PS. A cracked game is not an original game.
This is an original game. Note the manual
It is possible today to still be a real
I so love the Amiga ... The proper Amiga.
ScuzzBlog: Diaries October 2022
Entry 24th October 2022: Post 1: The 'Expand-Sive' Amiga.
The 'Expand-Sive' Amiga.
'Expand-Sive', not a word, I know, but it refers a state of being
for the Amiga that for me makes anything less than a real Amiga a
pointless, meaningless computer. So what am I taking about ? Can
you plug a peripheral or expansion used in the day for a real Amiga
into the modern equivalent , whether within a new tin box or as
part of a retro clone.
I applaud all the efforts of those developing emulators and I can
also see the merit in protecting the Amigas software and game
portfolio by creating modern images that can be run on an emulator.
However, until such a time as a would-be alternative can do everything
that an original Amiga could do... visa-vie stuff you can plug in, I
stay fixed to my original kit, just so I can use Vidi-Amiga, say.
I didn't buy my Amiga originally to play games. The string of items
that I purchased in the day were anything but. These items all were
requiring the various ports on the Amiga to make their magic work.
The first a PCMCIA 4MB RAM card needing the small PCMCIA slot. The
next is a Vidi-Amiga digitizer that used both the Parallel and the
power off the floppy drive. Then there was the GVP Turbo accelerator
plugged into the trapdoor expansion. I have a XL-Drive plugged into
the floppy port. My Techno-Sound Turbo plugged into the rear port.
That's without my Surf-Squirrel, SCSI KIT and various other devices.
I have a literal plethora of expansions for each of the models and
so I am hardly going to forfeit all these for the sake of an
emulating device that can't even load a simple original floppy disk.
I hear cries for an A500 maxi, a larger version of the mini a500.
I am pretty sure this will have a hardware emulator inside driving
a USB keyboard and Gotek with a possible external floppy option.
Whether it builds in the ports necessary to feed various original
expansions I know not. A simple test would be being able to connect
any new Amiga emulating device via a simple ParNET cable to a
second Amiga real computer.
For now I see only the modern Checkmate as the solution to giving
modern usability whilst retaining the fundamental and essential
aspects of the original hardware. I really don't mind an upgraded
PCB that runs different architecture to mimic the Amiga, but, what
I can't be without is somewhere to plug my stuff in. You really
can have the fastest Amiga emulator on the planet, but if there
is nowhere to bung in a floppy and plug in my digitizer, then it
just isn't going to cut it.
I have no need or inclination to buy a retro mini, it really would
not in anyway meet my specific criteria for an Amiga. What I do
desire is more modern kit, but only if it can do all that my original
can do. I really can't be without my gadgets and what not.
Here are some ...
The 'Expand-Sive' Amiga.
Fairlight didn't make games they simply
cracked them illegally.
and original disks. Something you don't
get with WoTLoad and a bucket load of pilfered
so called 'abandonware'. Sorry for that.
Amigan. You just have to try a bit harder.
The white Amiga
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