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Was my friend who hadthe Amiga. PD game I believe yeah, i forgot that term, PD, it's been so long lol. We would skip school, probably 11 years old, playig schorced pants. That's what we called it. Ithad a weapo called Crimson Flood, which woud flood an area then leave them buried miles beneath it once it had finished. Was better tha worms imo.
My friend was making games othe Amiga at the time, only 11 or 12 years old. He ripped off bubble bobble but used an ass and a head to burp and fart as the characters. Had a unique sense of humour
Was more of an Atari ST man myself![]()
The problem I had with the ZX Spectrum and the Atari ST was their feeble sound compared to their main rivals, the Commodore 64 and Amiga respectively. I know that as Brits we're supposed to root for dear old Clive's plucky UK contender, but once I first heard the dulcet tones of the C64's SID chip I was a convert, and decamped from my Spectrum to the C64, although I kept my Spectrum 128 around too.
When the 16-bit computers first started becoming sort of affordable (albeit well out of reach of our household), I remember being shown an Atari ST round at a friend of a friend's, and whilst I was impressed by the graphics, the first thing that jumped out at me was the fact the music was worse than my on my C64! (Atari having used a pretty shit sound chip in the ST, of course.)
Then a good friend of mine got an Amiga A500 (I was still on my C64, the expense of an Amiga was pie in the sky to me as a teenager, we're talking 1988/1989 at this point), and I was utterly blown way by it, the graphics were as good or better as the Atari ST, but the sound and music the thing was capable of kicking out, just incredible. We spent hours and hours playing on his Amiga together, quite often just watching demos and cracktro screens, to enjoy the music and special graphical trickery the Amiga's custom graphics chips could produce.
This is one I very clearly remember us being transfixed by, this was released in 1988, no other computer in the world could knock music like this out using just its own internal sound hardware (unfortunately the little pulsating bars at the top of the screen get out of sync with the audio, which I suspect is because it's being run through an emulator rather than on actual hardware):
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