jewbaccaon Hacker News • Recommends
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Highly recommended related video by the same person (XboxAhoy / Stuart Brown): "Doomed: The Embers of Amiga FPS" link to this video
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Game developmentHistory and cultureRetro games and consolesUnity, Unreal and GodotHistory of computing
Stuart Brown explores the history of first-person shooters on the Amiga platform and how the release of Doom impacted its legacy.
Email: stu@rtbrown.org Twitter: twitter.com/xboxahoy Reddit: reddit.com/r/xboxahoyWhy it's here
4 people recommend thisWhat people say. Highly recommended as an excellent, well-researched documentary on retro gaming history and the technical transition of the Amiga era.
qwertyuiop924on Hacker News • Recommends
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Amiga was a pretty cool system, and the fanbase had a devotion matched perhaps only by the lispm people. By the way, if you're interested in the Amiga, go watch Stuart Brown (aka XboxAhoy)'s excellent documentary on FPS on the Amiga: link to this video Actually, just go watch his whole backlog if you have any interest in computer history whatsoever: It's all quality work (and I do mean quality: well researched, and polished enough to go on television), and absolutely fascinating.
Gracanaon Hacker News • Recommends
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If anyone is interested, Stuart Brown's "Doomed: The Embers of Amiga FPS" is a nice little documentary of the history mentioned above. link to this video
qwertyuiop924on Hacker News • Recommends
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…best. By the way, I've been trying to get Amiga emulation working for a while. It basically works at this point, but the *UAEs are a misery on UNIX systems. Without any kind of loader, you have to spend 10 minutes editing the config every time you want to play a game. But if you're in any way interested in the history you lived through, check out link to this video…
technomalogicalon Hacker News • Recommends
On “Homebrew Amiga Graphics Card (FPGA, Open Source) Finished [video]”
Indeed, it has been argued. A great YouTube look at Doom's impact on the Amiga can be found here: link to this video