screens into the game but it was soooo adictive....

After the good old days i think back to the ZX Spectrum +3 i had with light gun... That was cool...

Then i had a master system with built in alex kid.. Wonder boy in monsterland was my all time favourite.. Then the mega drive , Nes , Super nintendo , Game Gear , Mega cd adaptor , sega cd , N64 , Ps1 , ps2 , sega saturn , game cube , dream cast.... havent brought an xbox as yet maybe i will get one over xmas....

The worst of it all is that i still have all the consoles mentioned above but i rarely play them now.. Pc games all the way at the moment.

[cambridgecableguy]

It was down to the amiga that i 1st found out about all this fruit emu lark....when i had my old amiga i use to have club fruit machine simulator on it,and it was when i was looking for this game on the pc when i found i stumbled across the world of FME......oh and what a find

[nails]

at my amigas peake it was a a1200 tower with a colossal 060 75mhz boards with 32mb ram... what a beast. i did have a fruit machine emulator for the a500, it was wicked (believe mame ran at 10 frames per sec!)

did somebody write the amiga was 100% dos? well, windows was actually built into ROM, and was ported from a sun-dos environment. if an amiga had a 3gig processor now, it would leave the pc standing in its own little time warp.

my opinion anyway

[RB]

it was just a pity that they got caught up in the consumer domestic market...as their highend machines didnt sell in big enough numbers and their lowend A500, A1200, etc needed a new machine with every processor improvment....or Fat angus development...shame as the Demo scene on these machines was huge at one point...Jesus on E's was one of the better at the time...

RB

[duplu]

Oric Atmos, MemoTech 64, Mattel aquarius, Commodore c16+, Vic 20, Commodore 64, ZX80, ZX81, Spectrum 16k, Sinclair QL, Atari 400,800,XL
Atari 1024,ST, Mega ST, Amiga A500, Amiga 1200, Amstrad 6128, Amstrad megaPC( 386 with mega drive), and still hunting the boot sales for more...plus a boxfull of memory exspansions, microdrives, cartidges etc...

You are missing the classic Dragon 32. I hassled my mother for days for the extra money to buy one of those, otherwise I was destined for the ZX81 - The spectrum was out of my price range.