Amiga versions?

[WazMeister]

I have an amiga a600 and aload of cool games like monkey islands etc.

I love my dam amiga but i think one of my brother have touhed it and now its busted.

Anyway I feel or been told the A600 wasent he best of the Amiga system series, so whats a good amiga to try aim for that will play all the games I got?

I been told a good amiga is an Amiga 1200 with a HD... Will this play all games and work on a TV like a600?

[Salsa Party Animal]

Go for A1200 with hard drive (and try to get one with accelerator and more memory if possible) ie 68030 CPU with 68882 FPU. It will work with your TV.

It is more powerful amiga with AGA graphics (256 colours in games instead of normal 16/32 colours)

[Yod@]

I been told a good amiga is an Amiga 1200 with a HD... Will this play all games and work on a TV like a600?

Yeah, I'd also recommend an A1200 with some extra RAM and a hard drive.

No Amiga will play *all* games, some games are A1200/A4000 only, others are only compatible with A500s etc - but the good news is that there are patches which allow you to install most games onto a hard drive and also fix a lot of bugs in order to allow the games to run on most Amigas. It should be possible to run nearly all the games in this way from an A1200 with a hard drive.

The tool itself is called WHDload, and is shareware:

http://www.whdload.de

The game installer routines are also downloadable from there, but note that a lot of them will only work with the original disks, not copies.
You may be able to find places which have pre-installed copies of WHDLoaded games though, but don't ask me where.

[eastyy]

i had a amiga 1200

there were some games just for the 1200 (mostly though they seemed to be 500/600 games with extra colours) later on there where games like gloom that took advantage of accelarators and it could be installed to the hardrive.You can get disks to emulate 500/600 for a 1200 i think they were called kickstart disk

[samanosuke]

Get an A4000 with a Picasso IV and a Cyberstorm Mk II '060 just like mine... Frontier has never been so smooth!

[Yod@]

Actually, that reminds me - is it just me, or is the PIV card **** at upscanning 15KHz stuff? I find that my DblScan card gives a decent image, whereas the PIV makes things look interlaced when they're moving.

[anephric]

Get an A4000 with a Picasso IV and a Cyberstorm Mk II '060 just like mine... Frontier has never been so smooth!

And, like, it's soooo worth it

Frontier ran pretty darn well on Very High detail on my mate's A1200 with Fast Ram and an FPU... it ran Wing Commander so well you could actually play it.