You will find yourself wanting to tentatively explore the palace, being careful not to set off various traps, but you have to keep moving at a reasonable pace to ensure that you beat the timer. The whole game needs to be completed within a set time limit, this is what really sets the tone of things. You find yourself imprisoned in a palace dungeon and need to escape to defeat Jaffar and rescue the Princess. Prince of Persia, although well known on many other platforms, really found a lot of fans with the Amiga version. It was never going to compete in reality with the likes of the more powerful 3DO, Atari Jaguar and especially not the Sony PlayStation that would arrive a couple of years later.Īll that said, business affairs aside, Commodore is a name that still brings a lot of joy and nostalgia to gamers of this era. Things went a step too far with the release of the CD32 in 1993, with Commodore banking on hardware that was not far off a decade old, but with a slightly faster processor and a touch more RAM that the original Amiga that launched. The good news though is that with it being around so long, we saw classics from the mid-80s, right through to the mid-90s being produced, so was an amazing time to be a gamer. The Amiga had a long life, some would argue too long in that Commodore really scraped the barrel with the Amiga hardware, repeatedly launching different models of the Amiga, in slightly different forms. Like with many classic retro systems, it is hard to whittle down to a concise list of my favourite Amiga games, but I guarantee there are some crackers in here! This will let you create your own floppies instead of having to ebay for stacks of old, often defective disks.So, another best Amiga games list, it’s not as though it’s not been done before has it? But that said, it is hard to resist putting together my own list of Amiga classics. Third, if you have a way to transfer disk images to the Amiga, seek out software that lets you write disk images to floppies (such as AmigaKits “Easy ADF”). A second drive was one of the most common upgrades at the time and they show up on ebay (and similar sites) often enough. More than that is probably not needed as games coming on 4+ disks were often hard-drive installable. Second, get yourself an external drive so you have two. If not, you will run into difficulties with some games. What do you need if you are getting into the Amiga now and want to use actual floppies? (We’ll talk about other solutions in future posts such as floppy drive emulators, mounting disk images in Workbench and using WHDLoad).įirst, make sure your machines internal drive is actually working. Then of course you have the games that (presumably due to copy protection schemes) would make the drive sound like a robot choking to death. Some even require the use of the internal drive which can be a challenge if you have a defective drive. However, some only allow the use of a single drive. It was not typical to have more than one external drive but it is something that is worth bearing in mind.ĭealing with games on floppy disk can come with some headaches: Many (most?) games play nice and work with multiple drives, allowing you to insert a couple disks and thus cut down on swapping. External drives usually have a port in the back that allows the next drive to be connected into it, daisy-chain style.ĭo note that on a system with limited RAM, external drives do eat up a small amount of memory. You can attach up to three additional drives labelled DF1 through DF3. Every Amiga comes with one, labelled DF0 in the system. Just look around Ebay or specialist suppliers, they’re not usually expensive either.ĭealing with floppies of course requires a disk drive. You can still get boxes of floppy disks online fairly readily, factory sealed. However, back in the day, I do remember having to format disks for a friend with an A500 before he could use them. All I can say from personal experience is that on an A1200, I have never had an issue formatting these as 880 KB disks and using them. Various information, often contradictory, can be found online about using HD disks in a regular Amiga drive. I remember reading about them and wanting one, so you could store more DeluxePaint stuff on a disk. HD (High Density) floppies require a special drive, but to my knowledge no software came on these. These are not readable in a PC floppy drive. Let’s take a minute to talk about disk basics for the Amiga: The “default” Amiga disk is a DD (Double Density) disk formatted at 880 KB. Some came on quite a few disks: The most I owned was Historyline 1914–18 which came on 7 disks and my friend’s copy of Beneath a Steel Sky had a huge stack of them. Other than the simplest games, most games come on more than one floppy disk.
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