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When the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST together ruled the home computing scene, video games were a long way from the million dollar money-spinners they have become. Getting public and media attention for a game wasn’t easy, but one of the more effective techniques employed by game designers was to create titles that took ‘ …

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        1. Vociferous
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          Re: No, that's *not* how Amiga gradients were generated

          > having the graphics co-processor update one or more of the colour registers (i.e. changing the palette itself) every few lines

          Good point. I had forgot about copper gradients.

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        2. Monty Burns
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          Re: No, that's *not* how Amiga gradients were generated

          @Michael Strorm - - Ahhh yes, good old fashioned Coper bars (Co-processor) bars. Used to love coding those... ahh the memories of a mis-spent youth (that and writing virus's, intercepting the disk I/O and playing with that tiny code in the boot block of a floppy disk)

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      2. Neil B
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        Re: Amiga graphics

        @Vociferous As I recall a tiny, windowed version of Doom did appear on the Amiga. I'd moved on to PC by then and only remember seeing it on the cover of one of the mags.

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        1. Vociferous
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          Re: Amiga graphics

          > As I recall a tiny, windowed version of Doom did appear on the Amiga

          I don't know if Doom was ever released on the Amiga, but a few 3D shooter clones were -- however, they had to "cheat" pretty heavily to get acceptable framerates (like only rendering the top or bottom half of the environment and then mirroring it). The ones I saw were impressive from a programming point of view but ultimately did little but highlight that 3D gaming was not a job the Amiga was suited for.

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  2. Outcast

    Seeing Speedball 2 on my mates A500 was what made me buy one.

    Brilliant game. The humourous audio snippets were the icing on the cake.

    My daughters loved Tiny Troops mainly for the....

    "Aaaaaaaarmageddon & Run Awaaaaaay" sound snippets !

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  3. Zuagroasta

    "Let the games begin" demon football

    Was this the one that had a demon in the intro that said "let the games begin" in a Hell's-gonna-take-you voice? I only played Amiga games at a friend's house once or twice in the early 90s

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  4. Snarf Junky

    Best game I can remember

    I know games have moved on and it's difficult to compare but I don't remember a single game that I had any more fun with than Speedball 2. The graphics, sound and gameplay were amazing. I loved playing it in single player where I could win straight through every time and against mates who played as much as I did which meant for some epic battles. Pure class!!!

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