A1200 Fun
category: general [glöplog]
Inspired by the recent discussion about defining a common vanilla A1200 target, I finally took the time to revisit and clean up my old A1200 demo collection.
I started collecting and curating these productions back in 1994 when I got my first A1200 with harddisk. The collection grew quite a bit until around 1996/97 when we were preparing an Amiga DemoCD project targeting A1200/030/8MB FastRAM systems. Since then I kept carrying that mental map of what actually ran and mattered on a stock A1200.
Over the last few evenings I went through the harddisk collection again, removing productions that actually require more memory or beefier configurations than I remembered, and ended up with a curated list of initially 24 and now currently 172 releases that should run on a vanilla A1200 or at least stay reasonably close to that target.
Pouet list: A1200 Fun
LHA archive sorted by groups: a1200-fun-latest.lha
This is obviously not meant as a definitive canon or “best of” list. It is more intended as:
* a frame of reference for the current target discussion
* a snapshot of what formed the practical A1200 viewing experience for me
* and hopefully a useful resource for people exploring/revisiting the platform
I am certain I omitted important releases, esp. productions that were disk-based, produced later, or simply escaped my attention.
So please use this thread to suggest additions, corrections, compatibility notes, overlooked intros/demos, or releases that you feel strongly belong into the “vanilla A1200 experience”. And hopefully we will have some more new releases, soon :)
I started collecting and curating these productions back in 1994 when I got my first A1200 with harddisk. The collection grew quite a bit until around 1996/97 when we were preparing an Amiga DemoCD project targeting A1200/030/8MB FastRAM systems. Since then I kept carrying that mental map of what actually ran and mattered on a stock A1200.
Over the last few evenings I went through the harddisk collection again, removing productions that actually require more memory or beefier configurations than I remembered, and ended up with a curated list of initially 24 and now currently 172 releases that should run on a vanilla A1200 or at least stay reasonably close to that target.
Pouet list: A1200 Fun
LHA archive sorted by groups: a1200-fun-latest.lha
This is obviously not meant as a definitive canon or “best of” list. It is more intended as:
* a frame of reference for the current target discussion
* a snapshot of what formed the practical A1200 viewing experience for me
* and hopefully a useful resource for people exploring/revisiting the platform
I am certain I omitted important releases, esp. productions that were disk-based, produced later, or simply escaped my attention.
So please use this thread to suggest additions, corrections, compatibility notes, overlooked intros/demos, or releases that you feel strongly belong into the “vanilla A1200 experience”. And hopefully we will have some more new releases, soon :)
I just never get tired of listening to Subject's wonderful chiptunes in Smalltalk and Cutting Edge (and Comadose for that matter, but that's already on your list).
Our chipdisk was for a vanilla 1200 (and the name is quite suitable for Noname's list).
Nice list! The "true vanilla" window closed pretty fast, which is a bit sad. Without fastmem, C2P stuff gets a bit sluggish. Even intros like 4ko by Polka Brothers work better with fastmem. (On the list, I believe Damn by Abyss requires fastmem, but if you have that, Azure's routine is very fast even on 14 MHz.)
Anyway, I want to recommend Emptyhead and Quackbusted II by Rednex, which are interesting transitional productions. They feel like polished A500 trackmos, but subtly keep reminding you it's actually AGA you're watching.
Anyway, I want to recommend Emptyhead and Quackbusted II by Rednex, which are interesting transitional productions. They feel like polished A500 trackmos, but subtly keep reminding you it's actually AGA you're watching.
Thanks for the list! Just perfect to start the weekend :)
Thanks for the collection!
QED 2 by Talent is another nice AGA trackmo.