Games Consoles: dont have a clue!

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I used to be real big on consoles, until I bought the most useless lump of attractive doorstop I have ever had the mispleasure to wave me thumbs at

The Sega Mega CD

I still curse myself to this day for buying it.

PC all the way for me now, emulate all the classic old SNES and Megadrive games on it.

aying that though, Res Evil 4 on the PS2 nearly ruined my social life

 

Raff,

Was the 600 the same technical spec as a 500 but physically smaller?

Si

 

I cant remember the spec now, but it was the smallest one

 

I had a few 500s, 1mb memory upgrades, second and third disk drives, man the amiga rocked!
been a PC addict since i got my first one though

 

Almost, the 500 had half a meg of RAM as standard. The 500+ had 1 meg and an updated kickstart (kind of the equivalent of a BIOS). The 600 was the same as the 500+ but without a number pad so it was a little more portable but caused a whole heap of trouble with games and software that required the num-pad to play.

 

Luddites!! LOL! I'm not going to go into all the Amiga incarnations as I'm only home briefly for lunch, but to answer some of the questions;
1) The Gameboy micro is technically the same as the gameboy advance/SP so your gamewill work fine Sparky. The non compatibility refers to the origanl gameboy/color.
2) The 600 had the same chipset as the 1200 so a few 500 games wouldnt run due to incompatibilites and the fact the built in hard drive interface stole some of the system ram. I seem to remember it was also something to do with the way the ram was adressed as fast or chip as well.
3) Another World is actually available for the PC! Download the trial at http://www.magic-productions.fr/games_details.php?game_id=1

I'll add my opinions about current consoles later!

 

True, but the A1200 had AGA graphics and the A600 only ECS graphics so a lot of games were released either in two versions or were only released for the 1200. You could get the original A500 kickstart on floppy so it made the newer Amigas backwards compatible with the older games.

 

Oh, you sod. Do you have any idea how long it is was I was working in a computer shop selling amigas? You've got me looking at wikipedia now and reading up again. How much have I forgotten? Sure I've got an amiga sat in my attic somewhere, looks like I'm going digging....
As an aside, I used to have an amiga I painted black and put a spectrum logo on. Used to put it out in the shop now and again to confuse people....