I think MS DOS games are much better than AMIGA games !!!

[Dan Simper]

Most AMIGA games were just cheap copies of great DOS games.Even the
CGA games are much better than 99,9% of the AMIGA rubbish.

[RISC Amiga]

Post by Dan Simper
Most AMIGA games were just cheap copies of great DOS games.Even the
CGA games are much better than 99,9% of the AMIGA rubbish.

This might "fractionally" be true for "some" late 80ies/early 90ies
Amiga games:

- The Sierra Online adventures, Leisure suit larry, Police quest,
King's quest etc. were surely converted from DOS and HAD to have
less quality unless they supported the AGA-chipset.

- Many JumpN'Run games however were FIRST produced for the Amiga (in
many cases simultaneously with a console (Megadrive,SuperNES) version),
and later the GREEDY games software companies like Psygnosis turned
out absolute WEASELS by "running WITH the wind" and "going PC". I
personally
phoned Psygnosis a year after they abandoned the Amiga and the
call-taker
didn't even know what i meant by "Amiga", until i dearly explained it
to him,
BOYCOTT PSYGNOSIS, BOYCOTT UBI SOFT, BOYCOTT these WEASELS wherever you
can....
And needless to say, given the advanced Amiga hardware, the attempt to
produce smooth scrolling games under MSDOS failed until the PCs
"Goliath"
pulled out his "Mega Club" in the form of unbeatable 3D graphics cards
and faster and faster processors (with WEASEL Motorola abandoning the
68k
without any sufficient justification except their lazyness maybe), that
the Amiga "David" was slewn to the ground, for a limited time that
might
be called the "era of Microsoft" or "the era before
Linux/Opensource"...


For today's Amiga-world your claims are TOTAL RUBBISH:

Once you've run

- Wipeout2097 AMIGA-VERSION
- Shogo M.A.D. AMIGA-VERSION
- Descent Freespace AMIGA-VERSION
- Heretic II AMIGA-VERSION
- Virtual GP AMIGA-VERSION

you will know why.

[Angus Manwaring]

On 05-Feb-05 11:41:04, RISC Amiga said

Post by RISC Amiga

Post by Dan Simper
Most AMIGA games were just cheap copies of great DOS games.Even the
CGA games are much better than 99,9% of the AMIGA rubbish.

This might "fractionally" be true for "some" late 80ies/early 90ies
- The Sierra Online adventures, Leisure suit larry, Police quest,
King's quest etc. were surely converted from DOS and HAD to have
less quality unless they supported the AGA-chipset.

Wel;, I think graphically they looked poor, because the graphics had been
ported from horrible pc versions, if the the game had been "converted" to
the Amiga, it could have looked great.

Post by RISC Amiga
- Many JumpN'Run games however were FIRST produced for the Amiga (in
many cases simultaneously with a console (Megadrive,SuperNES) version),
and later the GREEDY games software companies like Psygnosis turned
out absolute WEASELS by "running WITH the wind" and "going PC". I
personally
phoned Psygnosis a year after they abandoned the Amiga and the
call-taker
didn't even know what i meant by "Amiga", until i dearly explained it
to him,
BOYCOTT PSYGNOSIS, BOYCOTT UBI SOFT, BOYCOTT these WEASELS wherever you
can....
And needless to say, given the advanced Amiga hardware, the attempt to
produce smooth scrolling games under MSDOS failed until the PCs
"Goliath"
pulled out his "Mega Club" in the form of unbeatable 3D graphics cards
and faster and faster processors (with WEASEL Motorola abandoning the
68k
without any sufficient justification except their lazyness maybe), that
the Amiga "David" was slewn to the ground, for a limited time that
might
be called the "era of Microsoft" or "the era before
Linux/Opensource"...
Once you've run
- Wipeout2097 AMIGA-VERSION
- Shogo M.A.D. AMIGA-VERSION
- Descent Freespace AMIGA-VERSION
- Heretic II AMIGA-VERSION
- Virtual GP AMIGA-VERSION
you will know why.

All the best,
Angus Manwaring. (for e-mail remove ANTISPEM)

I need your memories for the Amiga Games Database: A collection of Amiga
Game reviews by Amiga players http://www.angusm.demon.co.uk/AGDB/AGDB.html

[de Selby]

You're answering to an obvious troll. Please remove is.matur the troll
is flooding before posting.

[Angus Manwaring]

On 06-Feb-05 10:22:24, de Selby said

Post by de Selby
You're answering to an obvious troll.

I'm aware of that.



All the best,
Angus Manwaring. (for e-mail remove ANTISPEM)

I need your memories for the Amiga Games Database: A collection of Amiga
Game reviews by Amiga players http://www.angusm.demon.co.uk/AGDB/AGDB.html

[Tommy Stenberg]

Post by Angus Manwaring
On 05-Feb-05 11:41:04, RISC Amiga said

Post by RISC Amiga

Post by Dan Simper
Most AMIGA games were just cheap copies of great DOS games.Even the
CGA games are much better than 99,9% of the AMIGA rubbish.

This might "fractionally" be true for "some" late 80ies/early 90ies
- The Sierra Online adventures, Leisure suit larry, Police quest,
King's quest etc. were surely converted from DOS and HAD to have
less quality unless they supported the AGA-chipset.

Wel;, I think graphically they looked poor, because the graphics had been
ported from horrible pc versions, if the the game had been "converted" to
the Amiga, it could have looked great.

Only Sierra games that turned out really bad on the Amiga (in terms of speed
and graphics quality mostly) were games that used the "modern" point'n'click
system, like Larry 5, Police Quest 3, Space Quest 4 and King's Quest V. But
King's Quest VI was an extremely polished convertion, which showed what all
the others should have been like too.

However, the early Sierra titles looked about the same on the Amiga, like
Police Quest 1 and 2, and Leisure Suit Larry 1-3 (minus the remake). And
with these titles, the Amiga ports had better sound, because they didn't
sound like that typical midi-crap.

Tommy

[Scott Kurtz]

Post by Dan Simper
Most AMIGA games were just cheap copies of great DOS games.Even the
CGA games are much better than 99,9% of the AMIGA rubbish.

Compare the Amiga version of Colonization with the MS DOS/Windows version
and you will see that as late as the early 90s this was not true.

[Angus Manwaring]

On 05-Feb-05 18:07:49, Scott Kurtz said

Post by Scott Kurtz

Post by Dan Simper
Most AMIGA games were just cheap copies of great DOS games.Even the
CGA games are much better than 99,9% of the AMIGA rubbish.

Compare the Amiga version of Colonization with the MS DOS/Windows version
and you will see that as late as the early 90s this was not true.

Now that was a decent "conversion" job by Scott Johnston with more time
than when he did UFO: Enemy Unknown. I think it makes full use of the
Amiga OS, doesn't it?


All the best,
Angus Manwaring. (for e-mail remove ANTISPEM)

I need your memories for the Amiga Games Database: A collection of Amiga
Game reviews by Amiga players http://www.angusm.demon.co.uk/AGDB/AGDB.html

[Gaza]

Mr Simper is a Troll seen him on a number of newsgroups complain to google
and they might kick him off.

Post by Dan Simper
Most AMIGA games were just cheap copies of great DOS games.Even the
CGA games are much better than 99,9% of the AMIGA rubbish.

[Andreas Eibach]

Post by Gaza
Mr Simper is a Troll seen him on a number of newsgroups complain to google
and they might kick him off.

He would not have a good start in Germany with this surname, I'm afraid ;-)
In South German dialect (that's where I live), a "Simpel" is as much as an
"idiot" or "dimwit". :)
Now combine this behaviour to this name, which he lives up to in full
extent. :-)))

Andreas