Worth getting an old Amiga? (1 Viewer)

[It Will Never Last]

I really wanted to buy The Secret of Monkey Island (PC) today off Ebay, but realised at the last minute that it was on 5.25" disks which is no usewith my ouny 3.5" drive.

I can get it for Amiga on Ebay as well, didn't somebody on here pick up an old Amiga recently? Worth doing?

 

[pete]

why not get an emulator?

 

[Squiggle]

I have the pc version of this on cd. I think that the music quality was much better on the amiga but the game is brill either way.

 

[pete]

why not get an emulator?

apart from it being illegal

 

[nofriendo]

I really wanted to buy The Secret of Monkey Island (PC) today off Ebay, but realised at the last minute that it was on 5.25" disks which is no usewith my ouny 3.5" drive.

I can get it for Amiga on Ebay as well, didn't somebody on here pick up an old Amiga recently? Worth doing?

I reckon I have all them on cd somewhere, if ya like!! Although you could just use scummvm. you can get the old monkey islands, broken sword, beneath a steal red sky, sam and max etc

http://www.scummvm.org/

 

[Squiggle]

I reckon I have all them on cd somewhere, if ya like!! Although you could just use scummvm. you can get the old monkey islands, broken sword, beneath a steal red sky, sam and max etc

http://www.scummvm.org/

That is another good idea. All those old Amiga classics are great. I got quite a number of them for the PC over the last few years.

 

[THRILLHO]

I have the pc version of this on cd. I think that the music quality was much better on the amiga but the game is brill either way.

The PC CD one from the uh... "bounty pack" or whatever it was called had the best Monkey Island music I've heard. Although if you're playing MI with ScummVM, you need to either have the CD or have the music tracks ripped to MP3 before you'll get sound.

Added bonus: Choose "Amiga" from the platform drop-down in ScummVM for the full experience. Now you just need no date, a two litre bottle of shasta and an all-rush mix-tape, and you're in nostalgia heaven.

 

[RSJ]

I've an amiga 600 i got on ebay last year if you want it. Never even got round to plugging it in. Good few games in with it aswell. e20 and it's yours.

 

[Squiggle]

Added bonus: Choose "Amiga" from the platform drop-down in ScummVM for the full experience. Now you just need no date, a two litre bottle of shasta and an all-rush mix-tape, and you're in nostalgia heaven.

Remember when you had to order games by POST and wait weeks for them to arrive? When we got Secret of MI my brother and I sat and played it until we'd finished the game. Ah, the memories.

This thread has inspired me to begin the MI adventures over... cue massive time wastage and big happy smiles

 

[THRILLHO]

Jaysus, where did you live? I fondly remember buying Monkey Island from the computer section in Cleary's.

I can't remember the ending of the first MI. Or the third. Maybe it's time to fill that gap.

 

[Goff]

5.25" disks? Don’t they work on Record Players?


Sure, who has one of THOSE nowadays….

 

[Squiggle]

Jaysus, where did you live? I fondly remember buying Monkey Island from the computer section in Cleary's.

I can't remember the ending of the first MI. Or the third. Maybe it's time to fill that gap.

In County Carlow - but we used to pre-order them from the UK so... Definitely worth playing again.

5.25" disks? Don’t they work on Record Players?
Sure, who has one of THOSE nowadays….

Emmm... no, they were genuinely floppy disks in that lovely cardboard cover. Ah, the memories

 

[Johnnyc]

While Monkey Island was indeed a brilliant game ("Look behind you, a three headed monkey!"), I don't think it's worth picking up on an Amiga again. I seem to remember there was a massive amount of disc swopping in places.

Emu route is probably the best way to go. I spent ages hunting down Kick Off 2 once, played it for an hour and then it was MEH. Seeing as that game kept me hypnotised for years but lost my interest in an hour, I reckon there's a fair chance you'd feel pretty gipped if you went to the hassle of buying an Amiga, setting it up and and all that shit. I rebought a spectrum 128k once. Plugged it in and after waiting 10 mins for a game to load, soon realised that an emulator was a much better option.

I find the whole retro experience is best spoken about, rather than re-experienced.

 

[RED(tape)MENACE]

Those abandonware sites tend to have these games for download, dude.
Also, three good reasons to get an Amiga : Kick Off 2.

 

[nofriendo]

I always remember going to my mates house to play MI2 because he had an external disk drive, the 13 disks was a killer. Did love the pirate password wheel you got with it though, think it was called Dial-A-Pirate

 

[Johnnyc]

I always remember going to my mates house to play MI2 because he had an external disk drive, the 13 disks was a killer. Did love the pirate password wheel you got with it though, think it was called Dial-A-Pirate

Jesus...! Too....much....nostalgia......

Remember the RoboCop 3 dongle???

 

[nofriendo]

Jesus...! Too....much....nostalgia......

Remember the RoboCop 3 dongle???

ha ha dongle.....best game ever was north and south!

 

[It Will Never Last]

See, the version they had on Ebay had that and the massive box and everything, it just screamed "DEADLY" at me.

Squiggle is riding to the rescue though. .|..|

 

[Scientician 0.8]

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[pete]

i miss my Amiga