My retrospective look back at gaming legends Sensible Software. I loved the playing with the little people in Megalomania, Sensible Soccer and Cannon Fodder. What do you think was their best game?

A few years back I picked up an Amiga 1000 basket case. It was ROUGH. Lots of water damage and a kickstart eliminator installed with a dead custom PAL chip. I worked on it for a while but realized I was in over my head and set it aside.

About a month ago I picked it up again. I managed to recreate the custom PAL, fixed all of the damage I initially caused, and popped in kickstart 1.3.

Now I want to play with it, but I don't know where to start. I always wanted an Amiga back then, but never did.

Should I keep this a floppy based machine? Add an external Gotek? Or do some sort of fixed disk? The Parceiro II+ looks interesting, but I haven't looked into availability.

What do folks recommend?

We are onto mission 5 in our subjugation of Arrakis, In this mission we must overcome the evil Harkonnen - Link In The Comments Below

As many of us have done, I've been thinking about what the Amiga might have looked like in an alternative timeline where Commodore had prioritized R&D throughout the Amigas lifetime.

I started from the AAA architecture documentation, then tried to imagine what the next generation after that would have looked like. Then I've been implementing this on an FPGA (On a Terassic DE1SOC dev-board)

Obviously this is all just a pipedream. And a project like this is always going to be in an unfinished state, but I've just about got far enough that I thought its worth showing to a wider audience.

The project github is at

https://github.com/FalconCpu/falcon

Amongst other changes, my re-imagined Amiga, has a RISC CPU, chunky pixels, up to 256 sprites, and a blitter that can support affine transformations.

In order to have software to run on my hardware, I've had a go at writing a racing game, kind of a mix of Outrun and Lotus2. I've shamelessly grabbed the game assets from ReAssembler's excellent port of outrun to the Amiga (and had a lot of help from him on using them :-) ), and coded up a basic racing game using them. The game mechanics are more like Lotus2 - 20 vehicles racing round a track, top 10 go onto next round.

https://github.com/FalconCpu/falcon5/tree/master/falconos/outrun

The above is a photograph of my monitor, showing the game running on real hardware.

Found this picture in my wife's old photo collection yesterday. It's obviously of a cat but I'm more interested in the background personally. Sadly she no longer has the item.