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[News] Amiga goes "Retro"ANN.lu
Posted on 01-Jan-2004 16:03 GMT by Alan LM Buxey9 comments
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This month, Future Publishings' EDGE Magazine brings you its next RETRO special edition. This time, an all-new Amiga section has been added. EDGE magazine is a high quality print magazine from Future Publishing (they gave us Amiga Format in years gone by). The magazine always devotes a few pages to retro gaming..and classic games (recent articles have covered Populous, Monkey Island, Powerdrome etc etc) They have special editions printed every now and again...this month is the return of the RETRO edition, which features a definitive guide to the retro player/collector. Now, this edition features the Amiga. they do state in the article that the Amiga is still [barely] alive... and in some ways i do agree that the Amiga should be here. the old games are classics and collectible...they are also a major cornerstone of many modern games coder..and introduced many new game genres should we define a timeline when the Amigas of the past are seperated from the Amigas of the present? Could we pinpoint an event horizon? Perhaps we could tie the time down to when the first game that required a non-standard Amiga was required... for example the first game to require a 3rd party graphics card, 060 (PPC?) and > 16Mb RAM? Could it be when Quake arrived? Or, as a commercially published game...perhaps WipeOut 2097? both were definitive moments (and also very very important to the 2 other platforms that overtook the Amiga - PC and Playstation - and took its userbase away)that could be the distinctive border of the Classic Amigas that could play the classic games, and the modern systems that cant play the classic games (because the sound/gfx/IO cant be used witht he hardware hitting game) ? thoughts anyone? Alan
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