Classic Amiga titles, free to download

Wow this is really cool!

Epic to see that it has "No Man's Land" [0] and really really weird feeling to read the readme. No idea why it's listed as a "17 Bit" title though, perhaps they distributed it at some point but they certainly were not involved in creating it. Source: I wrote it. Fun times.

Edit: formatting.

[0]: https://amigafreeware.downer.tech/17bit/17bit/1423

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doener 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Some background information: https://www.reddit.com/r/amiga/comments/1uzs4g9/amiga_freewa...

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Lerc 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Fish disks were an incredible contribution to the Amiga community. The impact of a dedicated and contentious curator cannot be understated.

I think a lot of platforms today could be transformed if they had someone doing a similar contribution to Fred Fish.

I wouldn't be capable of such an effort, I think few people are, and I'm not sure if it can be done in any monetized way. The motivation has to be purely for the quality of the job.

	▲	danielheath 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Debians apt repositories come to mind.

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IronWolve an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

When I first got my Amiga I spent all day one weekend copying PD game disks at the local computer store, Think it was like 25 cents to copy one plus price of a floppy. Good times.

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andrea76 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

From webpage I read: " Search or browse games, applications, demos, graphics, music and tools from the golden age of 32-bit home computing."

But Amiga has a 16 bit CPU... or not?

	▲	doener an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		"From a developer's point of view, the 68000 provides a full suite of 32-bit operations but has a 16-bit external data bus and is implemented using a 16-bit arithmetic logic unit, so 32-bit computations are transparently handled as multiple 16-bit values at a performance cost. Also, while addresses are 32-bit, the chip is limited to 16 MB of physical memory using the lower 24 of the address bits.[35][36] The later Amiga 2500, Amiga 3000, Amiga 4000 and Amiga 1200 models use fully 32-bit, 68000-compatible processors from Motorola with improved performance and larger addressing capability." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga
	▲	maffydub 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		It's a bit complicated and it depends on what exactly you're measuring. The 68000 CPU has 32-bit registers internally, the address bus is 24-bit, and the data bus is 16.
	▲	catoc 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I think most Amiga’s had 32-bit registers, but a 16-bit bus. (So to everything around the CPU they were 16-bit even though internally they could do 32-bit computations)

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urbandw311er 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Always fun to go and look up the very first software I sold in this archive.

	▲	aphrax 8 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Don’t keep us in suspense :-)
	▲	harel 8 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		which was it?

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romerstomer 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

First 2 games I tried it didn't have Lotus turbo Buggy boy

Not obscure games

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whywhywhywhy 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Appears to be Public Domain games, sort of thing you'd get on magazine disks

	▲	Dwedit 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		A magazine disk was the first time a game containing Sonic the Hedgehog was released. He was thrown into a game as an enemy character in a platformer game (Adventures Of Quik & Silva) without any regard for copyright law. This happened before the actual Genesis/Mega Drive game released. (and no, that game is not on this site)

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tiahura 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Does anyone know of a source of the pre-release eagle demo?