An Amiga 500 Mini is on the way
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Euro Gamer[^]:
A few years after the mini console boom comes the turn of another classic system - the Amiga.
Compute (or rather game) like it's still the 80s!
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Euro Gamer[^]:
A few years after the mini console boom comes the turn of another classic system - the Amiga.
Compute (or rather game) like it's still the 80s!
But... will it run Doom? On the other hand... I would be already happy being able to play the original "prince of persia", that and "Panic in the orient express" were my first games (speaking about nostalgia) ;) :-D
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Euro Gamer[^]:
A few years after the mini console boom comes the turn of another classic system - the Amiga.
Compute (or rather game) like it's still the 80s!
Woohoo, this sounds like it should be fun. However, something saddens me about this retro boom and that is that it's probably going to be temporary. The retro boom is here now because there was a boom in computing in the 70s and 80s and there are now a lot of men (it's mostly men) in the 40ish-60ish age range who want to play with (a) the computers they had when they were young or (b) the computers they could not afford or get access to when they were young. There is also an associated thing of the same age range of men who want to play with big iron computers that were vastly unaffordable when they were young (or which were legendary but just out of fashion when they were young) but which they can now afford or otherwise gain some kind of access to via emulation. E.g. SGI, Sun, Vaxen, and so on. But this generation will age out (as the saying goes). Will the retro demand for these 70s/80s (and some 90s) machines continue? Or will "retro" come to mean 2000s and 2010s for a new generation? Will retro even continue to be a fashion at all? I want retro to last forever, to preserve working history for future generations. But it won't, will it. :-( As an example of a parallel retro fascination, interest in stream trains has lasted well for more than one generation but I also wonder if that sort of thing will die out too.
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Woohoo, this sounds like it should be fun. However, something saddens me about this retro boom and that is that it's probably going to be temporary. The retro boom is here now because there was a boom in computing in the 70s and 80s and there are now a lot of men (it's mostly men) in the 40ish-60ish age range who want to play with (a) the computers they had when they were young or (b) the computers they could not afford or get access to when they were young. There is also an associated thing of the same age range of men who want to play with big iron computers that were vastly unaffordable when they were young (or which were legendary but just out of fashion when they were young) but which they can now afford or otherwise gain some kind of access to via emulation. E.g. SGI, Sun, Vaxen, and so on. But this generation will age out (as the saying goes). Will the retro demand for these 70s/80s (and some 90s) machines continue? Or will "retro" come to mean 2000s and 2010s for a new generation? Will retro even continue to be a fashion at all? I want retro to last forever, to preserve working history for future generations. But it won't, will it. :-( As an example of a parallel retro fascination, interest in stream trains has lasted well for more than one generation but I also wonder if that sort of thing will die out too.
With emulation things will last, but it's not like cars where you can find a carburetor from a 1947 Winglewhopper to keep yours going. The actual computer hardware has more of a limit, I fear. Soon we'll have retro as in ICQ and LiveJournal. :) People will pine for the "good old days" of modem sounds.
TTFN - Kent
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But... will it run Doom? On the other hand... I would be already happy being able to play the original "prince of persia", that and "Panic in the orient express" were my first games (speaking about nostalgia) ;) :-D
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
Nelek wrote:
But... will it run Doom?
No, you needed an A1200 to play the closest thing, Alien Breed 3D. The main issue was the Amiga's display memory was planar, making individual pixel setting very slow (each pixel set would involve reading, AND/OR, and writing to 6-8 separate locations depending on display depth), and so Texture mapping was slow. Some fast bitmap to planer conversion routines were developed which did eventually allow 3D texture mapped games, but the extra overhead of the conversion was always an issue.