Remember days you only had C64 & your mates had Amiga!

Underfly · Über Groupie Joined: 24 Jul 2004 Posts: 244

Well the Amiga 500 was first demostrated to me in 1988, and back then it was like having
an arcade machines right in your living room!

It changed the way I looked at gaming forever, and also my state-of-art C64 suddendly looked nothing but ordinary

I remember it was a painful 4 and half year wait until I could afford one.

Got one, loved it for only a few months, then someone demostrated a top of class PC to me, then changed my Amiga to "ordinary" so quickly...

oh well...

Haydn · Groupie Joined: 23 Jul 2004 Posts: 117 Location: Melbourne

Yes I remember those days, but for some strange reason I was quite happy with the C64 for many years, even compared with the Amiga. Anyway all that changed when I started seeing stuff like Another World and that State of the Art demo, which the 64 had no hope of recreating.

I used to find it more exciting to use a C64 however. I used to love seeing stuff that pushed the machine, for example sprites in the border regions, or colour plexing to make a new colour. Anything that pushed the Amiga was expected 'cos I always thought of the machine as being so advanced!!!
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WallacetheBruce · Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 9:44 am Post subject:

I've never spoken of it to anybody before. Best leave it that way. Crying or Very sad

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thechap · Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 11:00 am Post subject:

I remember my friend getting an A500 when the first came out. It came with 3 games: Karate Kid 2, Firepower and some crappy athletics game that you used the mouse to play. It was not until I played Garrisoin that I knew I had to have an Amiga.

Antares · Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 6:43 pm Post subject:

Underfly · Über Groupie Joined: 24 Jul 2004 Posts: 244

Hmmm Amiga Basic Programming... Interesting challenge that was...

I think it was a shame it never had its own built-in BASIC language.

I thought the Amiga had such an unfriendly welcome screen unlike the C64 that had READY. with a flashing cursor.

I mean the Amiga was useless without a single 3.5 floppy, it need software of some kind to start being useful.

Didnt like the Workbench BASIC much, as you were stuck in a window, no more basic programs full-screen anymore.

But if you got hold of AMOS Basic, I eventually found thats VERY Powerful tool! You could create some professional masterpieces with that! Shame I didnt get into it for long though...

Jungle Ninja · Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2004 8:53 pm Post subject:

Amos was way cool! But for me too, I only started working with it way too late.
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kaori_uk · Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2004 11:14 am Post subject:

i had a c64 and an amiga 600. i just cant seem to compare the two.
But i did have a rivarly between my mate, he had a spectrum zx! i still think Midnight Resistance and Red Heat look better on a c64 than a spectrum zx! And then Midnight Resistance came to the Amiga!!!

Predseda · Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2004 1:54 pm Post subject:

I have had C64 and visited my pal, who owned Amiga 500. I saw Gods and Turrican 2 first time and I remember I was absolutely lost. I saw a Paradroid 90 too. As I returned home I discovered original Paradroid on some forgotten tape. I loaded it and was horribly dissapointed, because it was no graphically comparable to an Amiga version (I was about 12).

Since this moment all my power was focused to getting my own Amiga and finally I bought an A 600.

Another dissapointment came, because I borrowed a copies of Alien Breed and Jaguar XJ220 from my friend, who had Amiga 600 too. But it didn´t work on my Amiga, altough it worked perfectly on my friend´s one! It was because of Commodore´s shitty manufacturing quality - every sole Amiga was unique, there were not two of them absolutely the same! Pissed

I can´t understand Commodore´s management till today Yuck

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Mika · Newcomer Joined: 05 Dec 2004 Posts: 4 Location: Finland

I had Amiga 1000 + Sidecar after C64.. And after that A3000.. Very Happy

Never forget when i saw Defender Of The Crown first time... Cool

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AdamDawes · Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 1:27 pm Post subject:

Several of my friends at school had Amigas when I still had my C64, I thought it was very unfair. Confused

I used to spend hours with a friend of mine poring over the Amiga ads from Silica Shop in Commodore User and Zzap!64. Then I did a newspaper round for 8 months, and then finally I collected all my hard-earned money together and got the Amiga as a birthday present. Had an exam that day too -- it was a very long day!
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zeropolis79 · Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 2:44 pm Post subject:

I knew I had to have an Amiga when my first girlfriend (I was 12 at the time) had a A500 and was playing The Secret of Monkey Island and Lemmings on it. Whenever I went round, she had to hide the discs otherwise I would spend more time playing the games then spending quality time with her (we split after 2 years)