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Hi all, I bought an amiga 500 at the weekend (I was going to buy an atari st from the same free ads, but the guy's mobile was off so I bought this instead :) ) I've heard the voice synthesis on this is some of the best ever (I haven't had a chanc eto use it yet) and shames "modern" PC/mac equivalents. Does anyone have any tips on how to make it "sing" (apart from using a vocoder as well)? Or indeed, just tips on amigas in general (I've spent only about 2 hours on them in my life). Any "must have" yet little know games (I know about sensible soccer, alien breed etc.) for it I should get? Any great old music software (something to make .raw files perhaps- I know one person here uses a tracker...)? Cheers. |
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maaan I miss my Amiga 500... |
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i personally dont know much about it... but i do know that alot of people still use it for music (although im becoming a diehard software man, and it wouldnt work for me :) so... in answer to your questions... i have no idea... heh sorry! |
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try PROTRACKER, it's cheap and nasty but it does have potential, |
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I had an A500 then an A1200, still got it! Protracker was good for creating toons... like a primitive 4 channel Fruity Loops. from what I remember the speech was absolutely DREADFULL. So bad that they scrapped it from later versions of the OS. Games? Tough one... there were LOADS of great games, it was the best games platform of it's era... although console fans would disagree. |
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Cheers :) Anyone know a way of getting games/music for the amiga off the net via pc onto the amiga? I remember there being something weird about amiga disks havin a different formatting standard to pcs. |
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amiga 500 is the shiznit,............I still got all the (cracked/hacked)-games for it. music software : protracker / soundtracker / octamed though I suggest U use protracker,..mad looping of 8 bit crunchy sounds. Sample it on your pc ,throw some plug-ins on top ,and your in heaven. games : (2 much 2 mention) Turrican 2 , ik+, moonstone , everything from Team 17 |
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Aminet used to be the world's largest software archive, and it's all Amiga stuff! that must say something for this machine popularity. Just do a search for Aminet. Getting PC stuff onto an A1200 was a doddle as it could read PC double density floppies (not HD though) More tricky on an A500 though, can't remember. |
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I've still got my Amiga 500... loads of fun! :D I think the voice synthesis from the Amigas was used in Wipe Out 2097... ;) also, the background effects for Max Headroom was done with Amiga 1000's Amiga NUTS! |
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I used to use something called CROSS-DOS to move shit from PC to Amiga. |
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"Sample it on your pc ,throw some plug-ins on top ,and your in heaven. " That's what I was hoping! I want to use all manner of VST filters etc. on those 8 bit bass sounds that the amiga does so well. The music to amig games is great- it has a sound of its own like "nintendo music" :) |
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yeah that's the fella, CROSS-DOS was all part of A1200 OS therefore piece of piss. The protrackers "mods" in demos and games were so far ahead of their time it was unbelievable! What I recommend is dling an emulator like WINUAE and then get "Amiga In A Box". What you end up with is even better than a REAL amiga! |
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I'll pass out from nostalgia if someone mentions Protraker MODs!!!!!! Fuck man, they were the fucking days !!! Bogdan made a few i think... maybe not MODS maybe XMs..or S3Ms, |
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Will do as soon as I have home net acces :) I'm into playing games on original systems at the moment- there's just something about playing it the way it was intended with the old joypads etc. I'm currently searching for nes games.. |
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I'd fucking make a disk full of songs.... and i'd give them to me best mate!! and he'd give me a disk full of MODs he'd made! Fuck, shouldnt of done all that and did more school work... oh well! |
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i know exactly what ya mean ;) i use a Mastersystem controller on my Atari... The mastersystem controller would have to be my most favorite controller of all time... I also use it on my Atari 2600 aswell... so it gets around :D (but those pointy corners will kill ya) |
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I remember hearing Mod files of Prodigy's jilted generation and being amazed the whole album fitted on 1 disk... |
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Like the nes one- angular marks in the "pads" of your hands from holding them too long. You can plug old MS pads straight in can't you? I think I saw that before... |
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I remember a game with AMAZING music and atmosphere: Shadow of the Beast 3. It was quite under-rated, most people raved on about the original. But this was a great game. Oh man, the MUSIC! |
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I've got the original , the list of games when I bought it said it had SOTB 2 as well, but the disks are missing :( I remeber playing it on my mate's lynx. V. hard game, but great gfx for the time... |
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Yeah MS pads work no problems on Ataris or Amiga 500's |
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Looks like I'll be down the local second hand shop ASAP :) You used to be able to get gravis gamepads for them too didn't you? the ones that looked like snes pads w/o the shoulder buttons? |
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I really want one. Never actally got onw. You've reminded me to scour the ads. You still going to Reading Ceri? |
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a lot of the original Amiga games are available to download now, like abandonware... if you go to aiab.emuunlim.com there should be some good links |
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A friend of mine had a gravis pad... i never got to try it on my amiga, let us know if it works ok if you have one! |
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You love your Old Skool Games machines don't ya Princo? |
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http://www.xtpower.com good links there... |
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Erm, Reading sold out before I got tickets and I don't like relying on touts :( |
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I'm going up without a ticket, sometimes they have an official stand selling off more, if not I'll have to go and get ripped off =o( I may even be going up on my tod !! |
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damn right i love me old machines :D !!! |
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I always was a huge fan of the Amiga. My fave games were Hired-Guns (1st person shooter for 1-4 players) and the old classic , Elite! Some good sites for Amiga guff are: For hardware upgrades: http://www.whiteknight.ukf.net/idx1.htm And for games: http://www.classiconline.org.uk/game-sz.html and http://www.forematt.free-online.co.uk/amigame.html All the sites are in the UK as I see you are too! |
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Thanks for all the help, youse guy are the greatest :) |
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Does anyone remember the Commodore CDTV and the Amiga CD32? |
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I saw the amiga CD32 today on the net. Triggered my memories of it. I've never played one, but I remmber looking longingly at it in CVG magazine. Oh how easily people were bought with the FMV :) |
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it was a good machine techincally... like an XBox in theory... an entire computer in a console box... it was an A1200 with a CDROM. But turning it into the A1200 was far too difficult e.g. keyboard and mouse |
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I've seen loads of stuff that looks like PC Amiga hybrids. What are they? Do they still make new "power hungry" amiga games? I know they're talking about bringing a new amiga out at the end of this year... |
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Shame man. |
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Thats the spirit Princo Lad! |
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Woohoo! I was playing some more games last night and I found the classic "Stunt Car Racer" what a class game. I've played it before at a mates house, but I have my own copy now :) |
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are you running ya Amiga 500 off ya TV or did you happen to find a Amiga monitor !!!! (that'd be somethin' else) |
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TV sadly... If I get an amiga1200 (I may do as the space key is broken on my 500) I'll definately look for one with a monitor. Not that I've got space for a monitor in my room, but still... |
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Does your 500 have a hard drive? That was always the dream for me back in the day, but i had a 2nd Floppy drive. |
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Nope, that's one of the reasons I'd like a 1200 :) |
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I just dashed out and found me old disk box....boxES i should say... i ran Amiga Workbench ver. 1.3.3 and i used OctaMed Pro to track MODs... hense me saying "AMIGA NUTS" in one of my earlier posts....(its a voice sample from the DEMO track that comes with that prog) |
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I never understood what the point in a second drive (I know you can have one) was? If you want to copy disks, surely you can copy it to the "ramdisk" then to a blank floppy? |
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=P |
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I still can't get any sound out of protracker (it is a "dodgy" copy mind ;) ) know of any good online tutorials you can access via a PC? Also how do you "line in" to an amiga? I'm guessing you need a special parallel port plugin or similair? |
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i've gotta duck out to the garage again.. and investigate the 500 again.. :) |
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He he, cool. |
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Yeah, thru the parallel port. you can buy this thing that plugs into it..fucked if i can find one theses days, aparantly there pretty easy to make tho. if that doesnt work you could try taking them samples from ya PC to ya Amiga, make sure there the right format etc.. I just grabbed a copy of CrossDos aswell.. hope it runs. |
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