HuCards that look as good as SNES games

[Black Tiger]

Definitely.  Over at Sega 16 I see ridiculous threads bashing the SNES or the PC Engine...

Not only on Sega 16, unfortunately. To me, this phenomenon seems mostly relegated  to the SMS and MD/Genesis fans. There is a tremendous amount of hate from these guys towards other systems (especially SNES), but not the same amount in the other direction.

 I think it might have a lot to do with Sega's marketing in the US. Sega made it cool to hate the SNES, and I think a lot of Genesis fans seem to still be brainwashed from the TV commercials.

Although I do see the more passionately hate from Sega fans, it's more of an underdog thing. Similar Nintendo fans dismiss rival consoles and games without really caring because they believe that it is a given that Nintendo is perfection and everything else pales in comparison. They'll even justify ignorance by saying there's no point actually learning about other games because there's no way they can be as good and they're only interested in the best of the best. While many SNES hating Genesis fans seem to study famous SNES games just to find things to find things to ctiticize.

Too many Sega and Nintendo fanboys miss out on the PCE altogether because they suffer from the Nintendo elitist syndrome combined with game mag propaganda and honestly believe that the PCE   really is just an 8-bit caliber consile with pretty colors and they don't have to try the games to know that they're not worthwhile.

In the end you wind up with a bunch of people arguing about who knows best over something where each side is unfamiliar with the other.

[soop]

At least the Amiga looked sweet, and had some of the same games.

Some of them really blow on Amiga though because of the stupid 1 button design.

Damn right.  Up to jump, WTF.

I can't believe how few people put in options to use a MD pad, or even a CD32 pad, when they were about £10 a pop.

[Arkhan]

yeah thats the worst part .

the Amiga can do more buttons but it don't help when the games don't support it.

Shadow of the Beast looks awesome but plays like ass on the Amiga.

[Nando]

http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_AMIGAmini.aspx

[Arkhan]

listen, don't post that MacMini knock off wannabe amiga revival bullshit!

  lol

there is no boing ball, or rainbow checkmark.

Revivalfail.

[Tatsujin]

Too many Sega and Nintendo fanboys miss out on the PCE altogether because they suffer from the Nintendo elitist syndrome combined with game mag propaganda and honestly believe that the PCE   really is just an 8-bit caliber consile with pretty colors and they don't have to try the games to know that they're not worthwhile.

That's kinda sad, but it's also..

btw. still makes me big rolfmaololing when ever i look at this:

vs.

 

[Nando]

listen, don't post that MacMini knock off wannabe amiga revival bullshit!

  lol

there is no boing ball, or rainbow checkmark.

Revivalfail.

lmao - thought you'd get a kick out of it. Talk about relying on brand name.

[Arkhan]

yeah I've been laughing at those stupid C64 and Amiga recreations for awhlie now.   The C64 ones were worse.  they stick it in a breadbin but its just a f*ckin netbook basically.  lies and filth.

[nat]

http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_AMIGAmini.aspx

What the hell is this?

Amiga, Inc. actually makes new, modern Amigas (boing ball and all) but this looks like some pirate knock-off by a grey-market manufacturer. I'm not even sure how they're getting away with it, considering Amiga, Inc. owns the Amiga brand.

[td741]

http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_AMIGAmini.aspx

What the hell is this?

Amiga, Inc. actually makes new, modern Amigas (boing ball and all) but this looks like some pirate knock-off by a grey-market manufacturer. I'm not even sure how they're getting away with it, considering Amiga, Inc. owns the Amiga brand.

Err...  Not quite... "Amiga Inc" is more or less a patent/licensing house.  At first they were geared towards an "AmigaAnywhere" run-everywhere OS which didn't quite go anywhere.

In the mordern "Amiga's":

There is an "AmigaOne" series of PPC-based computers that run Amiga OS4 developed (at least principally by Hyperion).  The computers themselves: AmigaOne XE/SE and Micro A1 by Eyetech (discontinued), SAM line of computers by Acube and the AmigaOne X1000 by A-EON.

Amiga OS4 can also run on a Pegasos II (more on that later. )

Alternatively, AmigaForever is a version of UAE packaged with other utilities made by Cloanto that have officially licensed Amiga roms.

Commodore USA bought the commodore licence and I think bought licensing to use the Amiga name for another line of PC based computers running its own OS?

Of course there is also MorphOS which is another "Amiga compatible" OS.  It's not compatible with OS4 (although there is an library you can install that will give you partial compatibility with OS4) but it will work with software developed for OS3.1 and earlier provided it doesn't do any hardware banging.   MorphOS runs on Pegasos Line of computers (Peg 1, and 2 are both discontinued), Efika PPC (discontinued) and the team is now concentrating on making the OS compatible with PPC-based macs (PowerMac G4's are more or less all compatible, even partial compatibility with the PPC Cube).

Last but not least, there's AROS and its variants.  AROS started out as an open-sourced reimplementation of AmigaOS 3.1 (other variants are aiming to add more modern features even if it breaks source-compatiblity).  AROS is typically aimed at x86-based systems but could be compiled for 68k and ran on original Amiga Hardware instead of AmigaOS.  The good thing is that 68K AROS (and a compiled AROS "ROM") could subtitute AmigaOS in an UAE installation and be used legally.

Of course, to be honest the order of this would be: AROS and MorphOS started their development, then Amiga OS4 followed by Commodore USA's OS.

[soop]

maaan.  I really loved the Amiga, and I kept up hope for many years that it would somehow survive or come back.  I think a lot of other people did.

But now they need stop f*cking around with it's dull lifeless corpse.  It's pissing me off, and it never goes anywhere, it's just tarnishing the once-great name.

[Arkhan]

Commodore/Amiga is basically a hilarious joke now.

[td741]

Commodore/Amiga is basically a hilarious joke now.

Soap Opera would be more accurate.  

[nat]

I tried to read td741's response, but I'm so thrilled I was able to coax multiple paragraphs out of him, I'll have to wait until I've settled down.

This is the same guy who was voted "PCEFX's Most Creepiest Member" back in 2007's "PCEFX's Most Creepiest Member" contest. He was the runaway winner with more time spent online than *any other member* since the 2006 forum software switch, and less than 100 posts (at the time) to his name.

Amazingly, he's no longer even in the top 10 users who've spent the most time online here. nectarsis has taken the crown as the current PCEFX creeper with almost DOUBLE the amount of online time as the #2 (Necromancer). While his high post count might lead you to believe he's not really a creeper, the fact that he virtually never posts anymore dictates he might as well have less than 100 posts to his name.

</derail>

[esteban]

I tried to read td741's response, but I'm so thrilled I was able to coax multiple paragraphs out of him, I'll have to wait until I've settled down.

This is the same guy who was voted "PCEFX's Most Creepiest Member" back in 2007's "PCEFX's Most Creepiest Member" contest. He was the runaway winner with more time spent online than *any other member* since the 2006 forum software switch, and less than 100 posts (at the time) to his name.

Amazingly, he's no longer even in the top 10 users who've spent the most time online here. nectarsis has taken the crown as the current PCEFX creeper with almost DOUBLE the amount of online time as the #2 (Necromancer). While his high post count might lead you to believe he's not really a creeper, the fact that he virtually never posts anymore dictates he might as well have less than 100 posts to his name.

</derail>

Hahahahahhahaa. Even before I read your post, I said to myself, "Holy Jesus, td is serious! He is providing an incredibly detailed response...I don't think he has ever written this much in his last 25 posts!"

Cook loves the AmigaOS.