Bigdownload.com
Ivica Bozic
(Little Company) all tied up in a battle with his CD32 against the games
on the discs, and I couldn't do jack sh*t. So I wen't to the good old
Vista browser, Bing is up now, the news, and I searched for 'game demos
for Vista'. My bandwith is 500 KB/sec sometimes more, and I wen't up
against it.
I found a site, bigdownload.com, a hard loader, but very friendly (one
friend also pointed the Bigpoint.com), and I started to look for games,
founding games and some trailers.
I got there, besides some breathtaking trailers (New Duke, Anno 2070 etc.)
The Next BIG Thing, (C)Lover, Machinarium... and YES! Nation Red.
The games are stunning. All of these, Drustvo pointed out between some
others, standard PC cra*s, and I found the file of the Demo, and the
download started, I waited, got mine, and out of the bad mood like a
rocket I was.
The point I'm trying to make, in my own so well known way, so that noone
wants to speak with me, is the analogy, between the CD32 (produced 2010)
and the fabolous horse Windows Vista (*with* Akiko chip in it)
:-)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
I've tried some other game demos too, but it didn't want to work on my
machine, probably because it doesn't work at all, or it will but not on
Vista, or it will, but later, or something else etc.
Drustvo, my mate says that on his CD32 often CD is not working from the
first time, but some time after, the second, third, fourth try it spins
like new. And these are originals. Often, ("and only"), crappy PC
graphics, you know, the textures and all that PC version of the story.
Vista, by now, obviously, (maybe this is only now) likes clean, good, new
Amiga style graphics (Machinarium is a Mac game, beautiful in graphics,
but you can't get past the second level, if kicking yourself in the ass
you can't) beautiful games.
The Next BIG thing is an adventure, classic Amiga adventure, silly, funny,
pretty. But, Amiga has grown by now, so that my 16" BenQ monitor is full
with picture and plenty of it. The graphics is cartoon like, the girls are
pretty, the men are strong, the robots are so cool... Well, I got through
the demo, solved a few puzzles and whepped. That's it for now.
What it seems, is that the game is the same on Vista, as it is on a a
CD32. You need Akiko to do this. The graphics wasn't better, it was
freakin' superb. Like playing a long cartoon.
...
...Clean games like (C)Lover. (C)Lover is a boy, that by now is so clear,
obviously likes programming in C and looks like it (once again, it's all
in the Amiga and the PowerAmiga assembler) and on the first site the game
is a disaster. Like for kiddies. The british accent - horrible. But after
some minutes, and a few solved clues it's really weird how it's lite, and
gamey. Really something else. Not far down the road, or too high in the
air, plain, some little funny, great, relaxing.
Why, I'm writing in the Amiga newsgroup...
Can you, or can you not recognize an Amiga game when you see one? The new
ones?
For example, the PC game would be, DOOM, Duke, The bad 3d driving game,
well, really a rotten egg 3d.
PSX game would be, Gran Turismo, Tekken, Crash Bandicoot, hyped up, good,
graphically challenging, but not _pretty_ games. This is a known fact for
the time being the Playstation III.
Mac game, if anyone has ever seen one would be, stunning, made ugly, made
chaotic, but done beautifully, nice and pretty graphics, but in some
smaller sense, not so challenging, but always triying to be mindboggling.
Amiga games, are; main stream for a fact, surely the middle of the road in
the directly in front manner. Old ones would be all about gameplay, but on
a lower level, all about stuns, but more tecnically than visually, all
about beauty of a mind, but surely a good kick out of it. Always pretty.
Blue, and pretty.
New Amiga games, are BIG, playful, stunning, pretty, imaginative as hell,
all new and shiny directions and styles, can compete with everything
topping it in the sane mind by far.
Have you seen Nation Red? Killing zombies from close so you can see spilt
guts... Short game but ever so stunning in graphics. This would be called,
a PC game graphics, but let's face it, PC never could have done that, it
was Amiga engineering all along with the only platform available at the
time. Creativity is fun while you create, not while you wait.
My God, what only awaits on the PowerAmiga with kinnect.
--
Using Opera's revolutionary email client: http://www.opera.com/mail/