With over
1,000 Amiga titles ready to play from within your browser. Games like
Super Monaco GP,
Double Dragon, and many more. So many in fact that we've spent the last 30 minutes or so just firing them up, getting all misty eyed at the 16-bit visuals, and then moving onto the next game.
For those that recall, when it came to PC gaming during the latter half of the 1980s it was all about IBM and Amiga. With Amiga edging out IBM when it came to crisp VGA visuals and pure MIDI-fied digital sound. As 1990 rolled around the standard IBM PC was clearly inferior to an Amiga when it cames to what games could look like. And even with the advent of the Sega Mega Drive and Super Nintendo in the home console market, games on Amiga machines were still noticeably better looking. So it's a shame then that the company couldn't find the same sort of success when the internet rolled around.
But anyway, the fine folks over at Archive.org have curated and collected just about
every piece of Amiga software ever released. All emulated within the comfort of your very own browser.
Posted 08:42pm 09/8/16
Anyway, it was PC that had VGA and midi. Amiga had it's own rather limited video chipset that was capable of cool tricks and was ahead of its time, but by the early 90s was really showing it's age. Audio wise Amiga used sampling instead of the midi/FM that PC sound cards used which often sounded better, but by the early 90s developers had figured out how to do that in software, or using a Gravis Ultrasound.
Still, if there was a late 80s PC game that anyone remembers for DOS, chances are there is a superior Amiga version. It's fun checking that stuff out.
Posted 11:48am 11/8/16
Posted 12:30pm 13/8/16
I was looking forward to browsing.