Hwlngmad Posted October 6, 2020 Share Posted October 6, 2020 On 10/4/2020 at 10:04 AM, AmigosGaming said: A budget title that sort of combines pinball and football and adds in a load of demon spectators. It could only be time for Ballistix! See the full review and the weeks Amiga news here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCCh64uAHqo Is this a pig in makeup or is there a gem of a game in there? You can also catch the audio only version here: https://anchor.fm/amigospodcast Please share, like, wear the T shirt and shout from the rooftops to let your Amiga and retro gaming pals know about us. That would be much appreciated. Good episode. Was a little surprised the fellas killed it as much as they did, but, hey, that is why the do the reviews, no? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmigosGaming Posted October 10, 2020 Share Posted October 10, 2020 On 10/6/2020 at 6:35 PM, Hwlngmad said: Good episode. Was a little surprised the fellas killed it as much as they did, but, hey, that is why the do the reviews, no? There's an old phrase about pleasing some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time that comes to mind. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmigosGaming Posted October 10, 2020 Share Posted October 10, 2020 Time for Aaron and Boat to check out another Amiga platformer. There's lots to collect, a dodgy weapon mechanic and oh so many colours! Is that Zippy from Rainbow we see? Why is he there? See the full review and this weeks Amiga News here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa--gtGQLIs Prefer to catch up using only your ears then go here: https://anchor.fm/amigospodcast Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmigosGaming Posted October 12, 2020 Share Posted October 12, 2020 (edited) This week ARG span the wheel and were tasked with looking at CDTV titles. The Commodore CDTV looked at home stacked with your VCR and audio equipment. It was basically an Amiga A500 with a CD drive so it SHOULD have been capable of some great games. This week Aaron and Brent take a look at 2 games you won't have played on a regular Amiga, take a look at their review Did/do you own a CDTV and what was the best game on the platform? How about Defender of the Crown 2? Edited October 12, 2020 by AmigosGaming 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmigosGaming Posted October 19, 2020 Share Posted October 19, 2020 Does you squad have lasers? If not why not? Then you too can be a Laser Squad. It's time for Boat and Aaron to check out another Julian Gollop game. If you want to see what they think in full check this out : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PZYZeBL3uM For the audio only versions of all the Amigos podcasts take a look here : https://anchor.fm/amigospodcast Do you agree with the final judgement? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hwlngmad Posted October 20, 2020 Share Posted October 20, 2020 On 10/19/2020 at 1:48 PM, AmigosGaming said: Does you squad have lasers? If not why not? Then you too can be a Laser Squad. It's time for Boat and Aaron to check out another Julian Gollop game. If you want to see what they think in full check this out : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PZYZeBL3uM For the audio only versions of all the Amigos podcasts take a look here : https://anchor.fm/amigospodcast Do you agree with the final judgement? A very good episode, especially the segment covering the upcoming Amiga product from Retro Games LTD. Keep up the great work! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmigosGaming Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 They're games folks but not as we know it! It's time for another Public Domainia, where Boat and Aaron take a look at some freebie games for the Commodore Amiga. Star Trek and Mr. Men Olympics. You can join the crew and see the full show here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2WN8naF2ek Both of this these games look slick but how do they play? The guys also talk about Amiga Addict, the new Amiga Magazine coming from the UK. First issue is available for pre-order now and you can find more info here https://www.simulant.uk/shop/amiga-addict-magazine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hwlngmad Posted October 26, 2020 Share Posted October 26, 2020 On 10/25/2020 at 7:00 AM, AmigosGaming said: They're games folks but not as we know it! It's time for another Public Domainia, where Boat and Aaron take a look at some freebie games for the Commodore Amiga. Star Trek and Mr. Men Olympics. You can join the crew and see the full show here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2WN8naF2ek Both of this these games look slick but how do they play? The guys also talk about Amiga Addict, the new Amiga Magazine coming from the UK. First issue is available for pre-order now and you can find more info here https://www.simulant.uk/shop/amiga-addict-magazine Good episode and some really good public domain games. Keep up the good work fellas! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmigosGaming Posted November 8, 2020 Share Posted November 8, 2020 A Mario Kart clone on the Amiga? Well, no not really but it tried. Boat and Aaron are looking at the Amiga CD32 version of Bump N Burn this week. See the full review and this weeks Amiga News here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGdUdXfYQdU&t=3396s Or forget the visuals and engage your ear holes only here: https://anchor.fm/amigospodcast Mario Kart used the SNES’s mode 7, Amiga doesn’t have that so this went with a tweaked Lotus style engine, was that the right move? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hwlngmad Posted November 9, 2020 Share Posted November 9, 2020 23 hours ago, AmigosGaming said: A Mario Kart clone on the Amiga? Well, no not really but it tried. Boat and Aaron are looking at the Amiga CD32 version of Bump N Burn this week. See the full review and this weeks Amiga News here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGdUdXfYQdU&t=3396s Or forget the visuals and engage your ear holes only here: https://anchor.fm/amigospodcast Mario Kart used the SNES’s mode 7, Amiga doesn’t have that so this went with a tweaked Lotus style engine, was that the right move? A good episode. The game definitely had some good potential, but just had some things that were not in its favor. Still, a competent enough game in its own right. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmigosGaming Posted November 16, 2020 Share Posted November 16, 2020 On 11/9/2020 at 6:02 PM, Hwlngmad said: A good episode. The game definitely had some good potential, but just had some things that were not in its favor. Still, a competent enough game in its own right. XTR was suggested as an alternative. We will have to get that on the schedule. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmigosGaming Posted November 16, 2020 Share Posted November 16, 2020 It is Amigos time once more and this week let’s take a look at Bill's Tomato Game. You wouldn't normally associate a Tomato with a physics game but it works here! See the full review and this weeks Amiga news here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfihdcMk7aU As always the audio version is available: https://anchor.fm/amigospodcast We get two different opinions on this one, which do you agree with? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hwlngmad Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 17 hours ago, AmigosGaming said: It is Amigos time once more and this week let’s take a look at Bill's Tomato Game. You wouldn't normally associate a Tomato with a physics game but it works here! See the full review and this weeks Amiga news here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfihdcMk7aU As always the audio version is available: https://anchor.fm/amigospodcast We get two different opinions on this one, which do you agree with? Good episode. Definitely enjoying the wide variety of games the boys go over. Gonna sound like a broken record here, but another game that had a lot of potential but could have been a lot better. Still, the game does have some play-ability to it that will be someone's bag for sure. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 Hi guys, just found your podcast and have been listening to it, fun stuff! I did want to add to the ST/Amiga comparison podcast which I think missed a few points. I was running a business from a C64, writing letters was such a pain, heard about the Amiga and went to downtown DC to see it and was wowed! However, the price was too high to justify and later saw the ST, which was not only more reasonably priced, but had a better-looking video to boot for productivity. Also, with the 1000, the disk swapping was horrendous and was a deal killer, went with the ST. Remember, the Amiga was made to be a games machine while the ST was made to be a Mac clone, so both business and games while the 1000 was not as good productivity-wise. I still find the Amiga OS to be half-ass compared to the ST, maybe more powerful (although finding and using that power is not easy) but not intuitive and too CLI-driven it seems. Did eventually get a 500 (which I just bought again as well as a 1200) but for gaming only, the ST was still the machine for running my business until the internet forced me to a Mac. Since getting back into the ST and Amiga, still finding the ST the easier machine to understand and operate, the Amiga just seems to make you need to learn a lot just to get anything done, other than WHDload. And nice shout out on Sundog, that game is killer and a reason I recently got into retro computers, well the ST and Amiga. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hwlngmad Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 10 hours ago, Randy said: Hi guys, just found your podcast and have been listening to it, fun stuff! I did want to add to the ST/Amiga comparison podcast which I think missed a few points. I was running a business from a C64, writing letters was such a pain, heard about the Amiga and went to downtown DC to see it and was wowed! However, the price was too high to justify and later saw the ST, which was not only more reasonably priced, but had a better-looking video to boot for productivity. Also, with the 1000, the disk swapping was horrendous and was a deal killer, went with the ST. Remember, the Amiga was made to be a games machine while the ST was made to be a Mac clone, so both business and games while the 1000 was not as good productivity-wise. I still find the Amiga OS to be half-ass compared to the ST, maybe more powerful (although finding and using that power is not easy) but not intuitive and too CLI-driven it seems. Did eventually get a 500 (which I just bought again as well as a 1200) but for gaming only, the ST was still the machine for running my business until the internet forced me to a Mac. Since getting back into the ST and Amiga, still finding the ST the easier machine to understand and operate, the Amiga just seems to make you need to learn a lot just to get anything done, other than WHDload. And nice shout out on Sundog, that game is killer and a reason I recently got into retro computers, well the ST and Amiga. The Atari ST was definitely a very good machine that deserves a lot more love than it gets nowadays. Hopefully that will change as too often it gets overshadowed by the Amiga and/or other classic computing platforms. However, I will say that I think the fellas did give the ST a fair shake and showed that it was a system that would have been a good machine to have back in the day as while the Amiga was (very arguably) the better overall machine, even a $200 difference between the two was a great sum of money back then. Still, all that being said, definitely the ST deserves more credit as it was a very good machine that deserves to shine based on its own merits. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 3 hours ago, Hwlngmad said: The Atari ST was definitely a very good machine that deserves a lot more love than it gets nowadays. Hopefully that will change as too often it gets overshadowed by the Amiga and/or other classic computing platforms. However, I will say that I think the fellas did give the ST a fair shake and showed that it was a system that would have been a good machine to have back in the day as while the Amiga was (very arguably) the better overall machine, even a $200 difference between the two was a great sum of money back then. Still, all that being said, definitely the ST deserves more credit as it was a very good machine that deserves to shine based on its own merits. Yes, I think the ST was a machine made to work like the Mac, very intuitive and easy to use and much cheaper than a mac. The Amiga was a more forward-looking machine, many of the possibilities of today's computers (multitasking, graphics cards, etc.) were introduced with the Amiga. But now, just as then, I find trying to do any real work on the Amiga non-intuitive, one needs to sit down and study the OS to figure out how to do even simple things whereas the ST, which is a bit more limited OS-wise, one can just pick up and do most of the things without needing to RTFM, know what I mean? Right now, I am trying to figure out how to change the desktop on my 1200/3.1, I mean, how hard can that be? Well, pretty frickin' hard as I can't seem to find anyway to do that via the desktop, so I have to look online or real the whole manual to maybe do it. On the ST? It's right on the desktop, easy-peasy! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmigosGaming Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 Hide the good plates and make sure the pets are secured away. It is time for the big one, it's Atari ST Vs Amiga 500. See the full battle here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U3HUs1ZArs Actually, this doesn't degenerate into the playground fights we knew. It's a civil look at the strengths and weaknesses of both systems. Which side do you stand with? I'm guessing Amiga going by which group we are in! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmigosGaming Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 8 minutes ago, Randy said: Yes, I think the ST was a machine made to work like the Mac, very intuitive and easy to use and much cheaper than a mac. The Amiga was a more forward-looking machine, many of the possibilities of today's computers (multitasking, graphics cards, etc.) were introduced with the Amiga. But now, just as then, I find trying to do any real work on the Amiga non-intuitive, one needs to sit down and study the OS to figure out how to do even simple things whereas the ST, which is a bit more limited OS-wise, one can just pick up and do most of the things without needing to RTFM, know what I mean? Right now, I am trying to figure out how to change the desktop on my 1200/3.1, I mean, how hard can that be? Well, pretty frickin' hard as I can't seem to find anyway to do that via the desktop, so I have to look online or real the whole manual to maybe do it. On the ST? It's right on the desktop, easy-peasy! Hi guys. It's good to see that people can have a proper discussion about two competing systems. At the time it was like Xbox and PS, trying to find points to out do the other team. I was firmly on team Amiga. I never considered the value for money side of things. I just wanted what looked best. I suppose the fact that the people I knew also had Amigas had an influence as it gave us common ground to talk about things and share (ahem) software. Having never used an ST I can't comment on how easy to use the OS is. However, I never really had any trouble finding stuff in Workbench. All the prefs are grouped together in one place. However, if you are used to one way of doing things it can take a while to get used to a new way. Glad you enjoyed that show. If you ever want to see our shows being recorded live just follow our Twitch channel (its free). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hwlngmad Posted November 19, 2020 Share Posted November 19, 2020 20 hours ago, AmigosGaming said: Hi guys. It's good to see that people can have a proper discussion about two competing systems. At the time it was like Xbox and PS, trying to find points to out do the other team. I was firmly on team Amiga. I never considered the value for money side of things. I just wanted what looked best. I suppose the fact that the people I knew also had Amigas had an influence as it gave us common ground to talk about things and share (ahem) software. Having never used an ST I can't comment on how easy to use the OS is. However, I never really had any trouble finding stuff in Workbench. All the prefs are grouped together in one place. However, if you are used to one way of doing things it can take a while to get used to a new way. Glad you enjoyed that show. If you ever want to see our shows being recorded live just follow our Twitch channel (its free). Everyone is going to have their preferences. However, too many times people on any versus topic (whether that be 2600 vs. Intellivision, NES vs. SMS, Genesis vs. SNES) put the fanboy/fangirl hat on and don't give the other system a fair shake. I've been there, too. That being said, the Atari ST is a machine that was very good in its time and deserves to shine on its own merits. Sure, it is not an Amiga, but it still was a damn good piece of hardware that a lot of people would have loved to have had back in the day, that's for sure. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy Posted November 19, 2020 Share Posted November 19, 2020 yea, and not just back then, the prices on ST's and Amiga's are going through the roof these days! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmigosGaming Posted November 24, 2020 Share Posted November 24, 2020 How do you squish an 80’s one man vs the world movie onto a floppy disk? By unleashing the Dogs of War. See the full review here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF8L-3wCJEs&t=8s As always the audio only version is here: https://anchor.fm/amigospodcast 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hwlngmad Posted November 30, 2020 Share Posted November 30, 2020 On 11/24/2020 at 4:42 PM, AmigosGaming said: How do you squish an 80’s one man vs the world movie onto a floppy disk? By unleashing the Dogs of War. See the full review here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF8L-3wCJEs&t=8s As always the audio only version is here: https://anchor.fm/amigospodcast Another good episode. Keep up the great work. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmigosGaming Posted November 30, 2020 Share Posted November 30, 2020 Grab you mouse, your hat and your err whip!? Join Boat and Aaron as they adventure with the one and only Dr Jones. See what they think of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, the adventure game : You will also find a catch up on all the Amigo’s videos for the week and there is a look at two products from RMC – The Cave. As always you can find the audio only version here : https://anchor.fm/amigospodcast 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hwlngmad Posted December 1, 2020 Share Posted December 1, 2020 16 hours ago, AmigosGaming said: Grab you mouse, your hat and your err whip!? Join Boat and Aaron as they adventure with the one and only Dr Jones. See what they think of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, the adventure game : You will also find a catch up on all the Amigo’s videos for the week and there is a look at two products from RMC – The Cave. As always you can find the audio only version here : https://anchor.fm/amigospodcast Good stuff as always. Keep up the great work. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmigosGaming Posted December 7, 2020 Share Posted December 7, 2020 An exciting past time or a good walk ruined? Nick Faldo must have thought the former. See John and Aaron's review of Nick Faldo's Championship Golf : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBg0uHANHj0&t=188s Or catch the audio version here: https://anchor.fm/amigospodcast Also covered in this show is an interesting way to get an HDMI output from your Amiga's Denise chip (with a little help from a Raspberry). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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