Kinda, but it predates the first CDI commercial players by several years. The first CDI commercial players were like 1995, this was late 1990. It basically birthed the concept of an "media PC." It was an Amiga 500, meant to fit under your TV. It largely failed because it lacked a floppy drive out of the box, it only took CDs. That's not a floppy in the pic, that's a CD caddy, this was so early in the life of CD-Roms that it was back in the day that they couldn't be exposed and had to be placed in caddys.I don't even recognize/remember that.
Was it a CDi competitor?
Oh, I know there's a difference, but it was only until a few years ago I thought they were the same thing when people talked about them.How can you. One is the sexiest piece of hardware released by Commodore
The other one is the ugliest.
I am still amazed by what the demogroup Black Lotus has pumped with the Amiga, here with Starstruck (2006), Rift (2014) and Eon (2019).
I recently picked up an aca1221ec for my 1200 and was going through some old games.
The intro for No Second Prize is some funky shit:
Click: https://youtu.be/GfX7tRNzsHA
Game plays really well too, holds up better than Grand Prix IMO.
Whoa, CDTV I can understand but not even a C64 or Vic 20 at a game store or flea market?This is the second time in my life that I've ever seen commodore equipment in the wild in the US, the last time being back in 1991.
Whoa, CDTV I can understand but not even a C64 or Vic 20 at a game store or flea market?
Oh man, I wish I'd known this about Amigakit before I ordered from them! Yes It is out and I actually bought it from Amigakit, assuming this is the same one: Clickwait wait wait wait wait
is the ACA1221ec out?? Because if so, holy shit I'm livid right now. Story time! I bought an ACA1233-n from AmigaKit about 2 years ago and have been going through fucking hell dealing with them. The card arrived dead, it never worked, and when I hit up their customer support, they ignored me, and continued to ignore my emails until I made a topic on English Amiga Board explaining how they were ducking me. Minutes after making the topic on EAB, they finally replied, in an angry manner asking why I was going public (because you assholes wouldn't answer me at all!).
Anywho, back and forth for like a month while they insinuated I broke the card ("let me see the pins on the card, I want to make sure there's no burn marks from you installing it wrong"), until finally, they said "ok mail it back to us and we'll give you a new one." I had to pay the shipping to mail it back out of pocket.
fucking 8 months go by without a word. I finally make another topic on EAB about it, they respond. Seems once I sent back the board, they found out that indivision had discontinued the ACA-1233n and thus they couldn't fulfill the order for a replacement. And "it's not company policy to give refunds." So... uh.
Months and months of arguing continue, they eventually tell me they'll try fixing the card themselves in-house, I tell them I don't want the card anymore, and they say "well, if Indivision ever makes a replacement card, we'll send you that one instead."
I've been watching the ACA-1221ec carefully as that looks to be the next best replacement down the line. You're saying you have yours in-hand? Because if so, looks like it's time for me to make another EAB topic about how they run their business like shit.
Damn AmigaKit sucks.
EDIT: Holy shit, they even list it in-stock on their website: http://amigakit.amiga.store/product_info.php?products_id=1296
fuck amigakit so hard. What an awful company.
Oh man, I wish I'd known this about Amigakit before I ordered from them! Yes It is out and I actually bought it from Amigakit, assuming this is the same one: Click
It arrived, works fine and their sales team even added a couple of optical mice to my order for me and my brother via email communication. They were super responsive and everything was sorted the same day.
However one of the mice arrived broken and three emails and several weeks later they've only sent one reply along the lines of 'we check every mouse before shipping'...OK. It is still broken.
I ordered a replacement floppy from them in the meanwhile and that arrived just fine, so there is someone home.
Obviously no way near as bad as your situation, I really hope you can sort something out with them.
The copy I had had a corrupted disk that failed when you got to the second island (3/4 way through). I didn't complete the game for 20 years until I played it on an iPhone 3gs!This kind of talk makes me feel like a very old man. But yeah, it was a pain. Who Framed Roger Rabbit is the game that sticks out in my memory as being a disk swap nightmare. Would load a little from disk one then ask to insert disk two, load a little from disk two then ask to insert disk one, rinse and repeat.
No the first CD-I player came out in the US on december 3rd 1991 so about 8 months after Commodore's CDTV.Kinda, but it predates the first CDI commercial players by several years. The first CDI commercial players were like 1995, this was late 1990. It basically birthed the concept of an "media PC." It was an Amiga 500, meant to fit under your TV. It largely failed because it lacked a floppy drive out of the box, it only took CDs. That's not a floppy in the pic, that's a CD caddy, this was so early in the life of CD-Roms that it was back in the day that they couldn't be exposed and had to be placed in caddys.
I'm not home until Saturday, but I can check it then sure. I've had trouble with a couple of games such as Settlers not running via Workbench due to memory restrictions. Ran OK via DOS though.Vinegar Joe do me a favor and tell me how WHDLoad and Turrican run on your ACA-1221ec. Any hiccups or slowdowns not present on a stock A1200?
That's good news, I'm glad you got it sorted.So AmigaKit contacted me, said they had managed to source a new ACA-1233n for me and have soak tested it and are shipping it to me. So an even better outcome than I was expecting yesterday.
Its where my career started 8). Did the music on Fifa, Mortal Kombat 2, half the music on Colonisation and the never released Primal Rage. My early PC game projects were still written on Protracker as well.
Apologies for the necro but you have no idea how much i love the Colonisation music so i just wanted to say thanks! It's a marvellous game too!
Received the batman 89 pack for Christmas and never looked back. Work bench was great, deluxe paint was AMAZING and the cinemaware games along with the demos and pirate scene kept it around for a long time. Shout out to Killing Floor, speedball 2, magic pockets, the blues brothers, Rick dangerous, turrican, rocket ranger, tv sports football, sensible soccer and monkey island
I managed to pull a bunch of image files off my old disks, and it's amazing what I was able to make with just a mouse as a drawing tool. To this day, no PC mouse has ever been that precise, or at least it seems that way to me.
Well you were working with a 320x256 resolution. It's easier to be precise compared to nowadays resolutions.I managed to pull a bunch of image files off my old disks, and it's amazing what I was able to make with just a mouse as a drawing tool. To this day, no PC mouse has ever been that precise, or at least it seems that way to me.
Definitely one of the Amiga's best lookers.Bought Amiga Forever Plus edition, hey its lockdown why not, variety of Amiga systems to mess around with, fired up Agony, game is gorgeous, the music and loading screens man -
This stuff still looks stunning.Bought Amiga Forever Plus edition, hey its lockdown why not, variety of Amiga systems to mess around with, fired up Agony, game is gorgeous, the music and loading screens man -
I've not done my list yet, but Superfrog is going on for sure. i think Turrican is too much of a shooter for me to put it on personally, but now I'm tempted to put Turrican 2on it too lol.This stuff still looks stunning.
Amiga fans, the essential platformers thread needs your votes. So far it has been dominated by just Nintendo and modern indies. Variety is badly needed. It would be a shame to see nothing like Another World, Flashback, or Turrican make it onto the top 101.
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The Amiga has a few decent plateformers but not many tbhThis stuff still looks stunning.
Amiga fans, the essential platformers thread needs your votes. So far it has been dominated by just Nintendo and modern indies. Variety is badly needed. It would be a shame to see nothing like Another World, Flashback, or Turrican make it onto the top 101.
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Hey all,
really want to get some AMIGA game emulation going, but here is the tricky bit:
Ideally I could do so on my Android phone, the Windows 10 PC and possibly a Raspberry Pi 4 with the same game repository.
I don't really have the time to tweak separate installations and config files for 3 different platforms, WHDLoad on one platform then ADF on another etc.
Is there a way?
For Android Retroarch it seems P-UAE seems to get better, but still requires manual config files per game? Would that be WHDLoad?
How is Emulationstation and Amiberry?
On Windows PC I was used to WinUAE+ADFs which was also not really user friendly but compared to no good documenation on P-UAE it seems like child's play?
It's wolfchild 2's intro
Amiga was absurdly ahead of its time and quite possibly the best money to performance ratio of any pc ever released.
The Amiga had its niche but its gaming abilities took almost 5 years to shine (with sotb). Once games became exclusive and not ports from ST games it had it better but by then the PCE, Megadrive and SFC were already out or almost thereAmiga was absurdly ahead of its time and quite possibly the best money to performance ratio of any pc ever released.
Which Amiga version would start to be comparable to SNES and Mega Drive (processor-wise, not colour or sound)? And what was the standard floppy size/capacity at the time