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  1. Posted

    I've always hated Pac Man... just like I hated other super-popular classics like Space Invaders, Donkey Kong, Frogger, Joust, Mario Brothers and Tetris.

     

    I don't know about Mario Brothers and Tetris, but the others are pretty popular. I was at a birthday part yesterday and put on the Atari and most people knew Pac-man, Donkey Kong and Space Invaders were classics and these are your modern generation kids.

     

    I don't mean super-popular on just Atari, but arcade and other computers too. Tetris was unbelievably popular in the late 80's/early 90's. I thought it sucked. There are a few other super-popular games I hated, but can't remember them at the moment.

     

    I generally hate Japanese games and game companies - like Taito, Konami, Sega, Nintendo, etc. I've always found Japanese games to be confining, boring and repetitive. I'm sure they started getting good games with 16-bit (wouldn't know, I was into Amiga at the time), but I absolutely hate 8-bit games by these all these companies.

  3. Posted

    Bricky went "brokey". Here's the trick: on level 1, if there's a ghostey (or whatever the hell that is) in the right wall and you go in, Bricky will just sit there forever without dying. Unfortunately, he doesn't rack up the points or I'd be sitting in #1 position for Bricky right now.

  5. Posted

    Escape: 19899

     

    I had over 22000, but when I died I found I had lost points! I hate games that do that.

     

    I think Escape and Gwobby qualifying points are too high. (...mainly because I didn't qualify)

     

    I also played Balloonacy and Ball Harbour again, just to qualify - but I stand by my original assessment about the crappiness of these games.

     

    Balloonacy: 1266

    Ball Harbour: 39

     

    ...and I played Bricky again, just to beat therealbountybob and teach him a lesson. :D

     

    Bricky: 578

  7. Posted · Edited by Mr.Amiga500

    5,628 level 4

     

    I finally figured out how to play this game. :)

     

     

     

    Don't get too high a score! With the bizarro scoring for this game, your score puts you into 3rd - above me - even though I got 2000 points more than you. If you beat my score, you'll drop to 9th... unless you can get another 5000 points on top of that, which will put you back into 3rd... where you already are now. ;)

  8. Posted

    p.s. I know a canadian state prosecutor (for real), remind me what region are you in ;)

     

    You must not know him very well. Canada doesn't have "state prosecutors". (..could be because Canada doesn't have "states" - we've got "provinces" here... which are similar to states, but way better ;) )

     

    Here's a quote from Wikipedia if you don't believe me: "In Canada, public prosecutors in most provinces are called Crown Attorney or Crown Counsel." So you tell your fake "canadian state prosecutor" friend that the game is up and if he shows his face in my neighbourhood, I'll run him out of town like a common pygmy.

  9. Posted

    Gwobby: Level 18

    Balloonacy: 596

    Minelayer: 450

     

    Each of these games suck in their own way, but Balloonacy just makes me sick. One pixel off and you miss the balloon, but it can be impossible to line it up without going a couple pixels off - then, for some unknown reason, a balloon might change to "death" just when you have no time to avoid it. What a crap game. I utterly refuse to play it again.

     

    (...if anybody asks, "I suppose you could write a better game?" my answer will be "I COULD PULL A BETTER GAME OUT OF MY ASS!)

    (sorry... I'm a little bit upset...)

  10. Posted · Edited by Mr.Amiga500

    7648... without the warp.

     

    I was disturbed when I saw I died on level 7. I can imagine you guys thinking, "Yeah, he took the warp... the lousy cheat!"

    I swear I didn't take the warp - and I'll testify to that in a court of law. :D

    :jango: I don't know what this emoticon is but it feels kinda appropriate :D You know you're not geting another 7,500 added as you beat 7,500 :P or are you, hmm now I need to check with the rules panel :ponder:

     

    So... you're saying if I deliberately killed myself when I got to 7499, I would now have 14,999 - but because I survived a bit longer I end up with 7648? Yeah, that's fair.

     

    :razz: I don't know what this emoticon is, but it feels kinda appropriate. :razz: ;)

  12. Posted

    Voted... mmm, Montezuma's Revenge...

     

    Thanks for voting Montezuma. You'd be on my Christmas card list... if I had one. ;)

     

    That link states it's Utopia Software for the "Revenge" game not Parker Brothers.

     

    I hope the vote isn't for the Utopia version. I don't like that stupid bat and burning ropes. The main reason I liked Montezuma back in the day was because it was the first game I played that didn't have any time limit. The bat and burning ropes in the Utopia version are a form of time limit.

     

    Is there even a working copy of the Utopia version? Every file I've tried gets to a point where there's a rolling skull in the top corner of the screen and all other enemies and objects disappear from every screen.

  14. Posted · Edited by Mr.Amiga500

    Meanwhile, here's a screenshot from a 512K unexpanded A500 (no fast RAM, no accelerator, no graphics card, WB 1.3, floppy-only):

    (had to use WinUAE to take the screenshot because copper rainbow is not picked up in actual screenshot, but this is the actual, exact config from my unexpanded A500 in the 80's... I swear :D)

    Probably nice for amiga but still has the comic desktop and is fuzzy on a real display. Never saw a sharp amiga display. Heck most customers who bought them bought the 520 video adapter for TV use.

     

    Well, of course it "still has the comic desktop". It's an unaltered desktop from the 80's (the way I had it back then on stock A500). You know of any desktop from the 80's that doesn't look comic? ;)

    Did you look at my later screenshots in the signature link? They're much less "comic".

     

    I don't know what you mean about being fuzzy on a real display. Maybe it flickers a bit, but it's not "fuzzy" on Commodore RGB. I've never used a 520, but the 520 is composite and that is fuzzy - RGB isn't.

  15. Posted · Edited by Mr.Amiga500

    On your other notes, you are using an accelerated machine. Make sure that when we try to compare we should compare on equal grounds. So, how much of that is possible on an A500 512K chip, 512K fast (to give you an edge on speed ;) )?

     

    Yes, let's be fair. Show me an ST screenshot (pre-STE) with 020 accelerator and extra RAM without graphics card that's better than my screenshots. ;)

     

    Meanwhile, here's a screenshot from a 512K unexpanded A500 (no fast RAM, no accelerator, no graphics card, WB 1.3, floppy-only):

    (had to use WinUAE to take the screenshot because copper rainbow is not picked up in actual screenshot, but this is the actual, exact config from my unexpanded A500 in the 80's... I swear :D)

  16. Posted

     

    Standard falcon

     

     

    Accelerated

     

    I definitely prefer the accelerated video. Wow - with the accelerator, browsing seems pretty snappy. That's like the equivalent of an A1200 or A4000 with 060 and graphics card though.

     

     

    Okay, thanks for the link. Some nice shots there.

     

    Not a stock A500 though, correct? I mean that shot is showing

    2 megs of Chip RAM plus other RAM. What all have you done to

    it? Thanks.

     

    Also, if I missed it I apologise, but what about speed? If you

    don't have an accelerator, then I'd imagine all that downloading

    and dithering of images (esp. to a "new" site) would be pretty

    darned slow...on a stock A500.

     

    No, it's not a stock A500. Some of those screenshots would be impossible because some software requires an 020 minimum and it would be way too slow otherwise. The graphics are stock (no graphics card). All the screenshots can be done on a stock 16Mhz A3000, of course... which I also have.

     

    I listed my specs on a few pages in those links, but here it is again: Amiga 500 with Viper 520 accelerator (33Mhz 020, 8Mb Fast RAM, 3.0 ROMs) and 2Mb Chip. Pages with lots of images are pretty darned slow, but the pages I used to visit regularly (like BBC news) were pretty reasonable.

  17. Posted

    You did show the 3000 as well. Anything you saw that was upto 800x600 was on a standard falcon.

     

    No I didn't. Every screenshot was from an Amiga 500. I think you followed the wrong link in my signature - not the "Command Centre" link (showing my hardware), the "see Amiga 500 screenshots here!" link. Check those out and tell me if ST can do that without graphics card.

  18. Posted

    Falcon's, TT's, Clones, graphics cards etc.

     

    Well, it's not really fair to compare the stock graphics of the Amiga 500 with a Falcon with graphics card. My question was if it was possible for the ST equivalent of the A500 could do what I have in my screenshots - without graphics card.

     

     

    Also interlaced resolutions aren't something anyone would use on an Atari. I wouldn't even dream of trying it. And in my view, 2, 16, 256 colours isn't something you should be browsing with. Trust me I've been doing it for quite some time. In the end it was better to use 2 colours because rendering was much faster and it didn't really change the way things looked that much.

    Those things though hurt performance. You are cramming up the bus and neither an amiga nor an ST have that much of a bandwidth....

     

    I used Amiga 16 colour interlaced for all my browsing at home from 2002-2008. You say I shouldn't have been browsing with it? Oh well, too late now. ;) Actually, it was a bit insane to do it, but I had fun browsing with my Amiga. It's only when most websites went CSS and started using monstrously huge RAM-sucking javascripts and flash (after 2006/7) that things started to be a major pain. I only rarely browse with Amiga now. (now I use BeOS)

     

     

    There's an SD Reader for the Model 100?? You have info???

    Off to google looking for info... I never thought of looking for something like that for my Model 100!!!!

     

    If you haven't found it yet, take a look here.

  20. Posted

    Of course compact flash overlooked that, it certainly has made my STs take up less space! Thanks for the advice, couldn't point me in the way of a suitable adaptor for the Amiga could you?

     

    What kind of adapter - IDE to CF? I think any cheapo Chinese IDE to CF adapter will do. I've bought two different ones (about $2 each) and they both worked.

     

    I forgot to mention I also used my A500 on TV using this S-video adapter. I highly recommend it - only $30 and nice clear output, quality construction. You can also use it with other computers - just plug appropriate wires in the 8-plug socket.

  21. Posted · Edited by Mr.Amiga500

    The black and white is pretty dire for internet browsing, if you want to visit sites with lots of images, then again an ST isn't the best choice for this anyway, unless you have graphics card and a processor upgrade. What the black and white does do however is give you a rock steady picture for DTP, CAD, Word processing etc, a lot easier on the eye if you're using it for long periods. I'm staggered to know you even picked your palette to reduce flicker! Looks very good btw :-)

     

    Yes, I can see how a non-flickering black and white mode would be very good for word processing. That's why I found the classic B&W Macs easier on the eyes than the Amiga for "Office-type" stuff.

     

    Using the Amiga in high-res interlace has always been a fight against flicker, but I've found certain colour combinations cause much less flicker than others. Unlike most Amiga users, I always used Workbench in interlace - so I put lots of effort into making configurations that minimise flicker. I use NTSC though, which doesn't flicker nearly as much as PAL. PAL users must be getting enough flicker to cause their eyeballs to implode.

     

    I'm really going to have to get a hard drive for my Amiga, with the ST you can use it practically without one (although I haven't for about 15 years), but I simply can't enjoy the basic Amiga operating system using floppies, it just spends to long loading things. Any recommendations for a cheap standard hard drive? And what monitor are you using to get that output?

     

    If you have an A4000 or A1200 with IDE, I wouldn't get a hard drive at all. I'd get compact flash. Who needs a hard drive these days? I use compact flash and SD in my A500, but I was lucky enough to get an accelerator with IDE on it. If you have an A2000 with SCSI card or A3000, any 50-pin SCSI drive will do.

     

    What monitor? On the A500, I'm using a Commodore 1080. I like it better than the 1084 because unlike the 1084, it has non-glare coating (...and the nice Amiga logo). The maximum viewable (NTSC) is only 696x482 though. On the A3000, I use a VGA monitor - same config, but a little more space - NTSC 720x480. That's the best I can do without graphics card. I could get slightly more space with PAL, but PAL flickers too much - even on VGA monitor.

  22. Posted · Edited by Mr.Amiga500

    How come you're not Mr.Amiga3000?

     

    Well that would be silly. ;)

     

    No, I was Mr.Amiga500 (mr_a500, for short) long before I got any other Amiga. I suppose I could now be called Mr.Amiga1000500200030004000 (...then concatenate all the other computers I own on the end), but I haven't gotten around to changing it. :D

     

    That's a very nice computer collection you have :)

     

    Thanks. It has grown since then, adding the awesome SDrive NUXX, USB 2.0 on the A3000, NEW Atari 800XL, NEW TAC-2 joystick, NEW TRS-80 Model 100 with SD reader, a two drive Mac SE, non-yellow Apple Extended keyboards, Amiga S-video adapter, various other bits. (... but now I'll get killed by the wife if I add any more.)

     

    There's the upgraded shifter 2 in the Atari TT030 with 320x480x256 and 640x480x16 modes (both at VGA sync rates), and the much extended falcon (superior to AGA's color capabilities in some ways -like highcolor support).

     

    Here's DarkLord's Falcon page: http://www.darkforce.org/index2.html

     

    And some page ont eh TT030 http://pagesperso-orange.fr/gtello/tt_e.htm

     

    Yes, I've seen those screenshots before. That's what I mean by "primitive looking" GUI.

  23. Posted

    What resolution is that desktop of yours running in btw, my Amiga 500 looks horrendous compared to that. Does it impact performance? I suspect the answer is no, but be honest!

     

    Well, I won't lie... it does affect performance slightly, but I'm willing to accept a slight slowdown for nice imagery. On my A500, I mostly use 696x482 NTSC high-res interlaced - maximum I can get on an NTSC Commodore 1080/1084 (on my A3000 with VGA, I use NTSC 720x480). My palette and config have been specifically selected to minimize flicker. Notice how I never have white and black horizontal lines on top of each other (standard config which flickers badly!), but instead have shades of light grey and blues.

     

    I hear you can get non-flickering high-res B&W on an ST, but if it's B&W then how good can browsing be? I'd rather have a slightly flickering 16-colour high-res Amiga.

  24. Posted

    From my username, you can probably tell I'm a bit biased, but... can the ST OS be made to look better than my Amiga 500 screenshots? (signature link) I'm just wondering because every ST screenshot I've ever seen looks primitive and old. I'm not trying to troll - just wondering. (I would be happy to see amazing ST screenshots - using ST equivalent of A500, without graphics card)

     

    Yeah, "eye candy" is overrated and not really necessary, but the ability to do this shows the flexibility of the OS. (...and I like "eye candy" better than "eye poison" :D)

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